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JBoss Operations Network (or JBoss ON or JON) is free software

Free software

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/open-source

Open-source software

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Java EE-based network management

Network management

Network management refers to the activities, methods, procedures, and tools that pertain to the operation, administration, maintenance, and provisioning of networked systems....

software. JBoss Operations Network is part of the JBoss Enterprise Middleware portfolio of software. JBoss ON is an administration and management platform for the development, testing, deployment, and monitoring of the application lifecycle. Because it is Java

Java (programming language)

Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...

-based, the JBoss application server operates cross-platform: usable on any operating system that supports Java

Java (programming language)

. JBoss ON was developed by JBoss

JBoss (company)

JBoss is a division of Red Hat, Inc.. It specializes in open-source middleware software.The company profits from a service-based business model. JBoss employ a Professional Open Source business model where the core developers of projects make a living and offer their services...

, now a division of Red Hat

Red Hat

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Product features

JBoss ON provides management of the following software and the applications that run on them:

JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform
JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform
The JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform is free software/open-source Java EE-based Service Oriented Architecture software. The JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform is part of the JBoss Enterprise Middleware portfolio of software...
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
The JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is a subscription-based/open-source Java EE-based application server runtime platform used for building, deploying, and hosting highly-transactional Java applications and services. The JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is part of the JBoss Enterprise...

(EAP)
JBoss Enterprise Web Server (EWS)

JBoss ON provides management of the following:

Discovery and inventory
Configuration management
Configuration management
Configuration management is a field of management that focuses on establishing and maintaining consistency of a system or product's performance and its functional and physical attributes with its requirements, design, and operational information throughout its life.For information assurance, CM...
Application deployment
Software deployment
Software deployment is all of the activities that make a software system available for use.The general deployment process consists of several interrelated activities with possible transitions between them. These activities can occur at the producer site or at the consumer site or both...
Availability management
Performance management
Performance management
Performance management includes activities that ensure that goals are consistently being met in an effective and efficient manner. Performance management can focus on the performance of an organization, a department, employee, or even the processes to build a product or service, as well as many...
Content management
Content management
Content management, or CM, is the set of processes and technologies that support the collection, managing, and publishing of information in any form or medium. In recent times this information is typically referred to as content or, to be precise, digital content...
Provisioning
Provisioning
In telecommunication, provisioning is the process of preparing and equipping a network to allow it to provide services to its users. In NS/EP telecommunications services, "provisioning" equates to "initiation" and includes altering the state of an existing priority service or capability.In a...

JBoss ON is the downstream of RHQ (see also below).

Licensing & Pricing

The various JBoss application platforms are open source, but Red Hat charges to provide a support subscription for JBoss Enterprise Middleware.

Associated acronyms

RHQ - upstream open source project of JBoss ON. Current stable version is RHQ 4.1; main difference between RHQ 4 and RHQ 3 is the transition of the UI framework to Google Web Toolkit
Google Web Toolkit
Google Web Toolkit is an open source set of tools that allows web developers to create and maintain complex JavaScript front-end applications in Java. Other than a few native libraries, everything is Java source that can be built on any supported platform with the included GWT Ant build files...

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Jopr - previously the JBossAS management bits (upstream) of JBoss ON - now integrated into the RHQ source base (since September 2009). Jopr used to use RHQ as its upstream. There will be no more separate Jopr releases.
JON

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Product features

Licensing & Pricing

Associated acronyms

See also

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