Oracle WebLogic 14 x Payara Server 6 – Comparison

Feature	Oracle® WebLogic Server 14c (14.1.1.0.0.)	Payara® Server Enterprise 6.9.0
License	Proprietary	Open Source with EULA
Release Frequency	Irregular	Monthly
Production Support	Yes	Yes
Component Upgrades	Irregular	Monthly
Supported IDEs	Eclipse® / Netbeans® / IntelliJ® IDE / JDeveloper®	Eclipse / Netbeans / IntelliJ IDE / VSCode
Support for Java EE Applications	Java EE 8 and Jakarta EE 8 Java SE 8 and 11 Support GraalVM EE Support	Java EE 10 Jakarta EE 10
Caching Tools	Oracle Coherence / JCache	Hazelcast: JCache, Domain Data Grid, Payara Scales (additional cost)
Clustering	Every node runs same apps	Yes (via Hazelcast) Every node runs same app or fine grained assignment
Scripting tool	WSLT	asadmin
Scripting extensions	Python scripts	OS / BASH scripts
Asadmin command recorder	Yes	Yes
Deployment Flexibility	Deployment plan (XML based)	Variables (System, environment, MicroProfile config values)
Notification Channels Monitoring	JMX Beans Log files SMTP SNMP JMS	JMX Beans Log files SMTP SNMP JMS CDI Slack New Relic Datadog
Custom Notifiers	No	Yes
Slow SQL Logging	No	Yes
Health Check Service	Yes	Yes
Request Tracing	JAX-RS (Jersey) only	JAX-RS, CDI, EJB, Servlet, ...
OAuth2/OpenId Connect support	Requires Fusion Middleware or custom dev	Natively supported (through Security API)
Microservices Distribution	No - Helidon for microservices	Yes, Payara® Micro
MicroProfile Support	No	Yes
Uber-jar and Hollow Jar	No	Yes
Docker Support	Yes	Yes
Cloud Providers Support	Oracle Cloud, Amazon, Microsoft Azure™, Jelastic	Microsoft Azure, Jelastic, Amazon, Oracle Cloud
Zero Deployment downtime	Parallel versions with gradual switch	Parallel versions with one time switch
Upgrade Tool	Yes	Yes
JDK Support	JDk 11	Yes (through Azul® JVM), JDK 11

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We migrated the backend of the product we built for our client from WebLogic to Payara Server with great success. Payara Server has a much more modern feature-set and feel, gets you up and running quicker and we saved a lot of time configuring the server compared to WebLogic. Several things that were a big hassle to configure with WebLogic worked out of the box with Payara Server, Bean Validation being a prime example of this. We are now looking to the future and planning a move towards a more microservices oriented architecture with Payara Micro in mind. I would recommend both Payara Server and Payara Micro to anybody who values consistency, stability and productivity for their application development and deployment.

Daniel Löfquist, HiQ