Monthly Archives: August 2014

Load Balance WebSockets using Apache HTTPD (Tech Tip #48)

August 29, 2014jboss, techtip, wildflyjavaee7, jboss, wildflyarungupta

JBoss EAP 6.3 provides a technology preview of WebSocket and WildFly have supported them as part of Java EE 7 compliance.

github.com/javaee-samples/javaee7-samples/tree/master/websocket provide tons of Java EE 7 samples that run on WildFly. If you are interested in similar functionality on JBoss EAP 6.3 then github.com/jboss-developer/jboss-eap-quickstarts/tree/6.4.x-develop/websocket-hello is a quickstart. In addition, there are a few more samples at github.com/arun-gupta/jboss-samples/tree/master/eap63.

One of the common questions asked related to WebSockets is how to how to load balance them. This Tech Tip will explain that for WildFly and JBoss EAP 6.3.

First, what are the main components ?

At least Apache HTTPD 2.4.5 is required. Now HTTPD binaries are not available for Mac but fortunately compiling instructions are explained clearly in Tech Tip #45.
mod_proxy_wstunnel is an Apache module that provides support for tunneling of Web Socket connections to a backend Web Sockets server, such as WildFly or JBoss EAP. It is a support module to mod_proxy that provide support for a number of popular protocols as well as several different load balancing algorithms. The connection is automagically upgraded to a WebSocket connection. And all the modules are already included in the modules directory.
mod_proxy_balancer module is required that provides load balancing for HTTP and other protocols.

Let’s go!

Download and unzip WildFly 8.1.
Start WildFly 8.1 in domain mode using ./bin/domain.sh.

Download this chat sample, rename the file to “chat.war” and deploy to “main-server-group” as:

~/tools/wildfly-8.1.0.Final/bin/jboss-cli.sh -c --command="deploy chat.war --server-groups=main-server-group"

~/tools/wildfly-8.1.0.Final/bin/jboss-cli.sh -c --command="deploy chat.war --server-groups=main-server-group"

The only difference from the original Java EE 7 WebSocket Chat sample is the addition of System.getProperty("jboss.node.name") to display the name of WildFly instance serving the application. The source code is available at github.com/arun-gupta/wildfly-samples/tree/master/websocket-loadbalance.

Uncomment the following lines in /usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf:

LoadModule lbmethod_byrequests_module modules/mod_lbmethod_byrequests.so
LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so
LoadModule proxy_wstunnel_module modules/mod_proxy_wstunnel.so
LoadModule proxy_balancer_module modules/mod_proxy_balancer.so

LoadModule lbmethod_byrequests_module modules/mod_lbmethod_byrequests.so

LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so

LoadModule proxy_wstunnel_module modules/mod_proxy_wstunnel.so

LoadModule proxy_balancer_module modules/mod_proxy_balancer.so

This will enable all the required modules.

Add the following code fragment at the end of “httpd.conf”:

&lt;Proxy balancer://mycluster&gt;
    BalancerMember ws://localhost:8080
    BalancerMember ws://localhost:8230
&lt;/Proxy&gt;
ProxyPass /chat balancer://mycluster/chat

BalancerMember ws://localhost:8080

BalancerMember ws://localhost:8230

</Proxy>

ProxyPass /chat balancer://mycluster/chat

Proxy is a container for proxied resources and is creating a load balancing group in this case using balancer directive. BalancerMember adds a member to this load balancing group. ProxyPass is a standard directive that maps remote servers running on different ports into the space of the local server. In this case, WildFly is started in domain mode and so starts two instances on port 8080 and 8230. Both of these instances are mapped to localhost:80, which is where Apache HTTPD is running by default.

The deployed chat sample is now accessible at localhost:8080/chat (first instance in the managed domain), localhost:8230/chat (second WildFly instance in the managed domain), and localhost/chat (via Apache HTTPD).

Now even if you kill one of the WildFly instances, the other instance will continue to serve the client. Note, this only gives application availability as there is no session failover in this.

This was also verified on JBoss EAP 6.3 and there are a few differences:

Use the sample from github.com/arun-gupta/jboss-samples/tree/master/eap63/websocket-chat instead.

The generated archive name is different and so the command would look slightly different too:

~/tools/jboss-eap-6.3/bin/jboss-cli.sh -c --command="deploy websocket-chat-1.0-SNAPSHOT.war --server-groups=main-server-group"

~/tools/jboss-eap-6.3/bin/jboss-cli.sh -c --command="deploy websocket-chat-1.0-SNAPSHOT.war --server-groups=main-server-group"

Configure “httpd.conf” as:

&lt;Proxy balancer://mycluster&gt;
    BalancerMember ws://localhost:8080
    BalancerMember ws://localhost:8230
&lt;/Proxy&gt;
ProxyPass /websocket-chat-1.0-SNAPSHOT balancer://mycluster/websocket-chat-1.0-SNAPSHOT

BalancerMember ws://localhost:8080

BalancerMember ws://localhost:8230

</Proxy>

ProxyPass /websocket-chat-1.0-SNAPSHOT balancer://mycluster/websocket-chat-1.0-SNAPSHOT

And that’s it!

