The JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is a subscription-based/open-source Java EE-based
application server runtime platform used for building, deploying, and hosting highly-transactional
Java applications and services.
The JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is part of the JBoss Enterprise Middleware
portfolio of software.
Because it is Java-based, the JBoss application server operates cross-platform: usable on
any operating system that supports Java.
The JBoss Enterprise Application Platform was developed by JBoss, now a division of
Red Hat.
Product components and features Key features:
Eclipse-based Integrated Development Environment is available using JBoss Developer Studio
Supports Java EE and Web Services standards Enterprise Java Beans
Java persistence using Hibernate Object request broker using JacORB for interoperability
with CORBA objects JBoss Seam framework, including Java annotations
to enhance POJOs, and including JBoss jBPM JavaServer Faces, including RichFaces
Web application services, including Apache Tomcat for JavaServer Pages and Java Servlets
Caching, clustering, and high availability, including JBoss Cache(before EAP 6/AS 7) or
Infinispan caching(after EAP 6/AS 7/WildFly), and including JNDI, RMI, and EJB types
Security services, including Java Authentication and Authorization Service and pluggable authentication
modules Web Services and interoperability, including
JAX-RPC, JAX-WS, many WS-* standards, and MTOM/XOP
Integration and messaging services, including J2EE Connector Architecture, Java Database
Connectivity, and Java Message Service Management and Service-Oriented Architecture
using Java Management Extensions Additional administration and monitoring features
are available using JBoss Operations Network Key components:
JBoss Application Server, the framework used to support the development and implementation
of applications Hibernate, an object/relational mapping and
persistence framework JBoss Seam, a framework for building web applications
JBoss Web Framework Kit, for building Java applications
Lists of components, features, and standards supported are available.
Licensing and pricing JBoss itself is open source, but Red Hat charges
to provide a support subscription for JBoss Enterprise Middleware.
Related products These products are part of the JBoss Enterprise
Middleware portfolio of software, or are included with the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
software.
JBoss Enterprise Web Platform This software is a lighter weight version
of the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.
The key components are essentially the same as the full JBoss Enterprise Application Platform,
but uses a slimmed down profile of the JBoss Application Server.
Lists of components and standards supported are available.
JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform This software is an enterprise portal with
the core portal features of presentation, master page objects, containers, and a repository,
and also an optional site publisher.
Key components:JBoss Enterprise Application Platform – the software infrastructure
GateIn Portal – both an enterprise web portal and also a portal framework to build upon.
GateIn Portal includes support for Web Services for Remote Portlets, Java Content Repository,
Single Sign-On, and OpenSocial gadgets.
JBoss Portlet Bridge – a non-final draft implementation of the JSR-301 and JSR-329
specifications that support JavaServer Faces within a JSR-286 portlet.
This software also supports other web frameworks such as JBoss Seam and RichFaces to run inside
a portlet.
Site Publisher – web content management
JBoss EPP implements the standards for Portlet 2.0, JCR, OASIS WSRP 1.0, and OpenSocial.
A list of components is available.
The GateIn project is a merge of JBoss Portal 2.7 and eXo Portal 2.5 that produced GateIn
Portal 3.0, and also the related projects GateIn Portlet Container, eXo JCR, and JBoss
Portlet Bridge.
JBoss Enterprise Web Server This software is a platform for lightweight
Java applications, but also handles large scale websites.
JBoss EWS may be deployed as a standard enterprise web server, a simple Java application server,
or an enterprise open source application infrastructure.
Key components: Apache Tomcat – including Java Servlet and
JavaServer Pages Apache Web Server – including common modules
and connectors for authentication, caching, proxying, filtering, and load balancing
Lists of components and standards supported are available.
JBoss Web Framework Kit This software is a set of web frameworks used
for building light and rich Java applications.
Components:Google Web Toolkit – framework for rich Internet applications
RichFaces – framework for rich Internet applications
Spring Framework – Java framework Apache Struts – Java framework
JBoss Cache This software implements a cache for frequently
accessed Java objects to improve application performance.
The cache can be replicated and transactional.
The cache can be replicated across one or more Java Virtual Machines across a network.
The cache can be transactional because a JTA compliant transaction manager can be configured
and make any cache interaction transactional.
The two types of JBoss Cache are Core and POJO, with the POJO library built on top the
Core library.
JBoss Netty This software is a New I/O client-server framework
for the development of Java network applications such as protocol servers and clients.
The asynchronous event-driven network application framework and tools is used to simplify network
programming such as TCP and UDP socket servers.
Netty includes an implementation of the reactor pattern of programming.
See also
List of JBoss software Comparison of business integration software
Comparison of application servers References
Bibliography
External links JBoss application server website
Securing JBoss JBoss Wiki
JBoss Community Projects JBoss Introduction by Javid Jamae