The stack I've seen, used and liked at many clients is: Spring Boot, Kotlin, IntelliJ.
Which of course means all the old discussions: Jetty/Tomcat/JBoss/GlassFish, GSON/Jackson, Hikari/C3PO/etc, etc are now mostly moot, since most just use the Boot defaults until they need something else.
Kinda nice, actually. Less bikeshedding, can get a project up and running without taking a stand on all these things.
Most clients use maven, a few gradle, some used gradle and moved back when no one could understand their config. Gradle might get a second chance now that it can be written using kotlin.
Which of course means all the old discussions: Jetty/Tomcat/JBoss/GlassFish, GSON/Jackson, Hikari/C3PO/etc, etc are now mostly moot, since most just use the Boot defaults until they need something else. Kinda nice, actually. Less bikeshedding, can get a project up and running without taking a stand on all these things.
Most clients use maven, a few gradle, some used gradle and moved back when no one could understand their config. Gradle might get a second chance now that it can be written using kotlin.