Spring Boot Reviews

I used Spring Boot to create a prototype for a banking solution. I developed two microservices, one for ATMs and the other for the backend. I used Spring Boot with the microservices architecture. I also wrote an application to calculate discount strategies or sales systems for a backend website.

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.

To monitor your application, you can use RESTful API in Spring Boot, which can help you write microservices applications. In the latest version of Spring Boot, there are many features for reactive programming as well.

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.

It would be good to have documentation on Spring Reactive to better understand it.

I've been using Spring Boot for the past two years.

Stability wise, I would rate Spring Boot at eight on a scale from one to ten.

Except for Spring Reactive, the other tools and technology stacks in Spring Boot don't offer scalability. 

Many years ago, I switched from JSF to Spring Boot because it is a good, general framework with many features. For example, Spring Boot has IoC, inversion of control, aspect-oriented programming, and Spring Reactive.

The development phase is simple to install.

Spring Boot is an open-source solution.

For writing applications, Spring Boot is a practical option, and I would give it a ten out of ten.

We use the solution to run microservices on an Azure platform. Our UI is on Angular, and Spring Boot is our backend. We have connections with Kafka Topics and some IBM backend tools, and Spring Boot is sufficient to play the part of the orchestration layer.

The solution is easy to use; I primarily employ integrated templates such as the REST template.

I like the containers as I can quickly boot up and run them in Apache Tomcat.

The product is also easy to deploy in a cloud-based infrastructure.

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 UI could be better, though, like many users, we don't use Spring Boot's UI functionality; we use an Angular front-end, and Spring is a backend layer. There are alternatives to using the solution's UI.

We've been using Spring Boot for around six years. 

Spring Boot is a very stable solution; I never had an issue with it. 

The product is scalable, providing the proper infrastructure is in place. If we have the resources, we could have 100 instances of the solution running, and that would be fine if the load were balanced. We use Spring Boot bank-wide, with about 300 developers in total.

The support is excellent. As Spring Boot is open source, help is always readily available, and we rarely need to go outside our organization to find it. The solution is not an off-the-shelf tool; it gives us a set of libraries where we can build, customize, and write our own tools. As we write our own software, the need for outside technical support is much less; we can support ourselves.

We integrate with third-party products in our ecosystem, including some IBM tools and Jakarta EE. The latter requires us to buy a license for a container, but Spring Boot comes with its own internal container called Docker.

The initial setup is straightforward and consists of going through a simple initializer process online by filling out a form with the project name and some requirements. Then, the form results will generate a shell project to download. This process takes under 15 minutes, especially if I know what features I want to include in my project. I rate the solution five out of five for ease of setup.

The solution is free. 

I rate the solution nine out of ten.

The tool is continually being improved, and when Java is upgraded, the Spring Boot update quickly follows. They're doing very well on that front.

We use a variety of actuators. We have also been working with a Spring MVC as a plugin, so we Hibernate ORM like the one where we connect to the database. We use it a lot, and Spring Boot provides interfaces like run command line runner replication. The configuration setup in Spring Boot is pretty simplified compared to Hibernate ORM.

They have starter POMs and starter configurations for different use cases. But sometimes, when the dependencies within those starter packages clash, mismatch or have a hazard, it is hard to solve the issue. The dependency management should be improved so there can be a configuration showing that it's clashing.

We have been using this solution for about two years. It is cloud-based.

Regarding stability, if we are making a REST API, I would rate the stability a nine out of ten, but if we want to make a full-fledged application, I rate it a seven out of ten.

It is scalable. We are currently serving around 10000 users.

If we have any issues with the technology, we can search it on the internet, go to Stack Overflow or talk to some experts that we have.

The setup process is simple.

We mostly try to use open-source components because we get the maximum support on the open source, and it's pretty flexible to work with our developers with open source. Mostly, we use open source. In terms of deployment, it's on the higher side compared to other stacks because the application footprint is a bit larger.

The other technology stack would be a notice-based solution which is handy to start with. But once the scope of the application rises, the number of use cases doesn't feel stable. It keeps breaking because of the lack of a type system in Java. So for an enterprise application, the initial amount of time it takes to build might be later while the application runs. On the other hand, it is much more stable than a JavaScript environment.

I rate this solution an eight out of ten. It would be great to have additional features to improve the technology.

It's being used for the front-end web portion of our application.

It simplifies the development environment for developing web applications.

The setup is straightforward. 

We have found the product to be stable so far. 

Nothing really comes to mind in terms of areas of improvement. It works well. There's nothing that stands out that I would look to be improved with that software.

I have some experience with the solution. My teams have worked with it for a bit longer.

