Open Liberty Insights

What is Open Liberty?

Open Liberty is a lightweight, modular, and fast application server for building and deploying cloud-native Java microservices and applications. It's based on the Eclipse OpenJ9 JVM and is designed for developer productivity with features like zero-migration architecture and hot deployment. Open Liberty is commonly used for creating and running microservices, web applications, and APIs in containerized environments like Docker and Kubernetes.

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What other technologies are related to Open Liberty?

Open Liberty Competitor Technologies

WebSphere Application Server

WebSphere Application Server is a competing Java EE application server from IBM, offering similar functionalities and targeting the same market.

mentioned alongside Open Liberty in 2% (59) of relevant job posts

Quarkus

Quarkus is another Java framework that focuses on fast startup times and low memory footprint, similar to Open Liberty, and is used for building cloud-native applications.

mentioned alongside Open Liberty in 1% (90) of relevant job posts

Apache Tomcat

Apache Tomcat is a widely used Java servlet container. While less comprehensive than Open Liberty, it serves as an alternative for deploying web applications.

mentioned alongside Open Liberty in 0% (89) of relevant job posts

WebSphere

WebSphere is a broader term generally referring to the WebSphere Application Server family, placing it in direct competition with Open Liberty.

mentioned alongside Open Liberty in 0% (98) of relevant job posts

Spring Boot

Spring Boot is a competing Java framework for building and running standalone, production-ready applications.

mentioned alongside Open Liberty in 0% (81) of relevant job posts