#1 most frequent
United States of America
40.6%251 installations of 618
What is Red Hat JBoss EAP?
Categories & Use Cases
Product Demos
Top Performing Features
Administration and management
Ease of management via administration console
Category average: 7.8
Application server performance
Speed of deploy time, initialization time and other performance metrics
Category average: 8.6
Security management
Integrated security management for applications
Category average: 8.5
Areas for Improvement
Open-source standards compliance
Support for open-source standards like J2EE
Category average: 8.4
IDE support
Support for a number of different programming environments or IDEs
Category average: 7.4
Installation
Ease of download and installation
Category average: 8.5
Who Buys & Uses Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
#2 most frequent
Germany
8.1%50 installations of 618
#3 most frequent
France
4.5%28 installations of 618
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform A More Modern Java Application Platform
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use it to host our web application for production and all of our testing environments, down to developer-integrated testing. It allows us to scale and manage configurations and provide security from web server to application server to utility server. We moved from IBM Websphere and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, while still a bit of a bear to install and upgrade, it is easier to manage and delegate responsibilities.
Pros
- Application scaling
- Configuration management
- Detailed configuration abilities
Cons
- 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
Return on Investment
- Scaling quicker
- Spinning up environments in less time
- Configuration management ease
Usability
Other Software Used
GitHub, IBM DevOps Deploy
Subscription Based, Open Source, Enterprise Application Server for Java applications.
Pros
- JBoss deployment and configuration is easy and fast. This leads to lower cost and faster deliveries.
- Jboss gives you lot of flexibility around performance tuning options to better suite your application needs.
- It is modular and cloud ready. This can be installed on-premise and cloud with equal ease.
- I specifically love it's integration with mod_cluster. It is a smart httpd based load balancing component that listens to incoming requests on web server using httpd and then intelligently routes the request to Jboss hosts.
Cons
- Jboss CLI is a great tool but we had trouble using it to get values that are displayed on Jboss GUI. It also has limitations parsing the applications.xml files and we had to use a mix of jboss-cli and linux bash commands to automate certain application administrative tasks.
- JBoss doesn't really provides performance tuning recommendations. It would have been nice if it could learn from the current demand vs current settings for things like connection pool, server configurations, garbage collection etc.
Return on Investment
- 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.
Alternatives Considered
WebSphere Application Server
Other Software Used
dbForge Studio for Oracle
Usability
JBOSS EAP - Satisfied user
Pros
- It is easy to install.
- Easy scalability.
- Makes Java applications run fast.
Cons
- Usability is not that great.
- User interface could be improved.
- Price.
Return on Investment
- Red Hat JBoss provisioning is very fast and simple, so it speeds up projects.
JBOSS EAP - it's awesome
Pros
- Reduces DevOps resource requirements
- Allows for Rapid Scalability
- Enables super fast java applications
Cons
- interface
- usability
- price
Return on Investment
- Redhat JBOSS allows you to reduce overhead needed for deployments and scaling
Other Software Used
Microsoft Project, CA Agile Central (formerly Rally), JIRA Software, JIRA Service Desk, Joomla!, VMware ESXi, VMware NSX, VMware Site Recovery Manager, Microsoft Azure, GoToMeeting, GoToMyPC, GoToAssist, Bomgar Remote Support Software, WebEx Meetings, Apple Remote Desktop, Chrome Remote Desktop, Google Analytics, Google Analytics Premium, Windows Server, Windows Server Failover Clustering
Deploy to JBoss
Pros
- Easy configuration and setup to deploy multiple web applications.
- Easy automated deployments.
- Supports the latest standards for Web Development.
Cons
- It's a bit slow to deploy once started.
- It's not as lightweight as say Tomcat.
Return on Investment
- We have multiple instances of the App Server which is a bit costly because we use multiple servers to run.
Alternatives Considered
Apache Tomcat
Other Software Used
Oracle Database 12c, Eclipse