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Hands-On Enterprise Java Microservices with Eclipse MicroProfile

By : Cesar Saavedra, Heiko W. Rupp, Jeff Mesnil, Pavol Loffay, Antoine Sabot-Durand, Scott Stark
Book Image

Hands-On Enterprise Java Microservices with Eclipse MicroProfile

By: Cesar Saavedra, Heiko W. Rupp, Jeff Mesnil, Pavol Loffay, Antoine Sabot-Durand, Scott Stark

Overview of this book

Eclipse MicroProfile has gained momentum in the industry as a multi-vendor, interoperable, community-driven specification. It is a major disruptor that allows organizations with large investments in enterprise Java to move to microservices without spending a lot on retraining their workforce. This book is based on MicroProfile 2.2, however, it will guide you in running your applications in MicroProfile 3.0. You'll start by understanding why microservices are important in the digital economy and how MicroProfile addresses the need for enterprise Java microservices. You'll learn about the subprojects that make up a MicroProfile, its value proposition to organizations and developers, and its processes and governance. As you advance, the book takes you through the capabilities and code examples of MicroProfile’s subprojects - Config, Fault Tolerance, Health Check, JWT Propagation, Metrics, and OpenTracing. Finally, you’ll be guided in developing a conference application using Eclipse MicroProfile, and explore possible scenarios of what’s next in MicroProfile with Jakarta EE. By the end of this book, you'll have gained a clear understanding of Eclipse MicroProfile and its role in enterprise Java microservices.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Free Chapter
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Section 1: MicroProfile in the Digital Economy
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Section 2: MicroProfile's Current Capabilities
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Section 3: MicroProfile Implementations and Roadmap
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Section 4: A Working MicroProfile Example
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Section 5: A Peek into the Future

Using Eclipse MicroProfile for cloud-native application development

What is a cloud-native application? Typically, a definition for cloud-native entails the following characteristics:

  • Designed as loosely coupled services, such as microservices
  • Loosely coupled services that interact via language-independent communication protocols, which allow microservices to be implemented in different programming languages and frameworks
  • Lightweight containers that can scale up and down on-demand or via resource utilization metrics
  • Managed through Agile DevOps processes, with each microservice of a cloud-native application going through an independent life cycle that's managed through an Agile process using continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines

However, Eclipse MicroProfile's goal is to optimize Java for microservice architectures, so does it make it suitable...