Experienced Java/Kotlin developers: what libraries do you use in your day to day work?

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Spring Framework

For large, complex projects it's really hard to beat the Spring ecosystem that others have mentioned, but while Spring is going to be great for both landing and job and covering a huge variety of use-cases in a well-tested, robust, secure fashion, there are a lot of modules and it can take a bit to get used to all of it.

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Micronaut Framework

There are projects that feel lighter-weight such as Micronaut and DropWizard, although in many regards I feel like this is just a perception (Spring is quite modular and you can pull in what you need, but that process can involve some nitty-gritty tailoring because the default is batteries-included).

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Apache Maven

From a build perspective, Maven and Gradle are simple and mature and will cover any use-case you can really imagine. The plugin ecosystems are really hard to beat even if they're not the new kids on the block anymore.

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Gradle

From a build perspective, Maven and Gradle are simple and mature and will cover any use-case you can really imagine. The plugin ecosystems are really hard to beat even if they're not the new kids on the block anymore.

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