One of the new features of WildFly 9 is the ability to share the HTTP Session between applications which are part of the same Enterprise Archive. (This feature is described in https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFLY-1891 )
Read more: Sharing HTTPSession between Web applications in an EAR
As anticipated in the wildfly-dev mailing list, a new major release (wildfly 9) of the application server will be available within the end of the year. Let's see the new emperor clothes' summary.
The current generation of tools for the development of Java enterprise applications has a lot to offer with regard to developer productivity. In this article I would like to show a Java EE7 hands on example that uses WildFly 8 as application server, Git, Gradle and Groovy for build management and Groovy, Spock, JUnit and Arquillian for test automation. Together with the Eclipse based Spring Tool Suite IDE (STS) they team up to make Java enterprise development productive like never before. The complete project named JTrack can be found on github at https://github.com/martin-welss/jtrack-ee7
Read more: Advanced Java EE 7 build and test using Git, Gradle, Groovy and Arquillian
