This blog aims at giving some pointers in order to address the challenge related to the switch from `javax` to `jakarta` namespace. This is one of the biggest changes in Java of the latest 20 years. No doubt. The entire ecosystem is impacted. Not only Java EE or Jakarta EE Application servers, but also libraries of any kind (Jackson, CXF, Hibernate, Spring to name a few). For instance, it took Apache TomEE about a year to convert all the source code and dependencies to the new `jakarta` namespace. This blog is written from the user perspective, because the shift from…
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Last year, we announced Apache TomEE as a certified Jakarta EE 9.1 server (See blog post). The season favors gifts and good news, so I thought I would write this small blog to talk about our journey to being MicroProfile 5.0 certified. A while back, Apache TomEE started implementing MicroProfile. At that time, we were contributing to Apache Geronimo implementations for various specifications: config, openapi, opentracing, metrics, health and fault-tolerance. We had our own JWT implementation with additional integration features than what the MicroProfile JWT specification supports. Back then, we were passing the TCK for the MicroProfile 2.1, released October…
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Introduction If you’ve been following tech news over the last couple of days, you’ll very likely have heard about CVE-2021-44228, or “Log4Shell” as it has become known. This particular vulnerability affects Apache Log4J2, a Java logging framework. Tomcat, TomEE, and ActiveMQ themselves do not ship with log4j2, so running out-of-the-box with their default configuration they are not vulnerable to this issue. However, before you breathe a sigh of relief, you should be aware that applications deployed on either TomEE or Tomcat can include additional Java libraries bundled inside. Any jar file included in a web application’s WEB-INF/lib directory will be…
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Tomitribe is part of the expert group for the upcoming JMS 3.0 and provides ActiveMQ and Apache TomEE enterprise support for many organizations. This article demonstrates configuring Tibco EMS in TomEE. For generic guidelines on deploying alternative JMS providers, please see the official TomEE documentation for Changing JMS Implementations JMS providers are generally packaged as Java Connector Architecture (JCA) Resource Adapter Archive (RAR) files, and both outbound (for sending messages to the broker) and inbound (for receiving messages via Message Driven Beans (MDBs) connectors are provided. JCA RAR files are designed to be portable, and any portable RAR file should…
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In the previous post, we saw how to use the built-in ‘tomcat-users.xml’ identity store with Apache TomEE. While this identity store is inherited from Tomcat and integrated into Jakarta Security implementation in TomEE, this is usually good for development or simple deployments, but may appear too simple or restrictive for production environments. This blog will focus on how to implement your own identity store. TomEE can use LDAP or JDBC identity stores out of the box. We will try them out next time. Let’s say you have your own file store or your own data store like an in-memory data…
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While working on Jakarta EE 10 certification (See announcement Apache Tomee Jakarta EE certified after 10 years, Apache TomEE implemented Jakarta Security specification. Currently, there is only one implementation used in Glassfish and used by all the other vendors for Jakarta Security. In TomEE, we decided to create an alternative to bring some diversity, and have an Apache implementation. What is Jakarta Security? Jakarta Security defines a standard for creating secure Jakarta EE applications in modern application paradigms. It defines an overarching (end-user targeted) Security API for Jakarta EE Applications. Jakarta Security builds on the lower level Security SPIs defined…
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We are extremely excited to spread the word that Apache TomEE 9.0.0-M7 has reached Jakarta EE 9.1 Web Profile certification. Speaking with our Apache-contributor hats on, this is not just our first certification in 10 years, but we are doubly proud Apache TomEE is on the list of certified servers on the day of the Jakarta EE release. Moreover, after 3 years of behind-the-scenes work, we're very excited the Apache Software Foundation has joined Jakarta EE Working Group as a Guest Member. And finally, not to be overlooked, the Apache TomEE project has a fresh new website: - https://tomee.apache.org/ As…
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No dia 29 de agosto, aconteceu o JakartaOne Livestream Brazil. Foi uma conferência virtual de um dia para desenvolvedores e líderes técnicos trazendo o estado atual e futuro de Jakarta EE e tecnologias relacionadas, com foco no desenvolvimento de aplicativos nativos em nuvem corporativa. A participação foi ótima, com cerca de 200 pessoas conectadas continuamente. Nosso parceiro no Brasil, Rafael Guimares, CEO of GBR Sistemas, falou sobre como eles alavancaram microservices com TomEE para ajudar a indústria médica no Brasil. Graças à sua experiência, a equipe de Rafael foi capaz de construir rapidamente um novo aplicativo para suporte à telemedicina no contexto do Coronavírus (consulta...
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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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