See also
- WildFly, the JBoss EAP upstream project
- List of JBoss software
- Comparison of business integration software
- Comparison of application servers
| JBoss Enterprise Application Platform | |
|---|---|
| Developer | Red Hat / IBM |
| Stable release | 8.1.5
/ March 17, 2026 |
| Written in | Java |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Application server, Web application framework |
| License | GNU Lesser General Public License |
| Website | www |
The JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (or JBoss EAP) is a subscription-based/ open-source Jakarta EE-based application server runtime platform used for building, deploying, and hosting highly-transactional Java applications and services developed and maintained by Red Hat. The JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is part of Red Hat's Enterprise Middleware portfolio of software. Because it is Java-based, the JBoss application server operates across platforms; it is usable on any operating system that supports Java. JBoss Enterprise Application Platform was originally called JBoss and was developed by the eponymous company JBoss, which was acquired by Red Hat in 2006.
Summer 2025, Red Hat announced that the JBoss and similar product lines and support contracts will remain at Red Hat, but the middleware development team would move to parent company IBM - and come under the same management as the WebSphere development team.
The current major generation of Red Hat JBoss EAP is JBoss EAP 8, which introduces full compatibility with Jakarta EE 10 specifications and drops support for legacy Java SE 8 runtime environments. Rather than minor point releases, maintenance updates within the version 8 lifecycle are delivered via a rolling stream of Cumulative Updates (such as JBoss EAP 8.0 Update 2).The previous major generation, JBoss EAP 7, peaked at minor version 7.4. The entire EAP 7 stream officially transitioned out of standard maintenance support on June 30, 2025, entering a restricted Extended Life Support (ELS-1) phase.
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Lists of components, features, and standards supported are available on the official Red Hat customer portal.
JBoss itself is free and open-source, but Red Hat charges to provide a support subscription for JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Red Hat allows the use of JBoss EAP for development, but to obtain support in production a support subscription is required and customizations are not supported.
During earlier major lifecycles (specifically JBoss EAP 4 and EAP 5), Red Hat distributed secondary software bundles and frameworks as part of the broader JBoss Enterprise Middleware portfolio. These variants have since been retired, consolidated into the main runtime, or replaced by modern cloud-native projects: