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VMware, Inc.

Spring Boot

Composite Score

8.0 /10

CX Score

8.2 /10

22 Reviews Write a Review

What is Spring Boot?

Spring Boot makes it easy to create stand-alone, production-grade Spring based Applications that you can "just run". From configuration to security, web apps to big data—whatever the infrastructure needs of your application may be, there is a Spring Project to help you build it. Start small and use just what you need—Spring is modular by design.

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Awards & Recognition

Spring Boot won the following awards in the Low-Code Development Tools category

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5 Top Rated Capabilities

7 Top Rated Features

Latest Award, 2024

2 Top Rated Capabilities

5 Top Rated Features

2023

Spring Boot Ratings

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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

88 Likeliness to Recommend

95 Plan to Renew

5
Since last award

87 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1
Since last award

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+86 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Spring Boot?

5% Negative

5% Neutral

90% Positive

Pros

Reliable
Enables Productivity
Unique Features
Includes Product Enhancements

Feature Ratings

Average 79

Exception and Error Handling

Import and Export Capabilities

Data and Entity Mapping

Backend Coding and Scripting

Application Security

Cloud Deployment

Cross-Platform Deployment

End to End Lifecycle Management

Vendor Community and Marketplace

Audit Trail

Application Inventory and Dashboard

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 82

Ease of Implementation

Business Value Created

Quality of Features

Ease of Data Integration

Breadth of Features

Availability and Quality of Training

Usability and Intuitiveness

Vendor Support

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Customization

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Spring Boot Reviews

Milind S.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Retail
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

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Submitted Jul 2023

Easy to use, feature rich and clear documentation.

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Spring Boot from other similar products?

Easy to develop, feature rich and clear documentation

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Easy to develop

What do you dislike most about this product?

Nothing in particular

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

If you building a solution in Java, then Spring should be your first choice.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Unique Features
Transparent
Security Protects

Chirag T.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Engineering
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

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Submitted Jul 2023

Spring Boot: The most advanced Java framework

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Spring Boot from other similar products?

1) Spring Boot is more easy, efficient and user friendly as compared to other frameworks. 2) Spring Boot helps in creating applications that can be easily deployed into production. 3) It can be easily integrated with almost all other tools and technologies like databases, messaging queues etc

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

1) It reduces lot of boiler plate coding and provides lot of features out of the box. 2) Requires very less turn around time for setup, installation and configuration

What do you dislike most about this product?

1) Converting a legacy project to Spring Boot project is quite troublesome. 2) Sometimes, lot of unnecessary dependencies are injected into the application making it bulky.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Considering the ease of use and developer friendly nature of the product, I would highly recommend all the developers to start adopting it in building large scale applications.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Amit K.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: End User of Application

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Submitted Jun 2023

Became de-facto for building microservices in Java

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Spring Boot from other similar products?

its ecosystem and developer community is vast, they are continuously improving the platform and adding new capabilities and integration at a faster pace

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

open-source nature and developer eco-system, Java developers loves building the micro-services in spring boot and there is huge community support so you would get answer to almost all your doubts

What do you dislike most about this product?

nothing, I love the product

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

if you are new to java and building the micro-services, there are few other frameworks which might be easy to get started and looks good in short term but worth checking all the features, and check if you need to scale and maintain application for a long time does those frameworks has great community support and breadth of features

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

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Spring Boot Ratings

88 Likeliness to Recommend

95 Plan to Renew

5 Since last award

87 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+86 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Spring Boot?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Exception and Error Handling Automated process of responding to unwanted or unexpected events when the application runs.

Import and Export Capabilities Import and convert legacy or applications built using other development tools into the tool and export development artifacts to other tools and archives.

Data and Entity Mapping Ability to break down an application by form and entities, and see how their relationships will affect one another when specific actions are executed.

Backend Coding and Scripting The ability to write, modify and configure the source code or scripts of the application.

Application Security Capability to build and enforce security mechanisms to ensure application confidentiality, privacy, integrity and availability.

Cloud Deployment Solution offers the capability to deploy applications in the platform to the cloud.

Cross-Platform Deployment Ability to build applications that are functional and accessible on multiple user devices and platforms (e.g. mobile phones, tablets, websites).

End to End Lifecycle Management Solution provides workflows, versioning, recovery and rollback and other tooling and capabilities for managing the entire software lifecycle.

Vendor Community and Marketplace A public or private forum or store where developers can buy or share out-of-the-box templates, widgets, plug-ins, application functions, and integrations.

Audit Trail View all previous activity including any recent edits and user access.

Application Inventory and Dashboard A list of applications built and deployed by the solution. Out-of-the-box and customizable KPIs and metrics measure the system performance, value and usage.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Spring Boot Reviews

Milind S.

Easy to use, feature rich and clear documentation.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Chirag T.

Spring Boot: The most advanced Java framework

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Amit K.

Became de-facto for building microservices in Java

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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