Welcome aboard the November edition of the Payara Monthly Catch, bringing you the latest news and insights on Jakarta EE, MicroProfile, application development, DevOps and much more! This month's resources focus on the theme of how to build modern, secure and resilient Jakarta EE applications. To this end, we’re bringing you insights on everything from modernizing legacy Java applications to embracing observability and fault tolerance to keep your systems running smoothly as well as how you can leverage Jakarta EE 11 to power up your applications. 

The Jakarta EE Media and Community Challenge initiated by Payara celebrates the innovation and creativity that thrives within the Jakarta EE community. Designed as a platform to inspire, educate and showcase collaboration, the competition invited developers, tech writers and enthusiasts worldwide to contribute technical content that advances the understanding and application of Jakarta EE.

We already unveiled the 3rd place entry "Jakarta EE based serverless backend-for-frontend", and now it’s time to spotlight the 2nd place winner! Congratulations to Bazlur Rahman for his exceptional entry "Streamlining Jakarta EE 11 Development with Payara and start.jakarta.ee: A Hands-On Guide."

We all know that businesses rely more and more on applications, and that these tend to be complex programs that often interact with various systems. Even more, as technology evolves, software is expected to become even more advanced and sophisticated in the future. As systems and applications become more complex, robust observability strategies become essential for ensuring operational reliability.

Let's have a look at what observability is, what it offers and how it can benefit your Jakarta EE applications.

Are you in London next week? Come and join us for at the 18th LJC Unconference - a full day of discussions, knowledge sharing, learning, and networking with other developers in the industry.

There will be an opening keynote session followed by breakout discussion groups on the topics which are important to you. 

We're excited to announce the latest releases across the Payara Platform family, marking significant strides in our Jakarta EE and MicroProfile runtime offerings. This release brings the introduction of Payara Platform Community 7 Alpha2, updates to Payara Platform Community 6.2024.11 and new versions of Payara Platform Enterprise (5.69.0 and 6.20.0).

Modernizing legacy applications in the cloud era has become an imperative for business success. With customer expectations constantly rising and digital transformation becoming critical for business survival, understanding how to approach legacy application modernization has never been more important.

When building enterprise Java applications on the Jakarta EE platform, database connection management is critical for both performance and stability. One common issue that can severely impact application performance is connection and statement leaks. In this Nugget Friday, we'll explore how Payara Server helps detect and prevent these leaks, ensuring your applications run smoothly and efficiently.

Virtual Payara Conference is coming next month and on Day 2 - Developer Insight - we will help you unlock the future of Jakarta EE development! 

AI Tools for Jakarta EE - 12 December 2024, 3:40pm GMT - Register Here!

Join Gaurav Gupta, Senior Software Engineer at Payara, to witness how AI-powered tools are transforming enterprise application development through real-world, cutting-edge demonstrations. Discover how AI-powered tools enhance productivity and streamline workflows in Apache NetBeans IDE and beyond, from creating a simple hello-world program to developing full-stack applications.

Discover how AI-powered tools are reshaping Jakarta EE development by optimizing the entire development lifecycle. Can't make the date? Register now and watch on-demand later!

The latest version of Jakarta REST (formerly Java API for RESTful Web Services, aka JAX-RS), Jakarta REST 4.0, will bring some notable improvements and changes as part of Jakarta EE 11. This release focuses on modernizing the specification by removing legacy dependencies, enhancing developer convenience, and improving test coverage. Before exploring the key changes, let's first take 37K feet intro to JAX-RS for the new comers to the platform. 

If you’re still managing Java applications on GlassFish middleware, you might be hitting some roadblocks, such as difficulties with automation, lack of integrated monitoring and official support and limited abilities with modern tools. However, there are ways to modernize your current applications. Let's have a look how.