JBoss Enterprise Application Platform vs NGINX Plus comparison

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform vs. NGINX Plus

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Categories and Ranking

JBoss Enterprise Applicatio...

Ranking in Application Infrastructure

8th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

5.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

NGINX Plus

Ranking in Application Infrastructure

4th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) (9th)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Application Infrastructure category, the mindshare of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is 5.7%, down from 8.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NGINX Plus is 8.9%, down from 11.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Infrastructure Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
NGINX Plus	8.9%
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform	5.7%
Other	85.4%

Application Infrastructure

Featured Reviews

Karthikeyan Raman

CIO at Clayfin

Lightweight clustering has improved banking channels and delivers faster, reliable deployments

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform's best features include that it was very simple to install and enabling clustering between two instances was simpler than compared to WebSphere or WebLogic. Clustering became very much easier, and setup was very straightforward. I used other products such as WebSphere and WebLogic, and I saw JBoss Enterprise Application Platform as a very lightweight container rather than a heavy container. The startup time was much faster compared to other application servers, and debugging was reliable. We did not see the application going into a hang state. It never happened in JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. Other application servers typically degrade over time, and the application resources can become hung. The memory utilization and the heap garbage collection that was running was very efficient, so the resource utilization was better. The robust security model of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform contributed positively to our data integrity and compliance in our development processes, and it was very good.

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Nadeem-Inamdar

Senior Information Security Engineer at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

Advanced policies and web firewall have strengthened application protection and reduced attack traffic

There were some vulnerabilities in F5. They tried to fix it, but the fixes were not available at the time because they were zero days, so they attempted to fix it, but their support was not proper. Their support should be improved because sometimes features which we need for customization take time, and they are sometimes feasible and sometimes not feasible by the team, so their support and the engineering team should improve their product. I would like to see more features regarding customization which should be built into the application, and the tool optimization should be good, and the dashboard should be more crisp and clear.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The solution is quite stable."

"The deployment and initial setup is easy, it is easier than the previous version."

"Its technical support is excellent."

"The best feature for JBoss Enterprise Application Platform for me is high availability, and it is very strong."

"The most valuable features of this solution are scalability and performance."

"JBoss Enterprise Application Platform works very well."

"Stable and easy to handle in terms of hosting applications."

"The robust security model of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform contributed positively to our data integrity and compliance in our development processes, and it was very good."

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"When you use NGINX, you have more options and power."

"Nginx is extremely efficient in terms of the connection rate to the CPU cycles ratio, and in terms of the bandwidth to CPU cycles."

"I utilize NGINX for its capability to provide visibility and discovery options, helping discover and identify networks, which is crucial for ensuring application performance, managing latency, and checking server reachability."

"The product is resilient."

"Valuable features include authentication, caching, reverse proxy routing, and load balancing."

"The web proxy and the database proxy are excellent."

"When I worked in a security research center, we tested NGINX to support DoS and DDoS attacks, and its results were great."

"I find the solution’s community support and documentation most valuable. Compared to HAProxy, have found a lot of documentation and community support on Quora. If you would be asking me as a developer whether to choose this product, I would recommend this since it has good community support, documentation, and signature updates. The configuration of HAProxy is also very tedious. However, NGINX’s configuration is very simple."

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Cons

"A graphic user interface can be added."

"It's hard to find out the root cause of errors."

"Its architecture needs improvement."

"In my opinion, there are areas that could be improved with JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, such as the management console."

"Lacks some functional requirements."

"This solution needs better management UI."

"It was too expensive to license JBoss Enterprise Application Platform for each process."

"Sometimes, I observe the memory usage at 100% for the server, and this issue could be improved."

"I would like to see the Grafana integration in NGINX which is already present in HAProxy. Grafana integration will help the solution visualize all the data analytics on the dashboard which is currently not present."

"The scaling should be built into the software rather than configured from an outside source."

"The KPI should be more focused on load balancing and the latency in application calling from the end system."

"Make modules easier to enable or disable. The beauty and ugly side of the NGINX modules is you have to know how to compile the module. For beginners or non-very technical aspirant(s) going for NGINX, they have to learn how to compile the modules."

"Our most challenging part was to run an older PHP website reverse-proxied through NGINX. That was not fun."

"It would be great if there was even more automation to make it even easier to maintain."

"Initially, I experienced hiccups whenever I installed the application. As with any application, there were initial issues, however, after receiving support, everything was rectified."

"They should do in the open source version of what they did to Advanced HTTP, TCP, and UDP load balancing."

More NGINX Plus cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is an open-source solution."

"The solution is cost-effective."

"Nginx is free. I don't have experience with the Plus version."

"Compared to other similar solutions on the market, I think it's over-priced."

"It's an open source solution, so it's free."

"I am not so happy with their pricing policy, but this is not the worse thing in my life. I can tolerate it."

"The list price of NGINX Plus is close to $5,500."

"The solution is free, but you can spend a lot of money with a complex solution."

"HAProxy is cheaper than NGINX."

"NGINX Plus is worth it, if you need it. If you do not need the features or support, the free and open source package is more than capable. "

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

31%

Comms Service Provider

Media Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

12%

Government

Insurance Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	5

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	16
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	11

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with JBoss Enterprise Application Platform?

I lost one opportunity for licensing to a bank that was implementing on-premises. It was too expensive to license JBoss Enterprise Application Platform for each process. The customer needed to impl...

What is your primary use case for JBoss Enterprise Application Platform?

I have an application with JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and a middleware. I used JBoss Enterprise Application Platform for about eight years until 2016. I implemented a ticketing solution ...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for JBoss Enterprise Application Platform?

The customer needed to implement on a server with 32 processes, and the price from a local provider was approximately $64,000.

Which is better - IIS or NGINX Plus?

IIS is a flexible, secure, and manageable web server to host anything on the web. IIS’s scalable and open architecture can handle the most demanding tasks. From media streaming to web applications,...

What do you like most about NGINX Plus?

It performs very well. That's one of the primary reasons we use NGINX.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NGINX Plus?

Pricing is reasonable and that is fine.

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Compared 13% of the time

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Compared 10% of the time

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Compared 9% of the time

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Compared 8% of the time

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Compared 3% of the time

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Also Known As

JBoss EAP, Red Hat EAP

NGINX

Overview

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP) is an open source platform for modern Java applications deployed in any environment. JBoss EAPâs architecture is modular, and cloud ready. The platform offers powerful management and automation for greater developer productivity. It is based on the open source Wildfly project (formerly known as JBoss Application Server).

Red Hat

NGINX Plus is a versatile solution that offers load balancing, caching, proxying, and API deployment capabilities. It can be deployed on private or public clouds and is ideal for building CDN solutions. The solution can also be used to secure web applications and replace web services like Apache.

NGINX has helped organizations improve functioning, reduce downtimes, and offer a DevOps-friendly solution. Its community support and documentation are highly regarded, and its configuration is more straightforward, making it a recommended choice over HAProxy.

Sample Customers

APD, Banco Azteca, Roche, Tata Sky, Frost Bank

Locaweb, AppNexus, Wix, Reliam, Montana Interactive, MuleSoft, Warpwire, Discovery Education, InkaBinka, WordPress.com, Gogo, GOV.UK, NASA

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform vs. NGINX Plus