WildFly
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Original author(s) | JBoss |
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Developer(s) | Red Hat |
Stable release | 10.0.0.Final
/ January 29, 2016[1] |
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Written in | Java |
Operating system | Cross-platform |
Type | Application server |
License | GNU Lesser General Public License |
Website | www |
WildFly,[2] formerly known as JBoss AS, or simply JBoss, is an application server authored by JBoss, now developed by Red Hat. WildFly is written in Java, and implements the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) specification. It runs on multiple platforms.
WildFly is free and open-source software, subject to the requirements of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), version 2.1.
On 20 November 2014, JBoss Application Server was renamed WildFly. The JBoss Community and other Red Hat JBoss products like JBoss Enterprise Application Platform were not renamed.[3]
Origin
In 1999, Marc Fleury started a free software project named EJB-OSS (stands for Enterprise Java Bean Open Source Software) implementing the EJB API from J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition). Sun Microsystems asked the project to stop using the trademarked EJB within its name. EJB-OSS was then renamed to JBOSS, then JBoss later.[4]
Versions
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Product version | Java EE version | Release to web | Description |
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0.0.4 | ? | 24 February 1999 | Early access release |
2.2 | ? | ? | |
2.4 | ? | ? | Integration with Tomcat 3.2 |
3.0 "Rabbit Hole" | ? | 31 May 2002 | |
3.2 | ? | 2 June 2003 | |
4.0 | 1.4 | 20 September 2004 | v4.0 features an embedded Apache Tomcat 5.5 servlet container, and supports any Java Virtual Machine (JVM) versions 1.4 through 1.6. |
4.2 | 1.4 | 11 May 2007 | Deploys Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 by default. It requires the Java Development Kit version 5, and includes Tomcat 5.5. |
5.1 | 5.0 | 23 May 2009 | A minor update of the major release JBoss AS 5.0, which was in development for at least three years and was built on top of a new JBoss microcontainer.[5] JBoss AS 5.1 contains a preview of some elements from the Java EE 6 specification.[6] |
6.0[7] | 6.0 | 28 December 2010 | Although JBoss AS 6 does support the full Java EE 6 stack,[8] Red Hat elected not to certify it with Oracle[9][10] It is, however, officially certified to support the Java EE 6 Web Profile. |
7.0[11] "Lightning" | 6.0 | 12 July 2011 | The Java EE profile is only partially implemented: It includes MDBs, but listening to JMS destinations is not supported.[12] It is, however, certified for the Web Profile. The software code has been completely rewritten for JBoss AS 7.[13][14] Major changes visible to the user are the inability to define resources like JMS destinations and datasources inside archives (war/ear),[15][16] the way datasources are defined,[17][18] a much smaller size (less than half of JBoss AS 6)[11] and a 10-fold reduction in startup time.[19] |
7.1 | 6.0 | 16 February 2012 | Red Hat implemented the remaining parts of the EE spec, and this version was certified for the EE full profile.[20] |
8.0.0 | 7.0 | 20 November 2014[21] | JBoss renamed to WildFly. Undertow replaced JBossWeb as web container |
9.0.0 "Kenny" | 7.0 | 2 July 2015[21] | WildFly/WildFly Core split. |
10.0.0 | 7.0 | 9 February 2016[21] | Java 8+ support (Java 7 support discontinued), ActiveMQ Artemis, HA Singleton Deployments, HA Singleton Message Driven Beans (MDBs) and MDB Delivery Groups, Stateless Session Bean and Message Driven Bean Automatic Pool Sizing, Hibernate 5 |
Product features
- Clustering
- Deployment API
- Distributed caching (using Infinispan, a standalone project)
- Distributed deployment
- Enterprise JavaBeans versions 3 and 2.1
- Failover (including Web and EJB sessions)
- Hibernate integration (for persistence programming; Java Persistence API or JPA)
- Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS)
- Java EE Connector Architecture (JCA) integration
- Java Management Extensions
- Java Message Service (JMS) integration
- Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI)
- Java Transaction API (JTA)
- Java Authorization Contract for Containers (JACC) integration
- JavaMail
- Java Server Faces 1.2 (Mojarra)
- Java Server Pages (JSP) / Java Servlet 2.1/2.5 (Tomcat)
- JBossWS (JBoss Web Services) for Java EE web services like JAX-WS
- JDBC
- Load balancing
- Management API
- OSGi framework
- RMI-IIOP (JacORB, contraction of Java and CORBA)
- SOAP with Attachments API for Java (SAAJ)
- Teiid data virtualization system
Licensing and pricing
JBoss itself is open source, but Red Hat charges to provide a support subscription for JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Before November 2010 JBoss was licensed as annual subscription in bundles of 4 and 32 CPU sockets. As of November 2010 the licensing changed and all cores on the system are now counted. The core bundles licensing is available for 16 and 64 cores.[22]
See also
- Comparison of application servers
- JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
- List of JBoss software
- Apache TomEE
- Apache Geronimo
- IBM WebSphere Application Server
- JOnAS application server
- Oracle WebLogic Server
- GlassFish
Notes
- ^ "WildFly 10 Final is now available!". Wildfly.
- ^ "JBoss Application Server has a new name... WildFly". Wildfly. Retrieved 2013-04-23.
- ^ "Frequently Asked Questions". WildFly. Retrieved 2013-04-23.
- ^ Jamae & Johnson 2010, p. 4.
- ^ "JBossAS 5.0.0.GA Released". 2008-12-05.
- ^ "JBoss 5.1.0.GA Release Notes". 2009-05-23.
- ^ "Home / JBoss / 6.0.0.Final". JBoss Community. 2010-12-28.
- ^ http://community.jboss.org/thread/160813
- ^ Dimitris Andreadis (2011-01-05). "Introducing the Brand New JBoss AS 6.0!". Retrieved 2015-05-27.
- ^ http://community.jboss.org/message/574581
- ^ a b "JBoss Application Server downloads".
- ^ http://community.jboss.org/thread/169508
- ^ http://community.jboss.org/message/595453
- ^ Jason Greene (2011-07-25). "Why is JBoss AS 7 so fast?". Retrieved 2015-05-27.
- ^ http://community.jboss.org/message/606449
- ^ http://community.jboss.org/wiki/JBossAS7VsAS6
- ^ http://community.jboss.org/wiki/DataSourceConfigurationInAS7
- ^ How to create and manage datasources in AS7
- ^ JBoss Application Server 7.
- ^ "JBoss AS 7.1.0.Final "Thunder" released - Java EE 6 Full Profile certified!". Retrieved 2015-05-27.
- ^ a b c "Downloads · WildFly".
- ^ "JBOSS NA Channel SKUs: Production Subscription SKUs". Red Hat.
References
- Marchioni, Francesco (January 2, 2014). "WildFly 8 Administration guide". ItBuzzPress.
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