Watch this live in action:

An important point to understand is that there is no concept of “sticky sessions” in WebSocket as, unlike HTTP, there is a direct and “permanent” connection between the client and the server in this case.

Enjoy!

WildFly with a custom configuration in OpenShift (Tech Tip #47)

August 28, 2014techtip, wildflyopenshift, wildflyarungupta

WildFly instances can be easily started in OpenShift. Tech Tip #7 shows how to spin up an instance of WildFly in OpenShift. Tech Tip #21 explained how to get started using JBoss Tools.

Now this WildFly instance is started with the stock configuration.xml. However some times you may want to configure the containers or specify additional configuration information in this file. This Tech Tip will show you how to do that.

Let’s go!

Start a WildFly instance as explained in Tech Tip #7.

On the application page, clone the workspace associated with this application. The command will look something like:

git clone ssh://XXXXXXXXXX@test-milestogo.rhcloud.com/~/git/test.git/

git clone ssh://XXXXXXXXXX@test-milestogo.rhcloud.com/~/git/test.git/

This workspace has .openshift/standalone.xml file. Edit this file to meet your need. For example, if you want to use Infinispan as a persistency solution in standalone mode, then you’ll add the following code fragment:

&lt;cache-container name="myCache" default-cache="cachedb"&gt;
    &lt;local-cache name="cachedb"/&gt;
&lt;/cache-container&gt;

<cache-container name="myCache" default-cache="cachedb">

<local-cache name="cachedb"/>

</cache-container>

under <subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:infinispan:2.0"> section.

Commit and push the change:

config&gt; <strong>git commit standalone.xml -m"additional configuration elements"</strong>
[master cef567d] additional configuration elements
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
config&gt; <strong>git push</strong>

config> git commit standalone.xml -m"additional configuration elements"

[master cef567d] additional configuration elements

1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

config> git push

This will automatically restart the cartridge and show the output as:

Counting objects: 9, done.
Delta compression using up to 8 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (5/5), done.
Writing objects: 100% (5/5), 656 bytes | 0 bytes/s, done.
Total 5 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0)
remote: Stopping wildfly cart
remote: Repairing links for 1 deployments
remote: Building git ref 'master', commit cef567d
remote: Found pom.xml... attempting to build with 'mvn -e clean package -Popenshift -DskipTests'
remote: Apache Maven 3.0.4 (r1232336; 2012-12-18 14:36:37-0500)
remote: Maven home: /usr/share/java/apache-maven-3.0.4
remote: Java version: 1.8.0_05, vendor: Oracle Corporation
remote: Java home: /var/lib/openshift/XXXXXXXXXX/wildfly/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.8.0_05/jre
remote: Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: ANSI_X3.4-1968
remote: OS name: "linux", version: "2.6.32-431.23.3.el6.x86_64", arch: "i386", family: "unix"
remote: [INFO] Scanning for projects...
remote: [INFO]                                                                         
remote: [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
remote: [INFO] Building test 1.0
remote: [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
remote: [INFO] 
remote: [INFO] --- maven-clean-plugin:2.4.1:clean (default-clean) @ test ---
remote: [INFO] 
remote: [INFO] --- maven-resources-plugin:2.5:resources (default-resources) @ test ---
remote: [debug] execute contextualize
remote: [INFO] Using 'UTF-8' encoding to copy filtered resources.
remote: [INFO] Copying 1 resource
remote: [INFO] 
remote: [INFO] --- maven-compiler-plugin:2.3.2:compile (default-compile) @ test ---
remote: [INFO] Nothing to compile - all classes are up to date
remote: [INFO] 
remote: [INFO] --- maven-resources-plugin:2.5:testResources (default-testResources) @ test ---
remote: [debug] execute contextualize
remote: [INFO] Using 'UTF-8' encoding to copy filtered resources.
remote: [INFO] skip non existing resourceDirectory /var/lib/openshift/XXXXXXXXXX/app-root/runtime/repo/src/test/resources
remote: [INFO] 
remote: [INFO] --- maven-compiler-plugin:2.3.2:testCompile (default-testCompile) @ test ---
remote: [INFO] No sources to compile
remote: [INFO] 
remote: [INFO] --- maven-surefire-plugin:2.10:test (default-test) @ test ---
remote: [INFO] Tests are skipped.
remote: [INFO] 
remote: [INFO] --- maven-war-plugin:2.3:war (default-war) @ test ---
remote: [INFO] Packaging webapp
remote: [INFO] Assembling webapp [test] in [/var/lib/openshift/XXXXXXXXXX/app-root/runtime/repo/target/test]
remote: [INFO] Processing war project
remote: [INFO] Copying webapp resources [/var/lib/openshift/XXXXXXXXXX/app-root/runtime/repo/src/main/webapp]
remote: [INFO] Webapp assembled in [341 msecs]
remote: [INFO] Building war: /var/lib/openshift/XXXXXXXXXX/app-root/runtime/repo/deployments/ROOT.war
remote: [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
remote: [INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
remote: [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
remote: [INFO] Total time: 8.365s
remote: [INFO] Finished at: Tue Aug 26 18:01:19 EDT 2014
remote: [INFO] Final Memory: 9M/113M
remote: [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
remote: Preparing build for deployment
remote: Deployment id is 336d5b75
remote: Activating deployment
remote: Deploying WildFly
remote: Starting wildfly cart
remote: Found 127.12.40.129:8080 listening port
remote: Found 127.12.40.129:9990 listening port
remote: /var/lib/openshift/XXXXXXXXXX/wildfly/standalone/deployments /var/lib/openshift/XXXXXXXXXX/wildfly
remote: /var/lib/openshift/XXXXXXXXXX/wildfly
remote: CLIENT_MESSAGE: Artifacts deployed: ./ROOT.war
remote: -------------------------
remote: Git Post-Receive Result: success
remote: Activation status: success
remote: Deployment completed with status: success
To ssh://XXXXXXXXXX@test-milestogo.rhcloud.com/~/git/test.git/
   b08ebff..cef567d  master -&gt; master

