JBoss WildFly

JBoss WildFly is a leading open-source, lightweight, and modular application server developed by Red Hat. It provides a robust runtime environment for building, deploying, and hosting highly transactional Java applications and services, fully compliant with the Jakarta EE (formerly Java EE)…

Key facts

First appeared
1999
Category
technology
Problem solved
JBoss WildFly, originally JBoss AS, was created to address the significant challenges developers faced in the late 1990s and early 2000s: the high cost, complexity, and vendor lock-in associated with proprietary Java EE (then J2EE) application servers like IBM WebSphere and Oracle WebLogic. It aimed to provide an open-source, flexible, and high-performance alternative, democratizing enterprise Java development.
Platforms
macOS, Java Virtual Machine (JVM), Windows, Linux

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Notable users

  • Healthcare providers (via JBoss EAP)
  • Government agencies (via JBoss EAP)
  • Red Hat (as the basis for JBoss EAP)
  • Financial institutions (via JBoss EAP)
  • Various large enterprises globally for mission-critical Java applications
  • Telecommunications companies (via JBoss EAP)