Spring Boot Reviews

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.

We use this solution for human resources applications. 

This solution could be improved if it offered greater integration and was more compatible with other solutions. For this reason, we have moved to Microsoft. 

We have used this solution for one year.

The complexity of the initial setup is moderate, not straightforward. It took approximately one week. 

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten. 

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.

We are using this solution for various in-house applications and products.

Spring Boot is lightweight. The platform is easy for developers to download. It gives you a good framework and support for the different components they have.

This is not a tool for beginners. You need to know and understand it well.

It needs to be simplified, more user-friendly.

Spring Boot is only for lightweight components. You cannot have large applications on it.

If the binary size is large then you have to ensure that the services that are designed are very lightweight.  For example, if there are ten components, you have to divide them into ten and not into one. There needs to be a logical separation.

I would like to see the size of the code improved and the framework. We don't always realize how much we are loading into the microservice. There should be some limitations in place to indicate whether the code size should not exceed a certain amount and should not compile itself.

I have been using Spring Boot for approximately five years.

It's a stable product. We have not had any issues.

Spring Boot is scalable.

I have a team of 50, who are using this solution. The organization has approximately 120 users.

We plan to continue our usage with Spring Boot.

There is a very large community available online. We find enough material there.

The initial setup was straightforward.

There is a lot of documentation to get through, but there is help available online.

This is an open-source product.

Spring Boot is a good product to get started with, especially when there are services to be written, in particular, when in the new microservices area. 

They need to look for the unnecessary binary size that gets increased, otherwise, it's good.

I would recommend this solution

I would rate Spring Boot an eight out of ten.

We are using the latest version of Java Spring Boot. We can just start with the application within a day. When we start developing we can just start up the application development immediately and work for like four or five hours. We are using it for logistics companies and will be logging thousands of users. Companies of three thousand to four thousand users are what we are using it for.

It doesn't take much time like most other applications. So I just do my business with Spring Boot. It gives you confidence in a readily available platform. You just have to implement your project and you don't have to worry about third parties and integrating all the jobs.

I feel like communication has to be increased. For example, communicating between different services from the third party layers or with the legacy applications. But, it's getting mature right now, but there are some communication patterns that are getting with Spring Boot.

We have been using Java Spring Boot for more than 3 and a half years.

Java Spring Boot is very stable. It's already proven and the market is moving towards this technology.

One of the best advantages of Spring Boot is the scalability. You don't have to worry about it. You can deploy an application like in a service. If I want to have a separate application, or if you want to go with a business logic application, I would tend to go with the single application for the instance. So when I just want to increase the business logic application resources I can just scale up the service. I don't have to scale the whole application. That's monolithic. You can deploy an application individually or have it as a single application.

We do not use their technical support.

The initial setup is very straightforward. The cloud deployment gives you the DevOps technology, continuous integration, and continuous deployment tools. We have Docker, and we can put the image on the container. And we can do it again very easily. We can just bring the application down and bring up the application within 30 minutes.

We did the initial setup in-house and we also maintain it in-house. We have a team of 30 people using Spring Boot.

We have used other frameworks and the scalability is not nearly as good.

I would recommend looking into logistics and buying a domain to use Spring Boot. I would rate Java Spring Boot at a nine on a scale of ten.

I primarily rely on Spring Boot as the core microservices framework, used for creating myriad solutions for health care and for the financial services industries. Environments change, depending on client commitments and budgets, but Spring Boot remains as the successful nexus for all development.

I have used it for both SQL and NoSQL solutions, including both caching and non-caching environments. With over 20 Spring modules to select for possible augmentation of the basic Spring Boot platform, there is nearly always a solution available.

In cases, where some additional, narrow functionality is still lacking, many existing solutions can be integrated into the Spring Boot Java framework, even if that functionality is not part of an official Spring Boot add-on module.

Spring Boot has sped time to market and has also improved testability, hence also improving the quality of deployed solutions. By eliminating the need for XML configuration, Spring Boot has also been instrumental in improving application performance, since this shift away from XML has provided an impetus to migrate from SOAP to RESTful services.

