Ben’s Build and B(r)ass Notes

Here is a list of my top 10 OpenLiberty hidden features. They are not the "best" features by any means of »hidden knowledge«, but they are the most handy features I use regularly not everyone knows about. YMMV. 😉

Glowroot is a lightweighted but feature-rich java VM agent, which will allow you to collect and evaluate metrics from almost any VM. For larger setups, you might want to install a central collection instance. This guide covers how to set up Glowroot Central on OpenLiberty, a lightweigt and extremely fast Java Application Server (aka Servlet Container).

Der ApplicationServer "OpenLiberty" erhält Support für Zertifikate von Let’s Encrypt. Das Set-Up wird wieder unverschämt einfach. Man fügt einfach folgende Zeilen in die Hauptkonfigurationsdatei server.xml ein:

Json-B (not JSONB!), short for Json Binding, is a modern MicroProfile Java standard to convert json documents (json messages) to a java class and vice versa.

Json-B (nicht JSONB!), kurz für Json Binding, ist ein moderne MicroProfile-Java-Standard zum Konvertieren eines JSON-Dokumentes in eine Java-Klasse.