JBoss Enterprise Application Platform ( FAQ's )

What is JBoss Enterprise Application Platform ?

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is the industryleading
platform for next-generation enterprise Java
applications. It provides a stable, open source foundation
for highly transactional Java applications and services.
And it's integrated, simplified, and delivered by Red Hat,
the leader in enterprise open source software.

What does it do?

By combining market-leading technologies into a single,
simple, and flexible solution, JBoss Enterprise Application
Platform makes it easy to develop, deploy, and manage
Java Enterprise Edition (EE) applications. It includes leading
open source technologies for building, deploying, and
hosting enterprise Java applications in dynamic environments.
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform provides
a stable and consistent enterprise Java foundation that
supports a variety of popular programming models and
deployment options, spanning traditional application
deployments to on- and off-premise cloud deployments.

Why should I care?

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform balances innovation
with enterprise-class stability. By integrating and certifying
the most popular Java application server on the
market with next-generation application frameworks, it
removes complexities from enterprise Java development
and deployment. JBoss Enterprise Application platform
includes high-availability features and comprehensive
administrative tooling to support, manage, and scale out
mission-critical enterprise Java applications. By including
all of the technologies needed for enterprise Java deployments
in a single subscription, JBoss Enterprise Application
Platform provides a stable platform that simplifies the
development and management of next-generation Java
applications and services. Red Hat customers take advantage
of affordable JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
subscriptions to help extend their companies' middleware
budgets and improve their total costs of ownership.
and available through flexible and affordable subscriptions,
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform includes everything
you need to build and manage rich and highly transactional
enterprise Java applications.

Benefits ?

Choice without compromise. Support the variety of popular
programming choices and deployment styles on a single,
flexible Java application platform—without compromising
on operational stability. Enterprise services for clustering,
caching, web services, security, messaging, and transactions
can be easily configured and customized across a
selection of supported programming styles (POJOs, Java
EE, Spring) and frameworks to support all of the common
types of enterprise Java applications from a single runtime
platform.

Innovation with stability. Benefit from the latest open
source innovations that have been tested and certified
for enterprise-class stability on a combination of leading
operating systems, chip architectures, and databases.
With a long-term product support lifecycle and backed
with an extensive partner ecosystem of certified independent
software vendors (ISVs), JBoss Enterprise Application
Platform provides a stable and supportable platform for
any mission-critical Java application.

Build applications faster. Take advantage of rich web
technologies and popular developer productivity frameworks
that work together from the start. Remove library
configuration complexities and conflicts. Simplify enterprise
Java development with a flexible and easy-touse
application platform. JBoss Enterprise Application
Platform, combined with JBoss Developer Studio, provides
a fully integrated development environment that helps
improve developer productivity throughout the entire
application development lifecycle.

Standard and flexible. Develop and deploy on an enterprise
Java platform that implements industry standards
in a flexible and open way. Delivered as a 100% pure
Java open source solution, JBoss Enterprise Application
Platform provides you with absolute transparency to see
exactly what's happening in your enterprise application
server. Customize configurations, tune applications, and opment and deployment platforms are in operationally in sync.

Enhanced application security. Targeted at meeting rigorous
industry security requirements, such as Common
Criteria, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform implements
all of the required Java security standards and more. In
addition to being backed by Red Hat's security response
process, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform includes
features for password masking, instance-based access control,
security negotiation, audit, and integration support
with common single sign-on solutions to help IT organizations
maintain a safe and secure middleware environment.

Simplify application management and configuration. With
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform's administration console,
spend less time configuring and managing application
and application server settings. Through its rich embedded
user interface, developers and administrators can easily
adjust configuration settings, execute controls, and drill
into application performance metrics. For enterprise-wide
management, leverage JBoss Operations Network to control,
administer, and proactively manage all of your development,
testing, and deployment environments.


What are the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 Components ?

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is a Java Enterprise
Edition (EE) application server platform. It includes default
configurations for both development and production
use and is performance-tuned from the start for highly
transactional applications in mission-critical environments.
Delivered as a single integrated distribution, JBoss
Enterprise Application Platform includes enterprise versions
of:
JBoss Application Server, the most • widely used Java
application server on the market. In addition to being
a certified Java EE 5 platform, it also provides support
for a variety of popular programming and component
models, like POJOs and Spring. Featuring a set of highly
flexible and configurable enterprise services for caching,
clustering, messaging, transactions, and security,
as well as support for a comprehensive web services

development environment for all JBoss platforms,
JBoss Developer Studio includes both tooling and an
integrated version of the certified application platform
runtime.
• JBoss Operations Network. Red Hat's comprehensive
middleware management solution gives IT operations
a single, centralized easy to use graphical management
and administration tool for all types of Java application
workloads. With JBoss Operations Network, companies
can inventory resources from operating systems
to applications; control and audit application configurations;
standardize deployments; and manage, monitor,
and tune applications for improved visibility, performance,
and availability.

