Open Liberty

Open Liberty is a lightweight, open source Java application server from IBM for building cloud-native microservices and applications with full support for Jakarta EE and MicroProfile.

Open Liberty publishes 3 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network: Configuration API, Health API, and Metrics API. Tagged areas include Application Server, Cloud-Native, IBM, Jakarta EE, and Java.

The Open Liberty catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Open Liberty’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, getting-started guide, engineering blog, and 8 more developer resources.

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27.1/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 27/100 agent aware Front door AI 4/6 moderate Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-17 · rubric v0.24.0

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

1 published contract

Application Server Cloud-Native IBM Jakarta EE JavaMicroProfileMicroservices

Kin Score

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scored 2026-10-17 · rubric v0.24.0

Composite quality — 27.1/100 · thin

Contract Quality 9.8 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 6.1 / 17

Access Clarity 1.3 / 17

Operational Transparency 1.2 / 11

Contract Governance 1.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.1 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.8 / 15

Agent readiness — 27/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Jakarta EE

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified

APIs 3

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Open Liberty Configuration API

Server configuration management via Admin REST Connector.

Open Liberty Health API

MicroProfile Health check endpoints.

Open Liberty Metrics API

MicroProfile Metrics endpoints.

Open Collections 5

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Open Liberty Admin REST API

OPEN COLLECTION

Open Liberty Admin REST Configuration API

OPEN COLLECTION

Open Liberty Admin REST Configuration Health API

OPEN COLLECTION

Open Liberty Admin REST Configuration Metrics API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Open Liberty Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Open Liberty Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Open Liberty Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Open Liberty — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 3 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 1

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Open Liberty Server Configuration

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Open Liberty Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Open Liberty Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Open Liberty Agentic Access

11 operations

11 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

MCPDocumentation

MCPDocumentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: open-liberty
name: Open Liberty
description: Open Liberty is a lightweight, open source Java application server from IBM for building cloud-native microservices
  and applications with full support for Jakarta EE and MicroProfile.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/open-liberty.png
tags:
- Application Server
- Cloud-Native
- IBM
- Jakarta EE
- Java
- MicroProfile
- Microservices
tags_raw:
- Application Server
- Cloud Native
- IBM
- Jakarta EE
- Java
- MicroProfile
- Microservices
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/open-liberty/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-26'
modified: '2026-09-13'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: open-liberty:open-liberty-configuration-api
  name: Open Liberty Configuration API
  description: Server configuration management via Admin REST Connector.
  humanURL: https://openliberty.io/
  tags:
  - Configuration
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/open-liberty-configuration-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://openliberty.io/docs/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://openliberty.io/start/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/open-liberty/refs/heads/main/json-schema/server-config.json
- aid: open-liberty:open-liberty-health-api
  name: Open Liberty Health API
  description: MicroProfile Health check endpoints.
  humanURL: https://openliberty.io/
  tags:
  - Health
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/open-liberty-health-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://openliberty.io/docs/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://openliberty.io/start/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/open-liberty/refs/heads/main/json-schema/server-config.json
- aid: open-liberty:open-liberty-metrics-api
  name: Open Liberty Metrics API
  description: MicroProfile Metrics endpoints.
  humanURL: https://openliberty.io/
  tags:
  - Metrics
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/open-liberty-metrics-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://openliberty.io/docs/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://openliberty.io/start/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/open-liberty/refs/heads/main/json-schema/server-config.json
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/open-liberty-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/open-liberty-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/open-liberty-finops.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/open-liberty-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/open-liberty-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/open-liberty-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://openliberty.io/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://openliberty.io/docs/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://openliberty.io/start/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/OpenLiberty
- type: Blog
  url: https://openliberty.io/blog/
- name: MCP Documentation
  url: https://openliberty.io/blog/2026/09/08/26.0.0.9.html
  type: MCPDocumentation
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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