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Hands-On Cloud-Native Microservices with Jakarta EE

By : Luigi Fugaro, Mauro Vocale
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Hands-On Cloud-Native Microservices with Jakarta EE

By: Luigi Fugaro, Mauro Vocale

Overview of this book

Businesses today are evolving rapidly, and developers now face the challenge of building applications that are resilient, flexible, and native to the cloud. To achieve this, you'll need to be aware of the environment, tools, and resources that you're coding against. The book will begin by introducing you to cloud-native architecture and simplifying the major concepts. You'll learn to build microservices in Jakarta EE using MicroProfile with Thorntail and Narayana LRA. You'll then delve into cloud-native application x-rays, understanding the MicroProfile specification and the implementation/testing of microservices. As you progress further, you'll focus on continuous integration and continuous delivery, in addition to learning how to dockerize your services. You'll also cover concepts and techniques relating to security, monitoring, and troubleshooting problems that might occur with applications after you've written them. By the end of this book, you will be equipped with the skills you need to build highly resilient applications using cloud-native microservice architecture.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Thorntail

Thorntail, previously called WildFly Swarm, is an open source implementation of MicroProfile specifications. It's built on top of mature technologies, and it leverages existing expertise that has been derived from Jakarta EE specifications, patterns, and implementations.

The Thorntail project was born with WildFly/Jakarta EE, but it focuses on modern cloud applications, following the path made by MicroProfile.io (in certain ways). It initially implemented version 1.3 of MicroProfile. You can find its specifications at https://github.com/eclipse/microprofile-bom/releases/download/1.3/microprofile-spec-1.3.pdf.

At the time of writing, Thorntail is in version 2.0.0, and it includes all of the features implemented in WildFly Swarm 2018.5.0.

You can consider Thorntail as a combination of all the benefits of the mature Java EE/Jakarta EE specifications and the flexibility...