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Picture this: It’s the late 90s, and Java developers are trapped in a giant monolithic fortress called J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition). The fortress is filled with dragons (EJBs – Enterprise Java Beans), and every developer’s quest for simplicity ends in tears. Enter Spring, our unlikely hero, armed with dependency injection and a mission to slay complexity. Let’s embark on a journey through Spring’s cinematic evolution, popcorn optional. Act 1: The Fellowship of Spring (2003) What Happened: Spring Framework 1.0 made its debut, written by Rod Johnson. It was like Frodo finding the One Ring—an unexpected answer to an overcomplicated…