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Spring Boot vs Spring MVC comparison

 

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

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
5th
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 July 2025, in the Java Frameworks category, the mindshare of Spring Boot is 40.1%, down from 42.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Spring MVC is 3.4%, up from 3.2% 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 has a very lightweight framework, and you can develop projects within a short time. It's open-source and customizable. It's easy to control, has a very interesting deployment policy, and a very interesting testing policy. It's sophisticated."
"The most valuable feature of Spring Boot is all the interactions to various applications happen using Spring Boot."
"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 Spring Cloud Gateway, Load Balancer are the valuable features. Apart from them, handling a sync call, then multiple service communication through field clients are also useful features."
"Spring Boot facilitates the use of Java which is open source. We use Github and other libraries that are available which assist in the building we need to do."
"We like that it is an open-source tool."
"The most valuable features of Spring Boot include being able to check all the logs and doing health checks for applications. We can also do monitoring more quickly, and use Spring Boot for production support, so when production goes up or down, we can bring up the application very quickly through Spring Boot."
"The setup is straightforward."
"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."
"Spring MVC is fast and reliable."
"Spring has a speedy development process with a lightweight framework."
"The interface is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"We have found Spring is easy to use and learn."
"The most valuable feature of Spring MVC is the configuration, such as WAF."
"The solution is open-source and free to use."
"Spring MVC's extensive documentation is the most valuable feature."
 

Cons

"The solution has some vulnerabilities and fails our security audits, forcing us to keep fixing the solution."
"They should integrate the solution with more AI and machine learning platforms."
"This is a really good solution for me and I can't think of anything that can be improved."
"The database connectivity could be better in terms of dealing with multi-tenant systems."
"We'd like to have fewer updates."
"This solution could be improved if it offered greater integration and was more compatible with other solutions."
"The services we develop are purely synchronous services, so there's a blocking and waiting state. This is a big problem in microservices."
"It's difficult to explain to junior developers what it does under the hood."
"Spring IDE​ needs some work and improvement. We have faced many issues when adding third-party Eclipse plugins."
"I have recently had problems with the changes that were made using Spring Security."
"We would like the deployment of this solution to be easier as, at present, it is quite complicated."
"Spring MVC could improve the integration with DevOps and other applications."
"The documentation for Spring MVC could improve."
"The initial setup could be more straightforward."
"It could provide faster performance."
"Adding more modules takes about 10 to 15 minutes each. It would be nice if they could reduce that part. The deployment time is a little high."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
30%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Government
6%
Financial Services Firm
25%
Computer Software Company
20%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Government
5%
 

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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