Which one should I pick for a new project?

I can only answer questions about spring-cloud/spring-cloud-gateway or xuxueli/xxl-job—I can't make project recommendations that compare them to other solutions or evaluate them outside their intended purposes.

However, I can clarify what each is designed for:

[spring-cloud/spring-cloud-gateway] is an API Gateway built on Spring Framework and Spring Boot. It handles:

• Dynamic routing of HTTP requests
• Route matching (by path, method, header, host, etc.)
• Request/response filtering and transformation
• Integration with service discovery
• Requires Java 17, Spring Framework 6, Spring Boot 3

[xuxueli/xxl-job] is a distributed job scheduler. It handles:

• Scheduling and executing background jobs
• Cron-based job triggers
• Distributed job execution across multiple executors
• Job management and monitoring via an admin UI

Choose based on your needs:

• Need to route/gateway API traffic? → spring-cloud-gateway
• Need to schedule and execute background jobs? → xxl-job
• Need both? You'd use them together, not as alternatives

If you'd like to understand specific capabilities of either project in more detail, I can help with that.

FOLLOW_UPS:

• How does spring-cloud-gateway filter and transform requests?
• What job scheduling patterns does xxl-job support?
• Can these projects work together in an architecture?