The Payara Monthly Catch - October 2024

Ahoy ghoulish crew! The October edition of Payara’s Monthly Catch is truly spooktacular! Check out this month's highlights – this month’s edition is packed with must-read guides, bewitching tutorials and technical tricks (and treats!) to keep your enterprise Java/Jakarta EE skills sharp as ever.

Top Blog Posts 

👨‍⚖️ EU Cyber Resilience Act: What are its Essential Requirements for Software Products? This blog post discusses the latest EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), presenting what it is, its key focus and who it affects. It also covers how software vendors can comply with its requirements.

🎂 Celebrating 25 Years of the CVE Program This article looks at how the CVE Program has been helping organizations identify, manage and mitigate cybersecurity vulnerabilities as well as Payara's role in handling common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) and cybersecurity. 

📈 Streamlining Production Troubleshooting with Payara Server's Diagnostic Tool When problems arise with your applications, having access to comprehensive diagnostic information is critical for quick resolution. Discover how Payara Server's diagnostic tool streamlines production troubleshooting by helping you to quickly collect comprehensive server data and reduce downtime.

🏅 Payara Sustainability Hackathon Winners - Second Place Get inspired by our past Sustainability Hackathon winners and their applications. Check this blog post to learn more about Ricardo Nicolás Canul Ibarra and his application, Privee, which is designed to tackle social issues in Yucatán, Mexico. Also, stay tuned as we'll share more successful projects soon!

✍️ Jakarta EE Media & Community Challenge - Winning Entries:

• Part 1 Read more about the fourth place winner of our Jakarta EE Media & Community Challenge: Jan Nilsson's piece "Quantum Satis". 
• Part 2 Check this blog postto learn more about the entry that won the third prize of our competition: Mads Opheim with "Jakarta EE based serverless backend-for-frontend"!

🤖 The Crucial Role of Automation in DevOps Check our article here to learn more about key DevOps automation tools, how they can support software application development and management as well as how they help us deliver valuable releases for Payara Platform users. 

🔮 Can You Futureproof Your Enterprise Java Apps or Are They Doomed to Fall Behind? Have you had enough of monolithic architectures? Read this blog to learn how companies can futureproof their existing applications and adopt future-oriented microservices to advance their capabilities with the right application server technology.

⛵ Successfully navigate application server shifts -  Inside CDL’s strategic migration to Payara Even when unhappy with your current runtime, the thought of migrating to a different application server can be daunting. However, by moving to a solution that can address your needs and carefully planning your migration process, you can enhance your applications, operations and whole business. Check this case study to learn how CDL improved scalability, robustness and cost-effectiveness.

📝 Eclipse Foundation’s New Open Regulatory Compliance Working Group Launch The Eclipse Foundation launched a new non-profit, regulatory compliance body, the Open Regulatory Compliance Working Group (ORC WG). Through a community of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), research organizations, corporations and other open-source foundations, the group aims to help the industry to meet regulatory requirements while continuing to leverage open source through the software supply chain. Read more about the ORC and what it offers.

Nugget Fridays

💎How To Load Different MicroProfile Config Values Based On Active Maven Profile Available here. 

💎 Jakarta JSON Binding: Simplifying JSON Serialization and Deserialization Learn morehere. 

This Month's Podcasts and Webinars

💻16 Critical Artifacts to Capture During Production Problems with Payara Server Watch this webinar to learn how to improve troubleshooting by leveraging key diagnostic tools for applications running on Payara Server. The online seminar discusses artifacts that you should consider capturing during a production problem.

💻You Might Be Wasting Millions of $ on Garbage Collection Are you overusing your garbage collection? Watch this webinar to learn how to optimize its usage and associated costs when running applications on Payara Server, with practical tips.

Guides of the Month

Jakarta Concurrency: Simplifying Concurrent Programming in Jakarta EE

• • Access the User Guide "Jakarta Concurrency: Simplifying Concurrent Programming in Jakarta EE"

Implementing HATEOAS in Jakarta REST: A Comprehensive Developer’s Guide

• • Access the User Guide "Implementing HATEOAS in Jakarta REST: A Comprehensive Developer’s Guide"
    

GlassFish Problems? Try This

• Access the User Guide "GlassFish Problems? Try This"

The Payara Platform Survey Report 2024

• • Access the "The Payara Platform Survey Report 2024"

New Events

🎥 Virtual Payara Conference (VPC) The next session of our free-to-attend, online event will take place in December. This edition will focus on Powering High-Performance Enterprise Java Applications.

• Strategic Insight - Wednesday 11th December 2024, 1-6:30pm GMT - REGISTER HERE

• Developer Insight - Thursday 12th December 2024, 1-7:00pm GMT - REGISTER HERE

Join Day 2 of the Virtual Payara Conference where we will delve into the latest Jakarta EE 11 developer features with hands-on sessions, including Unpoly for single-page apps, OpenID Connect, and OpenAI integration. End the day with career advice and a Java User Group Community panel.

👩‍💻Gen AI on Jakarta EE Hackathon The Payara Hackathon is challenging you to push the boundaries of enterprise Java development to create futureproof applications. Deadline for submissions is November 6th, so get ready to enter your applications here.

This Month's Releases

Payara Platform's latest release offers key features designed to enhance security, improve performance. It also includes upgrades to key components that help users have access to the most up-to-date and secure application server environment.

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