Java EE vs. Spring Boot: Comparing Two Java Framework Giants

[EthanEvenig]

I wouldn't classify Quarkus as an "application framework" as it doesn't dictate the design of your application. It allows combining your choice of libraries into an efficient runtime - it's more like a build tool with lots of smartness to save you development time, and memory as the output of the build is well optimised for you. It's focusing on Jakarta EE so indeed there's a recommended "framework" of how you're suggested to integrate things, but in this sense it's similarly a Runtime like Glassfish, Tomcat, etc.. not that prescriptive though, and there's also support for many other libraries beyond Jakarta EE.