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So let's look at the release timeline. 2

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So here's the timeline for J2EE, or Java EE. 3

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Started off in '99, moved all the way down 4

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to our current state here of Java EE 7 in 2013, 5

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Java EE 8 which is coming real soon, 2016/2017. 6

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And then, basically around the 2001/2003 timeframe, 7

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that's when everyone was just kind of fed 8

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up with Enterprise JavaBeans 9

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and just didn't want to do it anymore. 10

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So that's when Spring 1.0 came out, around 2004 11

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because prior to that, EJBs were just horrible 12

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and no-one wanted to use it anymore. 13

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So you came out with Spring, 14

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Spring 1, Spring 2, Spring 3, and so on. 15

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One thing that's interesting here is that the folks 16

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at Sun Microsystems at the time before they were acquired 17

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by Oracle, at the time they realized, "Whoa, 18

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"What's this Spring thing and whoa, why is everyone 19

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"moving towards it and why's everyone using it now?" 20

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Mainly because of EJB. 21

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Folks were tired of EJB. 22

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So the folks at Sun actually went back and kind of, 23

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re-engineered or re-wrote EJB to make it simpler 24

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and make it easier to use. 25

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So that came around the 2006/2009 timeframe. 26

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So effectively, by the time you made it to Java EE 6, 27

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they'd actually cleaned up the problems 28

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that they had with EJB and actually made it a little 29

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bit easier to use. 30

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So effectively, the same thing as Spring. 31

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It has the Inversion of Control, 32

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it has Dependency Injection. 33

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So current day here, Java EE 7, 34

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you can really do everything that Spring can do, 35

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with Java EE 7. 36

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So you can do all the annotations, 37

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no XML stuff, just like Spring and it's really easy 38

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to do now. 39

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The only problem though is that they were just a little bit 40

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too late and unfortunately, EJB just kind of has a bad name 41

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or a bad reputation and also, Spring has huge momentum, 42

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huge market share. 43

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So there's a lot of Apps that are already 44

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out there written using Spring 45

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and there's a lot more that are going to be created 46

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using Spring. 47

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So that's why Spring is very popular now 48

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and kind of why it's still popular. 49

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It's a lightweight framework, it's simple, 50

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easy to use and a lot of developers like it. 51

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And they basically ran away from the old days of EJB 52

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and J2EE. 53

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So that's kind of the big spiel. 54

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But really now, if you put both technologies 55

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side by side, you can do the same with either one. 56

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But again, the whole reputation thing 57

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and also, the momentum thing. 58

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So as I mentioned, Spring is very popular, 59

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it has a lot of market share, 60

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it has a lot of projects written in it. 61

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And Spring is still in demand. 62

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It's the most sought after Java skillset by employers 63

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and recruiters. 64

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And, this is really funny, I actually have a friend 65

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of mine, I used to work with him on a previous job, 66

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he's actually in the process now of interviewing 67

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for a new position and I spoke with him last week. 68

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He sent me a message and he said, 69

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"Hey." 70

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and this is his actual text message, 71

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"Man, everybody and their mama keeps asking 72

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"me about Spring. 73

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"You better get started on that Udemy course lol." 74

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And again, this is some American slang here, 75

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everybody and their mama meaning, 76

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basically every recruiter he's talked to 77

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and every employer he's interviewed with, 78

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they are asking him a good deal about Spring. 79

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So again, very good skillset for you to have 80

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on your resume. 81

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So you may have the question, what should you do? 82

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Should you learn Spring? 83

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Or should you learn Java EE? 84

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And my answer's that you should learn both. 85

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Right? 86

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The reason is because now you'll be flexible 87

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in the job market and if you go on a job interview, 88

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or you join a new project team, 89

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you'll be able to handle either one of them. 90

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And a really cool thing about it is that a lot of the skills 91

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are interchangeable, especially now since Spring and Java EE 92

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are kind of in line, or in sync with their feature set. 93

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So once you learn how to do MVC in one framework 94

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then learning how to do MVC in another framework 95

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is similar. 96

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Implementing it is very similar between Java EE 97

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and also with Spring. 98

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So I'd say learn both of them and you'll learn Spring 99

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in this class for sure, 100

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I'll show you how to use Spring MVC, 101

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and also I'll show you how to hook all this into a database 102

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using Hibernate. 103

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And then I have a lot of other courses 104

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that cover some of the Java EE technologies 105

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like JSP, Servelet and JSF, if you wanted 106

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to go and check out some of my other courses 107

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on learning those other Java EE technologies. 108

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Anyway, I say learn them both, 109

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you're a smart person, right. 110

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And it's easy to pick up on them once you learn 111

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one technology it's easy to jump into the next technology. 112

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So anyways, I'd recommend picking 113

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up both of those technologies. 114

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So this kind of wraps up the video. 115

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I wanted to give you some motivation on why Spring. 116

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Give you a little bit of background on the history 117

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of J2EE, and kind of where Spring came into play. 118

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In the following videos I'll give you 119

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a more formal discussion of Spring 120

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as far as the various components of the framework 121

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and then of course, we're going to start diving 122

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in to writing code using Spring. 123

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So we have a lot of good things coming up here, 124

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I'll see you in the next video.