# Spring Framework

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/spring/  
**Website:** https://spring.io  
**APIs profiled:** 14

Spring is the leading open-source application framework for Java. The Spring ecosystem provides a comprehensive programming and configuration model for modern Java-based enterprise applications, covering web MVC, data access, security, messaging, cloud-native patterns, and AI integrations. Spring Boot enables rapid application development with embedded servers and auto-configuration. Spring is maintained by VMware and hosted under the Spring Projects GitHub organization.

## Kin Score — 42.5 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-24 under rubric 0.13.0. Trend: flat (-0.5 from 43.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 63.0 |
| Contract Quality | 67.5 |
| Governance | 69.7 |
| Contract Governance | 69.7 |
| Operational Transparency | 23.7 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 26.2 |
| Commercial Clarity | 13.2 |
| Access Clarity | 13.2 |

## Agent readiness — 22.3 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (14)

- **Spring Data REST API** — Spring Data REST automatically exports Spring Data repository interfaces as RESTful hypermedia-driven APIs using HAL (Hypertext Application Language). It enables CRUD operations...
- **Spring Cloud Gateway API** — Spring Cloud Gateway provides an API Gateway built on Spring WebFlux and Reactor. It offers route configuration, request/response filtering, load balancing, circuit breaking, ra...
- **Spring Authorization Server API** — Spring Authorization Server provides a full OAuth 2.1 and OpenID Connect 1.0 authorization server implementation built on Spring Security. It supports authorization code flow, c...
- **Spring AI API** — Spring AI provides a Spring-friendly API and abstractions for building AI-powered applications. It offers a unified ChatClient API for interacting with AI models (OpenAI, Anthro...
- **Spring Framework Beans API** — Spring application context beans
- **Spring Framework Environment API** — Environment properties and configuration
- **Spring Framework Health API** — Application health status and component health details
- **Spring Framework Info API** — Application information and build metadata
- **Spring Framework Loggers API** — Application logger configuration
- **Spring Framework Mappings API** — HTTP request handler mappings
- **Spring Framework Metadata API** — Discover available project options and capabilities
- **Spring Framework Metrics API** — Application performance and operational metrics
- **Spring Framework Project Generation API** — Generate new Spring Boot project archives
- **Spring Framework Threads API** — Thread dump and virtual thread information

## Agentic access (1)

- **Spring Agentic Access** — 17 operations · 1 acting

## Security (3)

- **Spring Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Spring Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC
- **Spring Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Spring Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Artificial Intelligence, Cloud-Native, Enterprise, Framework, Java, Microservices, Open-Source, REST, Spring Boot

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/spring/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.