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Payara is a commercially supported web application server for Jakarta EE (the Eclipse Foundation's successor of Oracle's Java EE), which was spawned from the reference web application server project GlassFish.
Payara Services Ltd are Strategic Members of the Eclipse Foundation working groups, great support, and excellent online information and documentation. To help you consider the advantages of Payara over other web application server technologies visit Payara vs The Competition.
Some key advantages and notable aspects of Payara include:
- Good integration with popular Integrated Development Environments for Java including the brilliant IntelliJ IDEA from JetBrains, NetBeans, Eclipse, and Visual Studio Code.
- Cloud-native and compatible with Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, and the Google Cloud Platform, as well as their own Payara Cloud.
- Support for Jelastic Platform as a Service (PaaS).
- A ready-to-go microservices distribution Payara Micro with full MicroProfile support.
- Official Docker images with container automation through Payara Docker Nodes.
- Kubernetes support if you really need it.
- Support for Uber JARs ("fat" JARs with all dependencies).
- A big user base (over 150K as of 2025) and some major players as customers.
- Payara Community (free) and Payara Enterprise editions.
- Payara Starter code generator to create new Payara Server or Payara Micro projects.
- Open Source.
Visit also: Jakarta EE for microservices and REST APIs