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JBoss Enterprise Application Platform vs NGINX Plus comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 5, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
5.9
JBoss EAP enhances ROI through easy deployment, reduced costs, efficient scaling, quick setups, and stable, reliable performance.
Sentiment score
7.5
NGINX Plus boosts website speed and reduces costs, offering superior flexibility and scalability, ensuring significant returns for organizations.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
5.1
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform support is highly rated for responsiveness, though some find certain support tiers expensive.
Sentiment score
6.9
NGINX Plus offers robust support with responsive engineers, though some lower-tier licenses experience delayed responses; documentation often suffices.
Response time is good because they have assigned and dedicated support engineers to us, and we have weekly cadence calls.
Senior Information Security Engineer at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
5.6
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform excels in scalability, effectively managing growth and security with adaptable clustering for diverse user needs.
Sentiment score
7.7
NGINX Plus is highly scalable and flexible, easily adapting to various enterprise needs and supporting multiple users and websites.
While some people use NGINX for web servers, my current use case focuses on networking and tunneling, which does not necessitate much scaling.
Senior Software Engineer at Checkit
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.9
JBoss EAP is praised for stability and reliability, offering efficient operations with minimal disruptions and positive ROI potential.
Sentiment score
7.8
NGINX Plus is highly stable and reliable, praised for connectivity and performance, despite some scalability challenges in clustering.
The stability issues depend on how the applications are developed on JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.
Head of International Institutional Marketing at Natixis
I require ninety-nine point nine percent uptime, and NGINX has been pivotal in helping me achieve this along with our other DNS services.
Senior Software Engineer at Checkit
 

Room For Improvement

JBoss EAP needs improved integration, an intuitive UI, better performance recommendations, and optimization to address high costs and long boot times.
NGINX Plus users seek improved scalability, user-friendly interface, better integration, cost-effectiveness, advanced features, and enhanced support services.
If application performance monitoring tools were already part of the management console at runtime, it would be very helpful.
CIO at Clayfin
This approach makes it easier to develop, deploy, and administer applications.
Head of International Institutional Marketing at Natixis
The customer needed to implement on a server with 32 processes, and the price from a local provider was approximately $64,000.
President/ Owner at Asvesot C.A.
NGINX could provide a means to generate self-signed SSL certificates.
Senior Software Engineer at Checkit
As with any application, there were initial issues, however, after receiving support, everything was rectified.
Executive Director at Geojit
There were some vulnerabilities in F5.
Senior Information Security Engineer at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
 

Setup Cost

JBoss EAP is cost-effective for enterprises, offering scalable applications and savings over commercial products with its open-source flexibility.
NGINX Plus has a modular licensing model with varying costs, offering value but can be expensive compared to alternatives.
The price from a local provider was approximately $64,000.
President/ Owner at Asvesot C.A.
My thoughts on JBoss Enterprise Application Platform's pricing is that from a subscription model perspective, the price was very reasonable compared to other application servers and other commercial products.
CIO at Clayfin
My use case involves using the free and open-source version of NGINX, making it cost-effective as I haven't incurred any costs.
Senior Software Engineer at Checkit
The solution offers a cost advantage.
Executive Director at Geojit
 

Valuable Features

JBoss EAP enhances productivity and efficiency with scalable deployment, robust security, cloud readiness, and cost-effective resource management.
NGINX Plus excels in load balancing, security, and integration, praised for simplicity, efficiency, and superior traffic management features.
It offers a number of good integration options and many facilities that are advantageous compared to Tomcat.
Head of International Institutional Marketing at Natixis
The startup time was much faster compared to other application servers, and debugging was reliable.
CIO at Clayfin
The best feature for JBoss Enterprise Application Platform for me is high availability, and it is very strong.
President/ Owner at Asvesot C.A.
For API management, the WebSocket, and the WebServer, NGINX provides a cost advantage, value addition, and effective support.
Executive Director at Geojit
The web application firewall feature has helped enhance security for our applications because most of the attacks which are performed on our website are being blocked by it.
Senior Information Security Engineer at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
 

Categories and Ranking

JBoss Enterprise Applicatio...
Ranking in Application Infrastructure
10th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
5.6
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
NGINX Plus
Ranking in Application Infrastructure
4th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
32
Ranking in other categories
Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) (9th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Application Infrastructure category, the mindshare of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is 4.4%, down from 8.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NGINX Plus is 7.9%, down from 10.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Infrastructure Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
NGINX Plus7.9%
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform4.4%
Other87.7%
Application Infrastructure
 

Featured Reviews

KR
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.
Nadeem-Inamdar - PeerSpot reviewer
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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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
29%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Government
6%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
10%
Government
7%
Insurance Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise19
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business16
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise11
 

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.
 

Also Known As

JBoss EAP, Red Hat EAP
NGINX
 

Overview

 

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
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