Azul Payara Server Developer Tools and Connectors

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 make moving between major versions as simple as a minor upgrade. Arquillian containers, IDE plugins for Eclipse, IntelliJ, NetBeans, and VS Code, and connectors for Kafka, Amazon SQS, Azure Service Bus, and MQTT round out the toolchain.

Project setup

Azul Payara Starter: web and CLI project initializer for Maven and Gradle, with AI-assisted ERD generation.

Build and upgrade

Maven BOM. Server Upgrade Tool for major-version upgrades via a single asadmin command, with rollback. Jakarta EE Upgrade Advisor for namespace upgrades. JAX-RS Extension.

Administration

Admin Console, asadmin CLI, Asadmin Recorder, REST API.

Testing

Arquillian containers: Server Remote, Server Managed, Server Embedded.

IDE integration

Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, Apache NetBeans, VS Code. Hot Deploy and Auto Deploy.

Connectors

Cloud: Amazon SQS, Apache Kafka, Azure Service Bus, MQTT. Security: OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0 Client.

Having commercial support from Payara, who own the codebase, really takes open-source to the next level. They validated our configuration, made recommendations for improvement, and gave us confidence we were getting the most out of the product and making the best decisions from the start.

Neil Openshaw, Senior Manager Software Engineer

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