When selecting an application server for your Jakarta EE applications, there are multiple options available. While the Payara Platform, WildFly and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) have a number of commonalities, they differ in a number of aspects. The choice of one of these three alternatives can significantly impact your development, deployment and operational strategies. In this blog, we’ll explore their common features, differences and how they compare with each other. 

We're excited to announce the latest releases across our Payara Platform lineup: Community 6.2025.1, Enterprise 5.71.0 and Enterprise 6.22.0. These releases bring significant improvements in a number of areas. We advanced system configuration, delivering greater flexibility and efficiency for your applications to help you build, deploy, and maintain secure, scalable applications with confidence.. Additionally, we've addressed key security concerns, bolstering the platform's resilience against evolving threats, and delivered critical bug fixes to enhance overall stability and reliability.

Continue reading to learn more about what you can find in the January release of the Payara Platform suite of application server technologies for Jakarta EE applications.

Planning to develop and deploy an application but unsure where to start? Whether you’re new to software engineering or managing a team of developers for the first time, you’ve likely heard you need a server—but what kind? Aren’t all servers essentially the same? 

Not exactly. Servers play specialized roles in hosting and running applications, with web servers and application servers serving distinct purposes. In this post, we’ll explore what each does, how they differ, and help you decide which one is right for your project. 

Sample full stack applications are crucial to support multiple activities, such as testing, validation and experimentation. However, their creation involves repetitive and less value-adding activities that are nonetheless essential. These often require considerable time and resources that can take software developers and engineers like you away from other, more meaningful and stimulating tasks.  

If you are looking for ways to streamline the development of applications for deployment testing, prototyping, proof-of-concept and other purposes, this blog post is for you! It shows you how to leverage artificial intelligence (AI)-based automation with Payara Starter to cut the time needed for one of the fundamental activities that many software specialists dislike, the creation of Entity Relationship (ER) diagrams. 

The Payara Platform December releases bring exciting updates to developers and enterprises, marking significant progress toward the future of application server technology. With key advancements across all editions, this release cycle includes the much-anticipated Payara Platform Community 7 Alpha 3, introducing a ground-breaking step toward Jakarta EE 11 support. Let’s dive into the highlights.

The release of Payara Platform Community 7 Alpha 2 marks a significant advancement in Jakarta EE development on the Payara Platform, offering our first implementation of Jakarta EE 11 features. In this blog post, we explain what it means and how it benefits your applications.

We're excited to announce the latest releases across the Payara Platform family, marking significant strides in our Jakarta EE and MicroProfile runtime offerings. This release brings the introduction of Payara Platform Community 7 Alpha2, updates to Payara Platform Community 6.2024.11 and new versions of Payara Platform Enterprise (5.69.0 and 6.20.0).

When building enterprise Java applications on the Jakarta EE platform, database connection management is critical for both performance and stability. One common issue that can severely impact application performance is connection and statement leaks. In this Nugget Friday, we'll explore how Payara Server helps detect and prevent these leaks, ensuring your applications run smoothly and efficiently.

Have you ever been asked “What is an application server?” by a member of your senior management team, and struggled to explain the application server model? We know how you feel. It’s tough to explain complex software concepts to those who can be easily overwhelmed by even the jargon we’d otherwise use to explain them. 

In this blog post, we explore what an application server is, how it’s different from other kinds of servers, its advantages and disadvantages, and which application server is best for your application infrastructure. And, you won’t need to have an Engineering degree and 6 years’ experience on a software development team to understand it. 

Continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices have become the bedrock of today’s successful DevOps practices. These however require exceptional speed, consistency and reliability in order for software professionals to deliver high-quality applications at scale. Automation offers a powerful aid to DevOps engineers involved in CI/CD activities, freeing them from repetitive and menial tasks. By leveraging automated solutions, it is therefore possible to streamline workflows, eliminate bottlenecks and speed up project progress. 

In this article, we discuss with Abdul Rahim, Release Automation Engineer at Payara, key DevOps automation tools as well as how they can support software application development and management.