JBoss Enterprise Web Platform 5
for Use with JBoss Enterprise Web Platform 5
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Abstract
These release notes contain important information related to JBoss Enterprise Web Platform 5.0.1 that may not be currently available in the Product Manuals. You should read these Release Notes in their entirety before installing JBoss Enterprise Web Platform 5.0.1.
These release notes contain important information related to JBoss Enterprise Web Platform 5.0.1. New features, known problems, resources, and other current issues are addressed here.
JBoss Enterprise Web Platform is a core component of JBoss Open Choice, Red Hat's application server product strategy to deliver targeted platforms that support the variety of common Java application workloads in today's IT enterprise. As part of JBoss Open Choice, Red Hat provides three Java application server solutions:
- JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
- The Enterprise Application Platform is for highly transactional applications that utilize the full Java Enterprise Edition (EE) programming approach. It leverages the market leading JBoss Application Server and adds enterprise features for clustering, caching, messaging, transactions, and a full web services stack
- JBoss Enterprise Web Platform
- The Enterprise Web Platform is for mid-size workloads, focusing on light and rich Java applications. Web Platform is a slimmed down profile of the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. Web Platform builds upon the Java EE Web Profile concept to provide a lightweight version of the popular JBoss Application Server, while still providing enterprise features for clustering, caching, and simple web services.
- JBoss Enterprise Web Server
- The Enterprise Web Server is for simple web applications and the lightest Java workloads, JBoss Enterprise Web Server provides enterprises with a stable, long-term enterprise product support lifecycle for Apache Web Server, Apache Tomcat and all of the common connectors used in between.
JBoss Enterprise Web Platform 5.0 is a lighter and slimmer version of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.