Red Hat JBoss portals software also known extensively as JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP) acts as a provider for middleware operations management and tooling and an application development platform delivering enterprise-grade security, performance, and scalability in any environment be it on-premise, virtual, or in clouds (say private, public or hybrid) helping delivery of apps faster everywhere. Further, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (presently known as JBoss EAP 7) is an open-source/subscription-based Java EE-based application server runtime platform which is used for building, deploying, and hosting highly-transactional Java applications and services.
Features
- Lightweight and Flexible Architecture
- Incorporates performance and flexibility in modern application environments
- Provides flexibility for applications for deployment in different environments with reduction in scale-out times through its modular architecture and services-driven set of components
- Flexible Management, Configuration, and Administration
- Maximizes administrative productivity by easing maintenance and update in deployments along with patching, monitoring, provisioning etc.
- Features support and navigation for large-scale domain configurations using an updated management console user interface, and supports offline server management using the updated command-line interface (CLI)
- Optimized for Cloud and Containers
- Features a modular architecture that starts services only as they are required even in clouds be it private, public, and hybrid along with on-premise and virtual environments
- Ensures simplified deployment and full Jakarta EE performance for applications in any environment and optimized for cloud environments such as Red Hat OpenShift, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web Services
- More Productive Developers and Development
- Supports Java EE and its web-based frameworks such as Spring, Spring WS, Spring Web Flow, Spring Security, jQuery, jQuery Mobile, AngularJS, Arquillian and Google Web Toolkit (GWT) allowing developers to meet line-of-business demands
- Enforces rapid application development using modern approaches like DevOps, microservices architectures, and containers with right choice of architectures, processes, and technology platforms
- A Full Web Services Stack
- Integrates multiple features such as high availability clustering, distributed caching, messaging and transactions to meet specific business requirements being a full web service stack
- Provides upgrade support including interoperability even with preservation of the performance, scalability, and reliability
Red Hat jBoss Pricing
JBoss itself is genuinely free and open source allowing the use for development. Based on our business requirements, yearly support subscriptions to Red Hat EAP, an application server that acts as a middleware platform built on open standards are available in two pricing segments:
- Standard - US $8000/user/year : Provides standard business hours coverage for all support cases.
- Premium - US $12000/user/year : Provides 24x7 for severity 1 and 2 cases and standard business hours coverage for severity 3 and 4 cases.
Both subscriptions give provision for web and phone support channels with unlimited support cases facility. To know more about the latest pricing, one can visit on their website and request a query.