A microservices application is one that is composed of a series of discrete services, which communicate with one another via an API. Microservices apps are the opposite of monolithic applications. The ...

Increasingly, developers rely on a microservices architecture to build an application as a suite of fine-grained, narrowly focused, and independent services, each of which is developed and deployed ...

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In a microservices architecture, one of the most important parts of a service is the module in charge of communicating with other services. You often need to test end-to-end how a service communicates ...

Developers can use the beta code from the open source Open Liberty project to provision, manage, and migrate microservices in Java apps A few weeks ago, Nginx released its multilanguage ...

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, ...

Integration middleware maker WSO2 has released a new version of its Microservices Framework for Java (MSF4J), which it launched in March. MSF4J is a lightweight, open source framework for building ...

Solid and well-understood makes for better development environments than fashionable. Java is not fashionable, but it’s still right for business. When I mention Java to young developers, including my ...

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 ...