Item: JBoss SOA Platform
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform is used in some parts of the organizaton internally to create business applications and services that conform to SOA architecture. JBoss is also used as an integration middleware for various applications, some of which are customer-facing.

Pros and Cons

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.

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

Return on Investment

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.

Alternatives Considered

Apache Web Server, Oracle BPEL Process Manager, Oracle BPM Suite, IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer and Mule ESB

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.

Support Rating

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.

Key Insights

Do you think JBoss SOA Platform delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with JBoss SOA Platform's feature set?

Yes

Did JBoss SOA Platform live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of JBoss SOA Platform go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy JBoss SOA Platform again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Amazon Aurora, Apache Web Server, Microsoft Azure

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Open-source option for SOA platform using Java

Overall Satisfaction with JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform