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.

Elastic Middleware describes middleware capable of expanding and contracting quickly on demand. A common example is the ability for an application server cluster to quickly expand the number of cluster nodes to meet an unpredicted surge in the level of traffic.

At long last, Payara Embedded and Payara Micro are on Maven Central, allowing you to set them as dependencies and use them in your projects. In this blog I'll briefly cover how to do this.

Payara Micro is a new way of running Java EE applications without having to install a full application server.

We are about to release the latest version of Payara (4.1.152) and one of the cool new features that is experimental in this release is Payara Micro.