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Published inSep 2021

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Authors (5):

Emily Jiang

Andrew McCright

John Alcorn

David Chan

Alasdair Nottingham

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MicroProfile overview

Let's start by reflecting on the history of MicroProfile, why it was set up, and how it progressed and established its working group. In this section, we look at two different sub-topics: the history of MicroProfile and the characteristics of MicroProfile. We'll begin by looking at the history. It is important to understand the release cycle and what is included in various MicroProfile releases so that we can choose which version to use, and that we have a sense of how fast MicroProfile releases new versions.

History of MicroProfile

Seeing the slowly advancing pace of Java EE, a few major industry players, including IBM, Red Hat, Payara, Tomitribe, and others, got together in 2016 to discuss how to make server-side Java frameworks move faster and to address the new challenges associated with the new microservice space. As a result of this collaboration, MicroProfile was born in the fall of 2016. It was designed to help Java developers develop cloud...

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Published in: Sep 2021Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781801078801

Authors (5)

Emily Jiang

Emily Jiang is a Java Champion, a cloud-native architect with practical experience of building cloud-native applications. She is a MicroProfile guru, leading a number of MicroProfile specifications as well as the implementations in Open Liberty. She is a well-known international conference speaker.
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Andrew McCright

Andy McCright is IBM's Web Services Architect with 20 years of experience building Enterprise Java runtimes. He leads the MicroProfile Rest Client & GraphQL projects and contributes to Open Liberty, Jakarta REST, CXF, RESTEasy, and more. He is also a blogger.
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John Alcorn

John Alcorn is an application modernization architect in the Cloud Engagement Hub, specializing in helping customers modernize their traditional Java EE applications to the cloud. He developed and maintains the Stock Trader application that shows how to build a composite application out of MicroProfile-based microservices in Java. You can connect with John via Twitter.
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David Chan

David Chan is a software developer at IBM who works on the observability and serviceability components of the Open Liberty project. He is involved with the MicroProfile project with a specialization in the MicroProfile Metrics component.
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Alasdair Nottingham

Alasdair Nottingham is a software developer and lead architect for Open Liberty, and WebSphere. He has been involved with the MicroProfile and Jakarta EE projects to a varying extent since their inception.
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