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Spring Framework

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.

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Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Spring Framework the way a machine reads it — 61 machine-readable artifacts across 3 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Spring Framework scores 46.2/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 22/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
Spring Framework Kin Score — API readiness rating by API Evangelist

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How we profile Spring Framework

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Spring Framework. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 23

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

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

Spring Framework Filters API

The Filters API from Spring Framework — 2 operation(s) for filters.

Spring Framework Predicates API

The Predicates API from Spring Framework — 1 operation(s) for predicates.

Spring Framework Routes API

The Routes API from Spring Framework — 3 operation(s) for routes.

Spring Boot Actuator API

Production-ready features for monitoring and managing Spring Boot applications. Exposes health checks, metrics, environment info, configuration properties, thread dumps, heap du...

Spring MVC Web Framework

Model-View-Controller web framework built on the Servlet API. Supports annotation-driven controllers, content negotiation, validation, data binding, file uploads, CORS, and exce...

Spring WebFlux Reactive API

Reactive-stack web framework for building non-blocking, event-driven web applications on top of Project Reactor. Supports annotated controllers and functional endpoints with rea...

Spring Framework Generation API

The Generation API from Spring Framework — 2 operation(s) for generation.

Spring Framework Management API

The Management API from Spring Framework — 2 operation(s) for management.

Spring Framework Metadata API

The Metadata API from Spring Framework — 2 operation(s) for metadata.

Scroll within the panel for all 23 ·

Open Collections 17

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Scroll within the panel for all 17 ·

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Spring Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Spring Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Spring Context

23 classes · 6 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 3

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Spring Framework API Rules

7 rules · 3 errors · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Spring Framework API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

Spring Framework API Rules

11 rules · 2 errors · 8 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 4

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Spring Boot Actuator Health Response

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Spring Boot Application

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Spring Cloud Configuration Properties

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Spring Cloud Service Instance

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 2

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Spring Boot Application Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Spring Service Registry Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 4

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Spring Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Spring Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Spring Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Spring Agentic Access

17 operations · 1 acting

17 operations · 1 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Spring Framework — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

← All providers · Data indexed from github.com/api-evangelist/spring · machine-readable index on apis.io

Where this information came from

This is an independent, third-party profile of Spring Framework, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.

The Kin Score and Agent Readiness rating are independently calculated assessments of a company's public API artifacts, scored against a published rubric. They are not certifications, endorsements, security assessments, or audits.

Corrections, re-scores, and removal are free — no partnership or purchase required, and you do not need to justify the request. A removed company is recorded as unrated, never scored zero for having asked. Acknowledgement within one business day; removal within two.

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