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 ...

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Enterprise software developers toiling away at the development of traditional server-side applications that get packaged in WAR files and deployed as EARs need not fret about being left behind by the ...

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 ...

Implementing microservices in Java has become a top priority at Oracle, which is rebooting Java Enterprise Edition for microservices and cloud deployments. Meanwhile, another microservices effort for ...

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, ...

Oracle has introduced Project Helidon, an open source microservices framework for Java. Helidon features a collection of Java libraries for writing microservices that will run on a web core powered by ...