WildFly: New Features

Table of Contents

WildFly: New Features

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Starting with WildFly

What is WildFly?

Downloading WildFly

Installing Java

The installation guide and basic configuration

Content of WildFly standalone and domain modes

Overview of the configuration files

The standalone mode

The domain mode

Starting WildFly

Starting the standalone mode

Starting the domain mode

Other basic configurations

Summary

2. Unified Configuration

Running our first web application

Changing the application context root

Configuring a virtual host

WildFly logging

Installing MySQL modules

Creating the directory to create the module

Datasources

Crypt datasource passwords

Other configurations

Accessing the management console for the first time

Configuring e-mail

Summary

3. WildFly CLI and Management Console

Connecting to the CLI

Creating a datasource with the CLI and management console

Creating a datasource using the CLI

Creating a datasource using the management console

Deployment with the CLI and management console

Deployment with the CLI

Deployment with the management console

The domain mode deployment

The domain mode deployment using the CLI

The domain mode deployment using the management console

Configuring e-mail via the CLI and management console

E-mail setup via the CLI

E-mail setup via the management console

Summary

4. Modular Services and Class Loading

Class loading precedence

WAR and EAR class loading

WAR class loading

EAR class loading

Defining a dependency through WAR

Global modules

Summary

5. Memory and Thread Pool Management

Learning about the JVM memory – Oracle JDK

Heap memory

Nonheap memory

Configuring WildFly

Garbage Collector and tuning

The undertow HTTP pool

Summary

A. What You Need to Know – Migrating from AS 7 to WildFly 8

Updated components

Major changes

The modules directory structure

The cargo container

Code changes

Singleton services

Using Hibernate 3

Configuring your application

Configuring WildFly

Dependencies

Deploying the same application on two servers

Index

WildFly: New Features

WildFly: New Features

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Author

Filippe Costa Spolti

Reviewers

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Markus Eisele

Peter Johnson

Antonio Gomes Rodrigues

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About the Author

Filippe Costa Spolti was born in Sao Joaquim, southern Brazil, considered one of the coldest cities in the country, but now lives in Minas Gerais. He works in the field of information technology and is a follower of the open source community. He contributes to open source projects, such as WildFly and Muffin. He currently works with management infrastructure in which the front-end is a park of physical and virtual servers running diverse critical business applications, and where he works mainly on the application servers, such as JBoss, Tomcat, and Apache. He is a professional, very flexible, and open to learning new technologies. He is a creator and maintainer of the hrStatus project, which is a free software for the DST Brazil. He is also currently working as an administrator of IBM PureSystems, which, by the way, was first deployed in Brazil and gave his company an international use case of the product.

I would like to dedicate this book to my father and thank everyone directly and indirectly involved throughout the production of the book, mainly the Packt Publishing team for giving me this opportunity.

About the Reviewers

Markus Eisele is a software architect, developer, and consultant. On a day-to-day basis, he works with customers as well as projects that deal with enterprise-level Java and infrastructures, including the Java platform and various web-related technologies, on a variety of platforms using products from different vendors. An expert in Java EE Servers, he is an Oracle ACE director, a Java champion, and a member of the Java EE 7 expert group, and is also a frequent speaker at industry conferences. You can follow him on Twitter (@myfear) or read his blog at http://blog.eisele.net.

Sharing knowledge is rewarding. It also requires time, dedication, and motivation. I'm thankful that my parents taught me the foundations to be passionate and lasting; that my girls donate the time it takes and that I have a little power package to motivate me.

Peter Johnson has over 34 years' Enterprise-computing experience. He has been working with Java for 17 years. For the last 12 years, he has been heavily involved in Java performance tuning. He is a frequent speaker on Java performance topics at various conferences, including the Computer Measurement Group annual conference, JBoss World, and Linux World. He is a moderator for the IDE and WildFly/JBoss forums at Java Ranch. He is also the co-author of JBoss in Action, Manning, and has been a reviewer on numerous books on topics ranging from Java to Windows PowerShell.

Antonio Gomes Rodrigues earned his masters degree at the University of Paris VII in France. Since then he has worked with various companies having Java EE technologies in the roles of developer, technical leader, and technical manager of the offshore projects, and also as a performance expert.

He currently works in the APM area and is a performance problem fixer for an editor.

I would like to thank my wife, Aurélie, for her support, and my child, Timothée.

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Preface

The new WildFly application server, previously known as JBoss, has recently come up with several innovations and improvements in all its aspects. It is very lightweight, fast, and easy to implement and configure. In this book, we will dive into this new version of an established technology in order to know a little more about WildFly and find out what we will be able to do with it.

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Starting with WildFly, introduces you to this new technology giving the user a better understanding of the features present in WildFly, and this chapter will also show the reader how to perform a complete installation and will supply a brief introduction on how to do the main tasks. In addition, it gives you a complete idea of what the function of each