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Introduction

The 5.182 release of Payara Server & Payara Micro (Payara Platform) brings in MicroProfile (MP) 1.3. This introduces a couple of updates to some existing MP specifications, and three new ones: OpenTracing, OpenAPI, and Type-safe REST Client. In this blog I’ll be covering our implementation of OpenTracing.

Open source software offers a number of advantages over proprietary software. Many businesses prefer open source options as it reduces the procurement barrier. A survey conducted by Black Duck Software and North Bridge revealed that 78% of today’s businesses already rely on open-source software for increased security and the lack of licensing fees. It is estimated that the use of open source saves businesses $60 billion (USD) annually.

One of the new features in Payara Platform version 5.182 is full compatibility with MicroProfile 1.3. In this blog post, I will introduce OpenAPI 1.0, a new API in MicroProfile 1.3. This functionality is available in both Payara Server and Payara Micro in version 5.182. It's also available in version 4.1.2.182 for Payara Support customers.

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Payara Server Comes with a Domain Pre-Configured for Production use Out-of-the-Box!

When creating a Java EE application it is important to deploy and test it on a server that is as close to the target production environment as possible. If you use Maven in your project, it is possible to do so using the Cargo plugin, which allows you to deploy an application to an instance of Payara Server either locally or remotely. A complete example is available at https://github.com/payara/Payara-Examples/blob/master/ecosystem/payara-maven/pom.xml.

Back in 2016, we wrote about the importance of automation in taking applications from development to production with Payara Server. Since then, there have been a lot of changes both in Payara Server and Payara Micro and the wider tech landscape.

In a previous blog of this series we set up Apache httpd to forward traffic to Payara Server. However, this only covers forwarding HTTP and not HTTPS. This blog will demonstrate how to secure Payara Server with Apache over HTTPS on Ubuntu.

If you've upgraded to Payara Server 5 or are considering using Payara Server in production, here are 4 production features you might not know about - but should.