Category: News & Events

The Latest News and Events from the Payara Team.

Remote Working – For the Win?!

3 years on from the pandemic, companies are now assessing the way they want their employees to work. Most companies that could go remote, went remote and are facing the decision to either ask staff to come back into the office full time, work hybrid or stay fully remote.

It’s safe to say that with the cost of living going up in the majority of countries across the globe, remote working is a better financial decision for companies as they don’t have the costs of an office building and the upkeep and maintenance. It’s also better financially for staff as they don’t have the expense of commuting, office wear and spontaneous purchases whilst at work, such as coffees and lunches.

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January Webinar Series – What’s New in Jakarta EE 10

What’s New In Jakarta EE 10 – Part 1 – Microservices

Friday, the 13th of January 2023, 3pm GMT – REGISTER HERE

Jakarta EE 10is the first feature release of the platform since its move to Eclipse Foundation. It comes with many new features and enhancements that will make you even more productive with the platform.

This first in a series of three Payara webinars takes a bird’s eye view of the notable changes in Jakarta EE 10 that enhance your use of the microservices architecture pattern. This installment of the series will take a look at:

– Java SE 17 support
– The lighter Core Profile
– Fatless CDI, aka CDI Lite
– OpenID Connect support in Security
– Jakarta REST bootstrap API
– Jakarta EE 10 support in Payara Platform

By the end of this fast paced, no slides webinar, you will have a grasp of what Jakarta EE 10 has to offer in using it to craft your microservices applications.

What’s New In Jakarta EE 10 – Part 2 – Traditional Enterprise Development

Thursday, the 19th of January 2023, 3pm GMT –REGISTER HERE

In this second installment of the Payara webinar series on Jakarta EE 10, we take a look at new features and enhancements for traditional enterprise applciations. Topics include:

– @ManagedExecutorDefinition
– Native support for UUID as entity keys in Jakarta Persistence
– Multipart/form-data support in Jakarta REST
– Enhanced scopes with @ClientWindowScoped in Faces
– Typesafe Java API for creating Faces views

This rapid fire, no slides webinar will bring you up to speed with Jakarta EE 10. By the end of this installment of the webinar series, you will be have a grasp of what Jakarta EE has to offer in its latest iteration for traditional application development.

What’s New In Jakarta EE 10 – Part 3 – What Got Removed or Deprecated?

Friday, the 27th of January 2023, 3pm GMT – REGISTER HERE

Jakarta EE 10 is the first feature release of the platform since its move to Eclipse Foundation. This release comes with a number of features and enhancements that make Enterprise Java development on the platform even more productive.

As part of removing “excess fat” and streamlining the various API, Jakarta EE 10 removed as well as deprecated a few things.

In this final installment of the Payara Jakarta EE 10 webinar series, we take a look at what got demoted through deprecation and what got kicked out through full removal. Among the topics for discussion are:

– @Context annotation in REST
– EJB Entity Beans
– Embeddable EJB container
– Servlet/Faces/CDI features

This fast paced, no slides webinar will help you navigate these changes so you can plan your own project accordingly.

We hope to see you there!

Webinar: Payara Cloud – Realizing the Potential of Cloud Native Serverless Jakarta EE

You may have heard about our brand-new Payara Cloud product.

Payara Cloud automates the infrastructural tasks required when moving a Jakarta EE application to a cloud deployment model, and is therefore a ‘serverless’ option.

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Payara Launches Payara Cloud – Serverless Approach for Jakarta EE

The cloud native application runtime automates tasks like Kubernetes deployment, ingress and YAML.

Today, Payara launches a new product Payara Cloud, designed to run Jakarta EE apps easily and quickly on the cloud. Developers simply upload any web application following the Jakarta Web Profile specification and run it in a containerized Payara Micro instance. Payara Cloud deals with infrastructure allowing them to build the code and concentrate on business logic.

Developer experience is crucial to us, and with Payara Cloud we are responding to the growing popularity of platform engineering and its integrated products to deal with operational necessities. Payara Cloud caters to this growing demand for tools that automate infrastructural tasks; improving efficiency and shortening development cycles,” said Steve Millidge, Payara Founder and CEO.

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Video: Payara Services Wins Queen’s Award for Enterprise

Earlier this year, Payara Services was honoured with a Queen’s Award for Enterprise – International Trade. This is the UK’s most prestigious business award, often called the “Knighthood for Businesses”.

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Payara Wins Small Business of the Year Award – Herefordshire & Worcestershire Chamber Business Awards

We are very proud to announce that Payara was nominated and finalists for 4 separate Herefordshire & Worcestershire Chamber Business Awards:
  • Exporter of the Year
  • Employer of the Year
  • Small Business of the Year
  • Health and Wellbeing Employer of the Year

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We Are Hereford and Worcestershire Chamber of Commerce Awards Finalists!

Payara Services have been shortlisted in a total of 4 Hereford and Worcestershire Chamber of Commerce Awards ! These awards, organised by the prestigious local branch of the UK wide British Chambers of Commerce business network, aim to raise profile and celebrate excellence in a range of businesses across the two counties local to our Malvern office.

