MicroProfile specifications

At this point, you might be wondering what MicroProfile consists of. As you may know, MicroProfile evolves Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) in terms of developing cloud-native applications. MicroProfile has several specifications that offer various capabilities for cloud-native applications. As a cloud-native application developer, it's important to understand these.

The MicroProfile 4.0 release includes four specifications from Jakarta EE 8 and eight MicroProfile specifications, as follows:

Jakarta EE specifications:

• Jakarta Contexts and Dependency Injection (CDI) 2.0
• Jakarta RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS) 2.1
• Jakarta JSON Binding 1.0
• Jakarta JSON Processing 1.1

MicroProfile specifications:

• MicroProfile Config 2.0
• MicroProfile Fault Tolerance 3.0
• MicroProfile Health 3.0
• MicroProfile JWT Propagation 1.2
• MicroProfile Metrics 3.0
• MicroProfile OpenAPI 2.0
• MicroProfile OpenTracing...