Install jolie with Homebrew

Project links

• Homepage
• Repository
• Upstream docs
• Package manager page

Commands and aliases

• jolie
• jolie2java
• jolie2openapi
• jolie2plasma
• jolie2surface
• jolie2wsdl
• joliec
• joliedoc
• joliemock
• jolier
• jolietraceviewer
• metaservice
• openapi2jolie
• wsdl2jolie

Project history

Jolie's published research roots go back to the 2006 paper JOLIE: a Java Orchestration Language Interpreter Engine by Fabrizio Montesi, Claudio Guidi, Roberto Lucchi, and Gianluigi Zavattaro. That work positioned Jolie as an interpreter and engine for orchestration programs with a C/Java-like syntax instead of XML-based orchestration languages such as WS-BPEL.

The public GitHub repository was created in 2015, and early GitHub releases in 2015 and 2016 show the project already publishing 1.x language/runtime versions. The official site names Claudio Guidi and Fabrizio Montesi as responsible for language vision, design, and evolution, with Montesi handling language development and releases.

Adoption history

Jolie's adoption has been strongest in academia, research, and specialized microservice tooling. The official academia page lists universities, research collaborations, EU projects, and publications covering Jolie, service-oriented programming, microservices, Docker, refinement types, testing, and choreography-related work.

Homebrew packages Jolie as a command-line language runtime with OpenJDK as a dependency, exposing tools such as jolie, joliec, joliedoc, jolie2java, jolie2openapi, jolie2wsdl, openapi2jolie, and wsdl2jolie.

How it is used

Jolie is used to write services where communication ports, protocols, interfaces, deployment, and behavior are first-class concerns. Its bundled tools support compilation, documentation, tracing, mocking, Java/OpenAPI/WSDL interop, and service-surface generation.

Why package nerds care

Jolie is package-nerd-interesting because it packages a research language with many service-integration tools as a normal CLI formula. It is also a reminder that language runtimes in package managers are not only compilers and REPLs; sometimes they bundle protocol adapters, IDL converters, documentation tools, and microservice scaffolding commands.

Timeline

• 2006: The JOLIE orchestration-language paper was presented in the CoOrg/MTCoord proceedings.
• 2014: The official academia page lists Service-Oriented Programming with Jolie as a Web Services Foundations chapter.
• 2015: The jolie/jolie GitHub repository was created.
• 2015: GitHub release metadata includes Jolie v1.4.
• 2016: Official publications described Jolie community growth and refinement-type research.
• 2025: GitHub release metadata includes the v1.13 release line.

Related projects

• Related projects and concepts include WS-BPEL, SOCK, service-oriented computing, microservices research, Choreographic Programming, jolie/docs, jolie/awesome-jolie, jpm, Jolie language-server work, OpenAPI and WSDL converters, and Java/JVM packaging.

Sources

• https://api.github.com/repos/jolie/jolie
• https://api.github.com/repos/jolie/jolie/releases?per_page=100
• https://docs.jolie-lang.org/
• https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/jolie
• https://github.com/jolie/jolie
• https://www.fabriziomontesi.com/publication/jolie-a-java-orchestration-engine-interpreter-engine
• https://www.jolie-lang.org/
• https://www.jolie-lang.org/about_jolie.html
• https://www.jolie-lang.org/academia.html