Quarkus documentation uses asciidoc syntax.

A gradual refactoring effort is underway to reshape Quarkus documentation to make it easier to both read and write (see Quarkus documentation concepts for more on this transition).

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Glossary

This is a collection of preferred term in the documentation and website. Please stay within these terms for consistency.

  • Live coding:: for our quarkus:dev capability

  • GraalVM native image:: preferred term for the VM creating native executable. No space.

  • Substrate VM:: non-preferred. Exclude.

  • Native Executable:: the executable that is compiled to native 1s and 0s

  • Docker image:: for the actual Dockerfile definition and when the tool chain is involved

  • Container:: when we discuss Quarkus running in…​ containers

  • Supersonic Subatomic Java:: our tagline

  • Kubernetes Native Java:: our preferred tagline to say that we rock for containers

  • Developer Joy:: for everything going from live reload to the opinionated layer to a single config file

  • Unify Imperative and Reactive:: imperative and reactive. 'Nuff said.

  • Best of breed frameworks and standards:: when we explain our stack