Counting objects: 9, done.

Delta compression using up to 8 threads.

Compressing objects: 100% (5/5), done.

Writing objects: 100% (5/5), 656 bytes | 0 bytes/s, done.

Total 5 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0)

remote: Stopping wildfly cart

remote: Repairing links for 1 deployments

remote: Building git ref 'master', commit cef567d

remote: Found pom.xml... attempting to build with 'mvn -e clean package -Popenshift -DskipTests'

remote: Apache Maven 3.0.4 (r1232336; 2012-12-18 14:36:37-0500)

remote: Maven home: /usr/share/java/apache-maven-3.0.4

remote: Java version: 1.8.0_05, vendor: Oracle Corporation

remote: Java home: /var/lib/openshift/XXXXXXXXXX/wildfly/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.8.0_05/jre

remote: Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: ANSI_X3.4-1968

remote: OS name: "linux", version: "2.6.32-431.23.3.el6.x86_64", arch: "i386", family: "unix"

remote: [INFO] Scanning for projects...

remote: [INFO]

remote: [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

remote: [INFO] Building test 1.0

remote: [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

remote: [INFO]

remote: [INFO] --- maven-clean-plugin:2.4.1:clean (default-clean) @ test ---

remote: [INFO]

remote: [INFO] --- maven-resources-plugin:2.5:resources (default-resources) @ test ---

remote: [debug] execute contextualize

remote: [INFO] Using 'UTF-8' encoding to copy filtered resources.

remote: [INFO] Copying 1 resource

remote: [INFO]

remote: [INFO] --- maven-compiler-plugin:2.3.2:compile (default-compile) @ test ---

remote: [INFO] Nothing to compile - all classes are up to date

remote: [INFO]

remote: [INFO] --- maven-resources-plugin:2.5:testResources (default-testResources) @ test ---

remote: [debug] execute contextualize

remote: [INFO] Using 'UTF-8' encoding to copy filtered resources.

remote: [INFO] skip non existing resourceDirectory /var/lib/openshift/XXXXXXXXXX/app-root/runtime/repo/src/test/resources

remote: [INFO]

remote: [INFO] --- maven-compiler-plugin:2.3.2:testCompile (default-testCompile) @ test ---

remote: [INFO] No sources to compile

remote: [INFO]

remote: [INFO] --- maven-surefire-plugin:2.10:test (default-test) @ test ---

remote: [INFO] Tests are skipped.

remote: [INFO]

remote: [INFO] --- maven-war-plugin:2.3:war (default-war) @ test ---

remote: [INFO] Packaging webapp

remote: [INFO] Assembling webapp [test] in [/var/lib/openshift/XXXXXXXXXX/app-root/runtime/repo/target/test]

remote: [INFO] Processing war project

remote: [INFO] Copying webapp resources [/var/lib/openshift/XXXXXXXXXX/app-root/runtime/repo/src/main/webapp]

remote: [INFO] Webapp assembled in [341 msecs]

remote: [INFO] Building war: /var/lib/openshift/XXXXXXXXXX/app-root/runtime/repo/deployments/ROOT.war

