The document compares Spring and ASP.NET MVC frameworks across various categories such as meaning, global preference, official websites, licenses, development principles, design patterns, programming languages, databases supported, template languages, target audiences, difficulty levels, programming paradigms, scripting language support, object-relational mapping, testing frameworks, database migration frameworks, security frameworks, and form validation frameworks. Spring is an open source Java application framework that uses inversion of control and dependency injection. ASP.NET MVC is a Microsoft web framework that implements MVC pattern in C# on Windows platforms.

1. Difference between Spring and ASP.NET MVC
S.No Spring ASP.NET MVC
1 Meaning: Meaning:
The Spring Framework is an The ASP.NET MVC Framework is
open source application a web application framework that
framework and Inversion of implements the model-view-
Control container for the Java controller (MVC) pattern.
platform.
Based on ASP.NET, it allows
software developers to build a Web
application as a composition of
three roles: Model, View and
Controller.
A model represents the state of a
particular aspect of the application.
A controller handles interactions
and updates the model to reflect a
change in state of the application,
and then passes information to the
view. A view accepts necessary
information from the controller and
renders a user interface to display
that.
2 Global Preference: Global Preference:
12% 67%
3 Official Website: Official Website:
www.springsource.org http://asp.net/mvc
4 License: License:
Apache License,GPL2 Proprietary
5 Development Principles: Development Principles:
Convention over configuration Convention over configuration,Test-
driven development
6 Design pattern: Design pattern:
Dependency injection Active-Record,Model-View-
Controller,Dependency injection
7 Operating system: Operating system:
Cross-platform Windows
8 Programming language: Programming language:
Java C#, JavaScript,VB.NET,F#
9 Database: Database:
MSSQL MSSQL

2. MySQL MySQL
PostgreSQL Oracle
Oracle SQLite
SQLite PostgreSQL
IBM DB2 IBM DB2
JDBC Compatible
MongoDB
Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Teradata
Cassandra
10 Template language: Template language:
JSP RazorEngine
JSTL ASPX
HTML5
Velocity
11 Target audience: Target audience:
Enterprise Enterprise,SMB
12 Difficulty level: Difficulty level:
Intermediate Beginner
Advanced Intermediate
Advanced
13 Programming paradigm: Programming paradigm:
Aspect-oriented programming Object-oriented
14 Scripting language support: Scripting language support:
Groovy JavaScript
JavaScript
PHP
Ruby
15 Object-Relational Mapping: Object-Relational Mapping:
Hibernate, iBatis, more ORM-independent
16 Testing Framework(s): Testing Framework(s):
Mock objects, unit tests Unit tests, Functional Tests,
Integration Tests
17 DB Migration Framework(s): DB Migration Framework(s):
N/A Entity Framework
18 Security Framework(s): Security Framework(s):
Spring Security (formerly ASP.NET Forms Authentication
Acegi) (Default), Pluggable
19 Form Validation Form Validation Framework(s):
Framework(s): Commons Yes (client-side via plugins)
validator, Bean Validation

3. References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_Framework
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asp.net_mvc
http://vschart.com/compare/asp-net-mvc-framework/vs/spring-framework
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_application_frameworks
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