I hope you all have a merry Christmas. More importantly, I hope you take the time to think about the birth of the child that gives Christmas its meaning.

This morning, I was asked a question by a coworker that we both thought we knew the answer to: if a method is protected, can other classes see that method? The answer surprised us: maybe. :) It's a pretty simple, basic question, but I thought I'd mention it in case there's a beginner wondering, or more senior developers, such as myself and my team mate, that just have it wrong. :)

Many times, one of the hardest parts of getting started with a particular piece of technology is figuring out how to get started. :) In this series, I've used an extremely simple project to show how to do just that with a number of MicroProfile implementations. Obviously, a real application will have many more concerns than we dealt with in this application, but what this effort gave us is working, runnable, and testable build for six different MicroProfile implementations. What I'd like to do in this final installment in the series, is give some closing thoughts.

Up next in our series comes an offering from, to me, a somewhat surprising source, Oracle, and that offering is Helidon . I first heard about in September 2018 , and while it's still pre-1.0, it looks extremely promising.

This time around, we're going to start looking at a slightly different take on MicroProfile implemenations. Whereas Payara Micro, Thorntail, OpenLibery, and TomEE are all based on application servers (albeit stripped down versions), our implementation in this post, Hammock , is based on a CDI container. Rather than start what amounts to an app server under which a web is deployed, we'll be spinning up a plain ol' CDI container, which will look for CDI beans to load/start/etc. That may sound weird, and I may not be describing it clearly, so let's just jump in to the code and take a look.