Siwpas
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Siwpas is a lightweight Java application server platform for running enterprise quality Java™ Platform, Enterprise Edition 6 (Java EE 6) web applications. Siwpas integrates ASF Java EE 6 related projects for providing a Java EE Web Profile compatible runtime platform.

Nowadays, a huge number of application developers and enterprise companies want to use lightweight application servers for deploying and running their web applications. They do not want to use heavyweight Java EE Servers that are fully compliant with Java EE Specifications. They want to manage light weight, cloud environment friendly servers. Nonetheless, they also need more technology stack for implementing their web based applications, such as JPA, JSF, JTA, EJB, etc.

Moreover, most of them deploy their critical enterprise web applications into the Apache Tomcat in their production systems.

Siwpas is aimed at providing a lightweight application server runtime based on Apache Tomcat 7. It also fills web applications technology requirements via ASF Java EE projects. In summary, Siwpas translates Apache Tomcat 7 into a more powerful enterprise web server.The benefits of using Siwpas can be listed as follows:
  • It has a lightweight but powerful runtime environment
  • It is based on Apache Tomcat
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  • It consists of Web Profile Specification technology stack
  • It consists of powerful, commercial quality ASF Java EE Projects
  • It is an open source project
  • It is supported by MechSoft (7x24 enterprise support)
  • It has a JSF based administration console

Product features

  • Servlet 3.0
  • Java Server Pages 2.2
  • Expression Language 2.2
  • Debugging Support for Other Languages 1.0
  • Standard Tag Library for JSP 1.2
  • Java Server Faces 2.0
  • Common Annotations for the Java Platform 1.0
  • Enterprise Java Beans Lite 3.1
  • Java Transaction API 1.1
  • Java Persistence API 2.0
  • Bean Validation 1.0
  • Managed Beans 1.0
  • Interceptors 1.1
  • Context and Dependency Injection for Java EE 1.0
  • Dependency Injection for Java 1.0
  • JSF Based Administration Console

Siwpas Editions and Licenses

Siwpas has two different editions, "Community Edition" and "Enterprise Edition". Community edition of the Siwpas is licensed under LGPL v3, i.e (Lesser General Public License v3). Enterprise version of Siwpas requires to get license key. It is based on the community edition but contains an administration console, QA tested and the most importantly, it is supported by MechSoft.

See Siwpas Editions Page

Pricing

There are three different level of subscriptions that you can get from MechSoft when you uses Siwpas EE (Enterprise Edition). Siwpas is licensed according to the number of "Siwpas Units" that Siwpas EE is run.
  • 1 Siwpas Unit = 1 CPU with max 4 Cores.

Examples

  • In physical : 2 CPU with dual-core = 2 Units
  • In physical : 1 CPU with quad-core = 1 Unit
  • In virtualized : 12 Cores per Siwpas EE Server Environment = 3 Units


These levels are:

* Basic Subscription
o 1 Unit per Year : 599$
o 1 Unit , 2 Years : 1078$
o 1 Unit , 3 Years : 1527$
* Standard Subscription
o 1 Unit per Year : 799$
o 1 Unit , 2 Years : 1438$
o 1 Unit , 3 Years : 2037$
* Enterprise Subscription
o 1 Unit per Year : 1099$
o 1 Unit , 2 Years : 1978$
o 1 Unit , 3 Years : 2802$
You can get more information from Siwpas Subscription Levels to get more information about Siwpas' subscription levels.

Siwpas Support

Siwpas community edition is not supported by MechSoft. It is supported only by "Siwpas Community Forum". Siwpas enterprise edition is supported by the MechSoft according to the subscription plan. There are two different subscription plans for Siwpas, "Basic Support", "Standard Support" and "Enterprise Support".

Generally, when you get subscription license, you are able to get,
  • Product Updates
  • Security Patches
  • Hot Fixes
  • Phone, Mail and Web based support
  • Help Contracts
  • Custom Features


You can get more information from Siwpas Sales Page to get more information about Siwpas' subscription plans.

External links

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