Oracle Application Development Framework vs Spring MVC comparison

Oracle Application Development Framework vs. Spring MVC

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Categories and Ranking

Oracle Application Developm...

Ranking in Java Frameworks

10th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Spring MVC

Ranking in Java Frameworks

4th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

5.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2025, in the Java Frameworks category, the mindshare of Oracle Application Development Framework is 2.4%, up from 2.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Spring MVC is 3.2%, up from 2.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Asad Ur Rehman

ERP Manager | Implementation Head at Tharsol

Eases the writing of code in Java with JavaBeans; easy to set up

My advice to anyone who intends to use ADF for the first time is that you must make sure that you have powerful enough hardware in order to run everything smoothly, especially when it comes to JDeveloper. If your hardware is adequate, you can get by without a problem in terms of speed, but be advised that it can use a lot of resources. However, even though ADF is a good product with great scalability that has really helped me out in hard times since 2014, I would ultimately recommend that new users look toward Oracle APEX instead of ADF. I would rate Oracle Application Development Framework a nine out of ten.

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Arkabrata Ghosh

Java developer at Marlabs Inc.

A scalable tool with great auto-configuration capabilities

The best feature of Spring MVC is its auto-configuration capabilities. A user need not configure anything in the product as it offers configuration files to set profiling and guide users with what they need to connect for development, staging, or production. The auto-configuration is one of the best components of the solution.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The single sign-on features applied to Oracle Cloud is a valuable feature. All parts of this application are compatible with single sign-on, where you have a security feature that is very good in Oracle Cloud."

"It's database-centric, and it's seemingly easy to use the model–view–controller pattern that's built-in."

"The power of Oracle ADF is in the business components."

"There are several valuable features. First is the fast deployment. Also the ease of use."

"The best part of Oracle ADF is being able to easily write code in Java with JavaBean files."

"The most valuable features of this solution are the business components."

"The most valuable feature is the ease of integration with other Oracle products."

"The most valuable feature of the Oracle Application Development Framework is the rapid development and the security it provides."

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"The best feature of Spring MVC is its auto-configuration capabilities."

"It provides the best documentation for technical support."

"Spring has a speedy development process with a lightweight framework."

"The most valuable feature is simplicity."

"The most valuable feature of Spring MVC is the configuration, such as WAF."

"We appreciate that this product is really easy to integrate with third-party UI services."

"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."

"Spring MVC's extensive documentation is the most valuable feature."

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Cons

"Lacks tailoring to geographic regional differences and consistent integration with third parties."

"The performance of this solution needs to be improved because it is very slow."

"The model layer could be improved for performance because once that part gets bloated, the performance is lacking. So, there is room for performance optimization."

"You need to have Oracle ADF on-premises to build a big project. You need to have a dependable front-end application."

"I use JDeveloper along with ADF and, unfortunately, JDeveloper is a very slow tool. It takes a lot of time to accomplish things with it during both development and deployment. I hope that Oracle will improve JDeveloper to make it run faster."

"Oracle Application Development Framework is set to go out of support over the next three years but they should provide support for the solution for the longer term. Additionally, there needs to be more overall optimization and specifically in webpage rendering. The solution uses a lot of resources, and in order for them to move forward, they would have to create a smaller resource impact."

"The UI is very slow and not up to market standard."

"Oracle ADF needs more components and the layout can be improved."

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"It can be difficult for a basic user to understand the concepts in this solution, such as inversion of control."

"I saw some error messages coming up when they were getting problems actually viewing all the reports."

"It could provide faster performance."

"The initial setup could be more straightforward."

"I have recently had problems with the changes that were made using Spring Security."

"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."

"We would like the deployment of this solution to be easier as, at present, it is quite complicated."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We have yearly licensing costs."

"Oracle ADF is an expensive product. I don't know the actual figures, but our licensing costs for the year 2020, for example, were very high."

"We use a lot of Oracle products and in total, we pay about £5 million ($6.1 million USD) per year."

"The solution has an annual licensing cost and there are only standard fees. If you want Oracle support this is charged extra on top of the licensing fees."

"The cost of this solution is approximately $47,000 USD per site."

"The solution is free."

"It is an open-source solution."

"This is an open-source solution, so there are no license costs involved with using it."

"Spring MVC is open source and free."

"It is an affordable solution."

"We are using the open-source version of the solution."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

15%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Government

Financial Services Firm

23%

Computer Software Company

20%

Government

Comms Service Provider

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Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Oracle Application Development Framework?

It is low cost and has fast development.

What do you like most about Spring MVC?

The best feature of Spring MVC is its auto-configuration capabilities.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Spring MVC?

The solution is free.

What needs improvement with Spring MVC?

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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Also Known As

Oracle ADF

Spring by Pivotal, Spring, Spring Framework

Overview

Oracle ADF is an end-to-end Java EE framework that simplifies application development by providing out-of-the-box infrastructure services and a visual and declarative development experience. Oracle ADF simplifies Java EE development by minimizing the need to write code that implements the applicationâs infrastructure allowing the developers to focus on the features of the actual application. Oracle ADF provides these infrastructure implementations as part of the framework. It also implements the Model-View-Controller design pattern and offers an integrated solution that covers all the layers of the architecture integrated with the Oracle SOA and WebCenter Portal frameworks.

Oracle

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 MVC, View Technologies, CORS 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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Sample Customers

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Oracle Application Development Framework vs. Spring MVC