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We performed a comparison between Spring Boot and Spring MVC based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Java Frameworks solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
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Pros
"It is a very scalable solution.""The API gateway and cloud configuration allows us to configure the properties outside of the service with respect to enrollment.""The cloud version is very scalable.""The setup is straightforward.""The most valuable features of Spring Boot include being able to check all the logs and doing health checks for applications. We can also do monitoring more quickly, and use Spring Boot for production support, so when production goes up or down, we can bring up the application very quickly through Spring Boot.""Spring Boot has a very lightweight framework, and you can develop projects within a short time. It's open-source and customizable. It's easy to control, has a very interesting deployment policy, and a very interesting testing policy. It's sophisticated.""Spring Boot facilitates the use of Java which is open source. We use Github and other libraries that are available which assist in the building we need to do.""This is a pretty light solution. It's not too heavy."

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"The solution is open-source and free to use.""The interface is the solution's most valuable aspect.""The most valuable features of Spring MVC are the modules, such as Spring Admin. All the Spring solutions work well together and are simple to maintain, such as the load balancing on the client side.""The most valuable feature is simplicity.""Spring gives you the opportunity to develop architecture in the simplest way possible. It comes with everything you would want in terms of security. If you want to access the database, you have the ability to do that.""We appreciate that this product is really easy to integrate with third-party UI services.""The solution can scale.""The most valuable feature of Spring MVC is the configuration, such as WAF."

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Cons
"Spring Boot is lacking visibility in terms of how that business process or business rule would look within your application. Because everything has been embedded within the code itself, it disables the visibility. the ability to maintain or even support a specific functionality in a user-friendly manner, where a developer can come up and just adjust that part of that process.""The product could be improved by supporting and integrating Hadoop.""This solution could be improved if it offered greater integration and was more compatible with other solutions.""This solution could be improved if there were more libraries available. We would also like more mobile platform functionality using low levels of code.""This is a really good solution for me and I can't think of anything that can be improved.""The database connectivity could be better in terms of dealing with multi-tenant systems.""The solution has some vulnerabilities and fails our security audits, forcing us to keep fixing the solution.""The security could be simplified."

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"It can be difficult for a basic user to understand the concepts in this solution, such as inversion of control.""The solution could be simplified quite a bit. It's unnecessarily complicated in some areas.""Spring IDE​ needs some work and improvement. We have faced many issues when adding third-party Eclipse plugins.""The initial setup could be more straightforward.""The documentation for Spring MVC could improve.""Adding more modules takes about 10 to 15 minutes each. It would be nice if they could reduce that part. The deployment time is a little high.""We would like the deployment of this solution to be easier as, at present, it is quite complicated.""The newer versions of Spring MVC have released a lot of features that we are not using right now because, in many cases, we are limited to running older versions. As such, it would be nice if Spring were to improve support for upgrading to newer versions, especially for legacy applications."

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  • "Spring Boot is free; even the Spring Tools Suite for Eclipse is free."
  • "This is an open-source product."
  • "It's open-source software, so it's free. It's a community license."
  • "This solution is free unless you apply for support."
  • "As Spring Boot is an open-source tool, it's free."
  • "Spring Boot is an open source solution, it is free to use."
  • "If you want support there is paid enterprise version with support available."
  • "This is an open source solution."
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  • "The solution is free."
  • "Spring MVC is open source and free."
  • "This is an open-source solution, so there are no license costs involved with using it."
  • "We are using the open-source version of the solution."
  • "It is an open-source solution."
  • "It is an affordable solution."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:1. Open Source 2. Excellent Community Support -- Widely used across different projects -- so your search for answers would be easy and almost certain. 3. Extendable Stack with a wide array of… more »
    Top Answer:Springboot is a Java-based solution that is very popular and easy to use. You can use it to build applications quickly and confidently. Springboot has a very large, helpful learning community, which… more »
    Top Answer:Our organization ran comparison tests to determine whether the Spring Boot or Jakarta EE application creation software was the better fit for us. We decided to go with Spring Boot. Spring Boot offers… more »
    Top Answer:The best feature of Spring MVC is its auto-configuration capabilities.
    Top Answer:In the future, I expect the solution to offer and include a lot of packages so that it can be configured more easily or the speed level increases, thereby helping it overcome its shortcomings.
    Ranking
    1st
    out of 12 in Java Frameworks
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    28,075
    Comparisons
    18,408
    Reviews
    28
    Average Words per Review
    415
    Rating
    8.5
    3rd
    out of 12 in Java Frameworks
    Views
    1,656
    Comparisons
    1,170
    Reviews
    12
    Average Words per Review
    398
    Rating
    8.7
    Comparisons
    Jakarta EE logo
    Compared 46% of the time.
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    Compared 14% of the time.
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    Compared 14% of the time.
    Eclipse MicroProfile logo
    Compared 13% of the time.
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    Compared 1% of the time.
    Also Known As
    Spring by Pivotal, Spring, Spring Framework
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    Overview

