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Oracle Application Development Framework vs Spring MVC comparison

 

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Executive Summary

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
8th
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
5th
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 August 2026, in the Java Frameworks category, the mindshare of Oracle Application Development Framework is 7.0%, up from 3.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Spring MVC is 8.4%, up from 3.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Java Frameworks Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Spring MVC8.4%
Oracle Application Development Framework7.0%
Other84.6%
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

"This is a product that I recommend."
"The power of Oracle ADF is in the business components."
"The solution enables us to create objects that allow us to develop pages and applications very rapidly."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the business components."
"Oracle support is great, one of the best that I've seen."
"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."
"The single sign-on features applied to Oracle Cloud is a valuable feature."
"The best feature of Spring MVC is its auto-configuration capabilities."
"The solution is stable and reliable, and developing web applications is quite easy there."
"The solution can scale."
"We appreciate that this product is really easy to integrate with third-party UI services."
"It provides the best documentation for technical support."
"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."
"We have found this to be a stable solution, and have not experienced any performance issues during our time using it."
"The stability has been good over the past few years; we don't have any complaints, it doesn't crash or freeze, and I can't recall experiencing bugs, so it's reliable."
 

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."
"I use JDeveloper along with ADF and, unfortunately, JDeveloper is a very slow tool. It takes a lot of time to accomplish things with it during both development and deployment. I hope that Oracle will improve JDeveloper to make it run faster."
"The performance of this solution needs to be improved because it is very slow."
"Oracle ADF needs more components and the layout can be improved."
"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."
"You need to have Oracle ADF on-premises to build a big project. You need to have a dependable front-end application."
"Lacks tailoring to geographic regional differences and consistent integration with third parties."
"The application needs to be more lightweight and the performance improved."
"It can be difficult for a basic user to understand the concepts in this solution, such as inversion of control."
"The solution could be simplified quite a bit. It's unnecessarily complicated in some areas."
"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."
"The initial setup could be more straightforward. It's not very easy to accomplish a deployment."
"I saw some error messages coming up when they were getting problems actually viewing all the reports."
"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."
"The cost is quite high."
"Spring IDE​ needs some work and improvement. We have faced many issues when adding third-party Eclipse plugins."
 

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."
"We use a lot of Oracle products and in total, we pay about £5 million ($6.1 million USD) per year."
"The cost of this solution is approximately $47,000 USD per site."
"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 have yearly licensing costs."
"It is an open-source solution."
"This is an open-source solution, so there are no license costs involved with using it."
"We are using the open-source version of the solution."
"The solution is free."
"Spring MVC is open source and free."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
13%
Outsourcing Company
11%
Comms Service Provider
11%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Outsourcing Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Construction Company
9%
 

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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