asp.net mvc vs spring mvc

Question

Hi,

Can anyone please make a comparison of "asp.net mvc" vs "spring mvc (java)". Which technology is better in performance, productivity, maintenance, features,...

Regards, sirmak

Answer 1

ASP.NET MVC is pretty young but very powerful and fast. I have rewritten all my web applications from webforms to asp.net MVC. I have seen a noticable difference in the cpu utilization and the amount of ram being used. I think if I built my projects from scratch in MVC it would take a little longer then in webforms.

I really can't comment on spring as I have never used it. But, here is an interesting discussion on the whole java and microsoft thing.

http://philip.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg%5Fid=000tcP

Answer 2

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.

There's a post on the Spring.NET forums about this - http://forum.springframework.net/showthread.php?p=17170

Answer 3

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. In Spring you can get all the features ASP.NET MVC has by default, but be prepared to write many xml/java configuration code and maybe use some third party tools.

Among strong benefits of Spring are integrated IoC, ORM (mainly Hibernate for me) and transaction managment support.

Answer 4

Here's a PDF I found titled Comparision Between Spring and ASP.NET Frameworks, but I don't agree with some of the ASP.NET MVC comments like:

• Offers only one view format (.aspx pages)
• Tight coupling between URL and Class action name

It appears to be a quickly done slide deck for a university course, and not something by someone that has developed in each framework.