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Are there any advantages of using/migrating to springdoc-openapi from Springfox?

For enabling Swagger in SpringBoot 2.7 what are the advantages/disadvantages of choosing springdoc-openapi over Springfox

Solution

  • This might be considered opinion-based, but actually there are facts supporting the usage of springdoc over Springfox. Some of them:

    • springdoc is a much more recent library that does not have so much legacy code as Springfox.
    • As a consequence of the first one, springdoc is actually updated regularly and the amount of open issues is relatively small (only 11 vs 270 on Springfox).
    • It simply works easily and without major issues in the most recent Spring Boot versions.
    • Springfox seems abandoned, to say the least.

    At least this is my view.