What are the Platform's and Standards Support ?

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5
Minimum system requirements
• JDK 1.6
• 512 MB RAM
• 100 MB hard disk space
• 400 MHz CPU
Supported JDKs
• Sun JDK 1.6
• OpenJDK 1.6
• IBM JDK 1.6
Supported operating systems
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is 100% pure Java.
It is supported on any operating system, including Red Hat
Enterprise Linux, Windows, and UNIX, as long as a supported
JDK is used.
Supported databases
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is supported with
any JDBC compliant database. Each release is certified
with IBM DB2, Oracle, Microsoft, MySQL, PostgreSQL,
and Sybase databases.
Additional standards
• Java Transaction Service (JTS) 1.0
• CORBA 2.3.1
• JDBC 3.0
• SPNEGO / Kerberos

Supported standards

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform supports the following
standards:
Java Enterprise E • dition 5, including:
• Java Servlet 2.5, JavaServer Faces (JSF) 1.2
• JavaServer Pages (JSP) 2.1
• Java Transaction API (JTA) 1.1
• Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) 2.1, 3.0
• Java Messaging Service (JMS) 1.1
• Java Persistence API (JPA) 1.0
• Web Services Metadata for the Java Platform 2.0
(JSR 181)
• Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS) 2.1
• Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB) 2.0
• Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS) 1.0
• Web services standards
• Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) 1.2
• SOAP Message Transmission Optimization
Mechanism (MTOM)
• XML-Binary Optimized Packaging (XOP)
• Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 1.1, 2.0
• WS-I Basic Profile 1.1
• WS-Addressing 1.0
• WS-Security 1.1
• UDDI 2.0
• Java API for XML Web Services Addressing (JAXWSA)
1.0
• WS-Atomic Transactions 1.1
• Fast Infoset
• WS-Business Activity 1.1
• WS-Coordination 1.1
• WS-Security Policy 1.3
• WS-I Attachments Profile 1.0

Subscriptions of 32 CPUs or greater include additional
value-added features, including JBoss Operations Network
and Developer support. For subscriptions totaling fewer
than 32 CPUs, JBoss Operations Network and Developer
support subscriptions may be purchased separately.

What are the additional solutions for Java applications

Round out your JBoss Enterprise Application Platform subscription
with solutions for lighter enterprise Java applications
and productivity tools targeted at both developers
and middleware administrators:
• JBoss Enterprise Web Server. For simple web applications
and the lightest Java workloads, JBoss Enterprise
Web Server provides a stable, long-term, enterprise
product support lifecycle for Apache Web Server,
Apache Tomcat, and all of the common connectors
used in between.
• JBoss Developer Studio. Red Hat's innovative Eclipsebased
developer tool that provides a single integrated

What are the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5
Features

Enterprise-class performance & scalability. Take advantage
of integrated clustering and high-availability features
for superior application performance. With built-in features
for failover, caching, intelligent load balancing, and distributed
deployment, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
is a proven foundation for highly scalable Java applications
in mission-critical environments.

Second-generation, service-based architecture.
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is built on top
of the innovative JBoss Microcontainer architecture to
provide improved class-loading, performance, lifecycle
management, and flexibility across a wide variety of programming
and component models including Java EE,
POJOs, OSGi, and Spring. The Microcontainer lets you
separate enterprise services from the core application
server runtime engine to deliver a highly configurable
and flexible Java application platform without compromising
operational stability.

Integrated frameworks. JBoss Enterprise Application
Platform features industry-leading frameworks for building
rich Internet applications and integrating all of the technologies
required to build common types of Java applications,
from simple web apps to highly transactional Java
EE applications and everything in between. Stable, enterprise-
grade versions of each framework are integrated,
certified, and kept up to date as part the JBoss Enterprise
Application Platform product lifecycle, ensuring both develstack, JBoss Application Server supports all types
of enterprise Java applications.
Hibernate, the leading object/relational mapping and
persistence (ORM) framework.

Hibernate directly addresses enterprise Java complexities by providing
the ability to easily map an object model’s data representation
to a relational data model and corresponding
database schema. Hibernate also provides data query
and retrieval facilities that significantly reduce development
time and help eliminate the need for manual,
hand-crafted data processing using SQL and JDBC.

• Seam, a powerful application framework that simplifies
building next-generation web applications. Seam
supports a streamlined programming model and helps
overcome common framework integration issues.
Seam helps unify technologies such as Asynchronous
JavaScript and XML (AJAX), Java Server Faces (JSF),
Enterprise Java Beans (EJB 3), Java Portlets and business
process management (BPM) through a standardized
approach.

• JBoss Web Framework Kit includes popular web frameworks
for quickly and easily building light and rich Java
applications. By combining leading rich application
frameworks—Google Web Toolkit and RichFaces—with
popular Java frameworks—Spring and Apache Struts—
JBoss Web Framework Kit provides an enterprise with
a certified way to adopt popular open source frameworks
on JBoss Enterprise Middleware.