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.
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.
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.
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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