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Java EE vs Spring

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Overview

Spring
Spring
Stacks3.9K
Followers4.8K
Votes1.1K
GitHub Stars59.1K
Forks38.8K
Java EE
Java EE
Stacks705
Followers460
Votes2

Java EE vs Spring: What are the differences?

Developers describe Java EE as "The standard in community-driven enterprise software". It is developed using the Java Community Process, with contributions from industry experts, commercial and open source organizations, Java User Groups, and countless individuals. It offers a rich enterprise software platform and with over 20 compliant implementations to choose from. On the other hand, Spring is detailed as "Provides a comprehensive programming and configuration model for modern Java-based enterprise applications". 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.

Java EE can be classified as a tool in the "Languages" category, while Spring is grouped under "Frameworks (Full Stack)".

Spring is an open source tool with 30.6K GitHub stars and 19.6K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Spring's open source repository on GitHub.

MIT, Zillow, and Intuit are some of the popular companies that use Spring, whereas Java EE is used by TripAdvisor, GameDuell, and ICT Health. Spring has a broader approval, being mentioned in 319 company stacks & 184 developers stacks; compared to Java EE, which is listed in 11 company stacks and 9 developer stacks.

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Advice on Spring, Java EE

Kamrul
Kamrul

Aug 16, 2020

Needs adviceonDjangoDjangoSpring BootSpring Boot

I am a graduate student working as a software engineer in a company. For my personal development, I want to learn web development. I have some experience in Springboot while I was in university. So I want to continue with spring-boot, but I heard about Django. I'm reaching out to the experts here to help me choose a future proof framework. Django or Spring Boot?

Thanks in Advance

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Asheesh
Asheesh

Dec 29, 2019

Needs advice

Hi, I am new to backend development and trying to make a decision about whether I should choose Nodejs or Spring Boot for a backend developer role. I have done 5 years of Android development and find using Java much better than javascript. Please advise why one is better over others and which one is good for the long term, also please highlight the job opportunities for both.

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Detailed Comparison

Spring
Spring
Java EE
Java EE

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.

It is developed using the Java Community Process, with contributions from industry experts, commercial and open source organizations, Java User Groups, and countless individuals. It offers a rich enterprise software platform and with over 20 compliant implementations to choose from.

Statistics
GitHub Stars
59.1K
GitHub Stars
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GitHub Forks
38.8K
GitHub Forks
-
Stacks
3.9K
Stacks
705
Followers
4.8K
Followers
460
Votes
1.1K
Votes
2
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 230
    Java
  • 157
    Open source
  • 136
    Great community
  • 123
    Very powerful
  • 114
    Enterprise
Cons
  • 15
    Draws you into its own ecosystem and bloat
  • 4
    Poor documentation
  • 3
    Java
  • 3
    Verbose configuration
  • 2
    Java is more verbose language in compare to python
Pros
  • 1
    High level of security
  • 1
    Inherits all java advantages
Cons
  • 2
    PAID
Integrations
Java
Java
Eclipse
Eclipse
NetBeans IDE
NetBeans IDE

What are some alternatives to Spring, Java EE?

Node.js

Node.js

Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.

JavaScript

JavaScript

JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.

Python

Python

Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.

Rails

Rails

Rails is a web-application framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.

PHP

PHP

Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.

Django

Django

Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.

Ruby

Ruby

Ruby is a language of careful balance. Its creator, Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto, blended parts of his favorite languages (Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, and Lisp) to form a new language that balanced functional programming with imperative programming.

Laravel

Laravel

It is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. It attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as authentication, routing, sessions, and caching.

Java

Java

Java is a programming language and computing platform first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995. There are lots of applications and websites that will not work unless you have Java installed, and more are created every day. Java is fast, secure, and reliable. From laptops to datacenters, game consoles to scientific supercomputers, cell phones to the Internet, Java is everywhere!

Golang

Golang

Go is expressive, concise, clean, and efficient. Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and networked machines, while its novel type system enables flexible and modular program construction. Go compiles quickly to machine code yet has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. It's a fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a dynamically typed, interpreted language.

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