Standards Over Lock-In: Modernizing Java with Jakarta EE 11 on Azul Payara 7

Enterprise Java teams face a modernization decision in 2026: rewrite your applications onto a single-vendor framework, an investment that routinely runs 6 to 18 months per application or find a path that preserves your code while reaching cloud-native, AI-ready infrastructure.

This session works through that decision with the engineers who built Azul Payara 7, the first fully certified Jakarta EE 11 runtime available today. The panel covers what modernization genuinely requires (the deployment model) versus what it doesn’t (the application code), what’s new in Jakarta EE 11, and how Azul Payara 7 gets you to a modern target without trading an open standard for a single-vendor dependency. Bring your real questions; this is a panel discussion – not a pitch.

You’ll learn:

• Why vendor-neutral standards like Jakarta EE protect your applications — and what lock-in actually costs
• What’s new in Jakarta EE 11: Jakarta Data 1.0 for repository-style data access and virtual threads in Jakarta Concurrency 3.1
• Where a Spring Boot rewrite helps and where it just costs 6 to 18 months per application

The event will be live in three different timezones on the day, join your preferred time here:

• EMEA: https://www.azul.com/webinars/standards-over-lock-in-modernizing-java-with-jakarta-ee-11-on-azul-payara-7-emea/
• NAM: https://www.azul.com/webinars/standards-over-lock-in-modernizing-java-with-jakarta-ee-11-on-azul-payara-7-nam/
• APAC: https://www.azul.com/webinars/standards-over-lock-in-modernizing-java-with-jakarta-ee-11-on-azul-payara-7-apac/