Eclipse MicroProfile

What is Eclipse MicroProfile?

The MicroProfile project was launched in June 2016 as a collaborative effort between Java application server vendors and the enterprise Java community to enable fast innovation.

MicroProfile is a specification which provides a set of APIs focused on microservices. The complete MicroProfile API is provided as a Bill Of Materials(BOM) which can be used by developers as a generic dependency provided by a vendor of their choice.

Payara has been part of the MicroProfile project from its inception and, therefore, supports all specifications of the MicroProfile Umbrella project.

Payara Support for MicroProfile

Version 6.0

Version 6.0 of MicroProfile is a major release that updates JWT Authentication, OpenAPI, and Metrics. In addition, this version introduces OpenTelemetry Tracing as a replacement for OpenTracing (which is now an optional specification), as well as bringing in Jakarta EE Core Profile 10.0 in place of the individual Jakarta specifications it pulled in previously (CDI, JAX-RS, Annotations, JSON-B, and JSON-P).

This is supported by the Payara Platform starting from release 6.2023.3

What does each specification contain?

Version Specifications Maven

6.0

 
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.eclipse.microprofile</groupId>
    <artifactId>microprofile</artifactId>
    <version>6.0</version>
    <type>pom</type>
    <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

5.0

 
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.eclipse.microprofile</groupId>
    <artifactId>microprofile</artifactId>
    <version>5.0</version>
    <type>pom</type>
    <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>