Patching WildFly application server

The final version of WildFly 8.1.0 has been released and it contains also the first patch to apply for updating the installation from 8.0.0 Final to 8.1.0. This tutorial shows how to do it.   The first obvious thing you need is downloading the patch which is available at www.wildfly.org:Download the “Update Existing 8.0.0.Final Install” … Read more

Undertow Web Server tutorial

In this tutorial we will discuss about Undertow Web server which is the new Web server implementation for WildFly application server.  Undertow Web server is a fast and light Java Web server based on non-blocking IO. It consists of a few different parts: A core HTTP server that supports both blocking and non-blocking IO A Servlet … Read more

Deploy applications to a remote WildFly Server using Eclipse

In this tutorial we will learn how to deploy applications to remote WildFly application servers using Eclipse and the JBoss tools plugin.   The prerequisite to this tutorial is that you have installed JBoss Tools on eclipse. Check out this tutorial for learning how to do it. There are several strategies for deploying your applications on a remote … Read more

Using JConsole to monitor a remote WildFly server

This quick tutorial shows how to monitor a remote WildFly application server in Standalone and Domain mode using the JConsole tool.   Connecting to a remote WildFly Server in Standalone Mode The first thing you need to do is setting up a management user on the remote WildFly server using the add-user.sh/add-user.cmd script: What type of user … Read more

Faces Flow tutorial

This tutorial discusses about Faces Flow which is an addition to Java Server Faces 2.2, included in the Java EE 7 stack. Faces Flow has been inspired by the popular Spring Flow framework and as such it is not intended to be a replacement for the Web application navigation system; rather Faces Flow can be … Read more

Categories JSF

Intra-Servlet Communication

Sometimes you may need that a Servlet hands off its job to another Servlet or JSP. Intra Servlet communication can be done by means of a Dispatcher or by Redirecting the initial request. Dispatching is done by means of Dispatcher object which allows to complete the request without actually redirecting to user to another site, … Read more

Using Log4J 1.x with WildFly and JBoss EAP

This article discusses how to use the Log4j 1.x with WildFly / JBoss EAP applications. We will show the basic configuration steps and we will deploy a sample application on WildFly. Log4j 1.x has reached EOL Please note that log4j 1.x is no longer supported by the Apache Software Foundation. While it may still function … Read more

Running WildFly with JDK 8

The JDK 1.8 early access is available for download at Oracle’s site. In this short tutorial we will try to use it to start up Wildfly 8 application server.   So once downloaded, installed and configured JAVA_HOME to point to the new JDK 8, let’s now start wildfly 8. The first change that we notice is … Read more

Introduction to jBPM 6

This tutorial is an introduction to the jBPM 6 platform which has now reached its final release, bringing lots of power to your business processes. For those which are new to jBPM, you should be aware that jBPM is a Business Process Engine that allows defining executing an monitoring your business processes. jBPM is distributed … Read more

Monitoring transactions with JBoss-WildFly AS

In this tutorial we will demonstrate how to retrieve Transaction information from your Java EE applications running on JBoss/WildFly and how to combine this information with the Narayana Transaction Analyser application. By default the javax.transaction API does not expose details about the single Transaction id which are running on the application server. However, if you … Read more