You're reading from Practical Cloud-Native Java Development with MicroProfile Develop and deploy scalable, resilient, and reactive cloud-native applications using MicroProfile 4.1

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801078801

Length 404 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Microprofile

Concepts

Cloud Native

Authors (5):

Alasdair Nottingham

John Alcorn

David Chan

Emily Jiang

Andrew McCright

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Cloud-Native Applications

2. Chapter 1: Cloud-Native Applications FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: How Does MicroProfile Fit into Cloud-Native Application Development?

4. Chapter 3: Introducing the IBM Stock Trader Cloud-Native Application

5. Section 2: MicroProfile 4.1 Deep Dive

6. Chapter 4: Developing Cloud-Native Applications

7. Chapter 5: Enhancing Cloud-Native Applications

8. Chapter 6: Observing and Monitoring Cloud-Native Applications

9. Chapter 7: MicroProfile Ecosystem with Open Liberty, Docker, and Kubernetes

10. Section 3: End-to-End Project Using MicroProfile

11. Chapter 8: Building and Testing Your Cloud-Native Application

12. Chapter 9: Deployment and Day 2 Operations

13. Section 4: MicroProfile Standalone Specifications and the Future

14. Chapter 10: Reactive Cloud-Native Applications

15. Chapter 11: MicroProfile GraphQL

16. Chapter 12: MicroProfile LRA and the Future of MicroProfile

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Chapter 12: MicroProfile LRA and the Future of MicroProfile

You have reached the final chapter of this book. Congratulations on making it this far! In this final chapter, we will briefly discuss the newly released MicroProfile Long-Running Action (LRA) and then look at the future of MicroProfile.

While writing this book, MicroProfile LRA 1.0 was released to address the need for microservice transactions. A traditional transaction, as we all must know, is a movement of money, such as an online payment or a withdrawal of money from a bank. In a traditional application, you normally use technologies such as the two-phase commit or eXtended Architecture (XA) protocol to manage transactions. However, these technologies do not suit cloud-native application transactions. In this chapter, we will explore how MicroProfile addresses the need to manage cloud-native transactions. We also will have a look at the transaction architecture for cloud-native applications. After that, we will take...