We are shortlisted for the below categories:

  • Employer of the Year
  • Small Business of the Year
  • Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace
  • Exporter of the Year

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Payara at Japan JUG CCC: Jakarta REST In Depth (Japanese translation)

今年、5月23日に開催される Japan JUG CCC Spring  にPayaraの Kenji Hasunuma (蓮沼賢志)が参加します。このイベントは、Japan Java User Group (JJUG)が主催する最大級のJavaコミュニティ・イベントで、年に2回、春と秋に開催されます。Java関連の技術やプラクティスの素晴らしいセッションが行われ、様々な分野のJavaエンジニアが集まり、今年はオンラインで開催されます。

Kenjiは昨年11月に開催されたJapan JUG CCCにも参加し、 Jakarta EEの短いチュートリアルを行いました。今年は、さらに深く、Jakarta REST APIのディープダイブを行います。

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Payara at Japan Jug CCC: Jakarta REST In Depth

This year, Payara’s Kenji Hasunuma will be participating in Japan JUG CCC Spring on May 23rd. This event is the largest Java community event organized by Japan Java User Group (JJUG), held twice a year in spring and autumn. It provides great sessions of Java-related technologies and practices and brings together Java engineers from different disciplines, and this year is being held online.

Kenji also participated in Japan JUG CCC last November, where he delivered a short Jakarta EE tutorial. This year, he goes more in depth, with a deep dive into Jakarta REST API.

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Payara Services Wins Queen’s Award!

We are overjoyed to announce that Payara has been honoured with the most prestigious UK business award: the Queen’s Award for Enterprise.

Often called the “Knighthood for Businesses”, the Queen’s Award is also renowned worldwide, with Payara’s award particularly recognising our international success.

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Payara Services at the Eclipse Foundation Jakarta EE Virtual Booth!

Payaran Rudy De Busscher can be found at the Eclipse Foundation Jakarta EE virtual booth at KubeCon EU 2021 this year, on May 5.

KubeCon is the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship conference, also aligned with CloudNativeCon, and gathers adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities virtually from May 4 – 7, 2021 – with the ultimate aim of furthering  the education and advancement of cloud native computing.

The Eclipse Foundation have a virtual booth at the event where, in their role as stewards of Jakarta EE, they have invited experts to staff the booth chat, answering any questions from attendees on Jakarta EE technology and how this relates to cloud and Kubernetes.

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Digitisation Expert OBJECT is Payara Platform Partner

OBJECT, an IT services business leading in digitisation for German speaking markets, is at the highest level in our Partner Program.

This program offers global organisations an opportunity to generate recurring revenue streams by introducing their customers to the stability, support, and security of Payara Platform Enterprise.

Our current list of Payara Partners consists of some of the world’s most esteemed companies offering high-performance bespoke IT solutions, and OBJECT is no exception! Continue reading “Digitisation Expert OBJECT is Payara Platform Partner”

Deploy Friday: Move Your Java Microservices to the Cloud with Payara Services

Platform.SH is an end-to-end web platform for agile teams: a PaaS that aims to manage the application and the services that the application needs, such as a database.  Developing close to MicroProfile and Jakarta EE, like Payara Platform, it supports both specifications.

We’re honoured to be guests for the company’s weekly live discussion, hosted on YouTube with live chat. Our engineers Rudy De Busscher and Fabio Turizo will discuss moving your microservices to the cloud with Chad Carlson and Otávio Santana from Platform.SH.

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February Release Overview & MicroProfile 4.0

Join Payara engineers for an informative and practical webinar on the recent updates and enhancements to the Payara Platform in the latest release (Payara Platform February Release).

Every month, we answer questions on the most recent release and also discuss a key theme –  this month, it’s MicroProfile 4.0, now fully supported in the Payara Platform Community Edition. We have covered what you can expect from the latest specifications in a blog, but please use this opportunity to ask any questions you might have about MicroProfile and its new iteration.

Full support for MicroProfile 4.0 follows us announcing we are part of the MicroProfile Working Group.   The MicroProfile project was born as a community initiative to optimise Enterprise Java with a microservices standard platform, and the Eclipse Foundation‘s MicroProfile Working Group proposes and gain approval for new common APIs and functionality – in turn drawing on the knowledge of a wide variety of different vendors. As one of the contributors, Payara engineers will shape and drive the future of the MicroProfile specifications.

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Payara Services at DevNexus

We are pleased to announce that Payara Services’ Fabio Turizo will be delivering a demonstration at DevNexus 2021.

Traditionally based in Atlanta, USA, the DevNexus Conference’s goal is to connect professional software developers from all over the world, and help them hear from and interact directly with internationally acclaimed presenters and technologists while also connecting with like-minded developers.

Due to Covid-19, this year’s event will be a free, online-only event. Talks will be presented without interruption, after each there will be a live discussion session with the speaker.

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Global Open Source Tech Company Payara Services Announce Membership of The Employers’ Initiative on Domestic Abuse

Payara Services is pleased to announce their membership of The Employers’ Initiative on Domestic Abuse (EIDA), a growing business network that raises awareness and provides resources for employers to identify and address domestic abuse among their workforce and signpost access to services to help stop perpetrators. Continue reading “Global Open Source Tech Company Payara Services Announce Membership of The Employers’ Initiative on Domestic Abuse”

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