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.

There's a lot of noise revolving around Docker at the moment, and with the current industry focus on the cloud, there's a good reason for that.

I hope you would already know why you might want to use Payara Platform in your business, so in this blog I'm going to focus more on why you'd specifically want to use it with Docker in a "business" context. For a start, if you're unfamiliar with Docker, please refer back to our introductory blog: What is Docker and How is it Used with the Payara Platform for a primer.

MicroProfile

For those who did not come across Eclipse MicroProfile yet, let me give you a quick introduction. In 2016, a group of vendors and individuals started an initiative to optimize Enterprise Java for a microservices architecture.

The goal of MicroProfile.IO is to optimise Java EE for a micro-service architecture. It is based on some of the Java EE specifications and standardise a few technologies from the micro-services space.

In November, my friend Milen Dyankov started it all by inviting me to come to Warsaw to give a talk at a local developer meetup (sponsored by Liferay, Milen's employer). After attending several big conferences during the year, coming to talk at a much smaller event sounded quite relaxing! Visiting Warsaw for the first time was also tempting so I agreed to attend.

We recently held a webinar hosted by myself, Arjan Tijms and Ondrej Mihalyi based on exploring and demonstrating the latest features and updates in the 184 release. This included:

Having previously blogged about setting up data sources in Payara Server, we thought we should mention that you can also set up data sources in Payara Micro. In this blog, we'll take you through the process of setting up a data source using Payara Micro, including code snippets and where to find full code examples. Let's get started!

Recently we shared a blog about Ondrej's talk prepared for Code One and Devoxx conferences: Be Reactive and Micro with a MicroProfile Stack. Now, we have his video so you can watch the talk as if you were there! We also enjoyed several other MicroProfile related talks at Devoxx and wanted to share some of those as well. See below for a talk about Jakarta EE MicroProfile WebStandards by Adam Bien, a Java EE/Jakarta EE and MicroProfile discussion with Sebastian Daschner, and a talk about Securing Microservices from Emily Jiang.

Did You Know?

In this video demo we show you how to use the Domain Data Grid which was introduced as a new feature in Payara 5. As well as further demos using Payara Server and Payara Micro on Microsoft Azure.