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WildFly 19.1.0 is released!

WildFly 19.1.0 Final is now available for download. As we usually do between WildFly majors, we’ve done an update release to provide the WildFly community with important bug fixes and component upgrades that have become available. Typically these are micro releases, but this time we had one feature that we wanted to make available, so we changed the version to 19.1.0 and released a minor. The feature is related...

Configuring WildFly S2I image by using CLI Management Operations

Introduction The standard and recommended way to configure the WildFly cloud images is by using environment variables. However, you could find it useful for your use case to configure the server by using a custom CLI management operations script. The following post describes how you can apply management operations to configure the WildFly server image. We will show you how you can execute CLI scripts at the Source-to-Image (S2I) phase and how to...

WildFly 19 S2I images have been released on quay.io

WildFly 19 S2I Docker images The WildFly S2I (Source-to-Image) builder and runtime Docker images for WildFly 19 have been released on quay.io/wildfly. Changes since the last release: Optimized startup. The server starts much faster, as the CLI script applied to the server configuration is now executed during server boot. Support for clustering. JGroups is now part of the default server configuration. The WildFly 19 Galleon decorator layer web-clustering (support for...

Eclipse MicroProfile OpenTracing comes to WildFly

Until WildFly 19 you could use Eclipse MicroProfile OpenTracing (MPOT) to trace your application using environment variables relying on the SmallRye OpenTracing implementation. With WildFly 19 you can now configure several Jaeger Tracers to be used in your applications. Installing Jaeger Let’s start a jaeger instance using docker : docker run -d --name jaeger \ -p 6831:6831/udp \ -p 5778:5778 \ -p 14268:14268 \ -p 16686:16686 \ jaegertracing/all-in-one:1.16 Now...

WildFly 19 is released!

I’m pleased to announce that the WildFly 19 Final zip is now available for download. Work on WildFly 19 has been a long and exciting journey, with tremendous help from contributors in the community, a lot of support from the communities behind the components we integrate (particularly the Smallrye folks) and crucial backing from many of my colleagues at Red Hat, particularly all the QE folks who helped make sure all the new...

WildFly 19.0.0.Beta3 with Eclipse MicroProfile 3.3 Support

I’m pleased to announce that with today’s WildFly 19.0.0.Beta3 release WildFly supports the Eclipse MicroProfile 3.3 platform specifications! The WildFly 19 Beta3 zip is now available for download. With the January release of WildFly 19 Beta1 we added support for MicroProfile 3.2. Since the MicroProfile 3.3 release was coming in February and the delta from 3.2 wasn’t too extreme we decided to...

MicroProfile 3.2 in WildFly 19.0.0.Beta1

I’m pleased to announce that the WildFly 19 Beta1 zip is now available for download. I typically don’t blog about the WildFly betas, but I want to this time because I’m so thrilled to be able to say we’ve gotten implementations of all of the MicroProfile 3.2 specifications in this release! This is the first WildFly release that includes all the MicroProfile platform specs. We’...

Custom Filters in WildFly

What is a log filter? A log filter is used to add fine grained control over a log message. In the case of WildFly this is a java.util.logging.Filter. As of WildFly 18 there is the ability to use custom log filters. Creating a Filter To create a filter you must implement the java.util.logging.Filter interface. The filter must be in a module and can be defined on a logger or...

Ship Your WildFly Additions via Galleon Feature-Packs

Galleon is a tool for provisioning Java runtimes. It comes with plugins for provisioning WildFly server instances. We have been using it internally in WildFly to build and configure the server the past few releases, and we recently introduced it into our OpenShift cloud image to be able to create a server with a smaller footprint than the default. This post will give an overview of how to use Galleon to provide your additions to...

WildFly 18.0.1 is released!

WildFly 18.0.1.Final is now available for download!