A microservices application is one that is composed of a series of discrete services, which communicate with one another via an API. Microservices apps are the opposite of monolithic applications. The ...

Solid and well-understood makes for better development environments than fashionable. Java is not fashionable, but it’s still right for business. When I mention Java to young developers, including my ...

Right from day one, the standard format for packaging Java programs was the Java ARchive, or JAR file for short. There's nothing particularly interesting about a JAR file. At its heart, it's simply a ...

Integration middleware maker WSO2 has released a new version of its Microservices Framework for Java (MSF4J), which it launched in March. MSF4J is a lightweight, open source framework for building ...

MicroProfile, which provides a technology blueprint to outfit enterprise Java for microservices deployments, has become an Eclipse Foundation project. Now known as Eclipse MicroProfile, the effort ...

Oracle on Friday announced the first release of Project Helidon, a new collection of Java Libraries for writing microservices, and officially joined the Eclipse MicroProfile effort. Helidon is an open ...

Oracle has released Helidon 2.0, an upgrade to its Java libraries designed to simplify microservices development. The upgrade brings GraalVM Native Image startup and memory consumption benefits to ...