In this section, we're going to take a look at the following things:
- How to develop, build, and run your first Java-EE-8-powered microservice
- Required Java EE 8 dependencies for basic web-service development
- Basic components of any JAX-RS-based web service
- Deployment of a thin WAR artifact using Payara Server 5
Let's get started and dive into the code. I've prepared my IDE and a raw skeleton Maven project. What you see here is a very basic POM file:
There's one thing missing though; first, we need to define the required dependency for the Java EE 8 API. Let's do that:
<dependency> <groupId>javax</groupId> ...
