We performed a comparison between IBM WebSphere Application Server 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."Starting with version 8, WAS provides a special folder called monitor deployment. Once you put the .war or .ear file in there, it is deployed automatically without human intervention. This greatly helps us in our continuous integration server. Once the deployment binary is ready, we write a script to copy it to that folder and then, voila! The application is up and running and accessible from its context root."
"The most valuable features are its user-friendliness and reliability in terms of application hosting."
"IBM WAS is extremely scalable. It is easy to add additional servers and to divide the load over servers in all kinds of ways."
"The solution is robust. The connection management and the scalability, which IBM provides to the Stack, are also valuable."
"The solution is very stable and robust."
"IBM WebSphere Application Server is one of the best servers due to its stability and paid license."
"The VPN service is quite useful."
"The scalability of the product is quite good."
"JBoss's configuration is straightforward and easy."
"The solution's support is very good for repairing components."
"The most valuable thing about JBoss is how easy it is to install and manage it on-premise, making the process simple."
"JBoss has made it very easy to implement web applications."
"We use JBoss mainly for application deployments and application servers."
"It is a Java-based product, so it is pretty straightforward. It is pretty easy from a developer's perspective. It is also pretty reliable and scalable."
"The greatest benefit of JBoss is that it was procured by IBM, thereby offering exceptional support for our banking operations."
"There's good documentation and a pretty good community surrounding the product."
"The footprint could be reduced so that we can use a smaller virtual machine to run the application. We could also use more scripts. I would like this solution to be more script oriented, rather than GUI oriented."
"Installing or configuring a WAS server instance as a Windows Service causes a lot of problems, especially when the server needs credentials to stop."
"Some things are very difficult to do, so the interface and usage could be more intuitive for those."
"They should make the solution more lightweight and not bundle everything into a single product."
"What could be improved in IBM WebSphere Application Server is its interconnection with other products, for example, Kafka. What I'd like to see in the next release of the solution is a better graphical user interface."
"The solution consumes hardware."
"It should be able to serve more concurrent requests like Oracle. Oracle has more powerful stability, availability, and real-time serving."
"When compared with WebLogic, Weblogic is lighter and consumes less memory."
"Sometimes the console has a glitch."
"The solution's pricing could be improved because it is not cheap."
"The solution sometimes crashed and had some compatibility issues with the DevOps JAR file."
"The solution could improve by providing more integration."
"The product could be cheaper."
"Logging-related issues in JBoss require improvement."
"The solution's documentation could be better."
"Having the support combined with Red Hat support would be an improvement."
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IBM WebSphere Application Server is ranked 5th in Application Server with 26 reviews while JBoss is ranked 3rd in Application Server with 24 reviews. IBM WebSphere Application Server is rated 7.8, while JBoss is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of IBM WebSphere Application Server writes "Compatible, stable, and scalable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of JBoss writes "A flexible and stable solution that is cost-efficient compared to other products". IBM WebSphere Application Server is most compared with JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Tomcat, Oracle WebLogic Server, IBM BPM and IBM DataPower Gateway, whereas JBoss is most compared with Tomcat, Oracle WebLogic Server, IIS, Oracle GlassFish and TmaxSoft JEUS. See our IBM WebSphere Application Server vs. JBoss report.
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