Quarkus – Simple REST API and Unit Tests with JUnit 5

Start using Quarkus: the Supersonic Subatomic Java toolkit

Created by: Antonio Goncalves
Developer, book author, international speaker, Quarkus lover

What Will I Learn?

• Understand the Quarkus ecosystem, where it comes from, its performance benefits
• Bootstrap a REST application with Quarkus
• Test it with JUnit and RestAssured
• Use injection with CDI
• Configure the application and Quarkus itself
• Use the dev/test/prod Quarkus profiles
• Package a Quarkus application in several JAR formats
• Generate a native binary thanks to GraalVM
• Build and execute a Docker container out of the application

Requirements

• A recent Windows / Mac / Linux machine
• Knowledge of the Java language and the Java ecosystem (Maven, JUnit, GraalVM)
• Basic knowledge of RESTful Web Services
• Basic knowledge of Docker

Target audience

• Java developers curious about Quarkus
• Back-end Java developers willing to move their application to the cloud
• Spring or Java EE developers who need to compare their toolkit with Quarkus