Posts tagged Payara Server (2)

Payara Platform Supports TLS 1.3 on JDK 8

Transport Layer Security (TLS) was introduced as a replacement for Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). TLS is a cryptographic protocol which provides secure communication between a client and a server. It also provides a mechanism by which information is not tampered with, falsified or read by anyone other than the intended receiver. TLS 1.3 was released in August 2018 to replace the widely used TLS 1.2. TLS 1.3 comes with stronger cryptographic algorithms and brings in major improvements in performance, security and privacy, which will be discussed in this blog.

Behind the Scenes of Payara Server

You might already know that Payara Server originated out of a Glassfish fork. Glassfish being the reference implementation server of Java EE. Let's take a closer look at the components and modules that make up Payara Server.