remote: [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

remote: [INFO] BUILD SUCCESS

remote: [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

remote: [INFO] Total time: 8.365s

remote: [INFO] Finished at: Tue Aug 26 18:01:19 EDT 2014

remote: [INFO] Final Memory: 9M/113M

remote: [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

remote: Preparing build for deployment

remote: Deployment id is 336d5b75

remote: Activating deployment

remote: Deploying WildFly

remote: Starting wildfly cart

remote: Found 127.12.40.129:8080 listening port

remote: Found 127.12.40.129:9990 listening port

remote: /var/lib/openshift/XXXXXXXXXX/wildfly/standalone/deployments /var/lib/openshift/XXXXXXXXXX/wildfly

remote: /var/lib/openshift/XXXXXXXXXX/wildfly

remote: CLIENT_MESSAGE: Artifacts deployed: ./ROOT.war

remote: -------------------------

remote: Git Post-Receive Result: success

remote: Activation status: success

remote: Deployment completed with status: success

To ssh://XXXXXXXXXX@test-milestogo.rhcloud.com/~/git/test.git/

b08ebff..cef567d master -> master

Now the WildFly instance in OpenShift will use the updated configuration file.

You can even verify this by logging into your application as:

ssh XXXXXXXXXX@test-milestogo.rhcloud.com

ssh XXXXXXXXXX@test-milestogo.rhcloud.com

And checking for the updated elements in wildfly/standalone/configuration/standalone.xml file.

Alternatively, you can ssh into your instance and use the JBoss CLI to make updates to your standalone.xml file.

Enjoy!

Java EE 7 Real World Experience: Campground Management with Tipi.camp

August 27, 2014wildflyjavaee7, wildflyarungupta

Tipi.camp provides a simple campground management software and targets 25,000+ independent campgrounds all over Europe. It provides a customer-friendly booking-portal and a RESTful API for partners to integrate. The project was conceived in September 2013 when Christoph returned from vacation, disappointed because of the missed booking for their tent. And now he has created a new solution connecting campers and campgrounds with each other.

The website offers a SaaS where campgrounds can register their camp sites and campers can look at the availability of these campgrounds, check out their calendar, pick a site and make a reservation. It is also available for on-site installation if you prefer running it on your domain. Think of it as koa.com, but available to all the independent campgrounds and much more modern 😉

The landing page is certainly very fancy:

Websites of smaller campgrounds are typically characterized by low data maintenance and absence of a booking possibility. tipi.camp has advantages:

Easy-to-use portal for campground owners and campers
Campground owner administrate and book his sites independently
Customer data management
External sales channels, for example booking.com, can be connected to sell the log cabins
RESTful API it is also possible to handle larger individual installations

Campgrounds get their own portal, reservations, channel management, email and much more for €1/day if they are located in Europe or $1/day if they are in US. Each campground with an Internet connection and browser (whether computer or iPad) can use the software.

In terms of the overall flow, campground owner register their campground with tipi.camp. Traveler checks out the calendar and books the campground using the responsive portal.

Check out the welcome page:

Campers can search through the available camps and then look at the calendar of a particular camp:

Pick a particular site on the campground:

And then checkout to make the payment:

This website is built using Java EE 7:

Here is a brief description of the technology stack:

Presentation
- JavaServer Faces + Expression Language. Different templates are used for desktop and iPad apps. JSF Template Library might be used to provide a fully customized portal for the campground owners later.
- Security: JAAS Principal + JDBC realm
- Bean discovery mode=”all”
Middle Tier
- EJB for business boundaries
- Servlets with JSON for web hooks: response from Paypal and Sendgrid
- JAX-RS for exposing API to partners
Backend
- JPA + Bean Validation, use @Index for database generation during development. Flyway API for database migrations in production.
- Concurrency: Calculation of statistics and sending messages, Sendgrid takes ~1-4 seconds to send messages
- Using @Startup @Singleton @Schedule to run a job at pre-defined time

Technologies from outside the platform were:

Primefaces 5 for the GUI and Bootstrap for the responsive Enduser-Portal.
Sendgrid API for sending mails. This is required as opposed to JavaMail because specific meta information needs to be added to each email.
Misc apache commons (eq. FileUtils.writeByteArrayToFile or IOUtils.toByteArray) – there are only a few sections.
Flyway API for database migrations
Junit with Derby – for testing

Toolset

JDK 8
IntelliJ 13.1 with Maven
Wildfly 8.1.0.Final – Single instance of WildFly is used. The app was previously deployed on GlassFish.
Apache httpd is used to:
- performance-tuning with KeepAlive, mod_expires for the images and the compression
- easy SSL configuration
- handle more WildFly under 1 hostname with the mod_proxy
- mod_redirect for redirect all http requests to the app to https
Github
Jenkins
loader.io for Load-Testing
Currently the application is deployed on a self-hostet Linux-Server in the hetzner.de data center.

