Oracle introduced its new open-source framework, Project Helidon, in September 2018. Originally named J4C (Java for Cloud), Helidon is a collection of Java libraries for creating microservices-based ...

I'm not sure if you'd call it an irony or a paradox, but something definitely is amusing about the fact that microservices sessions at JavaOne tend to pack the house, while Java Champion Ivar Grimstad ...

In a microservices architecture, one of the most important parts of a service is the module in charge of communicating with other services. You often need to test end-to-end how a service communicates ...

The MicroProfile Working Group, the open forum that optimizes Enterprise Java for a microservice architecture, just released their latest iteration, MicroProfile 7.1. After ten months of development, ...

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 ...

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 ...