Helidon: Java Libraries for Microservices
Project Helidon is a set of Java Libraries for writing microservices. Helidon supports two programming models:
Helidon MP: MicroProfile 3.2
Helidon SE: a small, functional style API
In either case your application is just a Java SE program.
License
Helidon is available under Apache License 2.0.
Documentation
Latest documentation and javadocs are available at https://helidon.io/docs/latest.
Get Started
See Getting Started at https://helidon.io.
Downloads / Accessing Binaries
There are no Helidon downloads. Just use our Maven releases (GroupID io.helidon). See Getting Started at https://helidon.io.
Build
You need JDK 11+ to build Helidon.
You also need Maven. We recommend 3.5 or newer.
Building the documentation requires the dot utility from Graphviz. This is included in many Linux distributions. For other platforms see https://www.graphviz.org/.
Full build
$ mvn install
Checkstyle
# Cd to the component you want to check
$ mvn validate -Pcheckstyle
Copyright
# Cd to the component you want to check
$ mvn validate -Pcopyright
Spotbugs
# Cd to the component you want to check
$ mvn verify -Pspotbugs
Build Scripts
Build scripts are located in etc/scripts. These are primarily used by our pipeline, but a couple are handy to use on your desktop to verify your changes.
copyright.sh: Run a full copyright check
checkstyle.sh: Run a full style check
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