The capability to disable implicit CDI scanning was already added to the previous Payara Server releases but the default admin console setting was to enable it at deploy time. We have now made a change so that the value added to the deployment descriptor is the overriding setting and the admin console setting will be ignored.

For even more control, we have added the ability to explicitly include or exclude JARs within an Application Deployment from CDI scanning. You can now, for example, include all JARs by default and exclude some named ones, or do the opposite and exclude all by default and only include some named ones.

2016 has been a bit of a wild ride, to say the least. Lots of major things have happened politically and in popular culture. Considering the world of Java and its related ecosystems, we've seen a lot of activity too, with announcements about the delay of Java 9, the concerns raised by the Java EE Guardians (shared by many), and a largely unprecedented move in the establishment of the MicroProfile initiative.

JavaOne 2016 might be a thing of the past now but the talks presented there are still very relevant! Luckily for those who couldn't make it to the conference in San Francisco in September, a lot of the presentations were recorded and are now available to watch on-line (see a full list here).

Here's our selection of the most interesting, recorded JavaOne 2016 talks that focus on Java EE. 

The video tutorial by the Payara Support Engineers Mike Croft and Ondrej Mihalyi, presented at the JavaOne 2016 Conference in San Francisco last week is now available to watch online!

The new Java Magazine is out now, featuring a lot of useful articles about enterprise Java - not so much Java EE as a platform, but individual services that can be useful as part of a larger solution. See below for an introduction to my article on Custom Servlet Authentication Using JASPIC, also featured in the magazine. 

Do you want to find out more about Payara Server, Payara Micro, future releases, upcoming features, bug fixes, our view on the latest industry trends, use cases or customer stories? Just post your questions in the comments below - our Payara Engineers' Panel including Mike Croft ( @croft), Ondrej Mihalyi (@Omihalyi), Fabio Turizo, Andrew Pielage ( @Pandrex247 ) and Dominika Tasarz ( @Dominislawa - event host) - will answer them during the 1-hour live Google Hangouts session!

Today at the DevNation conference in San Francisco, Payara’s Mike Croft appeared onstage during the Keynote, joined by Mark Little from Red Hat, Alasdair Nottingham from IBM, Theresa Nguyen from Tomitribe and Martijn Verburg from the London Java User Group to announce a new community collaboration called MicroProfile. 

The goal of the MicroProfile initiative is to make it easier for developers to use familiar Java EE technologies and APIs for building microservice applications.

If you've read my interview with JAXenter, you already know  that I very much disagree with labelling Java EE as heavyweight - simply because it is not true! The latest servers from most of the Java EE vendors have been re-architected to be very light-weight on resources including memory, cpu and disc footprint. We recently did some testing of microservices implementations and many of those come in at under 50MB of RAM to run Java EE based microservices. Also, installation and configuration has been streamlined and many of the microservices versions of the products require no installation.

In this interview for JAXenter.com , Steve Millidge, the Founder of Payara and speaker at JAX 2016, talks about how to use CDI annotations in your Java EE applications, when to use which annotations, and what is automagically happening under the covers.

Steve also tells us exactly how heavyweight Java EE really is, explaining the repercussions and solutions.

Guest blog by Anghel Leonard ( @anghelleonard ).

Starting with JSF 2.3-m05 we can take advantage of a brand new feature - register a WebSocket push connection in client side. Thanks to the JSF team (especially to Bauke Scholtz (aka BalusC)) this feature is available in today milestone via <f:websocket/> tag.

In this post, let's see a minimal usage of <f:websocket/> tag.