Do we need license for JBoss?

Licensing and pricing JBoss itself is free and open-source, but Red Hat charges to provide a support subscription for JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Red Hat allows the use of JBoss EAP for development, but to obtain support in production a support subscription is required and customizations are not supported.

Is JBoss free for commercial use?

JBoss Community Server is also free but JBoss Enterprise is not. It is free for commercial use. You can develop your applications and deploy them in production environment on top of JBoss without having to pay anything. Both of this solutions offer enterprise level support with a fee.

How much does JBoss cost?

Pricing for JBoss EAP starts at $8000.

What is the difference between JBoss and WildFly?

JBoss AS/WildFly is the name for the community project that you can test. This community project will eventually become JBoss EAP. “WildFly” is just the new name for “AS”, which stood for Application Server. Version numbering is a bit more difficult here.

What JBoss is used for?

JBoss EAP includes everything needed to build, run, deploy, and manage enterprise Java applications in a variety of environments, including on-premise, virtual environments, and in private, public, and hybrid clouds. JBoss EAP is based upon the popular open source project WildFly.

What is the difference between Websphere and JBoss?

JBoss: An open-source Java EE-based application server. An application platform for hosting your apps that provides an innovative modular, cloud-ready architecture, powerful management and automation, and world class developer productivity; Websphere Liberty: A fast, dynamic, and easy-to-use Java application server.

Does JBoss use Apache?

Red Hat® JBoss® Web Server combines the world’s most deployed web server (Apache) with the top servlet engine (Tomcat) and the best support in middleware (ours).

Can I use JBoss EAP without a subscription?

You can use any JBoss EAP binary version for development purposes without a paid subscription. You won’t get patches or support that way, and you can’t run it in production. From “Downloads for Development Use”: To download JBoss EAP you must have an account.

Is JBoss still used?

In 2013, JBoss received a name change and is now known as WildFly, but the old name is still widely used, especially by those using the older versions, so, we’ll stick to calling it JBoss for the moment.

Is JBoss EAP a Web server?

1 Answer. JBoss web server is a server used to deploy web applications, whereas EAP is an application server which can be used also to deploy Java EE compatible applications. EAP gives many more features like messaging, RMI, EJB etc. apart from features provided by Web server.

What is the alternative for JBoss?

Apache Tomcat, Wildfly, GlassFish, Websphere, and Spring Boot are the most popular alternatives and competitors to JBoss.