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Spring (specifically Spring Boot) is the heavyweight champion of Java backend frameworks. Enterprise companies trust it to handle serious workloads. It's powerful but verbose — more configuration than most frameworks. If you're working with Java in a corporate environment, Spring is almost certainly involved.

Real Talk

Spring Boot is a Java framework that simplifies Spring application setup and configuration. It provides auto-configuration, embedded servers (Tomcat/Jetty), production-ready features, and an extensive ecosystem (Spring Security, Spring Data, Spring Cloud). Dominant in enterprise Java development.

When You'll Hear This

"The banking system backend runs on Spring Boot." / "Spring Security handles auth for the enterprise app."

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