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JBoss SOA Platform vs. Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

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    JBoss SOA Platform

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ARed Hat JBoss SOA Platform drives business execution, responsiveness, and flexibility in an open platform. It delivers what the vendor describes as an easy-to-consume service-oriented architecture (SOA) integration suite that lets users build, deploy, integrate, and orchestrate applications and services.N/A

    Red Hat JBoss EAP

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AN/AN/A
    Pricing
    JBoss SOA PlatformRed Hat JBoss EAP
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    JBoss SOA PlatformRed Hat JBoss EAP
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    JBoss SOA PlatformRed Hat JBoss EAP
    SOA Governance
    Comparison of SOA Governance features of JBoss SOA Platform and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
    Feature
    JBoss SOA Platform
    7.6
    1 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Service registry7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Service management6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Service discovery7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dependency management9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Policy management9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application Servers
    Comparison of Application Servers features of JBoss SOA Platform and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
    Feature
    JBoss SOA Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
    6.8
    9 Ratings
    15% below category average
    IDE support00 Ratings6.09 Ratings
    Security management00 Ratings7.09 Ratings
    Administration and management00 Ratings8.09 Ratings
    Application server performance00 Ratings8.09 Ratings
    Installation00 Ratings5.09 Ratings
    Open-source standards compliance00 Ratings7.09 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    JBoss SOA PlatformRed Hat JBoss EAP
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.1
    (8 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.5
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.7
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    5.2
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.5
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    JBoss SOA PlatformRed Hat JBoss EAP
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Red Hat
    JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform is great when you are looking at building more or less pure Java applications and SOA micro-services that may integrate with multiple external data sources. It is less useful when you are looking to build simple SOA applications that are simple in nature since the overhead associated with deploying as well as learning BPEL.
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    Red Hat
    JBoss EAP is subscription based/open source platform. It's very reliable and great for deploying high transaction Java based enterprise applications. It integrates well with third party components like mod_cluster and supports popular Java EE web-based frameworks such as Spring, Angular JS, jQuery Mobile, and Google Web Toolkit.
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    Pros
    Red Hat
    • JBoss is open source so the cost overhead to deploy and build application is very low.
    • JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform and its parent Redhat are reputed and well adapted in the industry so it is easy to find best practices documentation for complex deployments of JBoss middleware.
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    Red Hat
    • MOD_CLUSTER integration. JBoss EAP integrates pretty well with mod_cluster. This is an intelligent load balancer especially useful in highly clustered environments.
    • Supports enterprise-grade features such as high availability clustering, distributed caching, messaging etc.
    • Supports deployment in on-premise, virtual and hybrid cloud environments.
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    Cons
    Red Hat
    • JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform is dependent and build for JEE/Java application so using a different programming paradigm will be much harder.
    • There is still a learning curve to get familiar with BPEL making it harder to get an SOA micro-service up and running compared to a fully cloud-based service
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    Red Hat
    • Difficult to replicate configuration outside of a container environment
    • Still requires quite a bit of knowledge of the CLI
    • Integration with deployment tools requires CLI knowledge
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Red Hat
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    Red Hat
    We are planning to migrate away from Jboss to Tomcat as Jboss has shown not interest in supporting OSGi which is heavily used at our shop
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    Usability
    Red Hat
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    Red Hat
    JBoss overall is easy to use. The installation and deployment of applications are quick. Documentations and support are also readily available.
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    Performance
    Red Hat
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    Red Hat
    JBoss EAP is lightweight and doesn't really consumes much physical resources. It's high performing and suites well for high transaction Java enterprise applications. The out of box performance settings are not really great and you will have to configure the settings to suite your environment to leverage it's full benefits.
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    Support Rating
    Red Hat
    Redhat support generally is great and that is true for the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform as well. Even if you do not buy support from Redhat, you can reply on the discussion board and bug fixes via the open-source JBoss without much trouble.
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    Red Hat
    Fast response.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Red Hat
    Oracle SOA Suite (Oracle BPM + Oracle BPEL + other components) and IBM WebSphere middleware is most costly and suited if you are already using applications and other middleware components from these vendors. Mulesoft (Salesforce Mule ESB) is best when you need deep integration with one of Salesforce's existing products. JBoss and Apache Web Server are best when you do not want to invest infant CapEx/OpEx on license fee. Apache Web Server based middleware is best for simple SOA applications.
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    Red Hat
    We selected JBoss because of compatibility with EJB's. We currently are trying to reduce our footprint and will highly consider using Tomcat.
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    Return on Investment
    Red Hat
    • Positive impact on the business by being able to use existing Java/JEE expertise to build and deploy applications and business services.
    • Positive ROI due to no license cost for JBoss Enterprise SOA.
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    Red Hat
    • Jboss EAP is easy to deploy and configure. This lead to lower cost and faster delivery.
    • Even though we have large number of machines running JBoss, we have only two Jboss Administrators. It doesn't requires too much administration and maintenance on daily basis and reduces number of administrators required for large implementations.
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