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Jakarta EE and JPA – State of Affairs
Java, both in language and platform, has improved significantly in enabling an effective developer experience and creating highly performant stateful applications. Remarkable improvements become evident when examining the evolution of Java database integration capabilities and developer experience: look back to the introduction of Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) in 1997 with the Java Development Kit (JDK) 1.1 and compare it with the most modern experience offered by Jakarta Enterprise Edition (Jakarta EE), MicroProfile.
This chapter presents an introduction and overview of the present and future of the main enablers of Java’s evolution and constant growth—Jakarta EE, formerly Java EE, and Eclipse MicroProfile. ...
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