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Who We Are

MicroProfile is an Open Source Community driven-project launched in June 27th, 2016. MicroProfile open discussions inform the direction of how it develops Enterprise Java microservices-related specifications. In January 2017, MicroProfile joined the Eclipse Foundation and since then it targets 3 annual releases. MicroProfile has found its success by extending the capabilities of Jakarta EE application servers while also enabling a new class of microservices-centric runtimes.

While industry specifications rightfully tend towards slower, methodical, and stable API evolution, MicroProfile compliments this approach through rapid API evolution to match the pace of evolution of the microservices development model. This is achieved by using a low-process, agile approach to API evolution that is often applied to microservices development.

Within the Eclipse Foundation’s unique Working Group governance model, global enterprise Java ecosystem leaders and dedicated contributors are collaborating on advancing enterprise Java technologies to support the migration of mission-critical applications and workloads to the cloud. MicroProfile consists of a growing number of individual contributors and community organizations, and the world's leading enterprises in the Java industry.

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What Our Members Say

"Microservices have been evolving rapidly over the last decade. Red Hat believes that MicroProfile strikes an ideal balance between the open source development model and specification development. Through rapid, incremental evolution of specifications, MicroProfile matches the pace of microservice evolution while enabling developer productivity and investment protection through common apis across multiple microservices runtimes."

Mark Little, Red Hat

Ian Robinson, IBM

"MicroProfile technologies have been adopted by numerous microservices runtimes & have been an important part of IBM's Java strategy since the beginning of the collaboration in 2016. We've seen a successful & rapid pace of innovation and look forward to this continuing, with priorities established by a community & multiple open implementations and integrations providing developer choice. IBM views MicroProfile technologies as complem consistency for the Java platform."

A significant factor to the 25-year success of Java as a language are the JVM-based languages such as Kotlin, Scala, and Groovy that are first to market with big ideas and industry shifts, while Java the language absorbs the key ideas at a slower pace. MicroProfile is the critically needed compliment to initiatives like Jakarta EE, allowing innovation to be pursued quickly at the edge in a first-to-market fashion, but with a clear path for potential future standardization at a slower pace.”

David Blevins, Tomitribe

Vincent Mayers, AJUG

“MicroProfile is the epitome of an open source project. Its lead by an extremely passionate group of individuals that value open communication and community. The manner in which open discussions inform the direction of the project should be a standard that all OSS efforts, whether they are stewarded by a foundation or not, should hope to live up to.”

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The Opportunity

Organizations join the MicroProfile Working Group, MPWG, because Enterprise Java microservices is important to their communities or business. Becoming a member of the MicroProfile Working Group demonstrates your commitment not only to the evolution and sustainability of MicroProfile, but also to ensuring the growth and development of a well-governed, vendor-neutral open source Java ecosystem .

Members of the MicroProfile Working Group take advantage of the following opportunities:

Protect your strategic investment in MicroProfile, including ensuring the relevancy of your technology and your developers’ skills for the next generation of technology
Play a role in defining MicroProfile strategic themes and priorities to evolve the platform in alignment with your requirements and use cases — and those of your customers
Influence over the technology roadmap
Shape the definition, evolution, and execution of the specifications process
Participate in open-collaboration through professionally managed development initiatives
Ensure your development teams benefit from sharing best practices and cutting edge information for building the next generation of Enterprise Java applications
Influence MicroProfile marketing initiatives and budget
Publicly demonstrate your support of MicroProfile, showing your commitment to the technology and its strategic importance
Benefit from the right to use the MicroProfile Member logo
Gain the right to use the MicroProfile Compatible logo to identify products that are certified as compatible Implementations of MicroProfile

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An Open, Vendor-Neutral Community

The MicroProfile community consists of individual Contributors and Organizations spanning many industries. The community participates in the MicroProfile projects to create open specifications, standard APIs, and technology compatibility kits (TCKs) for Java runtimes that enable development, deployment, and management of server-side and cloud-native applications.

Key to the development of open specifications is the Eclipse Foundation Specification Process, an open, vendor-neutral, and collaborative approach arena generating specifications, with every decision made publicly and collectively by the community.

Combined with the open source, TCKs, and an open process of self-certification, MicroProfile significantly lowers the barriers to entry and participation for independent software vendors.

The result is that lead developers of member organizations can have an active voice in the entire process.

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Eclipse Foundation Key Services

The Eclipse Foundation provides three key services to the members of the MicroProfile Working Group,

and ultimately to the MicroProfile Community:

IP Management — MicroProfile specifications are licensed under the Apache Version 2.0 commercial-friendly OSI approved license.�
Specification and Development Processes — The Eclipse Foundation community has a well-earned reputation for producing high-quality software, reliably and predictably. Specification development follows the Eclipse Foundation Specification Process and Eclipse Development Process, which are well respected open, community-driven processes, and are dramatic departures from the previous JCP processes.

IT Infrastructure — The Eclipse Foundation provides vendor-neutral, reliable and scalable services for MicroProfile specification developers and users. IT infrastructure services delivered to the Eclipse community include source code repositories, build infrastructure, and development-oriented mailing lists and newsgroups.

All told, the MicroProfile Working Group has established the key objectives of encouraging multiple compatible products that comply with the MicroProfile Specifications, and to provide a level playing field for all interested organizations to influence the future direction of MicroProfile Membership ensures the long term success of achieving these objectives.

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MPWG Membership

Corporate Revenue	Annual Fees
Annual Corporate Revenues greater than $1 billion	$10,000
Annual Corporate Revenues greater than $100 million but less than or equal to $1 billion	$8,000
Annual Corporate Revenues greater than $10 million but less than or equal to $100 million 1000万美元-1亿美元	$6,000
Annual Corporate Revenues less than or equal to $10 million≤1000万美元	$3,000
Annual Corporate Revenues less than $1 million and < 10 employees	$1,500

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How to Join MPWG

Meet the MicroProfile Community and share your interest by attending a public zoom meeting and/or send a written message to MP google forum.

Independent Contributor need to become at least a Contributing Member of the Eclipse Foundation.

Check here if your company is a member.

Explore the Eclipse Membership on this page or the Eclipse Membership Prospectus.

Send your organization signed MPWG Participation Agreement alongside with the EF Membership Agreement or the or the Employer Consent Agreement if you are an independent committer to membership.coordination@eclipse-foundation.org.

Inform the MicroProfile Community via its public forums that you have sent the contracts.

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Join us!

To learn more about the benefits of MicroProfile Working Group membership, contact the MicroProfile community at microprofile-wg@eclipse.org. Send the signed Agreements to the Membership Coordination Team at membership@eclipse.org