Red Hat JBoss Enterprise

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise provides resources, tools and best practices to assist businesses in using open source middleware architecture. JBoss EAP’s architecture is innovative, modular, and cloud ready. Decrease development complexity, improve the end-user experience, resolve business process friction and enable flexibility.

It is available in the following editions:

• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform: Open source platform for next-generation Java and JavaEE applications
• JBoss Enterprise Web Server: Combines open source technologies with enterprise capabilities to provide a single solution for large scale websites and simple web applications
• JBoss Enterprise BRMS (Business Rules Management System): A comprehensive platform for business rules management and complex event processing. Organisations can incorporate sophisticated decision logic into line-of-business applications and quickly update underlying business rules as market conditions change.

Key Features:

• An application platform based on flexible, modular architecture that features services driven components. It simplifies application deployment in different environments.
• Well-suited for microservices, as well as traditional applications.
• Highly efficient and optimized for container and cloud deployments, offering an extremely low memory footprint, fast startup times, efficient resource utilization, reduced port usage and management and monitoring over HTTP (REST).
• Resource-efficient scale-out that supports your application as it evolves and grows by offering high-density deployment options and dynamic scaling.

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise - Features

Key Features:

Red Hat Enterprise Application Platform features:

• Java EE 7 support: Red Hat JBoss EAP 7 enables easier, more agile development. The Arquillian test platform makes it easier to test and offline CLI improves the ability to automate a delivery pipeline. Graceful shutdown allows for rolling deployments
• DevOps: Fully supported integration with the rest of the Red Hat ecosystem, like OpenShift and Red Hat Satellite/CloudForms, makes Red Hat JBoss EAP 7 an ideal platform to use for DevOps
• Adaptable Resource Usage: Red Hat JBoss EAP 7 adapts to the type of application used and the available infrastructure. It can power microservices using very little memory and low CPU per instance, as well as, a high performance cluster using Terabytes of memory and thousands of cores. Regardless of your deployment architecture you get the full power of Java EE 7 when using Red Hat JBoss EAP 7
• Flexible deployments: Use Red Hat JBoss EAP 7 on everything from Mainframes to Cloud and Microservices environments. The all new Web Management Console provides stand-alone server and domain management. The same platform can also be run as a managed instance in a cloud environment using OpenShift. JBoss EAP 7 enables you to move from traditional to cloud deployments without having to rewrite applications.

Red Hat JBoss Web Server features:

• Apache technologies in a single subscription: Combines the worlds most deployed web server (Apache) with the top servlet engine (Tomcat) and the best support in middleware
  
• Keeps environment secure: Utilises the Red Hat dedicated security response team to track security issues and deliver critical updates as they are identified
  
• Enterprise Ready: A web server that is backed by Red Hats long term, predictable enterprise product lifecycles, security updates and compatible with our management layer

Red Hat JBoss Business Rules Management System features:

• Intelligent Process Server: Publish rules-based applications as RESTful decision services that evaluate business data against relevant rules
  
• Cloud Ready: JBoss BRMS for xPaaS enables users of Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise to provision their accounts with realtime decision services with a single click
  
• Resource Optimiser: JBoss BRMS includes Business Resource Planner, an optimisation engine capable of quickly finding solutions to complex planning problems, such as supply chain optimisation and staff rostering
  
• Tools for Agile Development: JBoss BRMS includes intuitive graphical tools for business users and developers that improve collaboration and support DevOps practices to rapidly build, test and deploy decision services.

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise - System Requirements

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

Minimum system requirements

• Disk Space: 1GB.
• CPU: Intel Pentium Processor 1GHz.
• RAM: 128 MB.

JBoss Enterprise Web Server

Minimum system requirements

• 512 MB RAM.
• 100 MB hard disk space.
• 400 MHz CPU.

JBoss Enterprise Business Rules Management System (BRMS)

Minimum system requirements

For rules engine deployments:

• JDK 1.5 or higher.
• 512 MB RAM.
• 50 MB hard disk space.
• 400 MHz CPU.

For the full BRMS:

• JDK 1.5 or higher.
• 1.0 GB RAM.
• 200 MB hard disk space.
• 400 MHz CPU.