Payara Server

Overview
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Payara Server
Score 9.1 out of 10
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Payara Server is a fully supported, developer-friendly, open source application server. The vendor says Payara Server’s architecture is innovative, cloud-native and optimized for production deployments. The application server is built and supported by a team of DevOps engineers dedicated to the continued development and maintenance of the open source software and committed to optimizing Payara Server for production Java EE applications. Key features of Payara Server include: •…N/A
Pricing
Payara Server
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Payara Server
Free Trial
No
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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Payara Server
Considered Both Products
Payara Server
Chose Payara Server
- As I said before, Payara has full Jakarta compliance and provide up-to-date technology stack upgrade.
- Easy to install and upgrade.
- Very less configuration setting.
Chose Payara Server
Although Payara Server originated from Oracle Glassfish, Payara does bug fixing a lot quicker and provides "versions on steroids" of the server with improvements and targeted versions. Tomcat is very fast and has a small footprint but unfortunately, it if not a fully JEE …
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Features
Payara Server
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Payara Server
7.5
2 Ratings
6% below category average
IDE support6.02 Ratings
Security management7.02 Ratings
Administration and management8.02 Ratings
Application server performance8.02 Ratings
Installation8.02 Ratings
Open-source standards compliance8.02 Ratings
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User Ratings
Payara Server
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(2 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
10.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Payara Server
Likelihood to Recommend
Payara Services
- If the application is very large then the Payara server is suitable and in the case of a small application, we can choose Micro Payara. - Micro payara is very well suited for microservice architecture. - Fully Jakarta compliance. - Very good performance.
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Pros
Payara Services
  • Small memory footprint.
  • Fully JEE compliant with an exceptional administration console.
  • Very good performance.
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Cons
Payara Services
  • Issues that are logged in Payara GitHub forum need to address on time, but it keeps on postponing fixing those issues.
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Usability
Payara Services
As mentioned before it has an amazing configuration console. You can practically do anything from there and even update the program or install new features on the fly.
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Performance
Payara Services
As mentioned before, its performance capabilities were one of the reasons we used them. It interacts with mass mail software and we see no performance impact. It handles everything pretty well and pretty fast.
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Alternatives Considered
Payara Services
- As I said before, Payara has full Jakarta compliance and provide up-to-date technology stack upgrade. - Easy to install and upgrade. - Very less configuration setting. - Default ready-to-use production domain is available, which can be spun up to use in production.
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Return on Investment
Payara Services
  • Can host multiple application on single VM.
  • Helps managed service team reduces their time on installation and up-gradation ( upgrading it to a new Payara server is very simple).
  • We can opt for Payara or Micro Payara based on the application size.
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