Spring Boot Reviews

Name: Spring Boot
Brand: VMware
Rating: 4 (38 reviews)

Vendor: VMware

4.2 out of 5

38 reviews
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What is Spring Boot?

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.

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Spring Boot is the #1 ranked solution in top Java Frameworks. PeerSpot users give Spring Boot an average rating of 8.4 out of 10. Spring Boot is most commonly compared to Jakarta EE: Spring Boot vs Jakarta EE. Spring Boot is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 67% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 24% of all views.

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RakeshPatel2

Software Engineer at HSBC

Spring Boot is a Java Framework, and it offers dependency management for Maven and Gradle, but we use it as a Maven project. We're a massive bank, and I estimate that 95 percent of Java projects use the Spring Boot Framework. It's upwards of 40,000 users Spring Boot provides an all-in-one…

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Bassem Zohdy

Senior Software Architect at Help AG

We use the solution to build microservice architecture. It helps us expose microservices to REST API or similar messaging applications to provide a communication bridge The solution's externalized configuration feature works the best. It allows us to read configuration from the server, external…

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RajuGottupalli

Chief architect at Mphasis

Spring Boot is a bounded framework. The services we develop are purely synchronous services, so there's a blocking and waiting state. This is a big problem in microservices. To avoid this problem, we have to make the service a reactive session. It has to be reactive to a particular load, particular condition, or based on the number of requests hitting the particular service. All these factors make the service a reactor. There's another module in which Spring Boot provides spring reflex. This module enables the reactiveness of the service, meaning that it eliminates the blocking and waiting state. For example, if you're sending a get operation or a post operation, there won't be any waiting for it to actually hit that particular network to get the data from another service. It continuously flows the request, and there is a zero waiting pack. Vert.x is another good framework where there are similar features or similar benefits with having a reactive session. Spring Boot is a license resource, so it's a framework where we can customize our solution or a particular requirement to build a good solution using Spring Boot. But it's an opinionated framework, meaning that it's completely bounded. You have only one direction to find a solution, whereas Vert.x is an unopinionated framework. Unopinionated is a kind of a toolkit where you can have more optimization and a more flexible solution, which is suitable to your requirements. In Spring Boot, the opportunities are limited. With Vert.x and other programming tools, we have multiple options to explore the solution in a different way and achieve a nonfunctional requirement of thousands transactions in a second. Spring Boot might not support this kind of non-functional requirement. Vert.X is a very good solution to solve critical NFRs for a particular application.

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Spring Boot mindshare

As of September 2024, the mindshare of Spring Boot in the Java Frameworks category stands at 43.2%, down from 43.9% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Valuable Features

"Spring Boot's configuration is easy, and it has an out-of-the-box deployment."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...The initial setup was not complex and was a simple process."
"It is a stable solution."

Room for Improvement

"Spring Boot's cost could be cheaper."
"If you want to have multiple integrations, the setup phase will become complex."
"It needs more applicable control for large-scale application development."

Pricing

"I use the free version of Spring Boot."
"The solution is an open-source tool."
"It's an open-source solution."

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Financial Services Firm

24%

Computer Software Company

15%

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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.”