WildFly, formerly known as JBoss AS, or simply JBoss, is an
application server written by
JBoss, now developed by
Red Hat. WildFly is written in
Java
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and implements the
Java Platform, Enterprise Edition
Jakarta EE, formerly Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) and Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE), is a set of specifications, extending Java SE with specifications for enterprise features such as distributed computing and web ser ...
(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
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(LGPL), version 2.1.
Origin
In 1999,
Marc Fleury
Marc Fleury (born 1968) is the creator of JBoss, an open-source Java application server.
Fleury was born in Paris. He holds a degree in mathematics and a doctorate in physics from the École Polytechnique in Paris and a Master in Theoretical ...
started a free software project named ''EJB-OSS'' (stands for ''Enterprise Java Bean Open Source Software'') implementing the
EJB API
An application programming interface (API) is a way for two or more computer programs to communicate with each other. It is a type of software interface, offering a service to other pieces of software. A document or standard that describes how ...
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.
On November 20, 2014, JBoss Application Server was renamed WildFly. The JBoss Community and other Red Hat JBoss products like
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform were not renamed.
Licensing and pricing
JBoss EAP 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 2, 16, and 64 cores.
See also
*
List of application servers
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Netty (software)
Netty is a non-blocking I/O client-server framework for the development of Java network applications such as protocol servers and clients. The asynchronous event-driven network application framework and tools are used to simplify network prog ...
*
List of JBoss software
Notes
References
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