Eclipse MicroProfile vs Spring Boot comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Apr 20, 2025

Spring Boot and Eclipse MicroProfile compete in the enterprise Java application market. Data comparisons suggest Spring Boot seems to have the upper hand in pricing and support, whereas Eclipse MicroProfile is preferred for its feature set.

Features: Spring Boot offers features like auto-configuration, embedded servers, and a large set of plugins which simplify application development. It is known for its extensive ecosystem and mature project support. Eclipse MicroProfile focuses on microservices patterns and offers specifications like Fault Tolerance, Metrics, and Config APIs, specifically designed for optimizing Java microservices architecture.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Spring Boot's deployment model is streamlined with executable JARs, enabling easy and efficient deployments. It has robust support and a large community. Eclipse MicroProfile offers a lightweight approach for microservices with compatibility across different MicroProfile implementations and a supportive community, though variations in implementations may create a steeper learning curve.

Pricing and ROI: Spring Boot generally has lower setup costs due to its open-source nature and access to community resources, which leads to a favorable ROI over time. Eclipse MicroProfile, also open-source, may incur costs based on the chosen implementation but offers excellent ROI by optimizing resource consumption and enhancing performance.

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Categories and Ranking

Eclipse MicroProfile

Ranking in Java Frameworks

4th

Average Rating

8.4

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Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Spring Boot

Ranking in Java Frameworks

1st

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

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Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Java Frameworks category, the mindshare of Eclipse MicroProfile is 7.3%, down from 7.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Spring Boot is 40.1%, down from 42.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Q&A Highlights

Netanya Carmi

Content Manager at PeerSpot

Nov 25, 2021

Which is better - Spring Boot or Eclipse MicroProfile?

Springboot is a Java-based solution that is very popular and easy to use. You can use it to build applications quickly and confidently. Springboot has a very large, helpful learning community, which means you can find help easily. This solution is multi-threaded; when the main thread is consumed, others are used concurrently. This is a key advantage, as it makes Springboot very useful when performing long, repetitive functions. Springboot saves time on development and increases overall efficiency. You have to have a lot of Spring system knowledge to use it successfully. We would like to see security simplified and for there to be better interaction options. Eclipse Microprofile is a collection of Java EE APIs and technologies that together form a core baseline microservice with the goal of delivering application portability across numerous runtimes. With Eclipse Microprofile, you can build quickly and have rapid development and iterations, which leads to a high-frequency release cadence. Eclipse Microprofile's ultimate goal is to supply the Java Community Process (JCP) with specification requests (JSR) with sensible approaches and implementations that developers and businesses want and can depend on. Eclipse Microprofile is keenly focused on bringing microservices to Java enterprise environments. It would be great if Eclipse could provide some guidelines on how best to use Eclipse Microprofile. There are so many options. it can be confusing for the complete novice. The interface could use some tweaking as sometimes it is a bit slow. Conclusion We like Eclipse Microprofile best and believe it suits our needs perfectly. Eclipse has proven to be very forward-thinking in all things Java and lead the way in making microservices easier to handle, even for an enterprise environment. Eclipse Microprofile has a very progressive business model and we like where they are going.

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Idris Oyibo Igagwu

Integration Developer at FHI 360

Scalable solution with an easy initial setup process

We use the solution for managing large programs, customer interactions, testing, and calculation purposes of our finance-based company The solution's most valuable feature is its ability to support dynamic developer profiles. We can easily create multiple accounts and rooms for different…

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RajuGottupalli

Chief architect at Mphasis

Minimizes a lot of coding, improves the time to market, and is easily deployable and configurable

Spring Boot is a bounded framework. The services we develop are purely synchronous services, so there's a blocking and waiting state. This is a big problem in microservices. To avoid this problem, we have to make the service a reactive session. It has to be reactive to a particular load, particular condition, or based on the number of requests hitting the particular service. All these factors make the service a reactor. There's another module in which Spring Boot provides spring reflex. This module enables the reactiveness of the service, meaning that it eliminates the blocking and waiting state. For example, if you're sending a get operation or a post operation, there won't be any waiting for it to actually hit that particular network to get the data from another service. It continuously flows the request, and there is a zero waiting pack. Vert.x is another good framework where there are similar features or similar benefits with having a reactive session. Spring Boot is a license resource, so it's a framework where we can customize our solution or a particular requirement to build a good solution using Spring Boot. But it's an opinionated framework, meaning that it's completely bounded. You have only one direction to find a solution, whereas Vert.x is an unopinionated framework. Unopinionated is a kind of a toolkit where you can have more optimization and a more flexible solution, which is suitable to your requirements. In Spring Boot, the opportunities are limited. With Vert.x and other programming tools, we have multiple options to explore the solution in a different way and achieve a nonfunctional requirement of thousands transactions in a second. Spring Boot might not support this kind of non-functional requirement. Vert.X is a very good solution to solve critical NFRs for a particular application.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"We use the solution to create microservices."

"The solution is stable."

"Provides a lightweight runtime."

"It is a very scalable solution."

"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...The initial setup was not complex and was a simple process."

"Spring Boot is much easier when it comes to the configuration, setup, installation, and deployment of your applications, compared to any kind of MVC framework. It has everything within a single framework."

"Spring Boot's main feature is that it's great for DevOps because you can write your own application. You don't need to install Apache Tomcat. You can create your project easily with a few clicks."

"It is stable."

"We like that the product is open-source."

"The setup is straightforward."

"The cloud version is very scalable."

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Cons

"The tool needs to improve its messaging."

"Deployment of microservers in the Kubernetes environment is difficult."

"Its performance speed could be improved while working on the browser."

"The cloud packaging is not very straightforward."

