Overall Satisfaction with Payara Server
It is currently being used by three clients to host spring boot applications. There are applications with both enterprise capabilities and simple websites and newsletters. It addresses the needs we had of being easy-to-use, lightweight, and very easy to configure through a console. These applications are hosted in VMs and Payara's small memory footprint without making any discounts in JEE capabilities is ideal for that environment.
- Small memory footprint.
- Fully JEE compliant with an exceptional administration console.
- Very good performance.
- It should provide out of the box support as an embedded server for spring boot applications.
- Let's Encrypt certificates should be installed through the admin console.
- A wizard-like procedure for clustering.
- Positive: We can host more applications on a single VM.
- Positive: We saved time on the server configuration procedure.
- Positive: We saved time from migration from previous installations.
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 compliant server so it lacks capabilities and a proper administration console.