Q:

Version of JBoss for jdk 1.7

A couple of years ago JBoss was free and was maintained(from what I remember). Today here I see that they are no longer maintaining the free versions. There is a link on the same page asking to download EAP or Wildfly. 
What is my next option on getting my hands on the free JBoss? (and which supports jdk 1.7) 
Update: From the post here I gather that I can use 5.1.0, 6.1.0 and 7.1.1 for deploying applications with Jdk 1.7. I'm rooting towards 6.1.0 as it is more recent than 5.1.0. Is 6.1.0 stable enough to run the applications? 
Update:  I can download one of the jboss from the site, but they are not maintained. To re-clarify, i'm looking for maintained and free jboss if there is any. 

A:

JBoss AS 7.1.1 is very stable and will work with JDK 1.7. I wouldn't recommend 6.1 since development on it was short and the 7.x line is far superior.
JBoss is still fully open source. The only difference is the name change. JBoss AS is now Wildfly. All maintenance that was going into JBoss AS is now going into this project. JBoss AS versions have never lined up perfectly with JBoss EAP so there was a lot of confusion because they were both named JBoss.
If you want or need to use the 'exact' version of code as the JBoss EAP releases you can always pull the code and compile it yourself. It is only the binaries that require a license, not the source.

