Eclipse MicroProfile vs Spring Boot comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 12, 2025

Spring Boot and Eclipse MicroProfile compete in the domain of Java microservices. Eclipse MicroProfile seems to have the upper hand due to its superior features and deployment flexibility, which appeals to some despite Spring Boot's pricing and support advantages.

Features:Spring Boot offers extensive library support, seamless integration with the Spring ecosystem, and quick application development. Eclipse MicroProfile provides microservice-specific capabilities such as fault tolerance, JWT authentication, and OpenAPI, appealing to developers focused on microservice architecture.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service:Spring Boot simplifies deployment with embedded server capabilities and has a large community offering support. Eclipse MicroProfile enables portable deployments across vendors due to standard adherence, requiring more effort for specific assistance but boosting flexibility.

Pricing and ROI:Spring Boot is known for lower setup costs, making it appealing for organizations seeking cost-effective solutions with quicker ROI from its rapid development cycle. Eclipse MicroProfile may involve higher investments initially due to its reliance on standards, providing long-term ROI through enhanced features and interoperability.

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Categories and Ranking

Eclipse MicroProfile

Ranking in Java Frameworks

6th

Average Rating

8.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Spring Boot

Ranking in Java Frameworks

1st

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Java Frameworks category, the mindshare of Eclipse MicroProfile is 6.4%, down from 8.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Spring Boot is 41.6%, down from 43.8% 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."

"The Spring Cloud Gateway, Load Balancer are the valuable features. Apart from them, handling a sync call, then multiple service communication through field clients are also useful features."

"The most valuable features of Spring Boot include being able to check all the logs and doing health checks for applications. We can also do monitoring more quickly, and use Spring Boot for production support, so when production goes up or down, we can bring up the application very quickly through Spring Boot."

"The setup is straightforward."

"It's easy to set up the solution."

"This solution is really user friendly. In terms of prototyping, it's really fast to build the applications we want to test to complete a proof of concept."

"The most valuable feature of Spring Boot is it reduces the configuration needed. The configuration is handled by the solution. For example, if you're going to develop a web service, we needed to have a Tomcat web server and had to deploy the services and do tests. However, with Spring Boot, the default server comes with Spring Boot which reduces the task of doing all the configuration."

"Spring Boot's configuration is easy, and it has an out-of-the-box deployment."

"I have found the starter solutions valuable, as well as integration with other products."

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Cons

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

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

"The tool needs to improve its messaging."

"The tool's documentation could be improved, especially by tying it back to frequently asked questions and issues users have. A feedback loop in which the documentation targets the most commonly asked user questions would make using the solution easier. Essentially, I want a more user-centered approach to documentation rather than a purely technical focus."

"We'd like them to develop more supporting testing."

"The current state of Spring Boot's cloud layer requires further development, especially for collecting Java functions for cloud platforms like GCP Cloudground. Having to write every single API request in a single class can be a cumbersome and time-consuming task that is not ideal for Java developers. Additionally, having all API calls in one class and making it the main class presents problems with package visibility. Therefore, there is much room for improvement in the Spring Cloud area."

"Spring Boot's cost could be cheaper."

"It's difficult to explain to junior developers what it does under the hood."

"They should include tutorial videos for learning new features."

"Perhaps an even lighter-weight, leaner version could be made available, to compete with alternative solutions, such as NodeJS."

"Spring Boot could improve the interface, error handling, and integration performance."

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

"The solution is free."

"Spring Boot is free; even the Spring Tools Suite for Eclipse is free."

"I am using a free version of Spring Boot."

"This is an open source solution."

"I use the free version of Spring Boot."

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

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

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

20%

Computer Software Company

13%

Government

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

28%

Computer Software Company

14%

Government

Manufacturing Company

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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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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Comparisons

Jakarta EE vs Eclipse MicroProfile

Compared 6% of the time

Open Liberty vs Eclipse MicroProfile

Compared 5% of the time

Vert.x vs Eclipse MicroProfile

Compared 5% of the time

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Open Liberty vs Spring Boot

Compared 25% of the time

Jakarta EE vs Spring Boot

Compared 22% of the time

Helidon vs Spring Boot

Compared 17% of the time

Apache Spark vs Spring Boot

Compared 10% of the time

Vert.x vs Spring Boot

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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