When comparing Spring-boot vs Apache Tapestry, the Slant community recommends Spring-boot for most people. In the question“What are the best Java web frameworks?” Spring-boot is ranked 2nd while Apache Tapestry is ranked 10th. The most important reason people chose Spring-boot is:
Boot is just a thin configuration layer over Spring Framework, as such it inherits all the strengths of Spring.
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Pros

Pro Inherits all of Spring's strengths
Boot is just a thin configuration layer over Spring Framework, as such it inherits all the strengths of Spring.

Pro Preconfigured starters

Pro Fast prototyping
Spring boot is built for fast prototyping.

Pro Kick down to Spring
Pro Clean code, change of code philosophy
Clean structure helps you maintain your code for a long time.
Pro Saves you a lot of work
To save your work you need to understand its philosophy.
Cons
Con Lacking in UI development
While actually very good and with a very complete and rich feature set to develop and maintain code on the server side, it still doesn't provide any rich framework for building good user interfaces.
Con New releases unlikely
No major releases since 2008 when version 5.0 was released. Current version is 5.4.3 released in 2017.
Con Long way to learn it
It's philosophy is radically different to what you probably ever seen.
