Clear and accurate API documentation is essential. It bridges the gap between your REST APIs and the developers who rely on them, ensuring smooth integration and usage. However, creating and maintaining up-to-date documentation often feels like a daunting task, requiring either tedious manual effort or complex tooling.

In this Nugget Friday, we’ll discuss how you can streamline API documentation to deliver outstanding API experiences with minimal overhead.

Sample full stack applications are crucial to support multiple activities, such as testing, validation and experimentation. However, their creation involves repetitive and less value-adding activities that are nonetheless essential. These often require considerable time and resources that can take software developers and engineers like you away from other, more meaningful and stimulating tasks.  

If you are looking for ways to streamline the development of applications for deployment testing, prototyping, proof-of-concept and other purposes, this blog post is for you! It shows you how to leverage artificial intelligence (AI)-based automation with Payara Starter to cut the time needed for one of the fundamental activities that many software specialists dislike, the creation of Entity Relationship (ER) diagrams. 

In the Java ecosystem, two main frameworks stand out for enterprise application development: Jakarta EE (formerly Java EE) and Spring Boot. While both options aim to simplify enterprise Java development, they take distinctly different approaches. This comprehensive comparison will help you make an informed decision on which framework is best suited to support your next project.

Jakarta Persistence (formerly JPA) is a cornerstone of enterprise Java development, offering a standardized approach to object relational mapping (ORM). But when it comes to selecting a persistence provider, the decision isn’t one-size-fits-all. Hibernate, EclipseLink and OpenJPA are three leading options, each with unique strengths. But how do you know which is right for your project?

In this blog, we’ll give you a short overview of the core features, advantages and ideal use cases of these Jakarta Persistence providers to help you make an informed decision.

One of the most common questions about Jakarta Batch specification is "How do steps actually work under the hood?" Today's nugget takes a look at batch processing in enterprise Java applications by exploring step execution and the different types of steps available in Jakarta Batch. So grab your favorite beverage and let's dig in!

As the year wraps up, we’ve got some holiday treats for Jakarta EE developers! Whether you’re updating legacy applications, improving your testing strategy, or exploring flexible cloud pricing, this month’s resources are here to help you stay on track.

Here’s what we have in store for you! 🎁

A Practical Path Forward for Legacy Systems  

Payara Platform Enterprise 4 is End-of-Life, Long Live Payara Platform Enterprise 5 (and 6) 

If you are a subscriber, it is likely you already know from our extensive resources available on the Payara Tech Blog that Payara Platform Enterprise 6 offers our most modern and up to date Jakarta EE and MicroProfile runtimes.However, there are still workloads running on older releases of the Payara Platform, namely Payara Platform Enterprise 4.If you use Payara Platform Enterprise 4 for mission-critical applications in production environments,this blog post is for you. 

Payara Platform 4 is reaching its End of Life, with the end of its Extended Support scheduled for the first quarter of 2025. To support anyone that cannot immediately transition to newer versions, we introduced the Lifetime Support model to give them time to plan and move to the latest Payara Platform releases, in line with our ongoing commitment to our customers. The Lifetime Support is designed to provide enterprise level support to business-critical applications in order to help these remain stable and secure as companies prepare for the adoption of more recent Payara Platform versions.  

Reliable application runtimes have become increasingly important to organisations in a fast paced digital era. At Payara Services, offers a range of solutions designed to meet the diverse needs of modern enterprises developing solutions on the Jakarta EE (formerly Java EE) Platform, including Payara Platform Enterprise. Let's explore the top application server solutions that can power your business to new heights.