We're excited to announce the April 2024 release of Payara Platform!  This update includes a mix of critical bug fixes, component upgrades, and exciting new tools in the Payara Tooling Ecosystem.  Our enterprise customers will particularly benefit from the new Diagnostics Tool and Dependabot scanner, designed to streamline operations and security.  Also, everyone gets a glimpse into the future with the Payara 7 Alpha 1 preview!

Introduction

The effective management of production deployment runtimes is essential to ensuring the success, competitiveness and sustainability of your Jakarta EE  applications as well as your business. However, it's important to leverage the right tools, as managing production deployment runtimes can drain your small business's resources in several ways:

Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) activities are designed to convey your Jakarta EE applications to end users. Thanks to the unique flexibility of Jakarta EE, multiple CI/CD options are available to software developers. In effect, these are independent from your specific Jakarta EE. 

Watch the video below to learn more about some of the CI/CD alternatives available, what they can offer as well as guide you through how you can implement them. You will be able to follow a demonstration on configuring GitHub Actions for CI/CD and deploying a Jakarta EE applications from the IDE, through GitHub, and onto Payara Cloud. You will also be able to learn how to deploy and manage your applications on Payara Cloud.

Slow SQL queries can silently undermine your application's efficiency and the overall user experience. These sluggish queries not only frustrate users with long load times, but they can also have significant costs:

We're happy to announce the March 2024 release of Payara Platform Enterprise 6.12.0 and Community 6.2024.3. This release brings a number of improvements, bug fixes, and component upgrades, delivering greater reliability for your Jakarta EE workloads.

Deploying a web application often means connecting to a database. In this guide, I'll show you how to connect a Jakarta EE application on Payara Cloud to a PostgreSQL database hosted on Neon.

Jakarta EE offers a reliable foundation for enterprise-scale Java applications. Sometimes, however, the traditional deployment model can add a layer of complexity. Payara Micro addresses this challenge by providing a streamlined approach for managing your Jakarta EE deployments.

Payara Micro is a microservices optimised, cloud-first Jakarta EE runtime capable of executing WAR files directly from the command line, eliminating the need for a conventional application server setup. This efficient method, coupled with its versatility and extensive functionality, makes Payara Micro an ideal choice for simplifying your Jakarta EE development process. Its wide array of command-line options is designed to simplify configuration and management, further enhancing its appeal.

We are happy to announce the February 2024 release of Payara Platform Enterprise 6.11.0 (request free trial here) and Payara Platform Community 6.2024.2 (download here) are available!

This month's release comes with a number of enhancements, bug fixes, component upgrades, and new capabilities aimed at improving the stability and developer experience of the Payara Platform for you. See below for the details.