Developer Support.
There are two Red Hat / JBoss developer support offerings:
1. Red Hat / JBoss Developer Subscriptions
2. JBoss Developer Studio
1. Red Hat / JBoss Developer Subscription
Red Hat / JBoss Developer Subscriptions deliver expert advice spanning architecture, design, configuration, optimization, and tuning recommendations. In addition to technical support, each developer contact is granted access to JBoss Developer Studio, as well as production-ready versions of all JBoss Enterprise Middleware, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and all other Red Hat products for development use only.
Red Hat / JBoss Developer Subscriptions are available in two versions:
- Developer Professional is designed for corporate developers and individuals. It offers one contact a 2 business day SLA and unlimited incidents. It also includes one entitlement to each of the following: JBoss Developer Studio, all JBoss Enterprise Platforms and Frameworks (up to 4 CPUs each), Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, all other Red Hat software products for development purposes.
- Developer Enterprise is designed for Independent Software Vendors. It offers two contacts a 4 business hour SLA and unlimited incidents. It also includes two entitlements to JBoss Developer Studio, one entitlement to all JBoss Enterprise Platforms and Frameworks (up to 32 CPUs each), eight entitlements to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, and 8 entitlements each to all other Red Hat software products for development purposes.
Take Control
Having access to the source code means that you have the ability to see exactly what's occurring in the software you're developing on - especially useful for understanding advanced features, reducing problem resolution times, and avoiding costly trial-and-error guesswork.
2. JBoss Developer Studio
Fully integrated development environment
Unlike stand-alone IDE's, JBoss Developer Studio integrates and certifies both tooling and runtime components by combining Eclipse, Eclipse Tooling, and the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. This ensures that all the various Eclipse plugins and their dependencies work together and all the runtime components and libraries work together. Furthermore, each plugin is matched to its corresponding runtime component. For example, JBoss Developer Studio ensures that the versions of JBoss Seam tooling, JBoss Seam, and all their various dependencies work together. And, JBoss Developer Studio ensures that all the JBoss Seam tooling and components work with other technologies, like Hibernate, and JBoss jBPM.
In addition to solving the complications of setting up a development environment, JBoss Developer Studio's, integrated development environment also makes upgrading to new technologies simple. When JBoss Developer Studio updates to a newer version of JBoss Seam, for example, Red Hat will test and update all the related components as well so as to keep a developer's environment working properly.
Everything you need to develop rich web applications.
JBoss Developer Studio provides a certified open source development environment that includes and integrates:
- Eclipse
- Eclipse Tooling
- JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
This integrated development environment provides developers everything needed to build rich Web applications using technologies like:
- Hibernate
- JBoss Seam
- JBoss AS
Additionally, because JBoss Developer Studio includes both certified visual tooling and a runtime platform that Red Hat supports for 5 years, developers can have confidence that their development environment and platform is:
- stable
- upgradeable
- deployable
- supportable
JBoss Developer Studio is available as a subscription for use by individual developers for development purposes. JBoss Developer Studio also includes one entitlement to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, with built-in development tools, and Red Hat Network Access for development purposes.
JBoss Developer Studio is available for Windows, Linux and MacOS Tiger 10.4x and earlier. JBoss Developer Studio requires JDK 5.0 to run.
Benefits:
- A pre-assembled development environment
Includes both tooling and runtime components. No need to cobble one together.
- Tested and certified
All components, like JBoss Seam and Eclipse seam tooling work well together as well as across other components, like Hibernate, JBoss AS, etc.
- Assurance of compatibility
All JBoss Developer Studio plugins are compatible with each other and runtime components and their dependencies are compatible with each other.
- Certified updates
You don't have to worry about updating parts that may not work with the rest of the environment.
- Includes JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Contains the versions of JBoss AS, Hibernate, JBoss Seam, and other components that Red Hat supports in production for five years.
- Includes Red Hat Enterprise Linux and access to Red Hat Network.
JBoss Developer Studio includes access to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Linux development tools, and Red Hat Network for development purposes. This enables developers both to build applications directly for the industry-leading Red Hat Enterprise Linux as well as to take advantage of features like Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5's built in virtualization for development environments.