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The upcoming WildFly 11 release includes support for OpenSSL. This provides two main advantages over JSSE: Support for ALPN on all JDK’s Significantly improved performance compared to JSSE Setting up OpenSSL In general for Linux based systems all that is required is to install a recent version of OpenSSL using your systems package manager. The OpenSSL support will search the library path, and use whatever version of OpenSSL it finds. The same applies...
WildFly 11 is integrating Apache ActiveMQ Artemis 1.5 to provides its messaging features. New features With the integration of Artemis 1.5, WildFly has udpated its messaging-activemq subsystem to provides new Artemis features through WildFly management model. The two new main features are the JDBC Store and the configuration for ActiveMQ client thread pools. JDBC Store The JDBC store is an alternative to Artemis File journal that uses a SQL database to store...
A significant improvement in WildFly 11 is much better support for referential integrity when one resource in your configuration refers to another resource. Going beyond just checking that your references are correct, the server provides reference information that our CLI and the HAL web console are able to use to suggest valid values to you as you set up your configuration. Configuration references When you are configuring a WildFly server, a common thing you need...
In WildFly there used to be two worlds : one for developers with exploded deployments using a scanner and one for production where artifacts (wars/ears/jars) were deployed. Now those two worlds have collided and you can have exploded deployments without a scanner. And since this is using the management API you get remote access to the content for "free" and of course it works in domain mode. While this new feature is really useful...
WildFly 11 CR1 is now available for download! Since the Beta, 66 issues have been resolved. You can find the full list below. Provided that no major issues are found, we hope to release the final very soon. The highlights of WildFly 11 are as follows: Elytron - New Security Infrastructure The biggest change in WildFly 11 is unification on a new common security framework across the full application server. Previously we had two separate security...
WildFly 11 is now feature complete and the beta is now available for download! This release includes a significant amount of change, with 459 issues completed since the Alpha, and includes a number of major changes, including architectural changes around a new richer security layer. Since WildFly 11 is feature complete, and appears stable in our local testing, we aim to move to CR quickly. The highlights of this release are as follows: Elytron - New...
We are proud to announce our public CI system, which is running integration tests for WildFly, WildFly Core, Undertow, and many other related projects. This system ensures that we do not merge anything that is broken and that our master is always stable. CI also helps us with testing pull requests by: Making sure the code works on most common target platforms, currently Linux and Windows. Integration testing components as part of the full WildFly...
Red Hat, with its years of experience supporting large scale software systems, has always been a strong proponent of modular Java. Over time, we have delivered many products and solutions that provide and support popular modular environments like Java EE, and OSGi. Since 2011, we introduced a flexible modular implementation called JBoss Modules, which is capable of supporting the core modularity needs of both Java EE and OSGi, but is usable in a standalone manner...
WildFly 10.1 is officially complete and available for download! Major new features include: Out of the box HTTP/2 support with no JVM flags required ! TLS cert auto-generation Load-balancing profile is now in our default domain.xml config Support for clustering node discovery on Azure (jgroups AZURE_PING) Additionally there was a massive 324 issues resolved in this release! Out of the Box HTTP/2 and TLS Unique to WildFly, is that HTTP...
WildFly 10 Final is officially complete and available for download! WildFly 10 adds a number of capabilities and improvements to the powerful, yet lightweight, open-source application server. Java EE 7 As with WildFly 8 and WildFly 9, WildFly 10 implements the Java EE 7 Full and Web Profile standards. Builds on WildFly 9 In addition to the key features mentioned below, this release includes all the major features from 9, such as HTTP/2...
