The JVM Conference is a smaller conference with two tracks. But smaller doesn’t mean it is not worth attending. There is a very broad variety in topics from plain Java SE, backend development, to micro-services and containers in cloud environments with sessions aimed at Java programmers, operators, QA staff and IT architects. You can get up to speed in the latest trends in many areas.

With the new release cadence of a major release of Java every 6 months, which was introduced a year ago with Java 9, a lot of uncertainty about an update strategy arose.

The announcement that the Java EE projects would be open-sourced completely came about a year ago now, meaning the Java (EE) community would receive control over it.

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This blog explains the setup of Payara Server on MacOS systems and how you can define a specific JVM which will be used to run the server.

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With the rise of the micro-service architecture, we have seen also a shift from SOAP to REST as the means of exchanging data between parties. REST and JAX-RS are gaining a lot of popularity outside the micro-service world, also.