What is Payara?
It Server is a drop in replacement for GlassFish Server Open Source Edition with quarterly releases containing enhancements, bug fixes and patches.
Payara is a tool in the Web Servers category of a tech stack.
Payara is an open source tool with 865 GitHub stars and 292 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Payara's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Payara?
Companies
3 companies reportedly use Payara in their tech stacks, including doubleSlash, Intelinvest, and hzm.
Developers
39 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Payara.
Payara's Features
- Full Web Based Administration Console
- Fully Scriptable Command Line Interface
- Full REST-based Management Console
- Fully Instrumented via JMX
- Supports Rolling Upgrades of Java EE Applications
Payara Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Payara?
GlassFish
An Application Server means, It can manage Java EE applications You should use GlassFish for Java EE enterprise applications. The need for a seperate Web server is mostly needed in a production environment.
Wildfly
It is a flexible, lightweight, managed application runtime that helps you build amazing applications. It supports the latest standards for web development.
Jetty
Jetty is used in a wide variety of projects and products, both in development and production. Jetty can be easily embedded in devices, tools, frameworks, application servers, and clusters. See the Jetty Powered page for more uses of Jetty.
Apache Tomcat
Apache Tomcat powers numerous large-scale, mission-critical web applications across a diverse range of industries and organizations.
JBoss
An application platform for hosting your apps that provides an innovative modular, cloud-ready architecture, powerful management and automation, and world class developer productivity.
