JDK VS Spring Boot

Compare JDK vs Spring Boot and see what are their differences.

JDK

JDK main-line development https://openjdk.org/projects/jdk (by openjdk)
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JDK Spring Boot
191 166
18,393 72,682
2.1% 1.1%
10.0 10.0
about 7 hours ago 7 days ago
Java Java
GNU General Public License v3.0 only Apache License 2.0
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JDK

Posts with mentions or reviews of JDK. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-19.
  • JEP draft: Exception handling in switch
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Apr 2024
  • Java 23: The New Features Are Officially Announced
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Apr 2024
    Completely gutted from the OpenJDK, last I checked. See here for the culprit PR: https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/18688
  • macOS 14.4 might break Java on your machine
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Mar 2024
    > Yes, they're changing one aspect of signal handler use to work around this problem. They're not stopping the use of signal handlers in general. Hotspot continues to use signals for efficiency in general. See https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/9059727df135dc90311bd476...

    This whole thread is about SIGSEGV, and specifically their SIGSEGV handling. However, catching normal signals is not about efficiency.

    Some of their exception handling is still odd: There is no reason for a program that receives SIGILL to ever attempt continuing. But others is fine, like catching SIGFPE to just forward an exception to the calling code.

    (Sure, you could construct an argument to say that this is for efficiency if you considered the alternative to be implementing floating point in software so that all exceptions exist in user-space, but hardware floating point is the norm and such alternative would be wholly unreasonable.)

    > The wonderful thing about choosing not to care about facts is having whatever opinions you want.

    I appreciate the irony of you making such statement, proudly thinking that your opinion equals fact, and therefore any other opinion is not.

    This discussion is nothing but subjective opinion vs. subjective opinion. Facts are (hopefully, as I can only speak for myself) inputs to both our opinions, but no opinion about "good" or "bad", "nasty" or not can ever be objective. Objective code quality does not exist.

  • The Return of the Frame Pointers
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Mar 2024
    I remember talking to Brendan about the PreserveFramePointer patch during my first months at Netflix in 2015. As of JDK 21, unfortunately it is no longer a general purpose solution for the JVM, because it prevents a fast path being taken for stack thawing for virtual threads: https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/d32ce65781c1d7815a69ceac...
  • JDK-8180450: secondary_super_cache does not scale well
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Mar 2024
  • The One Billion Row Challenge
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Jan 2024
  • AVX2 intrinsics for Arrays.sort methods (int, float arrays)
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Dec 2023
  • A gentle introduction to two's complement
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Nov 2023
  • Java JEP 461: Stream Gatherers
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Nov 2023
    Map doesn't implement the Collection interface.

    https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/src/java.base/sha...

  • C++23: Removing garbage collection support
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Nov 2023
    C++ lets you write anything you can imagine, and the language features and standard library often facilitate that. The committee espouses the view that they want to provide many "zero [runtime] cost," abstractions. Anybody can contribute to the language, although the committee process is often slow and can be political, each release the surface area and capability of the language gets larger.

    I believe Hazard Pointers are slated for C++26, and these will add a form "free later, but not quite garbage collection" to the language. There was a talk this year about using hazard pointers to implement a much faster std::shared_ptr.

    It's a language with incredible depth because so many different paradigms have been implemented in it, but also has many pitfalls for new and old users because there are many different ways of solving the same problem.

    I feel that in C++, more than any other language, you need to know the actual implementation under the hood to use it effectively. This means knowing not just what the language specifies, but can occaissionally require knowing what GCC or Clang generate on your particular hardware.

    Many garbage collected languages are written in or have parts of their implementations in C++. See JS (https://github.com/v8/v8)and Java GC (https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/tree/36de19d4622e38b6c00644b0...)

    I am not an expert on Java (or C++), so if someone knows better or can add more please correct me.

Spring Boot

Posts with mentions or reviews of Spring Boot. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-04.
  • Walmart is migrating the remaining F# code into Java
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Mar 2024
    - Usually manually wired and configured vs the spring boot "starter" pattern of having libraries that automatically do some of the manual setup work for you: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/blob/main/spr...

    I wish more client library sets had the feature-matrix that the pulsar one does, because in practice most end up being the same: Java supports everything because it's either built in the same codebase or is the most used client and gets the most support, while the dotnet client codebase has many feature-requests or performance improvement issues, often leading to a "third-party client" being created.

  • AI PR adds auto generated comments to whole Spring Boot Project
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Feb 2024
  • AI commented the entire Spring Boot codebase
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Feb 2024
    https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/pull/39754/co...
  • Spring Boot 3 And Java 17 Migration Guide
    2 projects | dev.to | 16 Dec 2023
    If you’re currently running with an earlier version of Spring Boot, I recommend that you upgrade to Spring Boot 2.7 before migrating to Spring Boot 3.0. It minimizes compatibility issues as much as possible.
  • Spring Boot 3.2.0 Release Notes
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Nov 2023
  • The Game of Life, the Universe, and Everything: Java Virtual Threads in Action
    1 project | dev.to | 11 Oct 2023
    Okay, we need to build the game? No problem, we will use Spring Boot and Swing!
  • Netflix Uses Java
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Oct 2023
    It's weird that some people including you directly attack my competence. As a power user you should have plenty of experience getting something to work that is not properly document, does not work how the documentation promised it to, or has weird problems on top of it. Look at idiotic things like this:

    https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/issues/33044

    Take any similar issue and you'll see a bunch of people who try to find a solution for them because they just aren't repeatable at all. The underlying issue is the auto configuration doing things you can't follow quite properly. It's like it wasn't mean to be understood. Issues like the one I linked above also show me that the spring dev crowd also doesn't understand the ecosystem anymore. The problem is complexity and automagic.

  • What's New in Spring Framework 6.1
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Aug 2023
    An interested reader can decide for themselves:

    https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/tree/main/spr...

  • Secure Java URL encoding and decoding
    3 projects | dev.to | 15 Aug 2023
    Explicitly decoding URL query parameters occurs less often because many frameworks, including Spring Boot, handle decoding automatically.
  • SpringBoot Serverless REST API - ApiGateway+Lambda, deployed using AWS SAM
    8 projects | dev.to | 12 Aug 2023
    https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/ https://aws.amazon.com/api-gateway/ https://aws.amazon.com/serverless/sam/ https://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/ https://aws.amazon.com/s3/ https://spring.io/projects/spring-boot https://start.spring.io

What are some alternatives?

When comparing JDK and Spring Boot you can also consider the following projects:

Graal - GraalVM compiles Java applications into native executables that start instantly, scale fast, and use fewer compute resources 🚀

helidon - Java libraries for writing microservices

aircraft - The A32NX & A380X Project are community driven open source projects to create free Airbus aircraft in Microsoft Flight Simulator that are as close to reality as possible.

Play - The Community Maintained High Velocity Web Framework For Java and Scala.

steam-runtime - A runtime environment for Steam applications

javalin - A simple and modern Java and Kotlin web framework [Moved to: https://github.com/javalin/javalin]

OkHttp - Square’s meticulous HTTP client for the JVM, Android, and GraalVM.

Quarkus - Quarkus: Supersonic Subatomic Java.

kitten - A statically typed concatenative systems programming language.

Jooby - The modular web framework for Java and Kotlin

intellij-community - IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition & IntelliJ Platform

ZK - ZK is a highly productive Java framework for building amazing enterprise web and mobile applications