MicroProfile.io is an open source community specification for Enterprise Java microservices, and it aims at optimizing Enterprise Java for a microservice architecture.
The delay in the release of the new version of Java EE, and the rapid change of the technological scenario (which is increasingly oriented toward cloud platforms and microservice architectures), have pushed a community of individuals, organizations, and vendors collaborating within an open source (Eclipse) project to bring microservice features to the Enterprise Java community.
Some of the major players in the history of the Java EE platform are involved in this project, such as Payara, Fujitsu, Tomitribe, IBM, Red Hat, Hammock, SmartBear, Hazelcast, and Oracle ...