Payara Platform Supports MicroProfile 4.1

While support for MicroProfile 4.0 has been available in Payara Community since 5.2021.1 we’ve waited to add it to Payara Enterprise because it created breaking changes.

Payara Enterprise previously supported MicroProfile 3.3 which was based on Java EE 8.0 artifacts.  MicroProfile 4.1 is based on Jakarta EE 8.0 artifacts. Please note if you use MicroProfile and upgrade to the Payara Enterprise 5.30.0 release (August 2021) you may have to change config values or make updates to your applications using MicroProfile.

In addition to upgrading from MicroProfile 3.3 to 4.1 support in Payara Enterprise, we also upgraded from MicroProfile 4.0 to 4.1 support in the Payara Community Edition by implementing MicroProfile Health 3.1 to introduce a @Startup annotation. If you were already using MicroProfile 4.0 the MicroProfile 4.1 release is a minor release and does not include incompatible changes.

Breaking Changes 

The most important breaking changes can be found on the following documentation pages:

• MicroProfile Config
• MicroProfile Fault Tolerance
• MicroProfile Health Check
• MicroProfile Metrics
• MicroProfile Open API 
• MicroProfile OpenTracing

About MicroProfile 4.1

MicroProfile 4.1 is the 2nd version released by the recently-formed MicroProfile Working Group.  This is the first release defining the compatible implementation requirements, as follows.

• [Required] Passing the 8 MicroProfile Specification TCKs 
  • MicroProfile Config 2.0
  • MicroProfile Fault Tolerance 3.0
  • MicroProfile Health 3.1
  • MicroProfile JWT Authentication 1.2
  • MicroProfile Metrics 3.0
  • MicroProfile OpenAPI 2.0
  • MicroProfile OpenTracing 2.0
  • MicroProfile Rest Client 2.0
• [Optional] Passing the 5 Jakarta Specification TCKs 
  • CDI (Jakarta Contexts and Dependency Injection) 2.0
  • JAX-RS (Jakarta RESTful Web Services) 2.1
  • JSON-B (Jakarta JSON Binding) 1.0
  • JSON-P (Jakarta JSON Processing) 1.1
  • Jakarta Annotations 1.3

The MicroProfile 4.1 release follows the new MicroProfile Specification Process.

Official MP Compatibility Pending

We are currently working to provide the TCK results for voting to earn official MicroProfile 4.1 Compatible Implementation status for Payara Platform.

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