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2. Your First Application

Dmitry Kornilov1  , Daniel Kec1 and Dmitry Aleksandrov2
(1)
Praha, Czech Republic
(2)
Sofia, Bulgaria
 

This chapter covers the following topics.

  • Creating a Helidon application using Project Starter, a command-line interface (CLI), or Maven archetypes

  • Building an executable JAR, jlink-optimized JVM, and GraalVM Native Image

  • Making a Docker image and deploying it to Kubernetes

This is the first practical chapter offering hands-on coding. It’s interesting how book-writing methods have evolved. In the early 1990s, technical books were quite boring to read. ...

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