Wish list for Java EE 8

Most used Apache Commons Libs
@Temporal works with LocalDate and LocalDateTime
Batch processing API does support generics

And here are supporting quotes on Java EE 7

<i>the technology is perfect. very productive with java/ee7, i’m and our customers are very happy with java ee7. With the technology, really everything is possible.</i>

the technology is perfect. very productive with java/ee7, i’m and our customers are very happy with java ee7. With the technology, really everything is possible.

And on WildFly:

<i>superb, unique product</i>

superb, unique product

So, do you want to start on this terrific two combination of Java EE 7 + WildFly ?

Download WildFly 8.1 today, learn the technology by reading/trying Java EE 7 samples, browse through Java EE 7 resources.

Or if you want to be on the bleeding edge, check out WildFly 9.0.

Many thanks to Christoph Gapp (info@tipi.camp) and Adam Bien (@adambien) for providing all the answers!

Are you using Java EE 7 and WildFly to deploy your projects ? Would love to feature you here! Send me an email or leave a comment on the blog.

Cloud in a Box: OpenShift Online in VirtualBox (Tech Tip #46)

August 25, 2014redhatopenshiftarungupta

OpenShift is Red Hat’s PaaS platform and comes in three flavors:

Origin is the Community PaaS offering. You can explore the community-driven open source upstream of OpenShift. Join the community.
Online is the Public PaaS offering. Host your applications in the public cloud with automated provisioning, management, and scaling of applications. Sign up for free.
Enterprise is the Private PaaS offering. Leverage PaaS in your own data centers and private cloud. Request evaluation.

This Tech Tip will show how you can setup a Virtual VM running with OpenShift Online. Instructions at openshift.github.io/documentation/oo_deployment_guide_vm.html are pretty self explanatory. Here are the exact ones that I followed on Mavericks:

Download VM:

curl -O https://mirror.openshift.com/pub/origin-server/release/4/images/openshift-origin.tgz

curl -O https://mirror.openshift.com/pub/origin-server/release/4/images/openshift-origin.tgz

Unpack VM files

tar xzvf ~/Downloads/openshift-origin.tgz 
x OpenShift Origin v4/
x OpenShift Origin v4/OpenShift Origin v4.nvram
x OpenShift Origin v4/OpenShift Origin v4.vbox
x OpenShift Origin v4/OpenShift Origin v4.vmsd
x OpenShift Origin v4/OpenShift Origin v4.vmx
x OpenShift Origin v4/OpenShift Origin v4.vmxf
x OpenShift Origin v4/._origin-vm.vmdk
x OpenShift Origin v4/origin-vm.vmdk

tar xzvf ~/Downloads/openshift-origin.tgz

x OpenShift Origin v4/

x OpenShift Origin v4/OpenShift Origin v4.nvram

x OpenShift Origin v4/OpenShift Origin v4.vbox

x OpenShift Origin v4/OpenShift Origin v4.vmsd

x OpenShift Origin v4/OpenShift Origin v4.vmx

x OpenShift Origin v4/OpenShift Origin v4.vmxf

x OpenShift Origin v4/._origin-vm.vmdk

x OpenShift Origin v4/origin-vm.vmdk

Follow the instructions to create a VirtualBox instance. Create a new hard drive using the unzipped origin-vm.vmdk file.
IMPORTANT: Instead of 4.2.4 to add bridged networking, setup a host-only network using 4.2.5.
Boot the VM to see the output as:

Type “5” to exit to the command prompt.
VM comes pre-configured with Avahi DNS service and so now you can access OpenShift console at broker.openshift.local and seen as:

The username/password are “demo”/”changeme”.

Create an SSH tunnel into the VM as:

ssh -f <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:root@broker.openshift.local">root@broker.openshift.local</a> -L 8080:localhost:8080 -N

ssh -f <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:root@broker.openshift.local">root@broker.openshift.local</a> -L 8080:localhost:8080 -N

Password is “changeme”. OpenShift admin console is now accessible at localhost:8080/admin-console and looks like:

More details about Admin Console are well documented.

Many thanks to Harrison for guiding me through creating this process!

Ask your OpenShift questions at stackoverflow or follow them at @openshift.

Enjoy!

Compiling Apache HTTPD on Mac (Tech Tip #45)

August 22, 2014techtipapache, httpdarungupta

One of my blogs needed Apache HTTPD 2.4.x on Mac but quickly realized that the binaries are available only for Netware and Win32. Even the build instructions were only for RPM-based systems. So I downloaded the source code and started building it.

Complete compile instructions are explained here. However there were some issues on Mavericks and so decided to document it.

Let’s go!

