Effortless Application Configuration with MicroProfile Config

MicroProfile is a community driven initiative, built on top of the Jakarta EE Core Profile, that is a collection of abstract specs that form a complete solution to developing cloud native, Jakarta EE microservices.

The MicroProfile Config API is one of these key specifications for microservices, and is designed to give you, the developer, a way to define different configuration values for different application stages without having to repackage and re-deploy your application.

In this guide, you will learn how to incorporate the Config API into your application and use it to externalize dynamic application configuration values.

We cover:

• Dynamic Config Values
• What is MicroProfile Config?
• The Config Source
• Ordinal Values
• Payara Built in Config Sources
• Custom Config Sources
• Converter
• Config Value