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Spring Boot vs Spring MVC comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Spring Boot
Ranking in Java Frameworks
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
38
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
16
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the Java Frameworks category, the mindshare of Spring Boot is 42.0%, down from 43.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Spring MVC is 3.5%, up from 2.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

RajuGottupalli - PeerSpot reviewer
Minimizes a lot of coding, improves the time to market, and is easily deployable and configurable
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.
Arkabrata  Ghosh - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Spring Boot's configuration is easy, and it has an out-of-the-box deployment."
"Spring Boot's most valuable functionalities include inversion of control, dependency injection, and the ability to gather all services, models, and controllers together for easy connectivity to your REST API, as well as the ability to build a modular response and request system. It seamlessly integrates with various backends, such as SQL, events, and messaging systems, making it a user-friendly and efficient Java tool. Additionally, it functions as a reliable business transaction layer, providing excellent support for front-end and back-end visual tools."
"The Spring Cloud Gateway, Load Balancer are the valuable features. Apart from them, handling a sync call, then multiple service communication through field clients are also useful features."
"It is a stable solution."
"I have found the starter solutions valuable, as well as integration with other products."
"We like that it is an open-source tool."
"It's great because it simplifies development. Together with MyBatis they make a beautiful pair for Java development."
"The solution reduces our development time."
"The best feature of Spring MVC is its auto-configuration capabilities."
"Spring MVC's extensive documentation is the most valuable feature."
"We have found Spring is easy to use and learn."
"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."
"When we shifted from our legacy frameworks to the Spring framework, we discovered that Spring definitely made our development easier. One good example is that there is a lot of boiler plate code available that you don't have to write from scratch, making the development of web applications a much simpler process."
"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."
"It provides the best documentation for technical support."
"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."
 

Cons

"If you want to have multiple integrations, the setup phase will become complex."
"The security could be simplified."
"It's difficult to explain to junior developers what it does under the hood."
"The cloud packaging is not very straightforward."
"When we change versions, we run into issues."
"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."
"We'd like them to develop more supporting testing."
"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."
"It could provide faster performance."
"I saw some error messages coming up when they were getting problems actually viewing all the reports."
"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."
"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."
"It can be difficult for a basic user to understand the concepts in this solution, such as inversion of control."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is an open-source tool."
"This solution is free unless you apply for support."
"Spring Boot is open source."
"This is an open source solution."
"It's an open-source solution."
"I use the free version of Spring Boot."
"Spring Boot is open source. It's a free tool and free framework."
"Spring Boot is an open source solution, it is free to use."
"We are using the open-source version of the solution."
"It is an affordable solution."
"The solution is free."
"This is an open-source solution, so there are no license costs involved with using it."
"It is an open-source solution."
"Spring MVC is open source and free."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
26%
Computer Software Company
14%
Government
7%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
23%
Computer Software Company
20%
Government
8%
Comms Service Provider
6%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Spring Boot?
1. Open Source2. 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 availab...
Which is better - Spring Boot or Eclipse MicroProfile?
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, whic...
Which is better - Spring Boot or Jakarta EE?
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 offe...
What do you like most about Spring MVC?
The best feature of Spring MVC is its auto-configuration capabilities.
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.
 

Comparisons

 

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Spring by Pivotal, Spring, Spring Framework
 

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