These lighter-weight Java frameworks combine cloud-native flexibility with Java’s time-tested engineering, so you can write responsive code that’s easy to deploy anywhere.

Oracle may be the stewards of the Java programming language, but their market share in Java Development Kit (JDK) distributions has significantly dropped over the past two years.

New frameworks are gaining traction among developers “Ruby, PHP, Python, and similar platforms have definitely taken a big chunk out of the Java brain trust,” said Hansson.