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Eclipse MicroProfile vs Spring Boot comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 12, 2025

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

Categories and Ranking

Eclipse MicroProfile
Ranking in Java Frameworks
6th
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
3
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
38
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

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Nov 25, 2021
 

Featured Reviews

Idris Oyibo Igagwu - PeerSpot reviewer
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…
RajuGottupalli - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The solution is stable."
"Provides a lightweight runtime."
"We use the solution to create microservices."
"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."
"This is a pretty light solution. It's not too heavy."
"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."
"The solution reduces our development time."
"The solution is easy to use; I primarily employ integrated templates such as the REST template."
"We like that it is an open-source tool."
"This is a stable solution that is being used in the HR space."
"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."
 

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."
"Spring Boot could improve the interface, error handling, and integration performance."
"The performance could be better."
"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 solution has some vulnerabilities and fails our security audits, forcing us to keep fixing the solution."
"The database connectivity could be better in terms of dealing with multi-tenant systems."
"It needs more applicable control for large-scale application development."
"The security could be simplified."
"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."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The solution is free."
"This is an open source solution."
"It's open-source software, so it's free. It's a community license."
"This is an open-source product."
"If you want support there is paid enterprise version with support available."
"Spring Boot is open source. It's a free tool and free framework."
"As Spring Boot is an open-source tool, it's free."
"Spring Boot is an open source solution, it is free to use."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
20%
Computer Software Company
13%
Government
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
28%
Computer Software Company
14%
Government
7%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

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, whic...
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 ...
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...
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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