The Best Spring CMS (Headless): Highest-Rated on G2

Intuitive admin interface

So easy to use. So easy to customize. You’re going to love the content you build better with ButterCMS.

Handy integration with Spring

Our Spring CMS has a simple content API and drop-in Spring SDK that makes the magic happen in minutes, not hours.

A truly zero-maintenance solution

With ButterCMS, you’ll never worry about security upgrades, hosting, or performance again.

Powerful CMS for Spring. Zero headache.

Drop our API-based CMS into your Spring app in minutes.

ButterCMS provides a component-based CMS and content API for Spring apps. Use ButterCMS to enable dynamic content in your apps for page content, blogs, and anything else. Most customers get our Java Spring CMS set up in one hour or less.

That leaves plenty of time for you and your marketing team to do what you do best: create killer apps with killer content.

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See how Butter’s API enables you to compose flexible page layouts and easily reorder components, without a developer.

“Best CMS on the market”

After shopping the market, it was clear that ButterCMS was the perfect choice. It allows our developers to build powerful components and makes it easy for our marketing team to drive a better customer experience. Hampton Catlin Creator of Sass and Haml

Deploy our Java Spring starter in 30 seconds

Or follow the below commands to clone a copy of the repo from github, install dependencies, set your free Butter token, and run your local server on localhost:8080/.

git clone https://github.com/ButterCMS/java-starter-buttercms.git
cd java-starter-buttercms
echo 'JAVA_BUTTER_CMS_API_KEY=your_free_butter_api_token_here' >> .env
mvn install
mvn spring-boot:run

Built to make content marketing easy

ButterCMS is the best headless cms for Spring for a simple reason: Spring developers can build solutions that marketing people love. Our API allows your content gurus to quickly spin up high-converting, dynamic landing pages, SEO pages, product marketing pages, and more, all using simple drag-and-drop functionality.

SEO landing pages
Customer case studies
Company news & updates
Events + webinar pages
Education center
Location pages
And more...

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The simplest Spring CMS you'll find

Our simple setup saves you time and money. Take us for a spin to see for yourself!

It's the epitome of plug-and-play simplicity for content creators. It does exactly what I need it to. LUKE GARDNER, CONTENT SPECIALIST, PRINTAVO

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Fast integration with any Spring app

Our mission was to make it easy to integrate Butter with your existing Spring app in minutes. It’s so simple! To demonstrate, here’s a mini tutorial to give you a feel for the process of adding marketing pages to your app.

Of course, you can also use our Collections to do advanced content modeling. For a full integration guide, check out our Official Guide for the ButterCMS Spring API client.

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See how easily you can integrate the ButterCMS Pages API with your app.

Seamless Spring components

Empower your marketing team with dynamic landing pages that align perfectly with your Spring components.

Components are the essential building blocks of any Spring app, and ButterCMS handles them with ease.

Our drag and drop interface makes it simple to structure your content to match existing Spring components and to create new reusable components whenever you need them.

One Spring CMS with everything you need

There’s a reason so many developers are choosing a headless Java Spring CMS. It’s easy to set up, offers flexible, customizable content modeling, and gives you access to our full Spring API.

Custom page types
Custom content modeling
CDN for assets
Webhooks
Testing environment
Customer case studies
Location pages

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ButterCMS saves you development time

Most customers get our Java Spring CMS up and running in less than an hour. Try it yourself!

Simple as can be, with powerful features and great customer support. DILLON BURNS, FRONT END DEVELOPER, KEYME

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How to integrate ButterCMS into your Spring application

Just follow the simple steps below to complete the integration and begin creating pages with Butter. Be sure to check out our full guide to creating pages using the ButterCMS API.

First you would set up a new Customer Case Study page type in Butter and create a page. With your page defined, the ButterCMS API will return it in JSON format like this:

{
    "data": {
        "slug": "acme-co",
        "fields": {
            "facebook_open_graph_title": "Acme Co loves ButterCMS",
            "seo_title": "Acme Co Customer Case Study",
            "headline": "Acme Co saved 200% on Anvil costs with ButterCMS",
            "testimonial": "<p>We've been able to make anvils faster than ever before! - <em>Chief Anvil Maker</em></p>\r\n<p><img src=\"https://cdn.buttercms.com/NiA3IIP3Ssurz5eNJ15a\" alt=\"\" caption=\"false\" width=\"249\" height=\"249\" /></p>",
            "customer_logo": "https://cdn.buttercms.com/c8oSTGcwQDC5I58km5WV",
        }
    }
}

To integrate this into your app, create a Controller in com.yourorganization.app.controllers that fetches content for the page, that injects previously defined ButterCMS client:

@Controller
public class PageController {
  private IButterCMSClient butterCMSClient;

  public PageController(IButterCMSClient butterCMSClient) {
    this.butterCMSClient = butterCMSClient;
  }

  @RequestMapping("/page/{pageType}/{slug}")
  public String getPage(Model model, @PathVariable("pageType") String pageType, @PathVariable("slug") String slug) {
    PageResponse page = butterCMSClient.getPage(pageType, slug, null, CaseStudyPage.class);
    model.addAttribute("page", page.getData().getFields());
    return "page/page";
  }
}

Display data in src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/jsp/page/page.jsp:

<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <title>${page.seoTitle}</title>
  <meta property="og:title" content="${page.openGraphTitle}"/>
  <meta property="og:image" content="${page.customerLogo}"/>
</head>
<body>
<h1>${page.headline}
<img src="${page.customerLogo}"/>
<div>
    <c:out value="${page.testimonial}" escapeXml="false"/>
</div>
</body>
</html>

To integrate this into your app, create a Controller in com.yourorganization.app.controllers that fetches content for the page, that injects previously defined ButterCMS client:

@Controller
public class PageController {
  private IButterCMSClient butterCMSClient;

  public PageController(IButterCMSClient butterCMSClient) {
    this.butterCMSClient = butterCMSClient;
  }

  @RequestMapping("/page/{pageType}/{slug}")
  public String getPage(Model model, @PathVariable("pageType") String pageType, @PathVariable("slug") String slug) {
    PageResponse page = butterCMSClient.getPage(pageType, slug, null, CaseStudyPage.class);
    model.addAttribute("page", page.getData().getFields());
    return "page/page";
  }
}

That's it! If you browse to your homepage you'll see your homepage populated with the content you created in Butter.

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About ButterCMS

What kind of database can I use?

No database required! We're a SaaS CMS or CaaS. You simply call our Content API from your app. We host and maintain all of the CMS infrastructure.

Do you host my templates?

Unlike CMSs you might be used to, we don't control or host any of your templates. The design of your app (HTML + CSS) lives in your application along side the rest of your app. Your application calls our Content API and we return your content in JSON format. You can then render this content in any way you'd like.

Can I import my content?

Yep. To import existing content from another platform, simply send us an email.

How do you compare to WordPress?

In short, we offer all the same easy-to-use editing capabilities of WordPress but are significantly easier for developers to setup and maintain. This means you spend less time working on your CMS and more time focusing on things important to your business.

Can I self host Butter?

No, we're a SaaS CMS or CaaS. You simply call our Content API from your app. We host and maintain all of the CMS infrastructure.

For more information on how we compare to a traditional CMS, check out API-based CMS vs Traditional CMS on the Butter blog. Do you have more questions? Read our FAQ below, or feel free to chat with us directly.

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