The Future of Enterprise Java: JBoss Open Choice

Red Hat's strategy for simple, standard & flexible Java solutions

In today's dynamic business world, the need to quickly and easily adapt to market change has never been more important. Each business challenge is different and every IT solution requires a flexible feature set to match business demand now, without sacrificing enterprise performance. The JBoss Open Choice product strategy was created with exactly these concepts in mind.

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Choice without compromise

Central to the JBoss Open Choice strategy is a flexible architecture that uniquely isolates core enterprise-class operational services from the variety of container and framework choices available today. Whether you're deploying to traditional applications or cloud-based applications, this flexibility provides application developers with the ability to choose the frameworks and API's that best fit their applications, without sacrificing the operational performance. Simple. Standard. Flexible.

Simple

Red Hat offers a simple choice of affordable solutions that support all of the popular programming styles, including:

  • A single development tool
  • Flexible workload-based runtimes
  • A common operational productivity tool

Red Hat delivers simple, easy and cost-effective solutions that meet the needs of today's dynamic Java applications. Read how Red Hat customers simplify their environments with JBoss solutions.

Standard

Industry standards are important. They give customers choice and leverage to avoid vendor lock-in. If you don't need the full Java EE standard but still want standards compliant runtime for your lighter-weight workloads, you now have a choice. Red Hat combines the power of industry standards with open source solutions designed to fit your workloads, so that you can:

  • Avoid vendor lock-in
  • Take advantage of Java standards
  • Benefit from the value of open source

Red Hat delivers value through innovative, stable technologies and exceptional service through standards and open source, which ensure our customers avoid vendor lock-in.

Learn more about JBoss leadership in industry standards.

Flexible

One size no longer fits all. The flexibility of the JBoss core enables Red Hat to deliver a choice of runtimes to meet the needs of all your Java application workloads, including:

  • Simple websites
  • Light and rich applications
  • Highly transactional systems

This flexibility also enables you to further fine tune and customize each runtime with the exact enterprise Java services your applications requires. And because each runtime leverages the same operational footprint, you can easily manage all of your applications with a single management tool. The flexibility of JBoss solutions give you the ability to quickly adapt to business demands. Learn more about Red Hat's solutions for Java Applications.