Payara Server is a Jakarta EE application server derived from GlassFish with production-focused releases, support options, and ecosystem tooling.
- Community (as of 2026-02-12): 7.2026.1
- Jakarta EE production workloads.
- Teams moving from GlassFish to a support-oriented runtime.
- Enterprise Java deployments needing regular platform updates.
- Jakarta EE and MicroProfile support.
- Production-oriented release cadence.
- Familiar admin and domain model for Jakarta servers.
How to set up Payara Server
- CDDL-1.1 / GPL-2.0-with-classpath-exception
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