JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP)

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6

Red Hat submitted in the spring of 2012 the beta of the new JBoss Enterprise Application Platform platform, public for loading. In 2011 the company started the program of early access to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 created by it. An exit of the last will become the culmination of efforts of Red Hat directed to facilitating implementation of Java Enterprise Edition (EE) technologies 6, to provide an opportunity to use the platform in the form of service (PaaS) and to simplify control of application servers irrespective of the place of their deployment.

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform of new generation differs in faster work and reactivity. The platform became more productive and easy to control. This ready for work in a cloud the solution is based on JBoss Application Server 7 open source, one of the first Java EE servers available in the form of PaaS, and should help with deployment of cloud computing with rates, acceptable for the organizations.

In parallel Red Hat offers developers and the beta of JBoss Developer Studio 5. According to the company, this new solution represents generic collection of the tools facilitating creation of a broad spectrum of critical business applications from data processing centers to software of the mobile equipment.

According to Red Hat, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 was created counting upon a cloud. It means that the platform was projected and under construction for use in various environments, including private and public clouds. At such approach it is easier to master cloud computing and the enterprises can not be afraid that the applications created and unrolled today will be disabled tomorrow.

The new corporate platform includes also a set of the new management tools allowing to operate easier applications, to automate processes and to integrate own tools of the organization, including private clouds. In addition JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 became more convenient in work, including quicker start and loading and also improvements of the code allowing to start and stop on demand services, needlessly in manual loading and management of classes.

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 also supports the complete Java EE 6 specification with simpler and upgraded development approach of corporate applications. According to the Red Hat group on the middleware in a blog-post of March 15, the strategy of JBoss Open Choice providing support of other popular frameworks, in particular Spring, Struts and Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is still the cornerstone of the platform. Integration of a product into other instruments of developments, including the Maven and Hudson and JBoss Community projects, such as Arquillian and Hibernate is also improved.

As Kreg Muzilla, the vice president and the general manager of department of the middleware of Red Hat told last year, at the declaration of the program of early access to nowadays released product, 'JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 reflects our vision of the future of the platform of Java applications both for traditional, and for cloud environments. Our platform of the next generation will become big jump forward for application servers — and in sense of promotion of the Java EE specification (including those its elements which defined or which Red Hat strongly affected), and in methods of deployment, management and administration of application servers'.

In a blog-post of Red Hat Middleware Team it is also said: 'We very much recommend to load betas of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 and JBoss Developer Studio 5 and we hope for response. We are also interested that you subscribed for the forthcoming updates of these two solutions and eventually became users of the final versions planned to release towards the end of spring'.

2016: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7

On June 27, 2016 the Red Hat company announced release of the Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 application server (JBoss EAP) answering to the Java EE 7 specification, provided a set of components for application programming^[1].

JBoss EAP 7 allows to integrate the widespread Java EE 7 API interfaces with the latest technologies providing implementation of methodology of DevOps, such as integrated development environment of Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio (it can be used free of charge by participants of communities JBoss and Red Hat Developer for assembly, testing and deployment of applications at own computing powers or in a cloud) and the Jenkins, Arquillian and Maven tools and also provides support of popular frameworks of JavaScript and a web. Thanks to low system requirements JBoss EAP 7 is suitable for development, both traditional applications, and building program systems on the basis of microservices.

The solution JBoss EAP 7 is optimized for cloud environments and at deployment on the Red Hat OpenShift platform provides tools for work with containers and means of balancing of loading, elastic scaling, monitoring of operability and also allows to execute deployment of containers directly of a development environment. Besides, the complex from JBoss EAP and OpenShift eliminates duplication of functions that improves architectural efficiency in the environment of DevOps which can be strengthened due to use of additional components of the middleware on the OpenShift platform.

Mike Piech, vice president of Red Hat and head Middleware

JBoss Core Services Collection is a set of basic components for the organization of corporate applications which part the web system of a uniform input, means balancing of loading and proxying of HTTP traffic and also management tools and application monitoring and services are. Within a subscription to software of Red Hat JBoss Middleware all components are provided with technical support on the Internet and by phone and also program corrections and updates.

As a part of JBoss Core Services Collection technologies the Red Hat JBoss Operations Network system which serves for centralized operation as all products of the Red Hat JBoss Middleware family, connectors for Apache HTTP Server, IIS and iPlanet, Apache Commons Jsvc Web servers and the server uniform an input on the basis of the JBoss Keycloak project.