JBoss EAP 6.3 is now available!
This release brings continued progress on the road to making EAP the most manageable and secure Java EE 6-compliant Application Server for traditional and cloud based workloads. It also continues the core themes of the EAP 6 major version family of better user experience, improved manageability, and enhanced performance.
Where to download ?
For current customers with active subscriptions, the Beta can be downloaded from the customer support portal.
For community users developing applications that will be deployed on a supported EAP, the bits will soon be made available from www.jboss.org/products/eap under development terms & conditions, and questions can be posed to the EAP Forum.
Where are docs ?
Complete documentation is available on customer support portal, and here are quick links:
- Release Notes
- Administration and Configuration Guide
- Development Guide
- Getting Started Guide
- Installation Guide
- Migration Guide
- Security Guide
What’s new ?
- PicketLink enhancements
- Domain recovery improvements
- Support for PKCS11 keystores
- Web management console
- Patching available
- Testing DataSources
- Unified navigation labels
- Opt-in analytics collection
- Deployment overlay enhancement
- Support for Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Complete list of new features is described here.
Some of the features are available in Tech Preview mode such as WebSockets, adding/removing modules using JBoss CLI, multi-JSF and many more.
Features like JBoss OSGi, STOMP with HornetQ, mod_jk and mod_cluster with Apache on RHEL 7 and some others are not supported.
If you are looking for a Java EE 7-compliant Application Server, then download WildFly.
Hi Arun,
Is there an Eclipse Server Plugin for JBoss EAP 6.3?
The closest I found was under “Red Hat JBoss Middleware” and was called “JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.1+”.
Thanks.
David,
That should work. It does not specifically list the exact version and “+” indicates 6.3 as well.
Arun
Hi Arun,
Can you please let me know some resources(steps) for migration of Jboss eap 6.1 to jboss eap 6.3.
Migrating from 6.1 to 6.3 should be fairly straightforward, since we’ve made significants efforts to retain backwards compatibility between 6.x minor releases.
Some material for migration from pre 6.x releases can be found here:
http://www.jboss.org/migration/platforms/eap/
Also check this:
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/JBoss_Enterprise_Application_Platform/6.3/html/Migration_Guide/index.html
About Wildfly and EE versions, when is gonna be available the commercial support for Java EE 7 projects?