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For some reason, there's this belief that Java microservices have to be server-side components that connect to back-end resources, such as databases and message queues. There's also a misconception ...

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, ...

Java 21 or newer is necessary for using Helidon 4. Helidon is described by proponents as an open source set of cloud-native Java libraries for writing microservices to run on a fast web core, powered ...

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 ...