Difference between Spring MVC and Spring Boot [closed]

Answer 1

Without repeating the same thing in previous answers,
I'm writing this answer for the people who are looking to starting a new project and don't know which is the best framework to startup your project. If you are a beginner to this framework the best thing I prefer is Use spring boot(with STS /Spring Tool Suite). Because it helps a lot. Its do all configurations on its own. Additionally, use Hibernate with spring-boot as a database framework. With this combination, your application will be the best. I can guarantee that with my experiences.

Even this is one of the best frameworks for JEE(in present) this is gonna die in the near future. There are lightweight alternatives coming up. So keep updated with your experience don't stick to one particular framework. The best thing is being fluent in concepts, not in the frameworks.

Answer 2

In simple term it can be stated as:

Spring boot = Spring MVC + Auto Configuration(Don't need to write spring.xml file for configurations) + Server(You can have embedded Tomcat, Netty, Jetty server).

And Spring Boot is an Opinionated framework, so its build taking in consideration for fast development, less time need for configuration and have a very good community support.

Answer 3

• Using spring boot you will no need to build configuration. This will have done automatically when you create project.

• If you use spring MVC you need to build configuration yourself. It is more complicated, but it is crucial.

Answer 4

• Spring MVC is a complete HTTP oriented MVC framework managed by the Spring Framework and based in Servlets. It would be equivalent to JSF in the JavaEE stack. The most popular elements in it are classes annotated with @Controller, where you implement methods you can access using different HTTP requests. It has an equivalent @RestController to implement REST-based APIs.
• Spring boot is a utility for setting up applications quickly, offering an out of the box configuration in order to build Spring-powered applications. As you may know, Spring integrates a wide range of different modules under its umbrella, as spring-core, spring-data, spring-web (which includes Spring MVC, by the way) and so on. With this tool you can tell Spring how many of them to use and you'll get a fast setup for them (you are allowed to change it by yourself later on).

So, Spring MVC is a framework to be used in web applications and Spring Boot is a Spring based production-ready project initializer. You might find useful visiting the Spring MVC tag wiki as well as the Spring Boot tag wiki in SO.

Answer 5

Think this way:

Spring MVC is a web based framework to implement the MVC architecture.

Spring Boot is a tool oriented to the programmer. Programmer must focus on programming and tool must focus on configurations. So we don't need to wast our time configuring a bunch of xml to make a simple 'Hello world'.

Answer 6

To add my once cent, Java Spring is a framework while Java Spring Boot is addon to accelerate it by providing pre-configurations and or easy to use components. It is always recommended to have fundamental concepts of Java Spring before jumping to Java Spring Boot.