Download the source bundle and unzip:

tar xzvf ~/Downloads/httpd-2.4.10.tar.bz2

tar xzvf ~/Downloads/httpd-2.4.10.tar.bz2

Source code comes with INSTALL instructions and per that the following should’ve worked:

./configure --prefix=PREFIX
make
make install
PREFIX/bin/apachectl start

./configure --prefix=PREFIX

make

make install

PREFIX/bin/apachectl start

So gave the command

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache2

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache2

and got the first error:

httpd-2.4.10&gt; <strong>./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache2</strong>
checking for chosen layout... Apache
checking for working mkdir -p... yes
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep
checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E
checking build system type... x86_64-apple-darwin13.3.0
checking host system type... x86_64-apple-darwin13.3.0
checking target system type... x86_64-apple-darwin13.3.0
configure: 
configure: Configuring Apache Portable Runtime library...
configure: 
checking for APR... yes
  setting CC to "/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc"
  setting CPP to "/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc -E"
  setting CFLAGS to " "
  setting CPPFLAGS to " -DDARWIN -DSIGPROCMASK_SETS_THREAD_MASK"
  setting LDFLAGS to " "
configure: 
configure: Configuring Apache Portable Runtime Utility library...
configure: 
checking for APR-util... yes
checking for gcc... /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc
checking whether the C compiler works... no
configure: error: in `/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details

httpd-2.4.10> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache2

checking for chosen layout... Apache

checking for working mkdir -p... yes

checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep

checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E

checking build system type... x86_64-apple-darwin13.3.0

checking host system type... x86_64-apple-darwin13.3.0

checking target system type... x86_64-apple-darwin13.3.0

configure:

configure: Configuring Apache Portable Runtime library...

configure:

checking for APR... yes

setting CC to "/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc"

setting CPP to "/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc -E"

setting CFLAGS to " "

setting CPPFLAGS to " -DDARWIN -DSIGPROCMASK_SETS_THREAD_MASK"

setting LDFLAGS to " "

configure:

configure: Configuring Apache Portable Runtime Utility library...

configure:

checking for APR-util... yes

checking for gcc... /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc

checking whether the C compiler works... no

configure: error: in `/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10':

configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables

See `config.log' for more details

Moved past “checking whether the C compiler works… no” error by following instructions on stackoverflow #13587001.In short, do the following for Mavericks

sudo ln -s /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain

sudo ln -s /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain

Issued the command to compile the server again and got the error as shown:

httpd-2.4.10&gt; <strong>./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache2</strong> 
checking for chosen layout... Apache
checking for working mkdir -p... yes
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep
checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E
checking build system type... x86_64-apple-darwin13.3.0
checking host system type... x86_64-apple-darwin13.3.0
checking target system type... x86_64-apple-darwin13.3.0
configure: 
configure: Configuring Apache Portable Runtime library...
configure: 
checking for APR... yes
  setting CC to "/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc"
  setting CPP to "/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc -E"
  setting CFLAGS to " "
  setting CPPFLAGS to " -DDARWIN -DSIGPROCMASK_SETS_THREAD_MASK"
  setting LDFLAGS to " "
configure: 
configure: Configuring Apache Portable Runtime Utility library...
configure: 
checking for APR-util... yes
checking for gcc... /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc accepts -g... yes
checking for /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc -E
checking for /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc option to accept ISO C99... none needed
checking for pcre-config... false
configure: error: pcre-config for libpcre not found. PCRE is required and available from http://pcre.org/

httpd-2.4.10> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache2

checking for chosen layout... Apache

checking for working mkdir -p... yes

checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep

checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E

checking build system type... x86_64-apple-darwin13.3.0

checking host system type... x86_64-apple-darwin13.3.0

checking target system type... x86_64-apple-darwin13.3.0

configure:

configure: Configuring Apache Portable Runtime library...

configure:

checking for APR... yes

setting CC to "/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc"

setting CPP to "/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc -E"

setting CFLAGS to " "

setting CPPFLAGS to " -DDARWIN -DSIGPROCMASK_SETS_THREAD_MASK"

setting LDFLAGS to " "

configure:

configure: Configuring Apache Portable Runtime Utility library...

configure:

checking for APR-util... yes

checking for gcc... /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc

checking whether the C compiler works... yes

checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out

checking for suffix of executables...

checking whether we are cross compiling... no

checking for suffix of object files... o

checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes

checking whether /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc accepts -g... yes

checking for /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc option to accept ISO C89... none needed

checking how to run the C preprocessor... /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc -E

checking for /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc option to accept ISO C99... none needed

checking for pcre-config... false

configure: error: pcre-config for libpcre not found. PCRE is required and available from http://pcre.org/

This was resolved using stackoverflow #10663180. In short:

Download PCRE as:

curl -O ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-8.33.zip

curl -O ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-8.33.zip

Compile and install as:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/pcre
make
sudo make install

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/pcre

make

sudo make install

The compilation output is shown here.

