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MicroProfile and Jakarta EE Technical Alignment

The transition of Java EE to the Eclipse Foundation is now complete with the release of the Jakarta EE 8 Platform Specification and the compatible implementations, including Payara Server. The release plan for Jakarta EE 9 is also approved, and will move all the Java EE APIs to the jakarta namespace - providing a future platform for Jakarta EE 10 and beyond.

Jakarta EE has a clear roadmap and open-source future. Attention is now turning to the relationship between Eclipse MicroProfile and Jakarta EE. I won't go into the history of MicroProfile, but both MicroProfile and Jakarta EE are initiatives at the Eclipse Foundation. Both seek to specify server-side Java APIs for building enterprise applications that can have multiple independent implementations, and both initiatives have many of the same participant organizations.

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Payara Server Is Jakarta EE 8 Compatible!

Payara Server 5.193.1 is now Jakarta EE 8 Full Profile compatible!

We are very happy to report that we've successfully passed all of nearly 50,000 test suites of Jakarta EE 8 TCK, and Payara Server 5.193.1 is Jakarta EE 8 Full Profile compatible!

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The Payara team is extremely proud to be among the first to achieve Jakarta EE 8 Full Platform Compatibility, starting with Payara Platform 5.193.1. This is a significant milestone for Payara, and the team has done a huge amount of work to get this done. I think this is a great adoption story for Jakarta EE, in general, as Payara Server is not a Java EE 8 implementation. Furthermore, this shows that Jakarta EE is an open standard and can bring in new organizations and implementations.

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GlassFish 5.1 Release Marks Major Milestone for Java EE Transfer

Eclipse GlassFish 5.1 has been released, and unlike the modest increase in version number might suggest, this truly marks a major milestone — not just for the GlassFish project itself, but for Java EE and moving Jakarta EE forward even more.

A Look at the History of GlassFish

GlassFish goes back a long way. It started with the Kiva Enterprise Server, a Java application server that was released in January 1996 (for comparison, Java 1.0 itself was also released in that month!)