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
Welcome! Check out the Getting Started with Red Hat page for quick tours and guides for common tasks.
