Spring is perhaps the best of the component-based frameworks that emerged at the turn of the 21st century. It vastly improves the way that developers write and deliver infrastructure code in Java ...

Aside from Java 11 support there are a number of important refinements in Spring 5.1, including integration with the recently released Reactor Californium and Hibernate ORM 5.3.

Developers cited many benefits of using the Spring Framework, according to the survey, including saved time and better supported unit testing.