As the year draws to a close, we'd like to thank some of the contributors who have played a part in the development of the Payara platform. 

We are an open source business at heart and therefore invite passionate individuals to submit pull requests on GitHub and shape the future of our products. 

The December 2021 Payara Platform release is here!  Payara Platform Enterprise 5.34.0 includes 7 improvements, 1 security fix, 8 bug fixes, and 1 component upgrade. The Payara Platform Community 5.2021.10 release offers 6 improvements, 1 security fix, 7 bug fixes, and 2 component upgrades. 

You can download Payara Platform Community 5.2021.10 here and request Payara Platform Enterprise 5.34.0 here. 

Read more below to learn more about the highlights of this release.

In regular webinars, our CEO and Founder Steve Millidge provides an update on the progress of Payara Platform: what we've achieved in relation to our yearly roadmaps, and what we have left to do! 

In this webinar, Steve looked at what we've achieved so far in 2021, and ahead to the final quarter of this year and plans for early 2022.

SVAPNA, a software factory specializing in the development of highly customized web and mobile applications that integrate with existing information systems for Italy, Switzerland, and India markets, is now a Payara Partner. 

Welcome to a winter edition of our Payara Monthly Catch, where we pick the best articles, videos, podcasts and news stories from the month, from the world of Java and Jakarta EE. 

In this last blog of the Getting Started with Jakarta EE 9 blog and video series, we have a look at the Bean Validation specification. Using this specification, you can define some validation rules, from some simple ones on a single field to very complex ones on a business entity, that are reusable depending on the input frameworks you are using within your application.

JDK 17 is the latest Long Term Supported (LTS) version of the Java platform, released in September 2021. LTS versions will have regular releases for the coming years and you don't need to switch to a newer version after 6 months as you do with those 'interim' JDK versions.

The features in an LTS version are kept stable so it is ideal for running  your enterprise applications. Once you switch to an LTS, you can safely update to any minor release to accommodate for security issues and bug fixes of the JDK platform, but without needing to perform a migration.

With the release of the November 2021 version of the Payara Platform Community Edition, Payara Server, Payara Micro, and the Web Profile run on JDK 17 platform.

We’re pleased to announce that our October 2021 Payara Platform Survey results are now available! 

This survey was promoted to our audience in October 2021. We shared with Payara Platform Enterprise customers and Community users via social media, emails and blogs. Thank you so much to everyone who took the time to contribute!

Before your application can respond to any request from the user, Payara Server needs to be started as a process on a machine. The Payara Server Domain instance or a Payara instance can be started using the Asadmin CLI tool.

But in many cases when you run Payara Server on an on-premise machine or in a virtual machine, you want to start the Payara process automatically when the machine is booted. You can do this by defining Payara as a Service on the machine.

The November 2021 Payara Platform release is here!  Payara Platform Enterprise 5.33.0 includes 4 improvements, 4 bug fixes, and 2 component upgrades. The Payara Platform Community 5.2021.9 release offers 11 improvements, 6 bug fixes, and 11 component upgrades.