In Spring Framework 5 we’ve actually extended Spring MVC with support for reactive return values which allows a Spring MVC controller to take advantage of the reactive WebClient and other ...

It really is just a MVC framework. If you want infrastructure for ajax, redirect after post, poups, and other common webisms you will need to build them yourself with Spring MVC.

You can choose which MVC layer to use. Furthermore you can choose which rendering engine to use within the MVC layer. The Spring framework supports all these views equally, without preference, so ...

Spring’s web support is part of the Spring MVC (Model-View-Controller) module, but don’t let that worry you: Spring Web has full and effective support for building RESTful endpoints, as well.