Last night I installed Spring Tool Suite, the Spring IDE and started to digg into their world.

It seems Java is moving in right direction, making software easier to maintain and speeding up development. This is particulary important for startups, time to prototype and time to beta is crucial many times.

Spring alone simplifies things a lot. But when you add Grails (Like Ruby on Rails for Java) and Groove (New simple syntax), suddenly you are in middle of something weird, Java but not Java. No wonder why this stuff has been sky-rocketing.

You like POJO’s? I found that the proyect I work for eliminated them and instead want the old EJB syntax. I think Corps have been used to complex things out, when you simplify things some of them don’t like it.

But anyway, sometimes innovations like RubyOnRails and Django don’t have enough traction to move the market but competition starts to copy those innovation into a market mover like Java.

And Java is redifining itself, which I think is good for startups. If your startup suddenly needs 20 people in 6 months, good luck finding Python or Ruby people in the market. But if those developers are Java, lot’s of them in the market. Another reason why this is important.

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