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Oracle Application Development Framework vs Spring MVC comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Oracle Application Developm...
Ranking in Java Frameworks
9th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.0
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Spring MVC
Ranking in Java Frameworks
7th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
5.9
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Java Frameworks category, the mindshare of Oracle Application Development Framework is 6.8%, up from 3.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Spring MVC is 7.2%, up from 3.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Java Frameworks Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Spring MVC7.2%
Oracle Application Development Framework6.8%
Other86.0%
Java Frameworks
 

Featured Reviews

Asad Ur Rehman - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
Arkabrata  Ghosh - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable feature of the Oracle Application Development Framework is the rapid development and the security it provides."
"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."
"There are several valuable features. First is the fast deployment. Also the ease of use."
"This is a product that I recommend."
"The solution enables us to create objects that allow us to develop pages and applications very rapidly."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of integration with other Oracle products."
"The best part of Oracle ADF is being able to easily write code in Java with JavaBean files."
"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."
"The solution can scale."
"We have found Spring is easy to use and learn."
"The best feature of Spring MVC is its auto-configuration capabilities."
"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."
"I am today able to spin up a Java web service, especially with embedded Tomcat, within hours."
"Spring has a speedy development process with a lightweight framework."
 

Cons

"We have some problems with Oracle relative to third parties. Like in one project, there were some loopholes for hackers to penetrate through our main application."
"Another downside with ADF is that, right now, no one is using it because everyone has moved to Oracle's APEX technology."
"That's where I have issues with it. It's said that it's scalable, but I have found that it's a bit lacking in that department."
"The technical support should be improved; it's not as good as you get from other solutions and we don't get responses in a timely fashion, so we end up doing workarounds to solve issues."
"The application needs to be more lightweight and the performance improved."
"Oracle ADF needs more components and the layout can be improved."
"Oracle Application Development Framework has some minor drawbacks, especially in rendering with pages and bugs in business components. It's not a typical framework, it's a very heavy framework."
"You need to have Oracle ADF on-premises to build a big project. You need to have a dependable front-end application."
"I saw some error messages coming up when they were getting problems actually viewing all the reports."
"We would like the deployment of this solution to be easier as, at present, it is quite complicated."
"The solution could be simplified quite a bit. It's unnecessarily complicated in some areas."
"The initial setup could be more straightforward. It's not very easy to accomplish a deployment."
"Spring IDE​ needs some work and improvement. We have faced many issues when adding third-party Eclipse plugins."
"Spring MVC could improve the integration with DevOps and other applications."
"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."
"I have recently had problems with the changes that were made using Spring Security."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"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."
"We have yearly licensing costs."
"The cost of this solution is approximately $47,000 USD per site."
"The solution is free."
"Spring MVC is open source and free."
"We are using the open-source version of the solution."
"This is an open-source solution, so there are no license costs involved with using it."
"It is an open-source solution."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
13%
Comms Service Provider
11%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise1
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise11
 

Also Known As

Oracle ADF
Spring by Pivotal, Spring, Spring Framework
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Financial Regulatory Authority (FRA) of Egypt, Red Samurai, ChB Jelly House
EMC, Aridhia, CoreLogic, CenturyLink, Humana, Purdue University, Tampon Run, ArtsPool, Charity Water, Center for ReSource Conservation, Manos Teatrales
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