As some of you may remember, back in June, 2009 we announced our "JBoss Open Choice" strategy, by which we would deliver specifically tailored products for various workloads, giving customers the maximum amount of choice for their particular needs.
Well, as of today, we have delivered on that announcement, and now have a full spectrum of products to meet your deployment requirements. So without further adieu, what does this all mean.
We now have three distinct products that you can deploy with varying levels of API support to choose from. First, we have our Enterprise Web Server (EWS) product, which is a supported Apache HTTPD and Apache Tomcat. Now, you might be thinking, doesn't Red Hat already support Apache HTTPD through Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)? The answer to that is yes, but only on RHEL. We have made Apache HTTPD available as a cross platform product now, so platforms including Windows server are supported by us. So, EWS is for those that want a very lightweight, build your own stack type of solution. Since we are talking about a very small subset of EE functionality with Tomcat. Next up, is our JBoss Enterprise Web Platform (EWP).
With EWP 5.0, announced today at EclipseCon 2010, we deliver the vision that we had for EE 6, with a web profile. It's the EE 5 technology in this case, but patterned after the web profile defined for EE 6. So, it gives developers the most often used EE 5 technologies for building web applications, but nothing more. This product will meet the needs of the majority of developers not wanting to build their own stack for web applications, without all the extra baggage for the things that you don't need. For a lot of deployments, this is the Goldilocks version, "JUST RIGHT". Of course, one size never fits all, and many people need all of the EE 5 technologies.
That brings us to the tried and true Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 5.0, which was released last November. A complete EE 5 certified platform, that will meet the needs of any application in the enterprise.
Well, its been a great nine months since we announced the "JBoss Open Choice" initiative, and now we have delivered! If you want more information on the products, you can see our product pages on our website, using the following links:
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