Microservices is an architectural style evolved from SOA. Both are distributed architectures and both offer a decoupled paradigm. ... the Java standard is JAX-WS, the Java API for XML Web Services.

Ng, co-author of Implementing SOA using Java EE, explores the connections between Java and SOA and looks at both in the context of cloud computing in this interview.As director of engineering at Sun ...

The MicroProfile Working Group, the open forum that optimizes Enterprise Java for a microservice architecture, just released their latest iteration, MicroProfile 7.1.