Azul Payara Server

Azul Payara Server - Mission-Critical Jakarta EE Application Server

Azul Payara Server is a Jakarta EE 11 certified application server built for mission-critical production workloads. Teams can migrate off Oracle WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, or Red Hat JBoss EAP without rewriting application code. Existing Jakarta EE applications lift and shift to the namespace-matched Azul Payara version in days to weeks, with no code rewrite and no framework migration required. Security fixes are backported across Azul Payara 4 through 7, so known CVEs can be remediated in place rather than by moving to a new major version. Azul is a registered CVE Numbering Authority. Azul Payara Server runs in production at organizations including BMW Group, Rakuten Card, and the United States Coast Guard.

Key Benefits

• Migrate without a rewrite: Move mission-critical applications off WebLogic, WebSphere, or JBoss EAP to a namespace-matched Azul Payara version with no code changes.
• Backported security fixes: CVEs are addressed within the version your application already runs, so remediation does not require a major-version upgrade. Azul is a registered CVE Numbering Authority.
• Broad version coverage: Namespace-matched builds spanning Azul Payara 4 through 7, so you can deploy the version your application already targets.
• Runs on AWS: Optimized for Docker and Kubernetes, with native deployment on AWS infrastructure.

Ideal Workloads

• High-availability, high-throughput transaction systems in financial services and telecom
• Regulated, audit-sensitive workloads under PCI DSS, ISO 27001, or government mandates, where CVEs must be remediated in place without a major-version upgrade
• Large-scale monolithic and modular-monolith applications
• Multi-tenant applications with fine-grained access control
• Runtime swap from Eclipse GlassFish, using the same asadmin CLI and domain model
• Adding AI features to existing Jakarta EE applications with Azul Payara 7

Platform Capabilities

• Intuitive admin console: Lowers operational complexity and training requirements for your team.
• AI-ready on Azul Payara 7: Jakarta Concurrency 3.1 and Jakarta Data 1.0 bring AI features into the existing CDI container, with no second runtime to operate and patch.
• Telemetry and observability: Built-in Payara InSight monitoring surfaces performance issues before they become outages, without deploying a separate APM agent.
• Extended notification service: Incidents reach the team where they already work, including Slack, Datadog, New Relic, Microsoft Teams, email, JMX, JMS, and SNMP.
• Integrated SSL certificate management: Certificates are managed in the server itself, with no external certificate tooling.
• Diagnostics tool: One command collects the full diagnostic bundle, shortening time to resolution.
• Security backporting: CVE fixes are delivered for the release your application already runs, so remediation does not require a major-version upgrade.

Version Compatibility

• Azul Payara 7 (latest): Jakarta EE 11, jakarta namespace, Java SE 21 and 25, MicroProfile 6
• Azul Payara 6: Jakarta EE 10, jakarta namespace, Java SE 11, 17, and 21, MicroProfile 6.1
• Azul Payara 5: Java EE 8, javax namespace, Java SE 8, 11, 17, and 21, MicroProfile 4.1
• Azul Payara 4: Java EE 7, javax namespace, Java SE 7 and 8, MicroProfile 1.2

Developer Tooling

Build, test, and ship faster with tools built for Azul Payara Server. Azul Payara Starter scaffolds projects with Maven or Gradle, including AI-assisted ERD generation. The Server Upgrade Tool and Upgrade Advisor simplify moving between major versions. IDE plugins for Eclipse, IntelliJ, NetBeans, and VS Code, along with connectors for Kafka, Amazon SQS, Azure Service Bus, and MQTT, round out the toolchain.

Compatibility Notes

Azul Payara Server runs on any compatible JDK. Spring applications packaged as standard WAR files deploy to Azul Payara Server like any Jakarta EE archive, which suits teams with mixed application portfolios.