If you are a regular reader of our Fish Food for Thought Blogs, you probably already know that the Payarans can't say no to a cake ;)  So, once again, we decided to turn our love for cake into something useful and last Friday, the 18th of October, we took part in the Macmillan Coffee Morning, selling a huge variety of home-baked cakes!

The importance of business environmental sustainability and social responsibility is growing and we at Payara Services are doing our best to make sure our impact on the environment and our local community is as positive as possible. In the recent months, we’ve been implementing some changes to further improve in those areas. In addition to some environmentally friendly day-to-day behaviours that we take for granted (such as switching the lights off when we leave the office!) we are now taking some proactive steps to improve and make a more positive impact.

We are proud to announce that Rakuten Card has recently received the IT encouragement award for delivering "Highly available financial services using open source application server and global collaboration with Payara". 

Migrating from Oracle WebLogic Server to Payara Server can be a simple and straightforward process because both servers rely on the Java EE specifications. Check out our guide for some useful advice on how to migrate!

Wondering what the January 2019 changes to Oracle JDK mean for your business? Join Senior Payara Services Engineer, Fabio Turizo, for a short, informative webinar and get your questions answered!

We’re very excited to announce our new Payara Team member - Kenji Hasunuma - who joined us at the beginning of November! If you've been an active Java EE & Payara community member in Japan I'm sure you recongnize his name :) 

Read along to find out more about Kenji and what he’ll be working on at Payara.

Didn't get a chance to attend JavaOne 2017 earlier this month? You can now watch some of the conference talks online! See below for our selection of the most interesting and useful presentations about Java EE.

All JavaOne 2017 recorded talks can be found on the Oracle Java YouTube channel.

Just a little over a year ago, the MicroProfile initiative was born. The community first heard about it at the DevNation conference in San Francisco on the 27th June last year. During the keynote panel, the five founding members (Red Hat, IBM, Tomitribe, LJC, and Payara) announced their collaboration and their main goal - to make it easier for developers to use familiar Java EE technologies and APIs for building microservice applications.

In the official announcement published on the Aquarium blog today, Oracle revealed that it seriously considers moving Java EE to an open source foundation.

We’re very excited to announce two new Payara Team members - Arjan Tijms and Gaurav Gupta, who joined us last week!

 I'm sure some of you recognise their names - both Arjan and Gaurav are passionate Java EE advocates and community contributors. Arjan is a member of the JCP, Founder of the OmniFaces project and the zeef.com website; while Gaurav is a NetBeans Dream Team member and a creator of Jeddict ( formerly known as JPA Modeler).

Read along to find out more about Arjan and Gaurav and what they’ll be working on at Payara.