ASP.NET Zero vs Spring Framework: What are the differences?
Developers describe ASP.NET Zero as "Base solution for web applications". It is a starting point for new web applications with modern UI and SOLID architecture. It saves time by providing common application requirements as a pre-built Visual Studio solution (with full source code). On the other hand, Spring Framework is detailed as "An application framework and inversion of control container for the Java platform". It provides a comprehensive programming and configuration model for modern Java-based enterprise applications - on any kind of deployment platform
The framework's core features can be used by any Java application, but there are extensions for building web applications on top of the Java EE platform..
ASP.NET Zero and Spring Framework can be categorized as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.
Some of the features offered by ASP.NET Zero are:
- Multi-Tenancy
- Authentication & Authorization
- Rapid Application Development
On the other hand, Spring Framework provides the following key features:
- Lightweight
- Dependency Injection
- Transaction Management
Spring Framework is an open source tool with 35.4K GitHub stars and 23.5K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Spring Framework's open source repository on GitHub.