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This is my experience. For context I do a lot of contract work mostly in banking, ecommerce and insurance. - Spring Boot - IntelliJ - Gradle or Maven - Java 8 features (for various reasons most of my clients do not use version > 8)
For something a bit lighter weight, Vert.x [3] is a good option (Quarkus is based on it).
[1] - https://quarkus.io/
[2] - https://micronaut.io/
[3] - https://vertx.io/
You'll need Java 1.8+, and Maven or Gradle for the toolchain (I prefer the former). Intellij is the best IDE but I get by with VSCode.
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Also using IntellJ. But how is the landscape with the other IDE's these days - is NetBeans keeping up?
Netbeans died an unfortunate death once it moved to the Apache foundation and Sun/Oracle funding died out. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=... Unfortunate, because it had (has?) a great Swing and UML editor, built-in for free. Maybe I'm wrong and it's awesome now, but I haven't used it for a while in favor of Eclipse, and now, IntelliJ. This graph illustrates the IDE popularity between Int…
IMHO Netbeans was ahead of idea in many ways. But since they didn't buy commenteers to hype their product it's pretty much nowhere, at least I don't know anyone who uses it.
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> Try to use Kotlin where allowed If you want a slow build and code that is fun to write but hell to read, that is good advice. > Use kotlinscript as the config language Extremely slow, that is.
I disagree that it's easier to write than read. I tend to think Kotlin is much easier to read than java but harder to write because it tries to enforce good Java patterns at a language level. I agree that these will slow down your build, but not significantly, and at the benefit of developer comfort to make changes. Incremental compilation largely erases these slowdowns.
Build scripts are generally written once and executed hundreds or thousands of times. It makes far more sense to optimize their performance rather than ease of writing.
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I am using it now because the team is using it, but cant figure out in which way it is supposed to be better then Eclipse. It looks somehow better, but it seems strictly inferior in terms of what it does for me.
I'm very curious to hear what Eclipse does that IntelliJ does not match.
IDE: IntelliJ IDEA https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/ Nothing else seems to come close, they have a Community version, nowadays Eclipse and NetBeans both feel slow but Visual Studio Code with Java plugins lacks refactoring abilities one might expect in an IDE for non-trivial projects. Also, if you get the Ultimate package of their tools, you get all sorts of other useful tools, personally i also enjoy WebStorm and DataG…
After not using Eclipse for 10 years, I had to use it again last month for a very large existing project. I was pleasantly surprised. It felt faster than IntelliJ.
* Latest JDK
* Spring Boot
* JQuery/Bootstrap
* Eclipse (with Vim keybindings plugin)
Caveats:
* If it was a personal project or only a very small team, I'd start with Kotlin
* I haven't tried IntelliJ in quite a while and would give it a shot to see if I wanted to switch off Eclipse now
* Use SDKMan for runtime and sdk management https://sdkman.io/ * Try to use Kotlin where allowed (Maybe unpopular and bad faith response given that you asked about Java, but I don't care -- kotlin's Java interop is way more seamless than Scala or Clojure to the point that its often not even noticable) https://kotlinlang.org/ * IntelliJ * Spring is pretty popular, I've seen a lot of people using Vertx * Square librari…
Okio is very nice, and Okhttp is quite ergonoic, but I can't recommend Okhttp if true async is on the table (it's just blocking and threadpools under the covers).
The stack I've seen, used and liked at many clients is: Spring Boot, Kotlin, IntelliJ. Which of course means all the old discussions: Jetty/Tomcat/JBoss/GlassFish, GSON/Jackson, Hikari/C3PO/etc, etc are now mostly moot, since most just use the Boot defaults until they need something else. Kinda nice, actually. Less bikeshedding, can get a project up and running without taking a stand on all these things. Most clients…
If you want to go full hipster, there is Micronaut (also Quarkus) and if you'd like to go a bit off-charts, there is Dropwizard. I don't think that they offer anything extra over SB though.