micro-javaee

This project compares different deployment configurations of JavaEE micro-service.

Prerequesites

• JDK 8

• Maven 3

WAR deployment

The application is packaged as a war.

mvn wildfly:run

Wildfly distribution is downloaded and unzipped in target directory. The application is packaged as a war and deploy to Wildfly.

Wildfly Swarm

More information : http://wildfly.org/swarm/

mvn clean package -Pswarm

The application is packaged as a fat jar with a some wildfly modules embedded : micro-javaee-swarm.jar.

You can start the application with :

java -jar target/micro-javaee-swarm.jar

Payara Micro

More information : http://www.payara.co.uk/introducing_payara_micro

mvn clean package -Ppayara

The application is packaged as a war. Payara micro is downloaded and put in target directory.

You can start the application with Payara micro as bootstrap :

java -jar target/payara-micro.jar --deploy target/micro-javaee.war

TomEE Embedded

More information : https://rmannibucau.wordpress.com/2014/03/24/java-jar-my-app-in-tomee-jar/

mvn clean package tomee:exec -Ptomee

The application is packaged as an executable jar. At startup, TomEE is unpacked just near the jar.

You can start the application with :

java -jar target/micro-javaee-exec.jar

KumuluzEE

More information : https://ee.kumuluz.com/

mvn clean package -Pkumuluzee

The dependencies are copied into target/dependency.

You can start the application with :

CONTEXT_PATH=/micro-javaee java -cp target/classes:target/dependency/* com.kumuluz.ee.EeApplication

Comparison

	Wildfly	Swarm	Payara Micro	TomEE Embedded	KumuluzEE
Packaging	war + application server	jar	war + jar	jar	classes + target/dependency/
Size	10 Ko + 159 Mo	83 Mo	10 Ko + 57 Mo	44 Mo	15 Mo
Startup time	7s	4s	9s	2s	1s