WildFly Announced as Community Successor to the JBoss Application
Server
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, has introduced WildFly as the successor to the JBoss
Application Server project. WildFly represents both a brand refresh for
the project and a renewal of its vision to drive the next generation of
application server technologies. The name was chosen by members of the
open source community on JBoss.org during a special election in late
2012.
The technology will continue to serve as the upstream project for Red
Hat's JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and addresses some of the
key forces shaping middleware today, including the shift toward more
flexible and modern approaches to application development, open hybrid
cloud enablement, and Java Enterprise Edition 7 (Java EE 7).
"WildFly continues the decade-long tradition of Red Hat JBoss Middleware
to push the boundaries of enterprise software development," said Mark
Little, Ph.D., vice president, Middleware engineering, Red Hat. "It also
represents a significant opportunity for wider community adoption and
involvement."
The first iteration of the project, WildFly 8, is focused on earning
rapid certification of the Java EE 7 specification, which brings
simplicity, standardization and embeddability for both cloud and mobile
development scenarios. Red Hat has already demonstrated a number of
projects, including JBoss Application Server 7 and Infinispan, running
on Raspberry Pi, plug computers and mobile phones.
The Java EE 7 specification includes WebSockets and improvements to
Contexts and Dependency Injection (CDI). Over time, plans call for
WildFly to incorporate and support the pillars of the technological
vision of the JBoss Community: compelling functionality for polyglot
programming, broad developer ecosystems and the ability to operate in
hybrid cloud environments.
Availability
The first alpha build of WildFly is slated to be available in May 2013
as a free, community downloadable project.
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