Payara Micro Revealed: Cloud-Native Application Development with Java

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D. R. HeffelfingerPayara Micro Revealedhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8161-1_1

1. Jakarta EE, MicroProfile, Payara, and the Cloud

David R. Heffelfinger¹  

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Fairfax, VA, USA

 

Payara is a Jakarta EE and MicroProfile–compliant runtime; both of these are specifications dictating standards for server-side and cloud-based applications. In this chapter, we will provide a brief history of server-side Java and Payara to give some context on how we got to where we are today.

Brief Server-Side Java History

The Java language was released to the world by Sun Microsystems in 1995, and it took the world by storm. In the beginning, the killer feature of Java was Java applets, ...