The solution seems stable. I haven't dealt with bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable. 

I haven't tried to scale the solution. I'm not sure how well it would scale, having never tried. 

We mostly have software developers using the solution. It's not meant for everyone in the company to access. We just have small teams on it. 

I've never needed to call technical support. I couldn't really comment on how helpful or responsive they would be.

The solution is very straightforward and easy to implement. It's not a complex deployment process. 

I can't speak to the exact pricing of the product. I don't handle licensing. 

My understanding is that it is comparable to what else is in the market. I don't know of many competitors for it in the Java environment. Everybody seems to use Spring Boot.

I would recommend potential users to try it, particularly if they're developing web-based applications. It would make sense for them to try and implement it as a Spring Boot application instead of just the base Java application.

I'd rate the product nine out of ten. It was easy to install, there wasn't any expense involved, and it seemed to work as designed.

We are using Spring Boot to create services.

The most valuable feature of Spring Boot is it reduces the configuration needed. The configuration is handled by the solution. For example, if you're going to develop a web service, we needed to have a Tomcat web server and had to deploy the services and do tests. However, with Spring Boot, the default server comes with Spring Boot which reduces the task of doing all the configuration.

The solution is good for developing services in Spring Boot web and for batch services Spring Boot batch. You are able to use multiple cloud services to monitor your service production, such as Eureka

Spring Boot can improve the dependency tree that we use for libraries. It would be helpful if it was less complex.

I have been using Spring Boot for approximately one year.

Spring Boot is a highly stable solution.

Spring Boot is meant to be scalable. We use microservice architecture, which is tightly coupled with our Kubernetes cluster. You have your microservices with the default one or three ports, and based on the traffic, you can scale up your ports. The scalability of Spring Boot is very good.

Most of our whole company is using this solution, which is over 10,000 people.

This is an open-source solution and the support is not free. However, the documentation is readily available online.

The initial setup of Spring Boot was easy. The full deployment time can vary depending on the pipeline tests and if you have any other tasks, such as SonarQube checks which checks for everything. Typically, the process takes approximately 30 minutes. However, the time could increase if there are many complex elements, such as unit tests, and many modules.

If the deployment has a few services used and there are not any test cases, the deployment could take two minutes.

We did the implementation of the solution in-house.

If you want support there is paid enterprise version with support available.

If you develop in Java, 99 percent of people would use Spring Boot. There is a lot of framework support.

My advice to others is they should structure their directory classes properly or else the Spring Boot automatic configuration would not detect the components.

I would recommend this solution to others, there is not a more user-friendly tool available.

I rate Spring Boot a nine out of ten.

I gave my rating because the solution has open-source community support and it makes it easier by avoiding the need for us to do the configuration.

Spring Boot is deployed on a Azure Kubernetes container.

If I have to interact with a core banking system or any other application, I use  Spring Boot.

The most valuable feature of Spring Boot is all the interactions to various applications happen using Spring Boot.

Spring Boot could improve the interface, error handling, and integration performance.

I have been using Spring Boot for approximately four years.

The stability of Spring Boot depends on the hardware being use. If you have good hardware the solution will be stable.

The scalability of Spring Boot is good.

We have more than 1,000 users using this solution.

I have not used the technical support from Spring Boot.

The intiial setup of Spring Boot is simple.

Spring Boot is an open source solution, it is free to use.

We compared Spring Boot to .NET and we found Spring Boot to be better.

I rate Spring Boot an eight out of ten.

I work for customers in several industries and I mainly develop API and support applications and innovation with them, depending on the customer needs. I work in healthcare, logistics, and manufacturing.

The interaction with the database is great. Configuration management is useful as well. There are several features and I use many of them. 

The setup is straightforward.

It is a stable product.

The product scales well. 

Technical support is good.

It is a free open-source product with an active community.

Spring Boot is based on convention over configuration. Therefore, sometimes it seems that everything happens magically. It's difficult to explain to junior developers what it does under the hood.

There are no missing features at this time.

I've been using the solution for eight to nine years. 

It's very stable. I use it for most of my projects, and I don't have many problems with it. If there are problems, is due to the application being misconfigured. It's a configuration problem that is usually easy to solve.

It is scalable. It is a cloud-native technology. Therefore, it fits with most cloud environments and container platforms. There are not many problems in scaling it. The only problem is if it's not compiled natively, it's slow. That said, this is a Java problem, not a framework problem, let's say.

Technical support is good. 

Positive

I implement solutions with this framework. It doesn't need to be installed. It's straightforward to get started. It helps if you are a little experienced. 