    Spring Boot is a tool that makes developing web applications and microservices with the Java Spring Framework faster and easier, with minimal configuration and setup. By using Spring Boot, you avoid all the manual writing of boilerplate code, annotations, and complex XML configurations. Spring Boot integrates easily with other Spring products and can connect with multiple databases.

    How Spring Boot improves Spring Framework

    Java Spring Framework is a popular, open-source framework for creating standalone applications that run on the Java Virtual Machine.

    Although the Spring Framework is powerful, it still takes significant time and knowledge to configure, set up, and deploy Spring applications. Spring Boot is designed to get developers up and running as quickly as possible, with minimal configuration of Spring Framework with three important capabilities.

    • Autoconfiguration: Spring Boot applications are initialized with pre-set dependencies and don't have to be configured manually. Spring Boot also automatically configures both the underlying Spring Framework and any third-party packages based on your settings and on best practices, preventing future errors. Spring Boot's autoconfiguration feature enables you to start developing Spring applications quickly and efficiently. With Spring Boot, you reduce development time and increase the overall efficiency of the development process.

    • Opinionated approach: Spring Boot uses its own judgment for adding and configuring starter packages for your application, depending on the requirements of your project. (These are defined by filling out a simple web-form during the initialization process.) Spring Boot chooses which dependencies to install and which default values to use according to the form’s values.

    • Standalone applications: Spring Boot allows developers to create applications that can run on their own without relying on an external web server, by embedding a web server inside the application. Spring Boot applications can be launched on any platform simply by hitting the Run command.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Spring Boot stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its flexible integration options and its autoconfiguration feature, which allows users to start developing applications in a minimal amount of time.

    A system analyst and team lead at a tech services company writes, “Spring Boot has a very lightweight framework, and you can develop projects within a short time. It's open-source and customizable. It's easy to control, has a very interesting deployment policy, and a very interesting testing policy. It's sophisticated. For data analysis and data mining, you can use a custom API and integrate your application. That's an advanced feature. For data managing and other things, you can get that custom from a third-party API. That is also a free license.”

    Randy M., A CEO at Modal Technologies Corporation, writes, “I have found the starter solutions valuable, as well as integration with other products. Spring Security facilitates the handling of standard security measures. The Spring Boot annotations make it easy to handle routing for microservices and to access request and response objects. Other annotations included with Spring Boot enable move away from XML configuration.”

    Spring MVC is a Java web framework built on the Servlet API and has been included in the Spring Framework from the very beginning.  It handles web applications that use server-rendered HTML user interface, REST APIs, and much more.  The documentation includes Spring MVCView TechnologiesCORS Support, and WebSocket Support

    For baseline information and compatibility with Servlet container and Java EE version ranges please visit the Spring Framework Wiki.

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    Top Industries
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    Financial Services Firm42%
    Computer Software Company16%
    Comms Service Provider11%
    Security Firm5%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm22%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Comms Service Provider8%
    Government7%
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    Computer Software Company30%
    Financial Services Firm30%
    Manufacturing Company20%
    Government10%
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    Financial Services Firm20%
    Computer Software Company17%
    Comms Service Provider9%
    Government8%
    Company Size
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    Small Business43%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise40%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise67%
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    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise69%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise64%
    Buyer's Guide
    Spring Boot vs. Spring MVC
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Spring Boot vs. Spring MVC and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    Spring Boot is ranked 1st in Java Frameworks with 38 reviews while Spring MVC is ranked 3rd in Java Frameworks with 16 reviews. Spring Boot is rated 8.4, while Spring MVC is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Spring Boot writes "It's highly scalable, secure, and provides all the enhanced tools I need. ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Spring MVC writes "Straightforward setup, highly stable, and useful online support". Spring Boot is most compared with Jakarta EE, Open Liberty, Apache Spark, Eclipse MicroProfile and Helidon, whereas Spring MVC is most compared with Jakarta EE, Open Liberty, Apache Spark, Oracle Application Development Framework and Vert.x. See our Spring Boot vs. Spring MVC report.

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