Integration testing is perceived as difficult, time-consuming and requiring complex setup of 3rd party systems. There are different types of integration testing, such as system, acceptance and release testing, but all types of testing share the need to integrate several units of your application or other systems in your test.

The Java Virtual Machine comes in different flavors. On one hand, you have the OpenJDK based JVMs. Many vendors, including Oracle, RedHat, Amazon, and Azul to name just a few, create builds from the OpenJDK source to bring the JVM to your development machine or server.

Each year, there's one special Java conference for me. It's GeeCon in Prague because Prague is my home city where I work and live and where I know so many great people in the Java community. This year, I had the opportunity to be a part of GeeCon again as a speaker. As is true every year, GeeCon was well organized, with a lot of interesting international and local speakers and a huge crowd of passionate attendees. All of this made the conference exceptional and worth attending.

Maybe you've already heard about Eclipse MicroProfile, or maybe you don't know what benefits it offers you in your current project. Perhaps you don't see the relationship with Java EE/Jakarta EE - or how you can use it with Payara Server or Payara Micro.

In this blog, I'll give you a short overview of all of the above questions so that you can start using MicroProfile in your next project on the Payara Platform.

Voxxed Days Luxembourg were organized for the fourth time in the south of the country in the village Mondorf-les-Bains, near the borders of France and Germany. If you want to visit the region, you can enjoy the nice views and vineyards. The Moselle wine is produced here.

The Payara Platform 5.192 release comes with an update to MicroProfile. Compared to  MicroProfile 2.1, four components were updated in MicroProfile 2.2:

Hello and welcome to the second issue of our monthly round up where we feature a curated list of interesting articles and videos created by the community that we have enjoyed and found interesting. Cant wait until the end of the month? then visit our twitter page where we post all these articles as we find them! 

Nowadays, the concept of microservices is more than a simple novelty. With the advent of DevOps and the boom of container technologies and deployment automation tools, microservices are changing the way developers structure their applications. With this article, our intention is to illustrate that microservices are a valid option for Java/Jakarta EE developers and how Payara Micro is a robust platform to reach that goal. 

Hello and welcome to the first issue of our monthly round up where we feature a curated list of interesting articles and videos created by the community in the last month that we have enjoyed taking in.

The 5.191 Payara Platform release brought with it support for MicroProfile 2.1. For those who don't know, the only specification updated in this version of MicroProfile was OpenTracing, going from 1.1 to 1.2.