As the first month of 2021 comes to a close, let’s take a look at the plans for enhancements and changes coming this year and beyond. The Payara Roadmap 2021 webinar covers:
Benefits of the Jakarta EE model
What to expect from Jakarta EE 9 in relation to the Payara Platform
What to expect from MicroProfile 4.0 in relation to the Payara Platform
How the Payara Platform is evolving and moving toward Payara 6
Updates and progress of the Payara Cloud project, our new PaaS product currently starting the closed beta testing phase
The latest news regarding the next major OpenJDK release – JDK 17 Long Term Support (LTS) and what that means for Payara Platform
A closer look at what’s to come in the next three months
After Steve’s presentation, live webinar attendees were given the opportunity to ask questions about the roadmap and future plans for the Payara suite of products and services.
Watch the Payara Roadmap 2021 WebinarBenefits of the Jakarta EE Model
Because the Payara Platform is a Jakarta EE compatible implementation, Steve starts the discussion with a conversation about the benefits of Jakarta EE Model. Jakarta EE came from Java EE, which had a very specific model of developing applications.
Jakarta EE splits your application away from your runtime (such as the Payara Platform). You develop your application using the standard Jakarta EE and MicroProfile APIs, and your application and APIs all run on the compute infrastructure (Bare Metal, Kubernetes, Docker, etc).
Jakarta EE splits the packaging of your application from your runtime (Payara Server). You build your WAR, JAR, or EAR file, concentrate on building your application and packaging it, while Payara Platform manages the other aspects of running your application, such as:
The separation between your application and compute infrastructure allows Payara to manage the majority of your infrastructure needs so all you need to worry about is using the standards based APIs from Jakarta EE and MicroProfile. We want you to build applications and not worry about all of the effort related to the infrastructure, while Payara Platform makes it possible to run your application on any infrastructure that comes along in the future.
Looking Ahead to Payara Platform in 2021
You should be able to take your WAR file, whether monolith or microservices, and deploy it anywhere: IoT and edge with Payara Micro, scale across containers to Kubernetes with Payara Server, or large scale, hybrid cloud environments with Payara Cloud.
Payara Cloud will be released as a PaaS initially, with the future goal of creating a product you can install and manage it in your own cloud and datacenters. Payara Cloud is starting the closed beta testing phase in February 2021.
To accomplish these goals, Payara development is focused on six pillars:
Jakarta EE and MicroProfile Standards
Compute Infrastructure Agnostic (Payara will work well on any infrastructure)
Deep Diagnostics
Developer Experience
Ecosystem Integration
Stability
Key Changes to Payara Core in Community Edition
Before the release of Payara 6 in 2022, we are working toward the following improvements and changes in the Payara Platform Community Edition:
New CDI implementation
New Servlet implementation
Better Integrated tracing and monitoring
Logging improvements
New EJB timer sub-system
New gRPC based remoting
Payara Core Timeline
Here’s what’s expected and when (subject to change based on external events occurring in the Jakarta EE and MicroProfile development):
February 2021
MicroProfile 4.0 Support
Jakarta EE 9 Compatible Implementation
June 2021
MicroProfile 4.1 Support
September 2021
Jakarta EE 9.1
JDK17 Support (latest LTS)
December 2021
MicroProfile 5.0
Quarter One 2022
Payara 6 Release(aligned with Jakarta EE 10 date, which has not been set yet.)
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Is there a date yet for a release that supports JDK 17?
Is there a date yet for a release that supports JDK 17?
No firm date, but we are expecting to support JDK 17 before the end of the year.
No firm date, but we are expecting to support JDK 17 before the end of the year.