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Red Hat has brought its JBoss enterprise application platform to Microsoft Azure, helping to ease the transition to the cloud for traditional Java applications.

The open source company has announced the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP) on Microsoft Azure, which enables organisations to benefit from a cloud-based architecture and update their existing Jakarta EE (previously Java EE) applications and build new ones on Azure.

JBoss EAP is currently available as a native offering in Azure that comes fully configured and ready to run, and will be available in the near future as a fully supported runtime in the Azure app service managed by Microsoft.

Java continues to be a popular programming language, with an estimated 8 million developers worldwide and steady growth in the use of Jakarta EE to accelerate application development for the cloud. The Jakarta EE-compliant application server, JBoss EAP, offers Java developers management and automation capabilities designed to improve productivity, and a lightweight architecture for building and deploying modern cloud-native applications.

Red Hat says that by bringing JBoss EAP to Azure, it will ease the shift to the cloud and give organisations more choice and flexibility in how they plan for the future. Customers can bring existing applications to Azure, including JBoss EAP applications running on-premises or other Jakarta EE applications running on different application servers, and choose how they want to manage business critical, Java-based applications in the cloud.

Red Hat and Microsoft have long been strategic partners. Red Hats JBoss platform continues to be the cornerstone of Red Hats commitment to enterprise Java, says Red Hat senior director of product management, Rich Sharples.

By offering JBoss EAP on Azure, we are combining our expertise and enabling customers to successfully choose how they want to manage applications on the cloud.

According to Red Hat, JBoss EAP on Microsoft Azure allows customers to:

As two of the biggest names in enterprise software, it just makes sense that we have such a strong relationship with Red Hat, says Microsofts principal group manager, Martijn Verburg.

Bringing JBoss EAP to Azure customers means not only faster time to market and remaining competitive, but also yields more options for building, deploying, and managing a security-focused cloud environment that meets business needs today while adapting for future change."

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