You can find some simple benchmarks here: http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/ http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/ I would not judge Spring the Framework

You can find some simple benchmarks here: http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/ http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/ I would not judge Spring the Framework by Spring the IDE (which is a bunch of plugins on top of Eclipse). The Spring integration in IntelliJ is great.