WildFly Configuration

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WildFly is the open source implementation of the Jakarta EE suite of services. It comprises a set of offerings for enterprise customers who are looking for preconfigured profiles of JBoss Enterprise Middleware components that have been tested and certified together to provide an integrated experience.

It’s easy-to-use server architecture and high flexibility makes WildFly the ideal choice for users just starting out with Jakarta EE and Microprofile API, as well as senior architects looking for a customizable middleware platform.

WildFly is free and open-source software, subject to the requirements of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), version 2.1.

The latest version of WildFly is: 28.0.1.Final – May 2023

Top resources available in this section:

Configuring Transactions (JTA) using JBoss / Wildfly

21 December 202220 September 2022 by F.Marchioni

This tutorial discusses about configuring and monitoring transactions using the Java Transaction API(JTA) on Wildfly application server. Transaction overview Let’s start from some definitions: You can define a transaction as a group of operations that must run as a unit and can involve persisting data objects, sending a message, and so on. When the operations … Read more

How to manage Servers in a WildFly Domain

13 December 202227 May 2022 by F.Marchioni

This article will teach you how to manage the Servers and Server Groups running in a WildFly Domain. For the purpose of this article we will use the Command Line Interface to perform the management operations.

How to check if JBoss is running?

21 December 20222 May 2022 by F.Marchioni

There are several ways to check if JBoss / WildFly application server is running. In this short article we will cover them in detail. Starting the server and checking the status When you start the application server, a set of System Properties are attached to the Java process. This makes easy to detect which Java … Read more

How to solve “javax.naming.Reference cannot be cast to”

21 August 20229 January 2022 by F.Marchioni

This article discusses how to solve the ClassCastException which can happen when you reference to external objects in the JNDI Tree.

JBoss Port configuration made simple

22 February 202228 December 2021 by F.Marchioni

This tutorial discusses how to configure the default ports for WildFly and JBoss EAP through the various server releases. We will learn how to change a single port definition, such as the default 8080 port and how to shift all ports using a port offset.

How to configure the Port offset on JBoss AS / WildFly

7 March 202219 November 2021 by F.Marchioni

Do you want to learn how to change the default ports in WildFly application server? Then keep reading this tutorial.

Mail session configuration on WildFly

29 January 202230 October 2021 by F.Marchioni

In this simple tutorial we will show how to use the Java Mail service from WildFly – JBoss EAP, either connecting to a local SMTP server or using Google SMTP server. Let’s start configuring JBoss Mail service on WildFly, then we will see how to configure the service on older application server versions. WildFly Mail service configuration … Read more

What is JBoss Modular Service Container (MSC) ?

30 November 202130 September 2021 by F.Marchioni

JBoss Modular Service Container (JBoss MSC) is a lightweight highly concurrent DI container for Java. It is used as foundation for the application server (JBoss EAP / WildFly). In this short article we will learn what are the basic setting that affect the configuration of JBoss MSC,

How to access JBoss from a remote machine

22 February 202226 September 2021 by F.Marchioni

One of the most frequent issues for users that are approaching JBoss or WildFly is how to access it over a network. Let’s see how you can access JBoss across your network.