3 years ago

Category: Software, Business, Database, Security, Data, Docker, automation

With the advent of DevOps and the boom of container technologies and deployment automation tools, microservices are changing the way developers structure their applications. With this article, our intention is to illustrate that microservices are a valid option for Java/Jakarta EE developers and how Payara Micro is a robust platform to reach that goal.

This version of GlassFish is technically compatible with Java EE 8 and will pave the way for the first release of the Jakarta EE specification: Jakarta EE 8 later in the year.

The Eclipse MicroProfile API is a set of standardized APIs aligned with the Java EE 8 specification that vendors can implement in order to develop microservices.

The following is a list of my personal good practices and recommendations that you should follow when building micro services with Java EE and Eclipse MicroProfile: In most cases these 3 sources are more than enough for production needs (environment variables are fairly used in conjunction with containers), but the API allows for customizable configuration sources as well (like reading from a database or a configuration server too).