We kicked off the year with the Payara Roadmap for 2021. In this January webinar, Steve provided: detail on benefits of the Jakarta EE model; how the Payara Platform is evolving and moving toward Payara 6; updates and progress of the Payara Cloud project, our new PaaS product; and latest news regarding the next major OpenJDK release - JDK 17 Long Term Support (LTS) and what that means for Payara Platform.

Find a full-write up here:https://blog.payara.fish/payara-roadmap-2021 

In this May update, Steve gives a check-in on how we are progressing along our roadmap, with a retrospective on the year so far and details on what the rest of the year is set to look like. He provides a snapshot of where we are in relation to the plans and projects he mapped out at the beginning of the year.

Steve also discusses the results of the Payara Platform 2021 Survey. If you haven't had a chance to read the full report and summary yet, make sure you do by following this link:https://blog.payara.fish/2021-payara-platform-survey-results

Watch the May Roadmap Webinar:Agenda: 

• Recap of the 2021 Roadmap
• What we have delivered so far in 2021
• What are we working on
• Update on Jakarta EE 9.1 approach
• Results of the Payara Platform 2021 Survey [If you haven't checked these out yet, find them here: https://blog.payara.fish/2021-payara-platform-survey-results]
• Payara Cloud Update [Payara Cloud more info here: https://www.payara.fish/products/payara-cloud/ ]
• Discussion

As always, we are looking for feedback and where you think we should take the platform to, so get involved! We are opening up our roadmap to community involvement (see GitHub: https://github.com/orgs/payara/projects/1) to build a better product. We are hoping that opening up our roadmaps helps us to build the Payara Platform in a way that ensures it meets the current and future needs of the community.