Jakarta EE

What is An Application Server? In 3 Minutes!

Learn the difference between application servers and web servers, what an application server can do to make your life as a developer easier!

Payara Launches Payara Cloud – Serverless Approach for Jakarta EE

Payara has launched a new product Payara Cloud, designed to run Jakarta EE apps easily and quickly on the cloud.

EJB Support in Piranha via CDI

Since there’s so much existing code using Enterprise Beans (EJB), a certain level of support is still desired. Piranha Cloud takes a somewhat novel approach to Enterprise Beans and maps Enterprise Beans annotations to equivalent functionality in CDI or other Jakarta EE APIs.

The Future of EJB

EJB, or Enterprise Beans, are Java classes with a number of container provided services attached to them, such as transactions, remoting and security. A possible future direction for EJB is to rebase it on CDI. Instead of having those two essentially competing component models in Jakarta EE, we would end up with just one.

What is Jakarta RPC?

gRPC is an open source Remote Procedure Call framework; an alternative to REST. Find out more and how Payara is involved!

OmniFish Announces Enterprise Support for Eclipse GlassFish, Jakarta EE 10, and a New Cloud‑Native Jakarta EE Runtime

OmniFish is a new international company that offers Java consulting and support for Eclipse GlassFish and a new cloud‑native runtime Piranha Cloud.

Can Java/Jakarta EE do Microservices?

In this myth-busting webinar, Steve Millidge (founder of Payara), demonstrates that Java/Jakarta EE can do microservices.

Ignore Infrastructure: Concentrate on Code with Jakarta EE and Payara Cloud

What used to take days or weeks of frustration getting the infrastructure set up to run an application in the Cloud is now automated when you use Payara Cloud.

Jakarta Concurrency: Present and Future

Java Concurrency is a small fundamental spec under the Jakarta EE umbrella. As project lead, here’s what it is, its future, and how to be involved!

Top 7 Features in Jakarta EE 10

Jakarta EE is a dominant force behind all enterprise development in Java. Check out my favorite top 7 features, what are yours?

Easy Jakarta EE Integration Testing

How to use Testcontainers for your next project to create a stable and solid integration test suite of your Jakarta EE application features.

Migrating from Java EE to Jakarta EE with IntelliJ IDEA

In this post we’re going to migrate some sample code from the `javax` namespace to `jakarta` using IntelliJ IDEA’s migration tool.

Jakarta Concurrency: Present and Future

Jakarta Concurrency is a small, but fundamental, specification under the Jakarta EE umbrella. As project lead, I provide more information on what it is.

7 Reasons to Switch to OpenJDK 17 as a Jakarta EE Developer

If you are using enterprise-orientated specifications should you make the switch to OpenJDK 17 ? Payara’s Rudy De Busscher thinks you should!

GlassFish & Payara Auto-Clustering: Running Jakarta EE Highly-Available Applications in the Cloud

Check out out-of-box GlassFish & Payara auto-clustering implementation details and infrastructure topology specifics.

Getting Started with Jakarta EE 9: Jakarta EE 9.1

The objective of Jakarta EE 9.1 is to provide certification on Java SE 11 and not to deliver new features.

Payara Platform October 2021 Survey

We are inviting all Payara Platform community users to answer a few questions about your use of the Payara Platform and ecosystem components!

Do Java/Jakarta EE Standards Matter?

In this myth-busting webinar, Steve Millidge, founder of Payara, will show you why standards like Java EE (i.e., now Jakarta EE) are beneficial. 

If you’ve been thinking standards like Jakarta EE don’t matter, this video will show you how having standards gives you the opportunity to develop future proof applications, among other benefits.

Foojay Podcast #3: Journey to Jakarta EE

Foojay community members discuss the modernization of Jakarta EE applications from the older Java EE form, including backwards-compatibility, as well as forwards-excitement about cool new developments like Microprofile.

Tomcat and TomEE Clustering Automation

Apache Tomcat is an open-source application server maintained by the Apache community. It is one of the most popular solutions for hosting Java applications due to its ease-of-use and lightweight yet versatile functionality.

Learn how how to install automatically clustered Tomcat and TomEE servers on Jelastic to get a highly available solution that can efficiently serve a large number of users, process high traffic, and be reliable!

Is the Java/Jakarta EE Deployment Model Out of Date?

In this myth-busting webinar, Steve Millidge, founder of Payara, will show you why the Java EE/Jakarta EE deployment model is not old fashioned or out of date. 

If you think you have to switch to Spring for a modern deployment model, this video will show you how the Jakarta EE deployment model using thin WARs allows you to modernize your application development, today!