Broadleaf Commerce Pros and Cons

It's designed by spring which allows easy and greater customization and integration.

It uses Thymeleaf engine to change the web pages presentation which is very easy process.

Latest spring comes by default with Thymeleaf so you can be sure about future enhancements.

It's demo setup is very easy. Also Administration, promo code and discount modules are very robust.

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I don't like documentation as well as community is small.

So I love to see improvements in these areas. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ability to implement required features and still being able to upgrade to latest version with ease.

The ability to use Spring framework and other open source frameworks which have a huge community support.

The extensive use of all the best open source frameworks available is just awesome.

Since it is open source, there would be less license charge(there are many paid extensions available on top of open source functionality.) and more investment can be made on user experience and other factors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Documents related to Broadleaf seems to be old. They'll have to update their documents to the latest.

The Broadleaf community is not big and you'll have to expect delay in forum post. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Setting up development environment was easy.Liked the quality of code for products core components. The methodology used for extending entities and services is very clever.Liked the tools used to develop the product. Spring, Hibernate, Tymeleaf etc. Admin UI is very user friendly. Adding Crud screens to Admin was easy and intuitive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The documentation was very weak in 2013. You have to be very experienced jpa ( I think it was hibernate or spring data) programmer to solve problems you face while changing services. I tried to implement a multi tenant e commerce platform, I found it very difficult as I did not have much time to spend. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Setting up development environment was easy. Admin UI is very user friendly. Adding Crud screens to Admin was easy.It's demo setup is very easy. Also Administration, promo code and discount modules are very robust. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Solr is very complicate. Community is not bug Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Site is easily configurable & cognizable for you need Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Admin part is very hard to customize, Solr is still problematic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.