Jakarta EE 9.1 was officially released at the end of May 2021. The objective of Jakarta EE 9.1 is to provide certification on Java SE 11 and not to deliver new features. These are scheduled for Jakarta EE 10.

In this blog, we describe how you can use Jakarta EE 9.1 and some background around Jakarta EE 9.1.

Our summer webinar series continued with 'Are Java EE Application Servers Heavy?'

In thismyth-busting webinar, Steve Millidge (founder of Payara), showed viewers that Java EE application servers are NOT resource-heavy or slow.  His live demonstrations showed it’s possible to have a small footprint and low resource usage in Jakarta EE runtimes.

If you missed the webinar earlier this month, you can now watch the video!

Long-time followers of Team Payara will know that Payara Week is our annual company-wide event. It’s our opportunity for team bonding, to discuss and develop ideas for Payara’s future success, and, most importantly, have lots of fun!

Payara has released Payara Server Community 6 (Alpha version) which has passed the Jakarta EE 9.1 TCK on JDK 11. This means Payara Server Community 6.2021.1.Alpha1 is a certified Jakarta EE 9.1 implementation. 

June has been another busy month here at Payara Services, both internally - with our biggest yearly company event, Payara Week, taking place - and externally - with our 'Dismiss the Myths' Webinar series kicking off and proving to be one of our most popular community events yet. 

We're halfway through 'Dismiss the Myths: Get to Know Jakarta EE (Java EE)' , a series of 6 webinars where our CEO and Founder Steve Millidgedismantles common misconceptions one by one. Check out thisblog for links to watch webinars that have already taken place, and sign up to the next three! 

As for Payara Week, you may have seen the social media content around our team-building, future-planning, fun-having annual company summit - this time virtual, but no less engaging! We'll be following up with a full blog with pictures and details, but peek at one of the reimagined Payara Fishes from the week's photo competitions below. 

We also got a Twitter blue-tick this month - proving once and for all that we are 'authentic, notable and active' - in our case, when it comes to providing top Jakarta EE and Java EE, MicroProfileand cloud content!

Momentum also continued to grow for our next-generation cloud native application runtimePayara Cloud, with key influencer Adam Bien presenting on it as an alternative toHelidon and Quarkus at the j4k conference. You can find out what he already had to say in his initial trial of the product here. 

But it hasn't all been 'the Payara Show'. We've also searched for and shared the best tutorials, updates, news, articles and videos from our wider community - find them below! 

We are almost halfway through our summer webinar series! Across 6 online events, our CEO and FounderSteve Millidgeis discussing common misconceptions aroundJava. He's broken down false views of the programming language, and its enterprise-orientated iteration Jakarta EE, into 6 topics - tackling them one by one and showing that Java is still relevant. 

Each session is concise - around 30 minutes - and you don't need any previous knowledge of Java or Jakarta EE. 

Adam Bien is a well-known expert in the world ofJakarta EE. He is a freelancer, author, Java Champion andblogger, providing resources and training materials, and is host of theAirHacks.FM podcast - where he regularly talks to the leading experts in the Java and Jakarta EE community, with recent guests including PayaransLenny PrimakandRudy De Busscher. 

As a long time user of the Payara Platform - regularlyrecommending it as a solution to GlassFish problems - we were keen to offer him a trial ofPayara Cloud, our next generation of cloud-native application runtime. Payara Cloud offers an easier way to run Jakarta EE apps on the cloud, allowing you to simply select your war, click deploy, and watch your apps run - automatically, like magic!

As part of our Payara Cloud Closed Beta testing, we offered him a trial of the software. He created a concise video showing his experience using serverless MicroProfile and Jakarta EE on Payara Cloud. Watch it now to find out what his first thoughts were in his own words.  

Payara Server works well with most IDEs, including four of the most commonly used IDEs for Jakarta EE developers: NetBeans, Eclipse IDE, IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, and Visual Studio Code. Here's how to use each of the IDEs to create a Jakarta EE 8 Web App with Payara Server:

The Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB) framework is used to easily convert between XML and Java class instances.  You just have to define some annotations on the Java classes and properties and the framework uses those definitions to convert between them. But is also heavily used within the Java EE specification Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS) that implements the support for SOAP messages within Java Enterprise.

When commercial support for GlassFish ended in 2014, Payara Server was created from the open source code as a fully supported drop-in replacement for GlassFish.  

Payara Services was born in 2016 to offer support solutions for Payara Server. By 2017, Payara Services had joined The Eclipse Foundation and the Payara Platform expanded to include Payara Micro and comprehensive commercial support options for development projects, in-production support, and consultancy solutions.  New product features and the development of the Payara Platform evolves and is improved upon with each monthly release, and while the application server was originally derived from GlassFish and shares many similarities - the two products are not the same.