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

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Pros
"It is a stable solution compared to other vendors."

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"The best feature of Spring MVC is its auto-configuration capabilities.""The solution can scale.""It provides the best documentation for technical support.""The solution is open-source and free to use.""The interface is the solution's most valuable aspect.""The most valuable feature of Spring MVC is the configuration, such as WAF.""Dependency Injection is one of the major features which makes our life easier using Spring. It is well documented and has active communities, which provide us enormous help.""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."

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Cons
"Its support documentation could have detailed information on database integration."

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"Spring IDE​ needs some work and improvement. We have faced many issues when adding third-party Eclipse plugins.""The solution could be simplified quite a bit. It's unnecessarily complicated in some areas.""I have recently had problems with the changes that were made using Spring Security.""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.""We would like the deployment of this solution to be easier as, at present, it is quite complicated.""It can be difficult for a basic user to understand the concepts in this solution, such as inversion of control.""It could provide faster performance.""The initial setup could be more straightforward."

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  • "It is less costly than one of its competitors."
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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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    Top Answer:Sometimes, Open Liberty is preferred over Spring Boot because Open Liberty is lightweight, scalable, and secure. It is also a good choice for microservices because it supports a wide range of… more »
    Top Answer:It is a stable solution compared to other vendors.
    Top Answer:The solution is expensive but worth the investment as it has integration capabilities to manage the overall components. However, it is less costly compared to Spring Boot.
    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.
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    10.0
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    10
    Average Words per Review
    369
    Rating
    8.7
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    Also Known As
    Spring by Pivotal, Spring, Spring Framework
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    Overview

    Open Liberty is built on a foundation of Java EE and Eclipse Microprofile and lets you run only the features your app needs.
    In addition to support for the open source Open Liberty runtime, Open Liberty Support also includes support for Java EE, Eclipse Microprofile, and Eclipse OpenJ9 JVM when used with Open Liberty.
    Support for Open Liberty gives you 24x7x364 access to IBM’s world-class support and the development team that created Open Liberty.
    Open Liberty is the most flexible server runtime available to Java developers. Work at lightspeed in a lightweight environment and build cloud-native Java apps and microservices.

    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 Firm45%
    Computer Software Company8%
    Government8%
    Insurance Company7%
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    Computer Software Company30%
    Financial Services Firm30%
    Manufacturing Company20%
    Government10%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm20%
    Computer Software Company18%
    Government8%
    Comms Service Provider7%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business10%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise81%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise69%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business23%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise63%
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    Open Liberty is ranked 7th in Java Frameworks with 1 review while Spring MVC is ranked 3rd in Java Frameworks with 16 reviews. Open Liberty is rated 10.0, while Spring MVC is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Open Liberty writes "Scalable solution with efficient monitoring features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Spring MVC writes "Straightforward setup, highly stable, and useful online support". Open Liberty is most compared with Spring Boot, Amazon Corretto, Eclipse MicroProfile and Helidon, whereas Spring MVC is most compared with Jakarta EE, Spring Boot, Apache Spark, Oracle Application Development Framework and Vert.x.

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