Summary

In this chapter, we learned about the lightweight governance processes of the Eclipse MicroProfile project, its rapid approach to innovation, and how sandboxes are used to foster collaboration and encourage code development and documentation. We also learned about its sub-projects, the leaders of these sub-projects, and how they can be released either standalone or as part of an Eclipse MicroProfile umbrella release.

In addition, you learned about MicroProfile Starter, which is a Maven project generation tool that provides code samples so that developers can get their MicroProfile applications started quickly. Finally, we got a sneak-peek at how an application's properties can be easily modified using Eclipse MicroProfile Config constructs, and how to use the @Timeout and @Fallback annotations from the Eclipse MicroProfile Fault Tolerance specification.

In the next chapter, we will delve deeper into the Eclipse MicroProfile Config and Eclipse MicroProfile Fault Tolerance specifications and provide code samples on how to use them.