JBoss Web Server 5.0 is here!

We are excited to announce the General Availability of Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.0 for RHEL only (*) and the Technology Preview of Transactions Processing with Narayana.
JWS 5 is available through Zip, RPM, Maven Repository and Container Catalog.

Red Hat JBoss Web Server combines market-leading open source technologies with enterprise capabilities to provide a single solution for large-scale websites and lightweight web applications.
It combines the world's most deployed web server (Apache) with the top servlet engine (Tomcat) and the best support in middleware (ours).

(*) Other platforms forthcoming
 

New Features and Enhancements

Based on the new and shiny Tomcat 9.0.7:
- HTTP/2 Support
- Servlet 4.0 Specification
- OpenSSL for TLS with JSSE connectors (NIO and NIO2)
- NIO connector is the default for HTTP/1.1 when tomcat-native is installed
- TLS virtual hosting (SNI) support

Also these enhancements:
- Support for embedded distributions (fat jar deployments)
- Asynchronous Support NIO2
- Transactions Processing through Narayana and DBCP2 (Tech Preview)
- System daemon integration scripts provided for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux users installing from .zip archives
- The tomcat-vault installation process has been improved
- The vault.properties file for tomcat-vault can be stored outside JWS_HOME
- Change in manager and host-manager webapp behavior
- Change to mod_cluster 1.4 - a connector needs to be specified
- Allows the configuration of multiple properties files
- Logging JBoss Web Server with log4j deprecated
- Tomcat embedded included in the Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.0 maven repository

For more information please review the JBoss Web Server Documentation Site