Spring Framework vs Saturn: What are the differences?
Developers describe Spring Framework 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.. On the other hand, Saturn is detailed as "Opinionated, web development framework for F# which implements the server-side, functional MVC pattern". It is a web development framework written in F# which implements the server-side MVC pattern. Many of its components and concepts will seem familiar to anyone with experience in other web frameworks like Ruby on Rails or Python’s Django.
Spring Framework and Saturn can be categorized as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.
Some of the features offered by Spring Framework are:
- Lightweight
- Dependency Injection
- Transaction Management
On the other hand, Saturn provides the following key features:
- Combines the well known MVC pattern with the power of FP and F# to make web programming fun and easy
- Builds on top of highly optimized, and battle tested technologies such as ASP.NET Core, Giraffe and Kestrel
- Provides set of tools, templates and guides that makes creating and maintaining applications seamlessly
Spring Framework is an open source tool with 33.7K GitHub stars and 22.2K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Spring Framework's open source repository on GitHub.
