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Original author(s)
  
JBoss

Written in
  
Java

Developer(s)
  
Red Hat

Operating system
  
Cross-platform

Stable release
  
10.1 / August 19, 2016 (2016-08-19)

Repository
  
github.com/wildfly/wildfly

WildFly, formerly known as JBoss AS, or simply JBoss, is an application server authored by JBoss, now developed by Red Hat. WildFly is written in Java, and implements the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) specification. It runs on multiple platforms.

Contents

WildFly is free and open-source software, subject to the requirements of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), version 2.1.

On 20 November 2014, JBoss Application Server was renamed WildFly. The JBoss Community and other Red Hat JBoss products like JBoss Enterprise Application Platform were not renamed.

Origin

In 1999, Marc Fleury started a free software project named EJB-OSS (stands for Enterprise Java Bean Open Source Software) implementing the EJB API from J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition). Sun Microsystems asked the project to stop using the trademarked EJB within its name. EJB-OSS was then renamed to JBOSS, then JBoss later.

Versions

Upgrades to newer versions of WildFly or JBoss EAP may be handled using the JBoss Windup migration tool.

Product features

  • Clustering
  • Deployment API
  • Distributed caching (using Infinispan, a standalone project)
  • Distributed deployment
  • Enterprise JavaBeans versions 3 and 2.1
  • Failover (including Web and EJB sessions)
  • Hibernate integration (for persistence programming; Java Persistence API or JPA)
  • Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS)
  • Java EE Connector Architecture (JCA) integration
  • Java Management Extensions
  • Java Message Service (JMS) integration
  • Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI)
  • Java Transaction API (JTA)
  • Java Authorization Contract for Containers (JACC) integration
  • JavaMail
  • Java Server Faces 2.2 (Mojarra)
  • Java Server Pages (JSP) / Java Servlet 2.1/2.5 (Tomcat)
  • JBossWS (JBoss Web Services) for Java EE web services like JAX-WS
  • JDBC
  • Load balancing
  • Management API
  • OSGi framework
  • RMI-IIOP (JacORB, contraction of Java and CORBA)
  • SOAP with Attachments API for Java (SAAJ)
  • Teiid data virtualization system
  • WebSockets

    • Licensing and pricing

    JBoss EAP itself is open source, but Red Hat charges to provide a support subscription for JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Before November 2010 JBoss was licensed as annual subscription in bundles of 4 and 32 CPU sockets. As of November 2010 the licensing changed and all cores on the system are now counted. The core bundles licensing is available for 16 and 64 cores.

    References

    WildFly Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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