A high-performance Java framework for cloud-native and AI-infused applications
Empowering AI development
IBM® Enterprise Build of Quarkus is a high-performance, resource-optimized Java™ framework engineered for today’s AI and cloud demands.
Whether you’re building cloud-native microservices for serverless or developing agentic AI solutions, Quarkus accelerates innovation leveraging your team’s existing Java skillset. With low memory use, blazing-fast startup and enterprise-grade support, your teams can ship smarter software, faster.
Less memory per service, faster cold starts and scale-to-zero serverless patterns significantly reduce infrastructure and platform costs.
Quicker builds, richer scaffolding and extension-driven integrations accelerate developer productivity, plus new feature delivery.
Standardized connectors, observability and security controls ensure that AI features are production-ready for regulated industries.
Ongoing ecosystem momentum (Over 1 million monthly downloads) and five-year extended lifecycle enterprise support de-risk long-term platform investments.
Use cases
Quarkus helps teams build modern services that launch quickly, sip memory, and push serious throughput. Compute consumption and cloud costs are slashed without compromise. Built-in security and observability keep your apps protected and visible from day one, while its lean runtime advances sustainability by shrinking energy use. Quarkus turns performance efficiency into a competitive edge, so you ship faster, operate smarter and spend less everywhere, automatically.
Quarkus brings enterprise-grade Java to AI—letting your existing developers accelerate AI and ML without reskilling. Integrate easily with current systems, dev toolchains and monitoring. With native generative AI through LangChain4j, you can tap leading LLM providers with minimal code, assemble AI workflows fast and choose declarative or programmatic APIs.
Quarkus also helps Java teams implement MCP server features quickly. Built-in observability, security and governance keep AI applications reliable, compliant and ready for production at scale today.
Quarkus is a cloud-native, pro-code, Java platform built to speed delivery and lower run costs without forcing a stack rewrite. It optimizes apps at build time to achieve fast startup, low memory use and high throughput making it ideal for Kubernetes, serverless and autoscaling. This lean runtime means smaller nodes and higher density, enabling more services per Kubernetes node than traditional cloud-native Java stacks and other frameworks like Spring.
Quarkus accelerates developer productivity with dev mode, live reload and continuous testing for near-instant code-run-test loops. More than 800 extensions and scaffolding speed onboarding while staying aligned to Java, IDEs, Maven and Gradle. Build-time optimizations trim runtime complexity, easing performance tuning.
A rich dev UI, unified config and opinionated APIs reduce boilerplate. Native Kubernetes, Red Hat® OpenShift® and LangChain4j integrations streamline modern workloads—delivering faster releases, fewer defects and lower engineering effort.
Quarkus helps teams build modern services that launch quickly, sip memory, and push serious throughput. Compute consumption and cloud costs are slashed without compromise. Built-in security and observability keep your apps protected and visible from day one, while its lean runtime advances sustainability by shrinking energy use. Quarkus turns performance efficiency into a competitive edge, so you ship faster, operate smarter and spend less everywhere, automatically.
Quarkus brings enterprise-grade Java to AI—letting your existing developers accelerate AI and ML without reskilling. Integrate easily with current systems, dev toolchains and monitoring. With native generative AI through LangChain4j, you can tap leading LLM providers with minimal code, assemble AI workflows fast and choose declarative or programmatic APIs.
Quarkus also helps Java teams implement MCP server features quickly. Built-in observability, security and governance keep AI applications reliable, compliant and ready for production at scale today.
Quarkus is a cloud-native, pro-code, Java platform built to speed delivery and lower run costs without forcing a stack rewrite. It optimizes apps at build time to achieve fast startup, low memory use and high throughput making it ideal for Kubernetes, serverless and autoscaling. This lean runtime means smaller nodes and higher density, enabling more services per Kubernetes node than traditional cloud-native Java stacks and other frameworks like Spring.
Quarkus accelerates developer productivity with dev mode, live reload and continuous testing for near-instant code-run-test loops. More than 800 extensions and scaffolding speed onboarding while staying aligned to Java, IDEs, Maven and Gradle. Build-time optimizations trim runtime complexity, easing performance tuning.
A rich dev UI, unified config and opinionated APIs reduce boilerplate. Native Kubernetes, Red Hat® OpenShift® and LangChain4j integrations streamline modern workloads—delivering faster releases, fewer defects and lower engineering effort.
Build with the IBM Enterprise Build of Quarkus
Get started with the starter application
Create a ready-to-run IBM Enterprise Build of Quarkus project with the essential code and extensions that you need for a “Hello World” application. The starter project contains your maven set up and initial source files for a rest application.
Download the zip package below, containing your getting started application. Extract and open it in your terminal or IDE.
Use either the maven wrapper or CLI command below to compile, start and watch changes in your getting started application. You do not need maven installed to use this.
Commands:
Maven wrapper:
If using the QuarkusCLI use this command:
Your application will display a welcome message. When you see this message, select key ‘w’ to view your running application at port: localhost:8080
Start your application with the building blocks your project needs
The IBM Enterprise Build of Quarkus features a large collection of extensions*, both supported by IBM and by the Quarkus community. Use the Application Configurator to generate a Quarkus project structure with the extensions your application needs, so you can start coding right away.
*Extensions are libraries that enhance Quarkus by adding features (e.g.,REST, database, messaging), optimizing builds and runtime, and providing tools like Dev Services for automatic provisioning during development.
Featured resources
If you have a new feature request, want to create an extension or use your skills on a project, consider getting involved.
Learn more on how real customers achieve speed, performance and agility.
Go deeper on the features and uses of the IBM Enterprise Build of Quarkus by exploring the product documentation.
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