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
Related technologies
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)