It's time for the July Payara Monthly Catch. 

This month's pick includes:

• Advice on contributing to open source
• Our guide to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning on Jakarta EE
• More deep dives into what you can look forward to in Java 21
• Tips to combat bugs and vulnerabilities

& more!

We collate articles and videos from outside Payara - ourJakarta EEandMicroProfilecommunity - as well as sharing Payara's own guides and blogs, and news from our team of "Payarans" (we start them small 😉 )🐣⬇

Implementing the correct security patterns is a common challenge that most application developers and consultants can get wrong in even the most common of scenarios. Reinventing the wheel is a common pattern that DevOps engineers do when integrating security solutions inside their applications (authentication, password validation, identity management, correct storage of user data, etc.). Keycloak is an open-source identity management solution that focuses on offloading this burden from DevOps engineers, allowing them to focus on the business aspects of their applications and simplifying their solutions in the long run. 

This talk (see below!) from Fabio Turizo, Senior Engineer at Payara, will focus on the benefits of using such a service with an enterprise application, with a live demonstration of a small application that uses the Eclipse MicroProfile APIs to correctly integrate it with Keycloak by way of the OpenIDConnect standards. 

At Payara, we create great resources for both developers and their managers. 

In this blog, we collate some of our recent guides that cater to those making decisions about what systems and processes to use in an organisation. 

We hope you will find something useful.

Over the past few years, the pace of Java Platform, Standard Edition releases, has become much faster, with a much predictable biannual releases, with a LTS every 18 months. Watch this fireside chat by Payara Engineers who dive into some of the major changes from Java 17 to the upcoming 21, and explore these changes within the context of Enterprise Java development on the Jakarta EE Platform.