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As far as i know the EAP editions of JBoss Application Server (AS) are just a bunch of community edition JBoss projects with some sugar.
So, what is the community edition of the JBoss Application Server that JBoss EAP 4.3.0 corresponds to?
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Therefore, the following distinction applies: WildFly: The community version of the Application Server. JBoss EAP: The supported version of the Application Server.
JBoss EAP is just a commercial build of the Wildfly project. In many ways, especially from a source code perspective, JBoss and Wildfly are the same thing. “Wildfly is the upstream project JBoss EAP is built on,” said James Falkner, technical product manager for Red Hat Runtimes.
JBoss EAP is the name for the Java EE application server that Red Hat produces and supports. The latest version is 6 at the moment and this implements Java EE 6. JBoss AS/WildFly is the name for the community project that you can test. This community project will eventually become JBoss EAP.
Most of the times, however, you would like to use Management tools to check JBoss / WildFly version. The Server version can be see from the Management Major Version element. When using the Command Line Interface (CLI), you can retrieve the exact version through the product-info command.
This response is really late but I came across the unanswered question in a Google search and I wanted to make sure there's a correct response. I work for JBoss support so you can consider this a qualified answer.
JBoss EAP is the only commercially supported version of JBoss. It contains JBoss AS and JBoss Seam. EAP diverged (in terms of the svn branch it's built off) from JBoss AS around version 4.2.1 (not exactly, but close enough). EAP has a 5-year lifetime and is tested and certified rigorously. EAP has paid commercial support and patches (called CPs or cumulative patches) that are designed to maintain ABI/API stability over time while allowing for security issues and bugs to be fixed. It is actually against policy to introduce a feature in a CP, but it happens on occasion.
If you're familiar with how Red Hat Enterprise Linux differs from Fedora, you can consider the difference to be quite similar. The JBoss project/product split is much newer, though, so the differences are smaller. Here's the official page describing what I've said.
http://www.jboss.com/products/community-enterprise
Cheers,
Chris
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According to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Component Details, JBoss EAP 4.3 is based on:
JBoss Application Server 4.2.1 with various updates, component upgrades, and bug fixes
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