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Oracle WebLogic Server vs Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 2, 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
6.3
Oracle WebLogic Server offers significant long-term benefits with enterprise features, enhancing performance, compliance, and operational efficiency despite high costs.
Sentiment score
4.7
Red Hat JBoss EAP offers cost-effective, scalable solutions with automation and customization, reducing costs and accelerating project completion.
For an existing migration project which was stipulated for a timeline of six months, it just took around two and a half months, specifically 80 days.
Senior Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
This flexibility translates to a lower total cost of ownership.
Director of Product at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.8
Oracle WebLogic Server support is valued for responsiveness but criticized for costs, response delays, and mixed knowledge levels.
Sentiment score
6.1
Red Hat JBoss offers reliable, knowledgeable support, appreciated for documentation and community help, though response times could improve.
We have the portal, which is appropriately escalated based on the severity of the ticket.
Regional Head And Director Product Development at Neptune Software Group
I would rate customer service and support from Oracle for this product as either nine or ten.
IT Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Users can find discussions about common problems, solutions, and documentation within the community.
Network Security Engineer at Samsung
They need to be quicker in resolving issues related to Red Hat JBoss.
Senior Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
We receive support from RDS and Red Hat, and the response time and quality meet our expectations.
VP at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.5
Oracle WebLogic Server is highly rated for scalability, effectively managing large datasets and high user loads across settings.
Sentiment score
6.7
Red Hat JBoss EAP offers robust scalability and flexibility, supporting enterprises with effective load management and clustering capabilities.
I find Oracle WebLogic Server to be highly scalable, rating it as nine out of ten.
IT Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The biggest benefit I see from Oracle WebLogic Server is that it is beneficial; we are stable through a large volume of transactions.
Regional Head And Director Product Development at Neptune Software Group
The scalability of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) is pretty good, with minimum and maximum machines required being very efficient.
Senior Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.9
Oracle WebLogic Server is stable and reliable, with improvements and high user ratings, despite occasional issues from third-party modifications.
Sentiment score
7.4
Red Hat JBoss EAP is highly reliable and stable, notably outperforming IBM and Oracle WebLogic in production environments.
 

Room For Improvement

Oracle WebLogic Server needs performance, pricing, support, and integration improvements, along with enhanced diagnostics and containerization features.
Red Hat JBoss EAP needs customization, better integration, modern tech support, improved pricing, faster support, and enhanced documentation.
Using scripting allows for the creation of resources.
IT Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) can be improved by integrating different services related to Azure and AWS.
Senior Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
From a support point of view, whatever support we get from IBM for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) and for Red Hat, we are fine.
Senior Manager, MW & DB Automation at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
Making it lighter and more modular would probably be beneficial.
Director of Product at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
 

Setup Cost

Oracle WebLogic Server pricing is per-core, higher for advanced features, but competitive among commercial servers.
Red Hat JBoss offers cost-effective, flexible open-source solutions with comprehensive support, especially advantageous in cloud environments.
We are working with an embedded license; for us, it is acceptable, but in reality, the open full license will be costly because it is a number-of-core-based licensing.
Regional Head And Director Product Development at Neptune Software Group
If we are charging around 0.75 cents per hour for a virtual machine on AWS, then in the Red Hat JBoss orchestrator, charges have seen significant improvement at around 0.58 cents.
Senior Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
JBoss is the cheaper option out of the three when compared to WebSphere and WebLogic.
Director of Product at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
The price is somewhat high for an enterprise, however, it depends on organizational negotiations.
VP at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
 

Valuable Features

Oracle WebLogic Server excels in performance, scalability, and integration, offering robust features and stability for complex applications.
Red Hat JBoss EAP provides scalable, secure, cost-effective solutions with easy AWS and Jenkins integration and supports various operating systems.
I can expand the cluster by creating more servers and several clusters within the same domain.
IT Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
I am able to have a highly scalable, highly demanding, enterprise deployment.
Regional Head And Director Product Development at Neptune Software Group
The most valuable feature for my team is containerization and Jenkins integration because Jenkins integration helps us eradicate code smells and build pipeline reports.
Senior Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Built-in metrics and subsystem isolation, where every subsystem logging, messaging, or web services can be tuned independently, provide fine-grained control over performance and behavior.
DevOps Cloud Engineer at Atos IT Solutions and Services
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) has impacted my organization positively because it is a powerful platform and we can develop powerful applications very quickly.
IT Infraestructure Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Oracle WebLogic Server
Ranking in Application Server
3rd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
36
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Ap...
Ranking in Application Server
2nd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
5.2
Number of Reviews
32
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Application Server category, the mindshare of Oracle WebLogic Server is 13.5%, down from 25.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) is 14.1%, down from 18.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Server Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)14.1%
Oracle WebLogic Server13.5%
Other72.4%
Application Server
 

Featured Reviews

Thomas Waltair - PeerSpot reviewer
Regional Head And Director Product Development at Neptune Software Group
Stable and scalable enterprise deployment with Cloud-Native support
Oracle WebLogic Server helps with my deployment strategy in both monolithic as well as Cloud-Native ways. I think it is useful; this Cloud-Native support helps with deployment in both on-prem and cloud. For container deployment, we are not very rich. We are in the process of moving our business logic to containerization. But in terms of this being a big product, a core banking system, I prefer on-prem rather than cloud. The use cases and the scrum help me a lot in an iterative, incremental manner. I would recommend this product; it is an enterprise, large volume, and of course, it is worth it to deploy. I am providing this review with a rating of 9.
reviewer2788512 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Rapid deployments have streamlined containerized web apps but support response still needs improvement
The best features Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) offers are its integration into AWS services, which is very helpful in containerization and application of Kubernetes specifically, and its user interface is very easy to use; we can deploy WAR files within stipulated time and also schedule deployments at a particular time, and it is easy to run the pipelines and integrate it with Jenkins. The most valuable feature for my team is containerization and Jenkins integration because Jenkins integration helps us eradicate code smells and build pipeline reports, and it also supports continuous CI/CD pipelining, while this orchestration aids in a microservice architecture where we will be using different types for it. Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) has positively impacted my organization by helping in quickly making web Spring Boot applications and Java-based applications, and it is very easy to adapt and learn, plus it is open source with nominal and affordable subscription plans.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
16%
Government
10%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
29%
Government
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
Insurance Company
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business15
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise17
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business11
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise20
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Oracle WebLogic Server?
There is an option to use the WebLogic console as a service, but the WebLogic scripting tool can be used for the administration of the domain without the console. This is important for some cases d...
What is your primary use case for Oracle WebLogic Server?
I primarily work from an infrastructure point of view with Oracle WebLogic Server ( /products/oracle-weblogic-server-reviews ). I am involved in the installation, base installation of the product, ...
What do you like most about JBoss?
The product's initial setup phase is easy.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for JBoss?
The experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was nominal, and with the right guidance, it could have saved a few more bucks. We can say that if we are charging around 0.75 cents per hour ...
What needs improvement with JBoss?
I cannot speak to how Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) can be improved.
 

Also Known As

WebLogic Application Server
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Overview

 

Sample Customers

Colab Consulting Pty. Ltd., Infosys Ltd., Sascar, Banca Transilvania, UL, Center for Railway Information Systems, SPAR Austria Group, Reliance Commercial Finance, Industrial Bank of Korea, Al Jaber Group, Safe Water Kenya, Chhattisgarh Infotech and Biotech Promotion Society
Tata Sky, Nissan, Swedish Board of Agriculture, Novamedia, American Product Distributors, Advanced Micro Devices, Emirates Group, E*TRADE
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