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And this makes the entire application server and Servlet model the wrong abstraction. Microprofile simplifies things, but in the end I feel Java EE is just pushing the wrong abstractions here. Cloud native microservices are meant to be small, and receive their "cloud native dependency injection" through standard Unix interfaces like environment variables standard input and output, command line arguments and sometimes files. Cloud native apps are close in spirit to twelve-factor applications (which is a stricter rendition of that).

Jakarta EE, even with its latest updates, comes from a different world. Standardized library API with interchangeable implementations that are injected by the application server. But wait! We flip the script by embedding the application server inside a fat JAR and shipping everything in a single docker/OCI container. A lot of the stuff that used to happen in the application server (load balancing, shared connection pooling, configuration, service discovery, service bus) happens now at the cloud infrastructure level.

You can still use a MicroProfile-based framework, and Quarkus (which is based on MicroProfile) is very popular nowadays, but once you went along with a certain framework, you're not very likely to replace it. Standardization was the selling point of Java EE in the past, but in the microservice world when you're only betting a smallish microservice on Framework X, people are not so concerned about putting all their eggs in one basket anymore.