WildFly Project News

Messaging features in WildFly 11

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 broker state (messages,...

Management Model Referential Integrity and Suggestions

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...

Using exploded deployments and CLI attachments

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 usefull for...

WildFly 11 CR1 is now available!

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...