Now that Payara Server 5 is here, it’s a good time to brush up on the basics - with that in mind, I'm going to go through a few of the things you can do with the Payara Server CLI.
The Command Line Interface (CLI) is a means of controlling Payara Server from the command line (or...
Virtual servers are a common concept to developers familiar with configuring web servers like Apache HTTP or Nginx. A virtual server represents a placeholder for a physical Payara Server instance to be "visualized" as multiple instances at once, allowing to server requests for...
Before putting any application out for public access, it’s always worth testing that it works how you expect it to (and also how you don’t expect it to!). Effective testing of applications is something you can spend a week being taught, but for this blog I’ll just cover the basics of running...
One of the new features in Payara Server and Payara Micro 4.1.2.181 and 5.181 is full compatibility with MicroProfile 1.2. In this blog, I will introduce Metrics 1.0, a new API of MicroProfile 1.2 to use with Payara Micro (and Payara Server).
There are 2 major changes happening in the Java EE world that Payara is heavily involved in: MicroProfile – an industry collaboration to define microservices APIs on top of a subset of Java EE; and EE4J – the migration of Java EE from the JCP to the Eclipse Foundation. Also, since Payara 5 has...
For a long time Payara, a derivative of GlassFish, could be used in Eclipse using the Oracle GlassFish Tools. With the release of Payara 5, a few problems prevented the plug-in from recognizing Payara 5, meaning Payara 5 couldn’t really be used in Eclipse. A new set of tools again makes it...
We work hard to make Payara Server robust, reliable and innovative so that it's perfect for production deployments. But we never forget about the users and developers. For them, we target flexibility and ease of use in every new feature we add and every tool in the ecosystem we maintain. Our ...
It may be hard to believe in 2018, but there was once a time before Amazon Web Services. In 2006, Amazon launched what was to become the most dominant platform in cloud computing - the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). While there were a lot of early adopters who could see the benefits of...
In Payara Server 5 we have introduced the concept of a Deployment Group - in this blog post, we'll explore why they are important and what they are used for.
