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.
Let’s get started with WildFly! WildFly is a Java middleware product also known as application server. The word “application server” has been coined in relation to Java Enterprise application; you can think of it as it’s a piece of Java software where your application can be provisioned using the services provided by the application server. … Read more
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 ) Undertow allows you to share sessions between wars in an ear, if it is explicitly configured to do so. Note that if you use this feature … Read more
Using a Singleton Service in a cluster is not something completely new concept. In JBoss 6 you could use a SingletonService to decorate a Service such that the service will only ever be started on one node in a cluster at any given time. WildFly 10 brings again to life this service with a fully … Read more
On the 29th January 2016 WildFly 10 Final has been released! Let’s have a quick breakthough its features. New messaging subsystem: the new messaging provider embedded in WildFly 10 is Apache Artemis MQ which is derived from the HornetQ project, recently donated to the Apache foundation. The new messaging provides retains compatibility with the former … Read more
A new feature of WildFly 8 is the ability to allow Domain Discovery which allows reconnecting to one or more alternate Domain controller, in case the default one fails. Let’s see an example of it: <domain-controller> <remote host=”${jboss.domain.master.address:127.0.0.1}” port=”${jboss.domain.master.port:9999}” security-realm=”ManagementRealm”> <discovery-options> <static-discovery name=”discovery-one” protocol=”${jboss.domain.master.protocol:remote}” host=”${jboss.domain.master.address:127.0.0.1}” port=”${jboss.domain.master.port:19999}”/> </discovery-options> </remote> </domain-controller> In the above example, we have … Read more
This is the second part tutorial about using Camel with WildFly. We will now learn how to use Camel routes within our applications. First of all, check that you have installed Camel subsystem as described in this tutorial: Riding the Camel with WildFly application server Using Camel with Java EE CDI applications is even easier than … Read more
This tutorial describes how you can integrate Apache Camel in your WildFly Application Server configuration. At the end of this tuorial you will be able to turn your WildFly application server into a mini service bus! First of all, you need to grab the WildFly-camel bundle which is available at https://github.com/wildfly-extras/wildfly-camel Simply unzip the tar.gz file … 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
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 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