Payara is one the best performing servers out there!
Rating: 10 out of 10
IncentivizedUse Cases and Deployment Scope
It is currently being used by three clients to host spring boot applications. There are applications with both enterprise capabilities and simple websites and newsletters. It addresses the needs we had of being easy-to-use, lightweight, and very easy to configure through a console. These applications are hosted in VMs and Payara's small memory footprint without making any discounts in JEE capabilities is ideal for that environment.
Pros
- Small memory footprint.
- Fully JEE compliant with an exceptional administration console.
- Very good performance.
Cons
- It should provide out of the box support as an embedded server for spring boot applications.
- Let's Encrypt certificates should be installed through the admin console.
- A wizard-like procedure for clustering.
Likelihood to Recommend
Payara Server is recommended for any type of jee and/or Spring application. Unless there are proprietary framework restrictions there is no reason for not using Payara. The pricing model for enterprise support is very nice and I would definitely recommend it. The case where it is least recommended is when you need a separate application server per service. In this case, there might be better options for this job even though I am not very sure and need to test more.