Overview

Spring Boot

Stacks26.8K

Followers24.3K

Votes1.0K

GitHub Stars78.9K

Forks41.6K

WSO2

Stacks84

Followers164

Votes0

GitHub Stars932

Forks862

Spring Boot vs WSO2: What are the differences?

Introduction

In this article, we will compare Spring Boot and WSO2, two popular frameworks used for developing Java-based applications. We will highlight the key differences between them and provide specific details.

Ease of Development: Spring Boot focuses on simplicity and ease of development by providing a convention-over-configuration approach. It offers a straightforward setup and configuration, allowing developers to quickly start building applications. On the other hand, WSO2 is an extensive middleware platform that offers a wide range of functionalities. While it provides more flexibility and customization options, it requires a deeper understanding of the platform and its components.
Microservices Architecture Support: Spring Boot has excellent support for building microservices-based applications. It provides features like embedded servers, dependency injection, and easy integration with other Spring projects. WSO2 also supports microservices architecture, but it offers additional capabilities like service orchestration, complex event processing, and API management. It provides a complete platform for building and managing microservices-based applications.
Integration Capabilities: WSO2 specializes in integration and has a robust set of integration capabilities. It provides features like enterprise service bus (ESB), message brokering, message transformation, and mediation. Spring Boot, on the other hand, focuses more on the development of standalone applications and microservices. While it offers integration capabilities through Spring Integration and Spring Cloud Stream, it may not be as comprehensive as WSO2 in terms of integration features.
Community and Ecosystem: Spring Boot has a large and vibrant community with extensive documentation, tutorials, and community-driven projects. It has a wide range of libraries and extensions available, making it easier to find solutions and get support. WSO2 also has an active community, but it may not be as large as Spring Boot. However, WSO2 has excellent documentation and provides enterprise-grade support for its platform.
Scalability and Performance: Both Spring Boot and WSO2 can scale horizontally to handle high loads. However, Spring Boot's lightweight nature and ability to run on embedded servers make it more suitable for building highly scalable applications. WSO2, on the other hand, provides advanced clustering and load balancing features, making it a better choice for enterprise-level deployments that require high performance and scalability.
Security and Identity Management: WSO2 specializes in security and identity management and provides comprehensive features for securing applications and services. It offers features like authentication, authorization, single sign-on (SSO), and identity federation. While Spring Boot also provides security features, it may require additional configuration and integration with other libraries or frameworks to achieve the same level of functionality as WSO2.

In summary, Spring Boot focuses on simplicity, ease of development, and microservices architecture support, while WSO2 offers a comprehensive platform for integration, security, and enterprise-level deployments. The choice between them depends on the specific requirements and the complexity of the application being developed.

Advice on Spring Boot, WSO2

Eva

Fullstack developer

Jul 28, 2020

Needs adviceon

Java

Spring Boot

JavaScript

Hello, I am a fullstack web developer. I have been working for a company with Java/ Spring Boot and client-side JavaScript(mainly jQuery, some AngularJS) for the past 4 years. As I wish to now work as a freelancer, I am faced with a dilemma: which stack to choose given my current knowledge and the state of the market?

I've heard PHP is very popular in the freelance world. I don't know PHP. However, I'm sure it wouldn't be difficult to learn since it has many similarities with Java (OOP). It seems to me that Laravel has similarities with Spring Boot (it's MVC and OOP). Also, people say Laravel works well with Vue.js, which is my favorite JS framework.

On the other hand, I already know the Javascript language, and I like Vue.js, so I figure I could go the fullstack Javascript route with ExpressJS. However, I am not sure if these techs are ripe for freelancing (with regards to RAD, stability, reliability, security, costs, etc.) Is it true that Express is almost always used with MongoDB? Because my experience is mostly with SQL databases.

The projects I would like to work on are custom web applications/websites for small businesses. I have developed custom ERPs before and found that Java was a good fit, except for it taking a long time to develop. I cannot make a choice, and I am constantly switching between trying PHP and Node.js/Express. Any real-world advice would be welcome! I would love to find a stack that I enjoy while doing meaningful freelance coding.

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Slimane

Jul 9, 2020

Needs adviceon

Spring Boot

NestJS

Node.js

I am currently planning to build a project from scratch. I will be using Angular as front-end framework, but for the back-end I am not sure which framework to use between Spring Boot and NestJS. I have worked with Spring Boot before, but my new project contains a lot of I/O operations, in fact it will show a daily report. I thought about the new Spring Web Reactive Framework but given the idea that Node.js is the most popular on handling non blocking I/O I am planning to start learning NestJS since it is based on Angular philosophy and TypeScript which I am familiar with. Looking forward to hear from you dear Community.

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Milan

May 6, 2020

Needs adviceon

Spring Boot

Node.js

React

Hi, I am looking to select tech stack for front end and back end development. Considering Spring Boot vs Node.js for developing microservices. Front end tech stack is selected as React framework. Both of them are equally good for me, long term perspective most of services will be more based on I/O vs heavy computing. Leaning toward node.js, but will require team to learn this tech stack, so little hesitant.

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Detailed Comparison

Spring Boot	WSO2
Spring Boot makes it easy to create stand-alone, production-grade Spring based Applications that you can "just run". We take an opinionated view of the Spring platform and third-party libraries so you can get started with minimum fuss. Most Spring Boot applications need very little Spring configuration.	It delivers the only complete open source middleware platform. With its revolutionary componentized design, it is also the only open source platform-as-a-service for private and public clouds available today. With it, seamless migration and integration between servers, private clouds, and public clouds is now a reality.
-	100% Open Source;Largest Platform Built on Single Code Base;Cloud Enabled;Premium Support
Statistics
GitHub Stars 78.9K	GitHub Stars 932
GitHub Forks 41.6K	GitHub Forks 862
Stacks 26.8K	Stacks 84
Followers 24.3K	Followers 164
Votes 1.0K	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 149 Powerful and handy 134 Easy setup 128 Java 90 Spring 85 Fast Cons 23 Heavy weight 18 Annotation ceremony 13 Java 11 Many config files needed 5 Reactive	No community feedback yet
Integrations
Spring Java	Segment Zapier Postman

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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.

Rails

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Django

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Laravel

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.NET

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Postman

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