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We can quickly create Microservices. It provides declaration based dependency management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Spring boot loading extra dependency even if it is not needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Spring is the most powerful java EE development framework. It has complete components for all kinds of services. Most of middle level company choose it. currently, Spring framework can be viewed as the only one choice for java web development because of its powerful eco-system. People who know the spring even at the beginner level can find a job easily compared with other web framework. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Spring framework is too complex for beginner or non-CS major developer. Compared with other web framework in python or nodejs, people need more time to understand its structure and rules. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The IOC capability and the auto-wiring of Spring is the best selling point. I cannot thank more the developers of Spring Framework for building Spring which helps us to write scalable apps Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You will have to do a learning path. A steep learning curve follows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Spring Framework, w/ spring boot in particular, has all the tooling and packages you need to build modern microservices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The learning curve can be steep, you need to take a moment to understand all of the functionality and configuration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some of the most features which I find amazing are its ability to package the application as a runnable jar, which includes an embedded Tomcat server. It provides defaults for code and annotation configuration to quick start new spring projects in no time. Its approach to follow lots of boilerplate code and configuration to ease the development, unit testing, integrations are awesome. In short, Spring boot = (Spring Framework + Embedded HTTP server) - XML Configuration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It hides so much of the technicalities which I find to be useful but can be problematic sometimes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Really it's just a "batteries included" system. Whatever you are doing, whatever you building, there is some solution for it built inside of Spring. You also are not alone wit husing the tool. There are tons of questions answered online and tons of tutorials online on how to do basically everything with Spring. It's very mature and a joy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Spring is pretty heavy. In a microservices world it can be quite unfortunate to have to spend so much memory and start up time on just booting up. They have done some recent work to bring in more GraalVM support and some healthcheck items that allow for better Kubernetes support. The maturity of the tool also ends up being a problem here as it's built on technologies and methods that are falling out of favor in recent years. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It provides all the initial environment to develop the spring based application applications .

Auto configurations of required classes and libraries.

It provides lots of plugins to develop and test spring boot applications.

Its embedded application servers.

worked with embedded and in memory databases easily.

Auto Configure, core , CLI, Actuator,tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Spring boot starters and time consuming process to convert the existing or legacy spring applications.

Applicable only for brand new /greenfield spring only.

Starters. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Best thing I like about spring boot over core spring is that you don't have to worry about any manual configuration and dependency. It takes care of application classpath and beans that we configured and if any require beans are missing it adds them automatically. Spring Boot starter POMs helps to simplify dependency management. Like if we are using Thymeleaf as dependency in our class path spring boot automatically adds required beans in our application context. By this it completely removes the headache of application configuration by its auto configuration feature and lets developer to completely focus and developing application. Since it has builtin tom cat server you don't have to setup tomcat server yourself. Running application is so easy that you just have to package your application and you can run your application without any hassle of any type of configuration. With sites like https://start.spring.io/ you are one click away to generate spring boot application scaffold with your custom configuration and dependencies.

Another main feature of spring boot is Actuator which gives us deep insight and health check stats of a running spring boot application. Alongside health check and monitoring interface it gives us more insight on which type of bean are created in spring spring boot application context. Actuator also helps developer to keep track of used environmental variables and system properties. It provides statistic on how many hits, errors count on all of application's endpoints and all the traces of HTTP request handled by application.

Spring Boot Cli is another features that enables developers to easily run Groovy scripts i.e. scripting language for java platform, through command line interface. We can also bootstrap new project through Spring Boot Cli or make our own command .Spring Boot Cli will automatically handle the dependencies by evaluating supplied annotations .

Spring boot has builtin Spring security package that helps to build very powerful and customizable authentication, authorization and access control flow. By default it includes protection against CSRF (Cross Site Request Frogery), XSS (Cross Site scripting), session hijacking and fixation. We can use Spring boot security framework for securing login process and authorizing authenticated user if they have appropriate access in application to query or mutate data in our application.

Spring boot devtools has feature of automatic restart and hot swapping on files and classpath changes, which makes development phase very much easier because you don't have to restart tomcat server every time you made some changes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

With auto configuration comes disadvantage of having a-lot of unwanted dependencies that we may never use. For newbie It almost feels like magic because all the dependency injection and AOP programming is handled by Spring boot. So if you want to learn concept of Spring application you should probably not start by developing application with Spring boot. Beside that Spring boot is quite good to develop application easily on short time frame. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Best features:

1. Auto configuration

2. Dependency management

3. Advanced externalised configuration

4. Production support

5. Runnable jars

6. More organised projects structure and less development time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- It’s tough to not use xml and other usual annotations

- Config files can be become complicated with java code Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's easy to implement and understand the topics of coding for a microservice. In this modern world, it's imperative that we provide world class solutions and fast to market. That we can achieve with spring boot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I would say, the more services that you have, the more difficult it will be to monitor. Depends on the wait of implementing your architecture as well. But spring boot does posses the tools and techniques to help you every step. Also there is a good public repositories as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.