Red Hat launches updated JBoss Enterprise

Open source solutions provider Red Hat has announced the general availability of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6, which features a new cloud-ready architecture, new and improved management capabilities and upgraded and enhanced usability.

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 is designed to provide developers and enterprises with a high-performance, low-footprint, easy-to-manage solution to help enterprises build applications and ease into the cloud. JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 is designed to offer greater agility than previous versions of the solution, allowing customers to move their application development and deployment to the cloud without the need to re-skill or diverge from open industry standards.

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 is the run-time engine that drives Java workloads in Red Hat OpenShiftTM, Red Hat's Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering.

 JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 is designed for the cloud, is pluggable, lightweight and modern, features flexible manageability, is optimised for multi-core and virtualised, upgraded middleware components, and features support for Java EE 6 and other popular frameworks and tools.  

Red Hat is also introducing a number of services capabilities to help accelerate customer adoption of the new technologies. This includes the availability of new JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6-specific courses and JBoss Certified Application Administrator Certification, as well as strategic training and service offerings to help guide customers migrating to the solution.

The JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 is available for download now.