We got farm of Red Hat servers which has Jboss 6.1 in our environments. Now we need to upgrade Jboss AS to 6.4. The easy way is to deploy the new version on the server and copy the config files and modules to the new jboss instance. It requires additional space in the filesystem.
Is there any other way to upgrade to 6.4 without having multiple instances. I am looking something like a patch upgrade on the existing Jboss 6.1 instance in CLI mode.
Please update your valuable thoughts.
Cheers,
Jose
You can use patch in CLI mode, See the guide[1]
[1]https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/JBoss_Enterprise_Application_Platform/6.4/html/Installation_Guide/sect-Patching_JBoss_EAP_6.html
Configuring Apache's mod_jk (used just as a proxy, not as loadbalancer) is supported with JBoss 5.x Community Server?
Instead of using mod_jk, mod_cluster is a better option for JBoss. It also has support for sticky session and session replication. Mod_cluster works both with Wildfly/JBoss AS since version 5 and with Tomcat 6+. If you are looking only for mod_jk, JBoss documentation can help. Mod_cluster doc and info: http://modcluster.io
I'm looking for dates until when patches for known vulnerabilities will be delivered for the products mentioned above. I found the same for RedHat's JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, but not for JBoss AS or Wildfly.
Here's an example.
Regarding JBoss Middleware, there is a product update and support policy.
For long-life products, JBoss offers Full support for 4 years, Maintenance support for 3 years and Extended-life support for other 3-6 years.
Although you can imagine JBoss engineers working on the underlying Widlfly software creating patches and solutions for all the time of the Full Support, there is not any guarantee. In addition, note that the version numbers of the JBoss EAP are not the same of the used by Wildfly.
The JBoss EAP v 7.0 (released in 2016, for Java EE 7) uses the Wildfly 9.x (alias "Kenny", released in 2015)
The JBoss EAP v.7.1Beta (released in 2017) uses Wildfly 10.x (released in 2016).
Today (September 6, 2017), reviewing the Issue Tracker for Wildfly, almost all the updated issues in the last week are related to the last versions: 20 are for the version 11.x, 3 for the 12.x-Beta, and 1 for the 8.x. Other 31 do not specify a version. All the resolved issues (9/9) in the last week are related to the version 11.x.
I think you must consider to use one of the last two GA versions of Wildfly. The community is more active in these versions. According to the Wildfly governance page, they deliver a new final major version in around a nine month cycle.
You don't get any guaranteed support for community projects like WildFly and JBoss AS. Commercial support is only available for commercial products like JBoss EAP.
I have a Web App running using SEAM 2.0.2 on JBoss 4.2. When I tried to run it using Seam 2.1 and JBoss 5, all sorts of problems arised. Is there a porting guide available for this scenario that you're aware of ?
Thanks.
Start with jboss-seam-2.1.2/seam21migration.txt for Seam. I don't know about JBoss 5.
As far as i know the EAP editions of JBoss Application Server (AS) are just a bunch of community edition JBoss projects with some sugar.
So, what is the community edition of the JBoss Application Server that JBoss EAP 4.3.0 corresponds to?
This response is really late but I came across the unanswered question in a Google search and I wanted to make sure there's a correct response. I work for JBoss support so you can consider this a qualified answer.
JBoss EAP is the only commercially supported version of JBoss. It contains JBoss AS and JBoss Seam. EAP diverged (in terms of the svn branch it's built off) from JBoss AS around version 4.2.1 (not exactly, but close enough). EAP has a 5-year lifetime and is tested and certified rigorously. EAP has paid commercial support and patches (called CPs or cumulative patches) that are designed to maintain ABI/API stability over time while allowing for security issues and bugs to be fixed. It is actually against policy to introduce a feature in a CP, but it happens on occasion.
If you're familiar with how Red Hat Enterprise Linux differs from Fedora, you can consider the difference to be quite similar. The JBoss project/product split is much newer, though, so the differences are smaller. Here's the official page describing what I've said.
http://www.jboss.com/products/community-enterprise
Cheers,
Chris
According to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Component Details, JBoss EAP 4.3 is based on:
JBoss Application Server 4.2.1 with various updates, component upgrades, and bug fixes
The primary difference between EAP and the community release is that EAP is the officially supported configuration of the community edition, with fixed versions of the various components. RedHat was finding it too difficult to support the different component versions used by man+dog, and nailed it down to one set.
As for versioning, the EAP version numbers roughly track the community releases, but with differences:
EAP 4.2 is based on JBossAS 4.2
EAP 4.3 is also based on JBossAS 4.2.1, but with JBossMQ replaced by JBossMessaging, and Java6 support
EAP 5.0 is based on JBossAS 5.1
EAP 5.1 also seems to be based on JBossAS 5.1, with some cumulative patches
Edit:
EAP 6.x is based on JBoss Application Server 7.x
I've been digging into JBoss version information to try and find an answer to a more specific question i'm dealing with, and i thought i'd share my observations. You can get a picture of the names and dates of releases from JBoss's JIRA bug tracker: you can check out the info for the Community and Enterprise editions.
I was interested in the 4.2 branch rather than 4.3. If you hunt back a few years, you'll find that the Community release 4.2.0.GA came out on the 14th of May 2007, and was followed six weeks later by the Enterprise release 4.2.0.GA on the 3rd of July 2007. After that, the numbering diverged: the Community edition shipped point upgrades - 4.2.1.GA, 4.2.2.GA and 4.2.3.GA - every few months after that. The Enterprise edition instead shipped a series of 'cumulated patch' releases based on 4.2.0, starting with 4.2.0.GA_CP01 and hitting 4.2.0.GA_CP06 a few months ago. How do these releases relate to each other? I'm still not sure about this, but i think the theory is that the Enterprise edition doesn't gain any new features (within that branch), only bugfixes, but that those bugfixes are applied to both the Enterprise and Community editions. In fact, i suspect that in the case of my bug10, the fix was developed against the Community edition, and then crossported to the Enterprise edition, although i'm far from sure about that.
Turning back to your actual question, things are less clear. The Enterprise 4.3.0.GA came out on the 7th of January 2008, after the Community 4.2.2.GA, but before 4.2.3.GA. There is no Community 4.3.0, nor is there an Enterprise 4.2.x for any x > 0. Chris says that the Enterprise and Community versions "diverged", and i assume that what he means by that is that the Enterprise version is no longer based on just bugfixing a Community version, but rather is now an entirely separate development stream - presumably taking code drops from the Community edition where that's appropriate.
So, the answer to your question is some combination of: 4.2.2.GA (but only distantly), 4.2.0.GA (plus years of separate development), and mu.
While JBoss AS / Wildfly is really the basis for JBoss EAP, it's definitely not just "some sugar" what is added.
EAP is what went through an extensive testing and many many bug and security issues are fixed.
More, EAP is usually also faster after going though a period of performance tests, soak testing, and code analysis.
Also, EAP artefacts (jars) are all built by Red Hat, i.e. Red Hat is responsible for whatever is in them - i.e. you don't get whatever anyone puts in the central repo or whichever other repo you may have configured in your settings.xml (in case you build your own AS). Many of these third-party libraries are changed - CVE's fixed, performance issues addressed etc.
And lastly, EAP is way better in terms of features. For example, last 7.x release of JBoss AS is 7.1.1, year-and-something old, while EAP 6.1 is about a month old, and is way better in regards of manageability, stability, configurability etc. There is a several hundreds of commits difference between those two.
So, stating that "JBoss EAP X is based on JBoss AS Y" may be true, but at the same time misleading.
Check the EAP 6.1.