WildFly Project News

WildFly Swarm Initial Release

Happy Cinco De Mayo! Crack open a cold adult beverage and start retooling your JavaEE skills towards microservices. What is WildFly Swarm? WildFly Swarm [1] is a new sidecar project supporting WildFly 9.x to enable deconstructing the WildFly AS and pasting just enough of it back together with your application to create a self-contained executable jar. JAX-RS is a microservice? In the simplest case, you make small adjustments to your existing Maven pom.xml that...

WildFly 9 CR1 is released!

I’m happy to announce WildFly 9.0.0.CR1! WildFly 9 builds off of WildFly 8’s Java EE7 support, and adds many new capabilities, including intelligent load balancing, HTTP/2 support, a new offline CLI mode, graceful single node shutdown, and a new Servlet-only distribution. For more details, check out the full release notes. Provided no major issues are discovered, we plan to move to Final fairly quickly, sometime in May. Enjoy!

WildFly 9 Beta is released!

I’m happy to announce the beta release of WildFly 9! WildFly 9 builds off of WildFly 8’s Java EE7 support, and adds many new capabilities, including intelligent load balancing, HTTP/2 support, a new offline CLI mode, graceful single node shutdown, and a new Servlet-only distribution. For more details, check out the full release notes. Provided no major issues are discovered, we plan to move to CR fairly quickly, sometime in April. Enjoy!

Running an Embedded WildFly 9 Server in the CLI

In WildFly 9 Beta1 we are introducing a new capability to our Command Line Interface (CLI) tool: the ability to embed a WildFly standalone server process inside the CLI process, with the CLI interacting with the embedded server in a manner consistent with how it interacts with a remote WildFly server. All of the standard CLI commands that you can use to administer a remote server are available. The immediate goal is to support...

WildFly 8.2 Final is released!

I’m happy to announce the release of WildFly 8.2.0.Final! This release includes a number of improvements and bug fixes over the last release, 8.1.0.Final. CDI 1.2 & Weld 2.2 WildFly 8.2 builds upon the existing Java EE7 support, by adding the latest iteration of CDI, which includes improved discovery semantics and better compatibility with AtInject (JSR 330) implementations. Additionally, Weld, our CDI implementation has been updated with improved performance. Large deployments were observed to...

Getting Started with WildFly in OpenShift and JBoss Developer Studio

OpenShift provides an open source hybrid cloud application platform by Red Hat. It enables polyglot applications to be deployed on a public, private, and a hybrid cloud very easily. It provides an extensible cartridge-based architecture that allows a wide range of functionality such as frameworks, databases, monitoring services, or connectors to external backends to be easily added. WildFly cartridge allows you to start a WildFly instance in OpenShift Online. JBoss Developer Studio provide comprehensive...

HTTP Session Failover in WildFly 8

WIldFly enables high availability of a Java EE application using session failover and load balancing. Session failover allows uninterrupted access to an application, even in the presence of a node failure. Load balancing allows for a timely response from the application, even in the presence of high volume requests. WildFly can operate in standalone mode which is an independent process, much like JBoss Application Serer 3, 4, 5, and 6. It can also operate...

WildFly 8 Final is released!

I’m happy to announce the release of WildFly 8.0.0.Final. This means we feel the project is now stable and ready for general use. We received excellent feedback from the community regarding the CR1 release, and are looking forward to hearing more about your experiences with 8 Final. We will be highlighting notable WildFly 8 articles, videos and resources on our new WildFly 8 Resources page. Please keep an eye on it for future developments....

Migrating a Java EE App from GlassFish to WildFly

by Hildeberto Mendonça and Efraim Gentil from CEJUG Serious open source projects should be backed up by at least one company who has genuine interest to be profitable with that project in the long run. It’s a matter of fitting the project in the current economic model, where people can be employed full time to address the continuous flow of issues and features coming from users all over the world. That’s what happens all...

WildFly 8 CR1 is released!

I’m happy to announce the release of WildFly 8.0.0.CR1. This is the first candidate for release of WildFly 8. Provided no significant issues are discovered, we will follow up with an 8.0.0.Final release soon after. We are calling on all members in the community to help us evaluate WildFly 8, and that it is indeed ready for primetime. Java EE7 TCK 100% Passing The biggest development in this release is that WildFly 8 is...