"Spring Boot is okay right now, but my team is looking for some integration where you can make a call to the JMS messaging service and other types of third-party integrations. If the integration with Spring Boot is improved, that would make the tool better. What I'd like to see in the next release of Spring Boot is its integration or tie-up with messaging servers and third-party EFPs, as that would make it very good and more competitive versus other new solutions in the market."

"Nothing really comes to mind in terms of areas of improvement."

"This solution could be improved if there were more libraries available. We would also like more mobile platform functionality using low levels of code."

"We have specific algorithms for our Load Balancer or API gateway. So those things, if they could make it more precise, that would be beneficial. Sometimes when we are under pressure or any new person who looks into that stuff, we'll get confused or scared because of some difficulties in understanding Which algorithm needs to be used to implement a Load Balancer. When when we Yeah. Because when we say circuit breaker, we need to use it, and then the user gets a blank circuit breaker. This means we are saying the circuit breaker needs to be moved, and then that circuit breaker needs to be elaborated more. What type of algorithm should I do, and what exactly do I need to get done so that this circuit breaker can help me to resolve my issue? Because, you know, because if you go for the circuit breaker, it will ask to open the new tab, you know, since it will check. If the service is not responding, it will wait and go for another connection. So in similar words, if they can explain it a bit more, that will be helpful. Everyone could do their own Google stuff, and they will get it, but they need help understanding how this could help them to resolve the issue. It will be good if Spring Boot provides information about real-time use cases."

"The database connectivity could be better in terms of dealing with multi-tenant systems."

"When the dependencies within those starter packages clash, mismatch or have a hazard, it is hard to solve the issue."

"communicationbetween different services from the third party layers or with the legacy applications needs to improve."

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"This is an open source solution."

"Spring Boot is open source."

"Spring Boot is an open-source solution."

"This solution is free unless you apply for support."

"This is an open-source product."

"If you want support there is paid enterprise version with support available."

"I use the free version of Spring Boot."

"As Spring Boot is an open-source tool, it's free."

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Financial Services Firm

24%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

30%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

Government

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Questions from the Community

Which is better - Spring Boot or Eclipse MicroProfile?

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What do you like most about Eclipse MicroProfile?

The solution is stable.

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What needs improvement with Eclipse MicroProfile?

The solution's performance speed could be better while working on the browser. Also, they should include an option for online publishing. It will make sharing work easier. We can just publish work ...

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What do you like most about Spring Boot?

1. Open Source2. Excellent Community Support -- Widely used across different projects -- so your search for answers would be easy and almost certain.3. Extendable Stack with a wide array of availab...

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Which is better - Spring Boot or Jakarta EE?

Our organization ran comparison tests to determine whether the Spring Boot or Jakarta EE application creation software was the better fit for us. We decided to go with Spring Boot. Spring Boot offe...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Spring Boot?

I use the free version of Spring Boot.

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Compared 27% of the time

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Compared 17% of the time

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Compared 11% of the time

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Compared 8% of the time

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Overview

Many innovative "microservice" Enterprise Java environments and frameworks already exist in the Java ecosystem. These projects are creating new features and capabilities to address microservice architectures -- leveraging both Java EE and non-Java EE technologies.

The goal of the Eclipse MicroProfile project is to iterate and innovate in short cycles to propose new common APIs and functionality, get community approval, release, and repeat. Eventually, the outputs of this project could be submitted to the Eclipse Jakarta EE, JCP, OpenJDK or any relevant standards body.

Eclipse Foundation

Spring Boot is a tool that makes developing web applications and microservices with the Java Spring Framework faster and easier, with minimal configuration and setup. By using Spring Boot, you avoid all the manual writing of boilerplate code, annotations, and complex XML configurations. Spring Boot integrates easily with other Spring products and can connect with multiple databases.

How Spring Boot improves Spring Framework

Java Spring Framework is a popular, open-source framework for creating standalone applications that run on the Java Virtual Machine.

Although the Spring Framework is powerful, it still takes significant time and knowledge to configure, set up, and deploy Spring applications. Spring Boot is designed to get developers up and running as quickly as possible, with minimal configuration of Spring Framework with three important capabilities.

Autoconfiguration: Spring Boot applications are initialized with pre-set dependencies and don't have to be configured manually. Spring Boot also automatically configures both the underlying Spring Framework and any third-party packages based on your settings and on best practices, preventing future errors. Spring Boot's autoconfiguration feature enables you to start developing Spring applications quickly and efficiently. With Spring Boot, you reduce development time and increase the overall efficiency of the development process.
Opinionated approach: Spring Boot uses its own judgment for adding and configuring starter packages for your application, depending on the requirements of your project. (These are defined by filling out a simple web-form during the initialization process.) Spring Boot chooses which dependencies to install and which default values to use according to the form’s values.
Standalone applications: Spring Boot allows developers to create applications that can run on their own without relying on an external web server, by embedding a web server inside the application. Spring Boot applications can be launched on any platform simply by hitting the Run command.

Reviews from Real Users

Spring Boot stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its flexible integration options and its autoconfiguration feature, which allows users to start developing applications in a minimal amount of time.

A system analyst and team lead at a tech services company writes, “Spring Boot has a very lightweight framework, and you can develop projects within a short time. It's open-source and customizable. It's easy to control, has a very interesting deployment policy, and a very interesting testing policy. It's sophisticated. For data analysis and data mining, you can use a custom API and integrate your application. That's an advanced feature. For data managing and other things, you can get that custom from a third-party API. That is also a free license.”

Randy M., A CEO at Modal Technologies Corporation, writes, “I have found the starter solutions valuable, as well as integration with other products. Spring Security facilitates the handling of standard security measures. The Spring Boot annotations make it easy to handle routing for microservices and to access request and response objects. Other annotations included with Spring Boot enable move away from XML configuration.”

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