Compile HTTPD source again as:

httpd-2.4.10&gt; <strong>./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache2 --with-pcre=/usr/local/pcre</strong>
checking for chosen layout... Apache
checking for working mkdir -p... yes
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep
checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E
checking build system type... x86_64-apple-darwin13.3.0
checking host system type... x86_64-apple-darwin13.3.0
checking target system type... x86_64-apple-darwin13.3.0
configure: 
. . .
creating server/Makefile
creating support/Makefile
creating test/Makefile
config.status: creating docs/conf/httpd.conf
config.status: creating docs/conf/extra/httpd-autoindex.conf
config.status: creating docs/conf/extra/httpd-dav.conf
config.status: creating docs/conf/extra/httpd-default.conf
config.status: creating docs/conf/extra/httpd-info.conf
config.status: creating docs/conf/extra/httpd-languages.conf
config.status: creating docs/conf/extra/httpd-manual.conf
config.status: creating docs/conf/extra/httpd-mpm.conf
config.status: creating docs/conf/extra/httpd-multilang-errordoc.conf
config.status: creating docs/conf/extra/httpd-ssl.conf
config.status: creating docs/conf/extra/httpd-userdir.conf
config.status: creating docs/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
config.status: creating docs/conf/extra/proxy-html.conf
config.status: creating include/ap_config_layout.h
config.status: creating support/apxs
config.status: creating support/apachectl
config.status: creating support/dbmmanage
config.status: creating support/envvars-std
config.status: creating support/log_server_status
config.status: creating support/logresolve.pl
config.status: creating support/phf_abuse_log.cgi
config.status: creating support/split-logfile
config.status: creating build/rules.mk
config.status: creating build/pkg/pkginfo
config.status: creating build/config_vars.sh
config.status: creating include/ap_config_auto.h
config.status: executing default commands

httpd-2.4.10> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache2 --with-pcre=/usr/local/pcre

checking for chosen layout... Apache

checking for working mkdir -p... yes

checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep

checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E

checking build system type... x86_64-apple-darwin13.3.0

checking host system type... x86_64-apple-darwin13.3.0

checking target system type... x86_64-apple-darwin13.3.0

configure:

. . .

creating server/Makefile

creating support/Makefile

creating test/Makefile

config.status: creating docs/conf/httpd.conf

config.status: creating docs/conf/extra/httpd-autoindex.conf

config.status: creating docs/conf/extra/httpd-dav.conf

config.status: creating docs/conf/extra/httpd-default.conf

config.status: creating docs/conf/extra/httpd-info.conf

config.status: creating docs/conf/extra/httpd-languages.conf

config.status: creating docs/conf/extra/httpd-manual.conf

config.status: creating docs/conf/extra/httpd-mpm.conf

config.status: creating docs/conf/extra/httpd-multilang-errordoc.conf

config.status: creating docs/conf/extra/httpd-ssl.conf

config.status: creating docs/conf/extra/httpd-userdir.conf

config.status: creating docs/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

config.status: creating docs/conf/extra/proxy-html.conf

config.status: creating include/ap_config_layout.h

config.status: creating support/apxs

config.status: creating support/apachectl

config.status: creating support/dbmmanage

config.status: creating support/envvars-std

config.status: creating support/log_server_status

config.status: creating support/logresolve.pl

config.status: creating support/phf_abuse_log.cgi

config.status: creating support/split-logfile

config.status: creating build/rules.mk

config.status: creating build/pkg/pkginfo

config.status: creating build/config_vars.sh

config.status: creating include/ap_config_auto.h

config.status: executing default commands

Complete output of this configuration is here.

Now issue the command make:

httpd-2.4.10&gt; <strong>make</strong>
Making all in srclib
Making all in os
Making all in unix
/usr/share/apr-1/build-1/libtool --silent --mode=compile /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc        -DDARWIN -DSIGPROCMASK_SETS_THREAD_MASK     -I. -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/os/unix -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/include -I/usr/include/apr-1 -I/usr/local/pcre/include -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/aaa -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/cache -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/core -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/database -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/filters -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/ldap -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/loggers -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/lua -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/proxy -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/session -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/ssl -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/test -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/server -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/arch/unix -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/dav/main -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/generators -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/mappers  -prefer-non-pic -static -c unixd.c &amp;&amp; touch unixd.lo
/usr/share/apr-1/build-1/libtool --silent --mode=link /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc           -o libos.la -static  unixd.lo  
Making all in server
Making all in mpm
Making all in worker
. . .
warning: no debug symbols in executable (-arch x86_64)
/usr/share/apr-1/build-1/libtool --silent --mode=compile /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc        -DDARWIN -DSIGPROCMASK_SETS_THREAD_MASK     -I. -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/os/unix -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/include -I/usr/include/apr-1 -I/usr/local/pcre/include -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/aaa -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/cache -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/core -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/database -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/filters -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/ldap -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/loggers -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/lua -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/proxy -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/session -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/ssl -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/test -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/server -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/arch/unix -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/dav/main -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/generators -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/mappers -prefer-pic -c mod_rewrite.c &amp;&amp; touch mod_rewrite.slo
/usr/share/apr-1/build-1/libtool --silent --mode=link /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc             -o mod_rewrite.la -rpath /usr/local/apache2/modules -module -avoid-version  mod_rewrite.lo 
warning: no debug symbols in executable (-arch x86_64)

