MicroProfile 4.0 Features and Ideas

An airhacks.fm conversation with Emily Jiang (@emilyfhjiang) about: MicroProfile passion, usability as a goal, learn once, use it everywhere, MicroProfile: the freedom of choice, Payara, OpenLiberty, WildFly, Apache TomEE, Helidon, KumuluzEE, Quarkus, Meecrowave, Fujitsu Launcher, Piranha Cloud are implementing MicroProfile, developer vs. vendor role, nice interactions with MicroProfile community, MicroProfile ships with an umbrella spec, MicroProfile allows backward incompatible changes, MicroProfile TCKs are exercised against multiple vendors continuously, the lack of CORS spec, Quarkus support for CORS, MicroProfile Reactive Messaging and MicroProfile GraphQL, MicroProfile Long Running Transactions, MicroProfile Context Propagation, are MicroProfile Profiles viable solution for spec packaging, a monolithic API is more convenient for developers, multiple scopes / types in MicroProfile Metrics registry proposal, MicroProfile specs play nice together, MicroProfile Fault Tolerance and MicroProfile Context Propagation integration, MicroProfile Context Propagation propagates transactions, CDI scoped and security scopes, MicroProfile 4.0 is going to be aligned with Jakarta EE 8, MicroProfile Config staging profiles (dev, int, prod), DeltaSpike motivated configuration bean injection, MicroProfile Config variable substitution, Smallrye implemented a prototype for the DI into MicroProfile ConfigSources, MicroProfile Fault Tolerance with MicroProfile Context Propagation integration by getting the access to the context, integrations with Server Sent Events SSE, MicroProfile OpenAPI / Jakarta Bean Validation integration, MicroProfile JWT encryption and cookie support, optional group claim in MicroProfile 4.0 JWT, the MicroProfile style, MicroProfile and Semantic Versioning, wad.sh "Watch and Deploy", Reactive Messaging emitter annotation on JAX-RS resources, backpressure and overflow support in Reactive Messaging, possible mutiny adoption in MicroProfile, MicroProfile Long Running Actions is on the horizon, Real World Jakarta EE and MicroProfile mix, MicroProfile Reactive Messaging is an abstract layer with JMS support, MicroProfile data access idea is in discussion, Quarkus Panache, should Jakarta EE and MicroProfile be merged?, Jakarta EE and MicroProfile are driven by the same team, MicroProfile moves faster than Jakarta EE, Emily Jiang on twitter: @emilyfhjiang, and microprofile