Posts tagged Payara Platform

What's New In The Payara Platform August 2025 Release?

The August 2025 release brings important security fixes and stability improvements across the Payara Platform. This month's releases include Payara Platform Community 6.2025.8 and Payara Platform Community 7.1 Alpha4, Payara Platform Enterprise 6.29.0 and 5.78.0, with a focus on addressing critical security vulnerabilities and enhancing platform reliability.

Getting Started with Jakarta EE 11: Hello World

Introduction

The release of Jakarta EE 11 represents another significant milestone in the evolution of the Java Enterprise framework. With over 25 years of history since its first release in 1999, Jakarta EE has continuously evolved while maintaining its core principles of stability and enterprise-grade reliability.

Multi-stage Docker Builds for Efficient Jakarta EE Deployments with Payara

Enterprise Jakarta EE applications require extensive tooling during development - Maven for dependency management, full JDKs for compilation, and various build utilities. However, production environments need only the compiled application and runtime server like Payara Server or Payara Micro. Multi-stage Docker builds bridge this gap by separating build and runtime concerns, producing dramatically smaller and more secure container images for Payara deployments.

What's New In The Payara Platform July 2025 Release?

The July 2025 release brings meaningful updates across the Payara Platform family, with improvements to database connectivity, critical bug fixes for CDI memory management, and comprehensive component upgrades.

This month's releases include Payara Platform Community 6.2025.7 (DOWNLOAD HERE), Enterprise 6.28.0, Enterprise 5.77.0 (FREE TRIAL), and Payara 7 Alpha 3.

What's New In The Payara Platform June 2025 Release?

The June 2025 release cycle brings incremental developments across the Payara Platform family, with significant updates to our Community 6.2025.6, Enterprise 6.27.0, and Enterprise 5.75.0 editions, plus the latest alpha release of Payara 7. These releases focus on enhanced diagnostic capabilities, development workflow improvements, and modernized component upgrades.

Web Server vs. Application Server: What's the Difference?

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. 

JBoss Alternatives: Best Options to Consider 

Choosing the right application server is critical for the success of enterprise-grade applications. While Red Hat’s JBoss is a commonly implemented solution, organizations may want to explore alternatives to their current applications servers and runtimes. Sure, migrations can be intimidating, but if JBoss is no longer a perfect fit for a specific application, a move can help meet specific requirements, such as cutting licensing costs or adopting cloud-native approaches, as well as unlock new opportunities or capabilities.  

If you're here, chances are you’re considering your options. In this blog, we’ll discuss what JBoss offers, why businesses look for alternatives as well as what key contenders to look for when exploring alternatives.