The second release of 2016 is finally here! Payara Server 4.1.1.162 is our biggest release yet in terms of sheer number of bug fixes and new features. One of the biggest things isn't actually a new feature of Payara Server but a newly rehosted documentation, and it's where you'll find the full release notes for this version. 

Recently I attended as a speaker at my second jDays, a great conference in a great venue in Gothenburg. jDays is a fantastic conference as it is small enough to easily meet people and network and discuss tech, while at the same time big enough to run multiple tracks so there is always a session on that you’ll be interested in. 

 

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One of the lesser known features and key benefits of Payara Server is that it provides huge flexibility when architecting topologies for High Availability and Scalability. Utilising the embedded Hazelcast Data Grid for web session and JCache clustering brings the potential of many different topologies for scale out.

 

Microservices are the latest new-but-not-really-new thing that developers are talking about, and the Java EE world is no exception. In this Devoxx 2015 talk, Mike is using some new features of Payara Server that bring the power of Hazelcast to Java EE microservices, while still keeping the overall footprint incredibly low.

 

 

 

We have already introduced Spring Boot to Payara Micro, the new fish on the block!, by implementing Spring Boot based RESTful web services and hosted on Payara Micro. While implementing it, we didn’t deal with any of the XML configurations or dependency management needed for the Spring framework with the help of  the Spring Boot

 

 

'Deploy, Build and Scale Your Apps with Payara Micro' by Navin Surtani. In this short Quickie Session Navin Surtani demonstrates the ease of deployment of applications and services to Payara Micro, along with showing how simple it is to build and scale a cluster of instances running these services.

 

 

'Running Java EE 7 Based Applications Using Payara Micro'. In this short demo David Winters, Payara Support Engineer, will show you how to start Payara Micro, how to run web applications on it and how you can use Payara Micro API to launch Payara Micro server instances from within your own Java applications and projects.

 

 

Taking inspiration from the way the integrated Hazelcast automatically searches for an open port when clustering, I decided to add in a similar feature for Payara Micro when trying to bind its HTTP and HTTPS ports.

 

Payara Micro is our new embedded distribution that was part of our latest release.