Today the new jakarta namespace enters our lives at mass scale with the release of Jakarta EE 9 Milestone 1. This Milestone release not only includes over 30 specifications, APIs and TCKs migrated from javax to jakarta, but also several implementations including Apache Tomcat 10.0.0-M6, Jetty 11.0.0-alpha0, OpenLiberty 20.0.0.7-beta and many more all supporting the `jakarta` namespace. As a proud member of the Apache TomEE community we're of course very excited to also announce the release of Apache TomEE 9.0.0 M1 supporting the new jakarta namespace. Faster Through Tooling (technical) A major challenge of this namespace change is impact in…
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In April 2020, the Bolivia Java User Group held a virtual meetup with Latin American JUG's participants. The event covered Java cloud-native and microservice development, infrastructure, and contribution to the Open Source ecosystem distributed in three sessions: It's Easy! Contributing to Open Source César Hernández, from Guatemala JUG, provided a session about how to contribute and become a valuable part of any open source community. Examples of how to learn and apply soft and hard skills were presented based on MicroProfile and Apache TomEE Open Source projects. Attendees were able to learn how to access and navigate the culture of…
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At Oracle Code One 2019 Rafael Guimares, Otavio Santana, and I presented this 45 minutes session for the first time. We provided a case of cloud migration and modernization of a widely use monolithic system with the help of MicroProfile, Jakarta EE, TomEEand Tribestream API Gateway in the Brazilian medical Industry that involved several challenges such as the fifth-largest population and largest territory in the world; technical complexity; and diversity, both geographic and economic. At the beginning of 2020, we were invited via the Jakarta EE Community Forum signed up sheet here to present the session as part of the…
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DevNexus Feb 19th to 21st, is the Atlanta annual software developer conference that’s run by the Atlanta Java Users Group . This event gathers more than 2,400 attendees from all over the world and covers a wide range of topics within the Java Platform, cloud architectures, OpenSource, frameworks, Web and Frontend, tools and techniques, security, Agile, etc. JUG Leaders Summit To celebrate 25 years of Java, a JUG Leaders Summit will take place on the 19th gathering more than 40 Java User Groups from around the world. The unconference day will provide an open and collaborative space to learn from…
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Twenty-four years ago, in May of 1996, Sun Microsystems announced that they were developing the server-side equivalent to the Java applet, the Java Servlet. Since then, the Servlet API has maintained a prominent position in the enterprise Java ecosystem.
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A question that comes up frequently in the TomEE community and with Tomitribe’s support customers is “How do I configure a JDBC driver?” There are a number of ways to do this, but I’m going to talk about the two most common methods. You can configure a JDBC driver for the entire TomEE application server or for a specific webapp. Regardless of which way you choose to do it, the configuration syntax is the same. NOTE: You can also configure a JDBC DataSource directly within an @Resource annotation but this is not recommended and is not covered here. See the…
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If you are looking for the fastest way to download, install, and run TomEE with or without webapps, then look no further! This blog post shows how to use the TomEE Maven Plugin to easily install and run TomEE and webapps with a single command. Clean TomEE Install The TomEE Maven Plugin will download, install, and run TomEE with a single Maven command: $ mvn tomee:run Just copy the pom.xml file below - (you can also get it from GitHub) - then run the command above and the TomEE Maven Plugin will download, install, and run a clean installation of…
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At Tomitribe we are active stakeholders on projects like Apache TomEE, MicroProfile, and JakartaEE and provide Enterprise Support for these and other Open Source projects like Apache Tomcat & Active MQ. In this article, we will cover how developers can create a microservice with Java using the MicroProfile specifications with the DevOps friendly application server, Apache TomEE. If MicroProfile is a topic you want to learn more about, we have many other blog posts covering the basics of MicroProfile with details of each of the specifications along with examples. The official Apache TomEE project website also has a series of…
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In our previous blog post, Getting Started with Microprofile Metrics, we covered the basic concepts about metrics scopes and types of application metrics you can include in your existing JAX-RS endpoints. In this article, we are going to summarize the metadata and default values from the MicroProfile Metrics annotations and how they should be applied. The type of annotations applied to a target tracks how that target (field, method, etc.) is measured and the default values help us to make our code cleaner. Default units and targets per annotation Table No.1 describes each of the Metrics annotations and the target…
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Durante esta sesión de video, Daniel Dias y Cesar Hernandez comparten sus retos, oportunidades y recomendaciones para iniciar a contribuir en proyectos de Código Abierto como lo és Apache TomEE. La demostración de la sesión incluye como desde cero llegar a colocar un pull-request en el proyecto Apache TomEE cubriendo los aspectos de herramientas, procesos y comunicación.
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