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Spring

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What is Spring?

A key element of Spring is infrastructural support at the application level: Spring focuses on the "plumbing" of enterprise applications so that teams can focus on application-level business logic, without unnecessary ties to specific deployment environments.

Spring is a tool in the Frameworks category of a tech stack.

Spring Pros & Cons

Pros of Spring

  • ✓Java
  • ✓Open source
  • ✓Great community
  • ✓Very powerful
  • ✓Enterprise
  • ✓Lot of great subprojects
  • ✓Easy setup
  • ✓Convention , configuration, done
  • ✓Standard
  • ✓Love the logic

Cons of Spring

  • ✗Draws you into its own ecosystem and bloat
  • ✗Poor documentation
  • ✗Java
  • ✗Verbose configuration
  • ✗Java is more verbose language in compare to python
  • ✗Very difficult

Spring Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Spring?

.NET

.NET

.NET is a general purpose development platform. With .NET, you can use multiple languages, editors, and libraries to build native applications for web, mobile, desktop, gaming, and IoT for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and more.

Symfony

Symfony

It is written with speed and flexibility in mind. It allows developers to build better and easy to maintain websites with PHP..

.NET Core

.NET Core

Cross-platform (supporting Windows, macOS, and Linux) and can be used to build device, cloud, and IoT applications.

ASP.NET Core

ASP.NET Core

A free and open-source web framework, and higher performance than ASP.NET, developed by Microsoft and the community. It is a modular framework that runs on both the full .NET Framework, on Windows, and the cross-platform .NET Core.

CodeIgniter

CodeIgniter

CodeIgniter is a proven, agile & open PHP web application framework with a small footprint. It is powering the next generation of web apps.

Django REST framework

Django REST framework

It is a powerful and flexible toolkit that makes it easy to build Web APIs.

Spring Integrations

Java, Stormpath, Auth0, MireDot, Bugsnag and 7 more are some of the popular tools that integrate with Spring. Here's a list of all 12 tools that integrate with Spring.

Java
Java
Stormpath
Stormpath
Auth0
Auth0
MireDot
MireDot
Bugsnag
Bugsnag
Java
Java
Spring Boot
Spring Boot
Java EE
Java EE
Jtwig
Jtwig
QueryDSL
QueryDSL
Telosys
Telosys
XAP
XAP

Spring Discussions

Discover why developers choose Spring. Read real-world technical decisions and stack choices from the StackShare community.

Tyler Harden
Tyler Harden

Software Engineer at datapile

Mar 15, 2016

Needs adviceonSpringSpring

Spring is another gift rained down by the gods of Open Source Software (a.k.a. Pivotal Labs in this particular case) that just makes sense on all levels.

From Spring Boot, to SpringMVC, the configuration architecture & profile paradigm, Spring Cloud expandability, to the ease with which one can deploy Spring applets as microservices within Docker is an absolute joy. Spring

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Giovanni Candido da Silva
Giovanni Candido da Silva

Jan 31, 2016

Needs adviceonSpringSpring

The core of the application use Spring Stack, to provide services and structure like:

  • Persistence
  • REST
  • Email
  • Security
  • Self contained application with spring boot
  • And many others. @{Spring}|tool:101231773838374890|
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Jeremy McMillan
Jeremy McMillan

Senior Consultant at SAP Hybris

Jan 25, 2016

Needs adviceonSpringSpring

Hybris is built upon Spring, ensuring the best software architecture and programming style. Spring

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theskyinflames
theskyinflames

Dec 18, 2015

Needs adviceonSpringSpring

Java entreprise application/microservices developement (DI, IoC, SpringBoot, SpringData) Spring

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Casey Smith
Casey Smith

Oct 16, 2015

Needs adviceonSpringSpring

Configuration for ActiveMQ message broker and Apache Camel routes in data feed ingestion module. Spring

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