Azul Payara Server

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Azul Payara Server is a Jakarta EE 11 certified application server for mission-critical production workloads.

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Azul Payara CommunityFree community-supported edition · Community-supported editionFree
Azul Payara Micro & ServerPer vCore; contact sales for details · Cloud-native containers · flexible clustering and scaling · high availability · monthly security updates · long-term 24/7 support · developer tooling and APIsOn request

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Facts

Website: azul.com
Price: Free tier
Free trial: Yes
Compatibility: Azul Payara Server runs on any compatible JDK; Azul Core is optional and downloaded separately.
Deployment: It runs in data centers, containers, and public clouds, and is optimized for Docker and Kubernetes on AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Deployment limitation: A Spring Boot executable fat JAR is not a direct deployable artifact for the Jakarta EE server and requires repackaging.
Developer tools: The toolchain includes Maven and Gradle project scaffolding, upgrade tools, Arquillian containers, IDE plugins, and connectors for Kafka, Amazon SQS, Azure Service Bus, and MQTT.
Features: Features include an admin console, telemetry and observability, Payara InSight monitoring, integrated SSL certificate management, and a diagnostics tool.
Founded: 2014
Headquarters: Malvern, Worcestershire, United Kingdom
Integrations: Extended Notification Service can send incidents to Slack, Datadog, New Relic, Microsoft Teams, email, JMX, JMS, and SNMP.
Lifecycle: Azul Payara 5, 6, and 7 are supported concurrently, while Azul Payara 4 remains available under Lifetime Support.
Modernization: Existing Jakarta EE applications can move to a namespace-matched Azul Payara version without rewriting code or migrating frameworks.
Security: Azul says it is a registered CVE Numbering Authority under CISA and DHS oversight and publishes monthly security patches backported across supported major versions.
Support: The enterprise server offers Standard or Premium support levels with guaranteed SLAs.

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