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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 May 2025, in the Java Frameworks category, the mindshare of Spring Boot is 41.4%, down from 43.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Spring MVC is 3.1%, up from 2.8% 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 main feature is that it's great for DevOps because you can write your own application. You don't need to install Apache Tomcat. You can create your project easily with a few clicks."
"It's very easy to get started. It's very quick. Most of the configurations are already available. So not much time is spent on setting up things. One can quickly set up and then get rolling."
"We like that it is an open-source tool."
"The community surrounding Spring Boot is really good. If you face any issue with Spring Boot, you will get the answer from the community."
"Features that help with monitoring and tracking network calls between several micro services."
"The setup is straightforward."
"Spring Boot provides an all-in-one solution for the libraries needed to create a Win app. It covers all the aspects, including validation, security, etc. It provides all those features out-of-the-box. You can do almost everything with Spring Boot."
"This is a stable solution that is being used in the HR space."
"Spring MVC is fast and reliable."
"The best feature of Spring MVC is its auto-configuration capabilities."
"Spring has a speedy development process with a lightweight framework."
"The interface is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"The most valuable feature of Spring MVC is the configuration, such as WAF."
"The solution is open-source and free to use."
"We have found Spring is easy to use and learn."
"We appreciate that this product is really easy to integrate with third-party UI services."
 

Cons

"Nothing really comes to mind in terms of areas of improvement."
"The services we develop are purely synchronous services, so there's a blocking and waiting state. This is a big problem in microservices."
"When we change versions, we run into issues."
"The security could be simplified."
"The solution has some vulnerabilities and fails our security audits, forcing us to keep fixing the solution."
"If you want to create large microservices applications, you need to connect several applications and services to each other. It is very complicated, and Spring Boot does not have an integrated solution for it."
"The tool's documentation could be improved, especially by tying it back to frequently asked questions and issues users have. A feedback loop in which the documentation targets the most commonly asked user questions would make using the solution easier. Essentially, I want a more user-centered approach to documentation rather than a purely technical focus."
"The database connectivity could be better in terms of dealing with multi-tenant systems."
"The initial setup could be more straightforward."
"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."
"Spring MVC could improve the integration with DevOps and other applications."
"I have recently had problems with the changes that were made using Spring Security."
"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."
"Spring IDE​ needs some work and improvement. We have faced many issues when adding third-party Eclipse plugins."
"It can be difficult for a basic user to understand the concepts in this solution, such as inversion of control."
"The documentation for Spring MVC could improve."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"This solution is free unless you apply for support."
"It's an open-source solution."
"I am using a free version of Spring Boot."
"It's open-source software, so it's free. It's a community license."
"This is an open-source product."
"If you want support there is paid enterprise version with support available."
"The solution is an open-source tool."
"This is an open source solution."
"This is an open-source solution, so there are no license costs involved with using it."
"The solution is free."
"It is an affordable solution."
"We are using the open-source version of the solution."
"Spring MVC is open source and free."
"It is an open-source solution."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
28%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Government
7%
Financial Services Firm
23%
Computer Software Company
21%
Government
8%
Comms Service Provider
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
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.
 

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Spring by Pivotal, Spring, Spring Framework
 

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