[☕𝐉𝐀𝐕𝐀 𝐄𝐄 vs 🍃𝐒𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆]: Which technology do you use on your Java applications ?

☕ Java EE is a standard, official, specification for a full-featured Enterprise Application Framework stack. Includes stuff like Object-Relational Mapping, Security, Web Applications, database connectivity, transactions...

On top of Java EE specifications there are JavaEE 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬/𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬 like: JBoss, Glassfish, WebSphere, Weblogic.

🍃 Spring, on the other hand, is a framework doing lots of the stuff on the Java EE specifications, but in its own form. They don't follow Java EE specifications and APIs for that. But they do include a Web Framework, transaction management, security and several other solutions Java EE offers.