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Azul Payara Server

Mission-critical app server for AI-modernized workloads migrating off WebLogic, WebSphere, and JBoss.

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Modernize without rewriting the application. Lower app server license costs by up to 60%

Modern Jakarta EE mission-critical app server that runs in the data center, in containers, and on any public cloud. Concurrent releases of Azul Payara 4 through 7 covering Java EE 7 onward allow teams to modernize at their own pace.  Delivers monthly security patches and backporting for AI-era security and compliance.  Certified for Jakarta EE 11 across all three profiles, Azul Payara 7 becomes the foundation for AI workload scalability, with no rewrite required.

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Modernize for the AI Era, at your pace.

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. Evolve to AI on Azul Payara 7 when the team is ready.

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Up to 60% lower application-server spend vs. legacy vendors.

Transparent per-vCore pricing and one vendor for both the JDK (Azul Core) and the application server.

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AI-Era security and compliance.

Monthly security patches on a published schedule, backported to every supported version, from a registered CVE Numbering Authority under CISA and DHS oversight. Increase patch velocity and vulnerability remediation speed as AI collapses the mean time to exploit to days and hours.

Industry Use Cases

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Migrating mission-critical applications off Oracle WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, or Red Hat JBoss EAP without a rewrite

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Runtime swap from Eclipse GlassFish (same asadmin CLI and domain model)

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Large-scale monolithic and modular-monolith applications

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High-availability, high-throughput transaction systems in financial services and telecom

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Regulated, audit-sensitive workloads under PCI, ISO 27001, or government mandates that need a published security-patch SLA

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Multi-tenant applications with fine-grained access control

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Data center and traditional operations with domain-based clustering and central administration

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Adding AI features to existing Jakarta EE applications (Azul Payara 7)

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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

Payara is the de-facto middleware at Rakuten Card. We’ve found it wonderful to use, even for new hires – with Payara leveraging developers’ existing skill sets so no retraining is required.

Arshal Ameen, Senior Architect, Rakuten Credit Card

Payara Platform is super stable and patches to issues are delivered faster than we notice them! For me, as developer, it is important to have access to a Nexus server where I can automatically download the latest releases.

Martin Gysel, DevOps Engineer

The software has been tremendously easy to work with. Our transition from WebLogic to Payara Enterprise is still in progress and things are progressing nicely. We have found Payara Server Enterprise to be a lot more user friendly and approachable than WebLogic.

IT Manager, United States Coast Guard

Payara Server is a solid platform, which is very stable and easy to maintain. There are no typical server-side problems, such as huge log files which saturate the OS or cause hanging issues. The support is great.

Claudio Mapelli, Regional IT Manager

Features

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Intuitive Admin Console 

Lower operational complexity and training requirements.

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AI-ready on Azul Payara 7.

Jakarta Concurrency 3.1 and Jakarta Data 1.0 bring AI features into the existing CDI container, no second runtime to run and patch.

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Telemetry & Observability

Catches performance issues before they become outages.

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Payara InSight monitoring

Operational visibility without third-party APM licensing.

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Extended Notification Service

Incidents reach the team where they already work: Slack, Datadog, New Relic, MS Teams, email, JMX, JMS, and SNMP.

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Integrated SSL certificate management

No external certificate tooling, less renewal complexity.

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Diagnostics tool

One command collects what support needs, cutting time to resolution.

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Security backporting

CVE fixes for supported releases without forced upgrades.

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Multi-phase lifecycle

Full, Extended, and Lifetime Support across Azul Payara 4 to 7, so upgrades happen on your schedule, not a vendor’s end-of-life notice.

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Why Azul Payara

A Jakarta EE 11 application server that moves your existing estate off WebLogic, WebSphere, or JBoss EAP without rewriting the application, with monthly security patches on a published calendar and transparent per-vCore pricing, from the vendor that also supplies the Java runtime. Customers include BMW Group, Rakuten Card, and the US Coast Guard.

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Developer tools for Azul Payara Server

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.

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Lifecycle support you can plan around

Azul Payara follows a multi-phase lifecycle per major release, with Full Support, Extended Support, and Lifetime Support, and security patches backported across every supported major version, so you upgrade on your own schedule. Azul Payara 5, 6, and 7 are supported concurrently; Azul Payara 4 remains available under Lifetime Support.

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Azul Payara Accelerator services

Move faster with hands-on help from Azul engineers. Azul Payara Accelerator offers focused Quick Start engagements and bespoke consultancy for tuning, monitoring, migration, training, and cloud adoption. Project Support adds engineering assistance and a private support portal while you build, before you reach production.

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BMW Migrates from Oracle with Azul Payara Server

BMW Group moved to Azul Payara Server with ongoing support for mission-critical environments and a 55% to 80% reduction in commercial application server support costs.

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Ready? So are we.

Our Java experts are ready to answer your questions and show how Azul Payara Server can support your secure, stable, and high-performance Java applications. 

Azul Payara Server FAQs

What is Azul Payara Server? 

A Jakarta EE 11 certified application server for mission-critical production. It runs Jakarta EE and Java EE applications in the data center, in containers, and on every major cloud, with monthly security patches on a published schedule and transparent per-vCore pricing.

How does Azul Payara Server differ from the Azul Payara Server Community? 

Azul Payara Server adds enterprise-grade support with guaranteed SLAs, a multi-phase lifecycle per major release, security patches backported across supported versions, and production-grade tooling. Azul Payara Community is the free, community-supported edition.

Do I have to use Azul Core, the Azul JDK?

No. Azul Payara Server runs on any compatible JDK. Azul Core, Azul’s supported builds of OpenJDK, is available from Azul as a separate product, so the application server and the JVM can come from one vendor.

Is the JDK bundled?

No. Azul Core is a separate Azul product, downloaded separately. The benefit is one vendor for the JDK and the application server, not a bundle.

How are security issues handled?

Azul is a registered CVE Numbering Authority under CISA and DHS oversight. Security patches ship monthly on a published calendar and are backported across every supported major version.

Which Java SE versions are supported?

Azul Payara 7 supports Java SE 21 and 25, both LTS. Azul Payara 6 supports 11, 17, and 21; Azul Payara 5 supports 8, 11, 17, and 21.

Can I deploy to Kubernetes and the cloud?

Yes. Azul Payara Server is optimized for Docker and Kubernetes and runs on AWS, Azure, and GCP.

What support plans are available? 

Two levels, Standard or Premium, with guaranteed SLAs.

Can I run Spring Boot applications?

A Spring application packaged as a standard WAR deploys to Azul Payara Server like any Jakarta EE archive. A Spring Boot executable (fat) JAR is a different artifact; running it on a Jakarta EE server means repackaging, not a direct deploy.