I'd rate the implementation process a five out of five in terms of ease of execution. 

I am an employee in a company that heavily invests in this technology, and it pays off. Customers are happy. We are productive and developers are happy when working with it compared to other technologies. Therefore, my company is happy with this solution.

It's an open-source product, so we don't have a real partnership with the framework vendor. It is free to use. 

The solution is deployed both in the cloud and on-premises, depending on the customer's needs.

We work with the solution on behalf of clients. 

80% of my projects in the last eight years have been made with Spring Boot.

I'd advise new users to stay in touch with the community and explore the very valuable community resources.

I'd rate the solution a nine out of ten. It's very popular. It has a very engaged and very active community. The conference and the material online is great and it's usually very high quality. Once you've learned the solution, it allows you to be very productive.

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 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. 

Spring Boot could improve its integration with the major cloud providers. Connectivity with cloud solutions isn't easy compared to other frameworks like Django and Python.

I need to connect to GCP, so I would like to have one simple dependency that I can include to immediately connect to GCP, so I don't need to go through all the configuration steps. 

I've used Spring Boot for three years.

Spring Boot is stable, but we can't use the latest version because we are a large bank, and banks have higher security standards. Our security people have to vet it for us. The version we get is usually six or seven months, so all the bugs have been fixed. I have used Spring Boot for my personal use, and I've noticed that the latest version may get unstable.

Spring Boot is highly scalable. It has scaled up a lot compared to the earlier versions. 

Installing Spring Boot is easy, and we can deploy it in three to four hours. 

Spring Boot is open-source.

I rate Spring Boot eight out of 10. Spring Boot provides so many enhanced tools. It's highly scalable and secure. If you are looking for a Java Framework, you won't find a better alternative to Spring Boot.

I primarily use the solution for web applications. 

The solution has been very stable.

We like that the product is open-source. We have a lot of community support and a lot of help available in the market. It is widely being used and therefore I get a lot of information on the internet.

The initial setup is simple. 

The cloud packaging is not very straightforward, I would say. For example, integrating with Azure or a microservice architecture or cloud-based architecture is ard. If they could improve and provide a whole package at once would be great.

I've been using the solution for four to five years at this point. 

In terms of stability, the performance is good and it is a reliable product. There are no bugs or glitches and it doesn't crash or freeze. 

I'm not sure how many people use the solution within our organization, or how often. However, my understanding is that it is widely used. 

We have our own technical people on our team. We don't have any tech support as such, however, we do have support for our guys where we can ask for detailed support and information about the environment and all those things.

The implementation process is simple and straightforward. It's not overly complex or difficult. 

If we need to integrate it with third parties, we may get assistance, however, the process is pretty simple. 

The solution is open-source and free to use. We are not a premium member and therefore do not pay any licensing fees. 

I'm just an end-user of the solution.

I pretty much work on the open-source, like the Java Spring Boot. That's it.

I would recommend the solution to others. I'd rate the product at an eight out of ten.

The big thing in Spring Boot is that you don't need to make many manual configurations to set up some of the basic things I analyze. If you use Spring Core and want a JDBC connection, you need to consider a lot of XML files to have the JDBC connection done. In Spring Boots, it is simple to have the JDBC connection since the basic functions can be achieved with minimal codes or minimal configurations, making it a very powerful tool. There is not much custom configuration needed in Spring Boot.

With the boom of AI and machine learning, there is a need for a lot simpler integrations with them. The solution should have basic data models. There were regression and classification models before introducing data models back, and I feel we need some plugins to help to make it possible. In general, I want to see some integration in Spring Boot with artificial intelligence products.

I have been using Spring Boot for eight years. I am just a user of the product.

It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

Considering that If we are using the correct microservices and architecture using Spring Boot, I rate the solution scalability a nine or ten out of ten.

If you are using a monolithic architecture with Java Spring Boot, then the tool will not provide enough scope for scalability. With microservices, you can deploy the tool with a lot of functions and make it scalable.

Around 50 people use the solution in my company, but there are a total of 80 people who know Spring Boot.

I was initially using Spring Core, the earlier version of Spring Boot.

The initial setup was not complex and was a simple process. If you want to have multiple integrations, the setup phase will become complex. There are not many complications during the setup phase in Spring Boot for basic functions or websites.

The solution is deployed on an embedded application server from Spring Boot, or we must deploy the tool using other application servers.

I use the free version of Spring Boot.

If you want a livelock, I think Flume and Spark are open for it, and it will be better than a custom Java application built by IBM Redbooks. In the fields of data management and data streaming, Java is flexible, while Spring Boot is more flexible than Java.

Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.