JBoss Application Server

• JBoss is an enterprise class Java application server comparable to offerings from BEA, Sun and IBM

  • Combined with Tomcat it provides a complete J2EE stack
  • Allows development of n-tier applications where business logic is seperated from presentation
  • More scalable than 2-tier technolgies such as PHP and MySQL
  • Provides important application development infrastructure such as transaction management, location transparency, database access, message queuing and more...
  • Big big savings compared to the commercial equivalents which can cost $20-30K+ per server plus support

• Check out http://www.jboss.org/