WildFly Project News

Following the release of WildFly 16, I thought it would be a good time to give the WildFly community a sense of what I see coming in the project over the next few releases. WildFly will continue with the quarterly delivery model we began last year with WildFly 12. These releases are essentially time-boxed; i.e. we typically won’t significantly delay a release in order to get a feature in. So when I discuss general feature...

This post has been co-authored with Jorge Morales and Josh Wood from the OpenShift Developer Advocacy Team. Jorge is passionate about Developer experience, Java programming, and, most importantly, improving the integration of Red Hat’s Middleware into the OpenShift platform. Josh is committed to constructing the future of utility computing with open source technologies like Kubernetes. Problem space Containers are becoming the default deployment strategy for applications in the enterprise. We’ve seen the software packaged in...

WildFly 16 Final is now available for download! Provisioning WildFly with Galleon As we continue with our quarterly delivery model, a major focus over the next few quarters will be on making WildFly as easy and productive as possible to use on the cloud, particularly on Kubernetes and OpenShift. An important requirement for the cloud is to be able to reduce the footprint of your server to what you need to run your application, eliminating...

I am very excited to announce that Brian Stansberry (@bestansberry) will be taking on the role of WildFly project lead. Brian has been a major contributor to the project for almost 15 years now. During this time, he led a number of critical and complex subsystems including Clustering, Management, and most recently the cross-cutting cloud integration work. He is also one of our most active reviewers, and has helped many contributors navigate deep WildFly internals....

WildFly 15 Final is now available for download! This is our fourth release following our quarterly delivery model. The major objective of this year’s release plan was to deliver EE8 functionality in incremental chunks over the first three quarters, and then to ensure WildFly ran well on the latest long term support version of Java. Accordingly, in this fourth release our focus was less on new features and more on polishing our support for JDK...

Until now the history of configuration in WildFly was using the folder + filename pattern. Now we have moved to a proper SCM integrating Git to manage history. You can now take advantage of a full Git support for your configuration history: every change in your configuration is now a commit. you can use branches to develop in parallel. you can create tags for stable points in your configuration. pull configuration from a remote repository....

I am happy to announce that the WildFly 14 release is Java EE8 Certified! Since WildFly is now certified, the default EE7 mode and EE8 preview option have been dropped.

WildFly 13 comes with a management console (HAL) which has been rewritten from scratch. HAL still uses a similar technical stack (GWT) and user experience, but now fully adopts PatternFly. More important we enhanced the existing features and added support for many new subsystems and attributes. The following sections show some highlights of the latest version. For more details about the new features see the release notes for HAL 3.0.0.Final. Finder The column based navigation...

WildFly 13 Final is now available for download! EE8 Capabilities & New Release Model This is our second release following our new quarterly delivery model. A central theme of this plan, is to deliver EE8 functionality in fully completed incremental chunks, as opposed to waiting for everything to finish in a big bang relase. WildFly 13 largely accomplishes this goal, by achieving EE8 feature completeness. WildFly 14 will focus on achieving formal certification, and converting...

WildFly 12 Final is now available for download! EE8 Capabilities & New Release Model This is our first release following our new quarterly delivery model. As part of this plan, we are delivering EE8 functionality in fully completed incremental chunks, as opposed to waiting for everything to finish in a big bang reelase. WildFly 12 makes significant progress on this front, adding support for the majority of the new standards: Name From Version From JSR...