Also, Spring Boot has facilitated cloud migrations, since now the application can be deployed as a simple JAR file. Where Spring Boot has not helped has been with clients, who insist on moving away from Java (and .NET), towards lighter-weight solutions, such as NodeJS.

I have found the starter solutions valuable, as well as integration with other products.  For example, the MongoDB Repository feature is extremely helpful. Also, the integration with Spring Data JPA is valuable for accessing familiar JPA query functionality.

Spring Security facilitates the handling of standard security measures.

The Spring Boot annotations make it easy to handle routing for microservices and to access request and response objects.

Other annotations included with Spring Boot enable move away from XML configuration, and, of course, autowiring removes the necessity for creating objects in many scenarios.

Perhaps an even lighter-weight, leaner version could be made available, to compete with alternative solutions, such as NodeJS.

It would also be extremely helpful if hand-holding templates were provided, to quickly guide new developers through the entire end-to-end process of developing a solution with Spring Boot. These aids could be in question or checkbox answer format, which would then trigger the appropriate guides. The guides should be geared to developer tasks. For example, after the neophyte Spring Boot developer answers some questions, the guide might say, "OK, then, you will want to put your MongoDB queries in the MongoDB Repository that you have created. You can use this @Query format..."

I have been using Spring Boot for three years.

My impression is that Spring Boot is highly stable. In fact, I have not seen any stability problems, at all, since I have been using it.

Spring Boot scales well. Care must be taken if any state is to be maintained since maximum scalability would be associated with a singleton instance of the application.

A deep and wide community provides substantial support for the entire Spring Boot ecosystem.

Previously, I used the traditional Spring and EJB. Performance, error-prone XML SOAP layer, XML-weak developer skillset, as well as increased ease of Cloud deployment were prime motivators for switching to Spring Boot.

The initial setup is straightforward due to the extensive starter project support online. Also, there is vast community support online for Spring Boot.

Developers implemented without any vendor team support.

Since Spring Boot, as well as the associated Eclipse IDE (with the Spring Tool Suite, STS, installed) are free, ROI is extremely high. The only investment is developer training, which is minimized, in part by having starter projects available online, and in part, by the simplicity of the design of the platform.

Spring Boot is free; even the Spring Tools Suite for Eclipse is free.

I advise others to use the cost savings to invest in Postman Pro, and to use that product to create and run suites of integration testing, whenever changes are made to the code base. I even advise moving unit testing to Postman Pro test scripts, which can be run by testers, in addition to developers. In this way, zero-defect applications can be deployed and supported.

The closest competitor was a totally different option: NodeJS/React.

Spring Boot is a great way to implement microservices in the Cloud. It is an especially good choice if the requirements include background processing and calculations, which make the application a poor candidate for a lighter-weight solution, such as NodeJS.

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.

We primarily use the solution for building websites and the backend.

It has been helpful in assisting us in the process of building websites. 

The simplicity is great. 

It's easy to set up the solution. 

The solution is mostly stable. 

It is great if you are using Java. 

We'd like to see them get better at securing apps. 

For example, when you want to do authentication, it would be ideal if there was a way to do two-step verification. 

We don't really need any new features.

When we change versions, we run into issues. 

I've been using the solution for two years. 

While the solution is stable, when we jump from one version to another, many things tend to go wrong. We'd like it to be more stable when we switch versions. Therefore, I'd rate the stability 6.5 or seven out of ten. 

I don't really use the solution to scale. I've never tried to expand it. 

I've never contacted technical support in the past. I can't speak to how helpful or responsive they would be.

I previously used Laravel. The main difference is the language used. However, Spring Boot is better if you are working in Java. 

The product is simple to set up. 

I use Docker to deploy Spring Boot.

Once it is up and running, there are many things that I can start creating. 

I'd rate the ease of deployment at an eight out of ten. It is not complex at all. 

I set up the solution myself. I did not need any outside help or assistance. 

I don't deal with the pricing aspect of the solution. 

I'm just a user.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.