Installing a Datasource on JBoss AS 7 and WildFly as module can be tedious as it requires three commands to complete. However by creating a batch script you can easily automate the process and install it on every distribution with as little as a shell command. Here is a sample script to create a Datasource … Read more
So you are trying to come to grips with mod_cluster and JBoss/WildFly but your clustering still doesn’t work? in this article I’ll discuss about troubleshooting some common issues. Mod_cluster Advice #1 The first thing you need obviously to check is that you are running a version of mod_cluster which is compatible with your machine and … Read more
In this tutorial we will learn how to setup, configure and monitor a WildFly application server node using the AppDynamics Performance Management (APM) solution. In order to get started with AppDynamics we will start a 15 days free trial subscription at https://portal.appdynamics.com/account/signup/signupForm/ Once expired the pro trail of AppDynamics you can still use the Lite version of it … Read more
In this tutorial we will learn how we can configure the Undertow subsystem to reverse proxy request from one application running on one host to another application running on an another host. At first some some terminology: what is a reverse proxy ? the common usage of the term proxy usually refers to a forward proxy, which is a server … Read more
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
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
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
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
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
In this tutorial we will learn how to configure Maven Project Object Module (pom.xml) so that you can easily build and deploy your applications running on WildFly. In order to do that we will use the following BOM which is available in Maven Central Repository: http://central.maven.org/maven2/org/wildfly/bom/wildfly-javaee7-with-tools/ What is a BOM ? A BOM is also … Read more
