We performed a comparison between IIS and JBoss based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Server solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."IIS's best features are its management console and stability."
"IIS's most valuable feature is user-friendliness."
"It has an intuitive user interface and provides a lot of options for building reports."
"IIS is easy to configure in terms of websites and other solutions."
"The solution is highly reliable."
"The product is easy to use."
"The tool is very easy to use and efficient."
"It is a lightweight web host that is easy to configure for simple webpages."
"JBoss has made it very easy to implement web applications."
"The tool's most beneficial feature is its scalability. People with limited technical knowledge can quickly grasp its functions with a brief introduction. The tool's ease of use makes it a plug-and-play solution, reducing the effort required to train users on its usage."
"There's good documentation and a pretty good community surrounding the product."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The support is fast and reliable."
"The product integrates well with Java applications."
"We use JBoss mainly for application deployments and application servers."
"The solution's technical support is good."
"The solution's stability needs improvement."
"Sometimes if you are using IIS in large-scale scenarios, meaning that if you are deploying an application within IIS service and you are expecting a large number of users to use this application, you can sometimes find some problems, meaning that the service can shut down by itself unexpectedly if you don't configure your IIS with the correct configuration that can handle this number of users."
"IIS has some stability issues and needs restarting."
"It lacks a few performance improvement tools."
"Sometimes, we encounter difficult issues, and getting support from Microsoft to resolve those issues is not easy."
"It would be beneficial if you could automate security certificate monitoring with IIS."
"The solution's scalability needs improvement."
"The solution should improve the cluster environment and load balancing."
"It can have automation features. Everybody is focused right now on automation. In terms of saving cost, automation is always the first thing that comes to light."
"Sometimes the console has a glitch."
"Having the support combined with Red Hat support would be an improvement."
"The product could be cheaper."
"In terms of monitoring, the old version was somewhat limited in flexibility, lacking the ability to easily adjust configurations."
"JBoss is not as reliable and stable as WebLogic."
"The price of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required. The product could be made cheaper."
"There is not much ability inside of the solution. The world is going beyond different micro and data-type things like Microsoft Office, so we are not seeing much ability within the solution."
IIS is ranked 4th in Application Server with 53 reviews while JBoss is ranked 3rd in Application Server with 24 reviews. IIS is rated 8.0, while JBoss is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of IIS writes " A simple and easy-to-use solution but not recommended for public apps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of JBoss writes "A flexible and stable solution that is cost-efficient compared to other products". IIS is most compared with NGINX Plus, Apache Web Server, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tomcat and Microsoft .NET Framework, whereas JBoss is most compared with Tomcat, Oracle WebLogic Server, IBM WebSphere Application Server, Oracle GlassFish and TmaxSoft JEUS. See our IIS vs. JBoss report.
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