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Can anyone please make a comparison of ASP.NET MVC vs Spring MVC.
Which technology is better in performance, productivity, maintenance, features,...
Regards, sirmak
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I've tried both Spring and ASP.NET MVC frameworks. I found ASP.NET MVC easier to use, mainly because of significantly less configuration code (both xml and java/c#) in ASP.NET framework required to get things worked.
ASP.NET MVC is no longer in active development. The last version update was in November 2018. Despite this, a lot of projects are using ASP.NET MVC for web solution development. As to JetBrains' research, 42% of software developers were using the framework in 2020.
@PanadolChong accomodate Spring MVC is still used in some legacy applications, and Spring boot does majority of the configurations under-hood so to have a better understanding of how things work internally, Spring MVC might help.
The MVC term signifies that it follows the Model View Controller design pattern. So, Spring MVC is an integrated version of the Spring framework and Model View Controller. It has all the basic features of the core Spring framework like Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control.
It's hard to say which one is "better"....
First - there's the whole underlying "Java vs. .NET" argument - you can't really compare the frameworks ignoring this.
The whole history of web development in Java with "heavyweight" J2EE apps vs. "lightweight" Spring apps. That in Java there are a ton of web frameworks (MVC and not, open-source vs. Sun-developed) and that Spring MVC had a lot to be based on.
And on the ASP.NET MVC side - the whole history of ASP -> ASP.NET -> ASP.NET MVC. And the lack of widely-used non-Microsoft .NET frameworks - web or otherwise.
Now into the opinionated part...
I'm somewhat the opposite of @Luke101 as I've worked mostly with Spring MVC and very little with ASP.NET MVC.
I have to say I prefer MVC-style web development over component-based web development.
I have worked with JSF, which is similar to ASP.NET webforms. (I have to say I liked ASP.NET more than JSF - though this probably has more to do with the maturity of each framework when I used it, and tools available - I used JSF 1.0/1.1 and just Eclipse with no JSF specific support vs. ASP.NET 2.0/.NET 3.5 with Visual Studio 2008.)
As far as MVC frameworks I prefer Spring MVC - but that's entirely because I'm just more familiar with Java - language-wise and development-wise, as opposed to ASP.NET MVC / C# /.NET. Also, Spring MVC requires Spring, and I like to develop using Spring's whole IOC pattern and use things already integrated into Spring.
I haven't tried using Spring.NET and ASP.NET MVC - maybe this would be similar to Spring MVC / Spring / Java.
In the Spring.NET repo there are some examples of integrating Spring.NET into ASP.NET MVC version 3, version 4 and version 5.
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