Glossary
This is a collection of preferred term in the documentation and website. Please stay within these terms for consistency.
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Live reload:: for our
quarkus:dev
capability -
GraalVM:: preferred term for the VM creating native executable. No space.
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Substrate VM:: non-preferred. Only if you want to clarify which part of GraalVM we use.
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Native Executable:: the executable that is compiled to native 1s and 0s
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Docker image:: for the actual
Dockerfile
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Container:: when we discuss Quarkus running in… containers
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Supersonic Subatomic Java:: our tagline
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Kubernetes Native Java:: our preferred tagline to say that we rock for containers
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Developer Joy:: for everything going from live reload to the opinionated layer to a single config file
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Unify Imperative and Reactive:: imperative and reactive. 'Nuff said.
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Best of breed frameworks and standards:: when we explain our stack