We’re very excited to announce two new Payara Team members - Arjan Tijms and Gaurav Gupta, who joined us last week!

 I'm sure some of you recognise their names - both Arjan and Gaurav are passionate Java EE advocates and community contributors. Arjan is a member of the JCP, Founder of the OmniFaces project and the zeef.com website; while Gaurav is a NetBeans Dream Team member and a creator of Jeddict ( formerly known as JPA Modeler).

 

Read along to find out more about Arjan and Gaurav and what they’ll be working on at Payara.

 

Lately there has been a lot of talk about microservices - a new way to develop and design enterprise applications. In this document, written by David Heffelfinger - an independent Java EE expert - we aim to cut through the hype, explaining microservices in terms that make sense to Java EE developers. 

 

 

Throughout the last year, the Payara team were tracking all the important activities related to Java and Java EE. We attended many conferences, actively participated in lots of community activities, and we helped to found a completely new MicroProfile initiative, with the aim to facilitate innovation in the enterprise Java space.

 

With this article I'd like to look back at 2016 to share my impressions from the past year with you and outline what we at Payara expect to happen in the Java world in 2017.

 

Let’s rewind to the first half of the year

2016 - what a year it was for Java EE! As most of you probably remember, around spring time, some worrying rumours started spreading in the Java community about Oracle abandoning Java EE. To make things worse, crucial members of the Oracle Java EE team were leaving, including Cameron Purdy, Reza Rahman, Mark Heckler and John Clingan.

 

2016 was a great year for us - the Payara Team was extremely busy attending and speaking at the various events and conferences, especially in the last couple of months. We went to JavaOne in San Francisco, Devoxx in Antwerp, W-JAX in Munich, GeeCon in Prague, JDD Conference in Krakow - and that's just to name a few!

 

Below you will find a selection of the recorded talks ( in English, Spanish & Czech language) from some of the events we've had a pleasure to present at in 2016.

 

As a long-term Java EE developer, consultant and lecturer, over the years I've seen Java EE evolving into a solid, carefully thought out, flexible platform, and one of the most lightweight enterprise frameworks. Therefore I was very surprised to read so many negative and incorrect claims about Java EE in the recent Gartner report "Market Guide for Application Platforms", written by analysts Anne Thomas and Aashish Gupta. The report claims that Java EE is not lightweight, has become obsolete and hasn't kept pace with modern architectural trends. These statements are made very confidently, yet are rather surprising, especially coming from such a well-known advisory company!

 

In his interview for The Server Side ( TechTarget) Ondrej Mihalyi - Payara Support Engineer - discusses the benefits and challenges of transitioning to reactive programming model and how Java EE facilitates reactive development.

In the first of our series on migrating away from Oracle GlassFish Server, we will look at replacing the functionality of the Load Balancer Configurator, and its potential alternatives.

 

In his second interview for TechTarget, Mike Croft - Payara's Support Engineer - talks about the benefits of having a configuration standard as part of Java and Java EE. Mike is also sharing his views on how container-based technology is changing the way application servers are developed, along with how microservices are being deployed.

 

Watch the interview with Mike Croft, Payara's Support Engineer, where he discusses views on implementing and building microservices for Java EE and talks about the challenges that businesses might face when adopting microservices.