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Spring Boot pros and cons

Vendor: Broadcom
4.2 out of 5
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Spring Boot Pros review quotes

HA
Enterprise Solutions Architect / Big Data Architect at a security firm with 51-200 employees
Aug 19, 2018
Spring Boot is much easier when it comes to the configuration, setup, installation, and deployment of your applications, compared to any kind of MVC framework. It has everything within a single framework.
AR
CEO at a government with 1-10 employees
Nov 26, 2019
It's great because it simplifies development. Together with MyBatis they make a beautiful pair for Java development.
RM
CEO at Modal Technologies Corporation
Mar 10, 2020
I have found the starter solutions valuable, as well as integration with other products.
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Enrico Costanzi - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at Intesys
Jun 1, 2020
Features that help with monitoring and tracking network calls between several micro services.
VA
Team Lead at cei
Jun 25, 2020
It gives you confidence in a readily available platform.
reviewer1406874 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a educational organization with 11-50 employees
Sep 6, 2020
The cloud version is very scalable.
DS
Associate Director at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Sep 10, 2020
The platform is easy for developers to download.
reviewer1707912 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Analyst and Team Lead at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Nov 2, 2021
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.
Sachindra S - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Apr 6, 2022
We like that the product is open-source.
Bahattin Yetismis - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at BE1 consultancy
Apr 29, 2022
This is a stable solution that is being used in the HR space.
 

Spring Boot Cons review quotes

HA
Enterprise Solutions Architect / Big Data Architect at a security firm with 51-200 employees
Aug 19, 2018
Spring Boot is lacking visibility in terms of how that business process or business rule would look within your application. Because everything has been embedded within the code itself, it disables the visibility. the ability to maintain or even support a specific functionality in a user-friendly manner, where a developer can come up and just adjust that part of that process.
AR
CEO at a government with 1-10 employees
Nov 26, 2019
The product could be improved by supporting and integrating Hadoop.
RM
CEO at Modal Technologies Corporation
Mar 10, 2020
Perhaps an even lighter-weight, leaner version could be made available, to compete with alternative solutions, such as NodeJS.
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Enrico Costanzi - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at Intesys
Jun 1, 2020
Having to restart the application to reload properties.
VA
Team Lead at cei
Jun 25, 2020
communicationbetween different services from the third party layers or with the legacy applications needs to improve.
reviewer1406874 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a educational organization with 11-50 employees
Sep 6, 2020
The security could be simplified.
DS
Associate Director at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Sep 10, 2020
It needs to be simplified, more user-friendly.
reviewer1707912 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Analyst and Team Lead at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Nov 2, 2021
I would like to see more integration in this solution.
Sachindra S - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Apr 6, 2022
The cloud packaging is not very straightforward.
Bahattin Yetismis - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at BE1 consultancy
Apr 29, 2022
This solution could be improved if it offered greater integration and was more compatible with other solutions.