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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 ...

Oracle on Friday announced the first release of Project Helidon, a new collection of Java Libraries for writing microservices, and officially joined the Eclipse MicroProfile effort. Helidon is an open ...

Java’s enduring popularity among enterprises is not just a matter of tradition. Three decades after its debut, the language powers some of the highest-stakes systems in banking, healthcare, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ROME—“We’re living in a golden age for developers,” Oracle’s Bob Quillin told the audience. “It’s quite the revolution, if you think about it. You can use the same technology that any large ...