httpd-2.4.10> make

Making all in srclib

Making all in os

Making all in unix

/usr/share/apr-1/build-1/libtool --silent --mode=compile /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc -DDARWIN -DSIGPROCMASK_SETS_THREAD_MASK -I. -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/os/unix -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/include -I/usr/include/apr-1 -I/usr/local/pcre/include -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/aaa -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/cache -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/core -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/database -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/filters -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/ldap -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/loggers -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/lua -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/proxy -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/session -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/ssl -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/test -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/server -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/arch/unix -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/dav/main -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/generators -I/Users/arungupta/workspaces/httpd-2.4.10/modules/mappers -prefer-non-pic -static -c unixd.c && touch unixd.lo

/usr/share/apr-1/build-1/libtool --silent --mode=link /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc -o libos.la -static unixd.lo

Making all in server

Making all in mpm

Making all in worker

. . .

warning: no debug symbols in executable (-arch x86_64)

/usr/share/apr-1/build-1/libtool --silent --mode=link /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc -o mod_rewrite.la -rpath /usr/local/apache2/modules -module -avoid-version mod_rewrite.lo

warning: no debug symbols in executable (-arch x86_64)

Complete output of the command is shown here.

Finally install Apache2 as:

httpd-2.4.10&gt; <strong>sudo make install</strong>
Password:
Making install in srclib
Making install in os
Making install in unix
Making install in server
Making install in mpm
Making install in worker
mkdir /usr/local/apache2
mkdir /usr/local/apache2/modules
Making install in modules
. . .
Installing man pages and online manual
mkdir /usr/local/apache2/man
mkdir /usr/local/apache2/man/man1
mkdir /usr/local/apache2/man/man8
mkdir /usr/local/apache2/manual

httpd-2.4.10> sudo make install

Password:

Making install in srclib

Making install in os

Making install in unix

Making install in server

Making install in mpm

Making install in worker

mkdir /usr/local/apache2

mkdir /usr/local/apache2/modules

Making install in modules

. . .

Installing man pages and online manual

mkdir /usr/local/apache2/man

mkdir /usr/local/apache2/man/man1

mkdir /usr/local/apache2/man/man8

mkdir /usr/local/apache2/manual

Complete output of this command is shown here.

Version for HTTPD can be checked as:

httpd-2.4.10&gt; /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -v
Server version: Apache/2.4.10 (Unix)
Server built:   Aug 22 2014 16:00:19

httpd-2.4.10> /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -v

Server version: Apache/2.4.10 (Unix)

Server built: Aug 22 2014 16:00:19

Server can be started as:

sudo /usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl start

sudo /usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl start

Stopped as:

sudo /usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl stop

sudo /usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl stop

Restarted as:

sudo /usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl restart

sudo /usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl restart

Enjoy!

Java EE 6 Sample, with HTML5, jQuery, Hybrid mobile: aka Ticket Monster (Tech Tip #44)

August 21, 2014javaee, jboss, techtipjavaee, openshiftarungupta

Java EE 7 was released last year, Java EE 8 preparations have already started, so what tempts me to write a blog about Java EE 6 ?

A few reasons …

Even though Java EE 5 was the first version where some of the specs were updated to simplify the platform, Java EE 6 is where higher productivity became the primary focus and kicked into high gear.
All commercially available application servers are still Java EE 6 compliant.
Java EE 7 is pretty cool and provide an awesome bunch of new technologies like WebSocket, Batch, JSON, and Concurrency. But customers are still sticking around with older version of the platform because these applications, servers, and environments cannot change overnight.

So if you are looking for a real-world Java EE 6 sample application that:

Use Eclipse for building a Java EE 6 application
Build persistence layer with JPA2 and Bean Validation
Build business services with JAX-RS
Building the User Interface with HTML5
Building Administration UI with JBoss Forge
Building statistics dashboard using HTML5 and JavaScript
Hybrid mobile version of the app using Apache Cordova

In addition, it also shows:

Deploy your application on a local instance or a remote instance running in OpenShift
Run tests against your JBoss instance

Ticket Monster is your ultimate source. It not only shows how the key Java EE 6 technologies can be used together but also integrate jQuery, HTML5, and mobile version of the application as well.

The video below gives a quick preview of the application:

An instance of Ticket Monster can be previewed at ticketmonster-jdf.rhcloud.com or timo-milestogo.rhcloud.com.

So how do you get started ?

Download Ticket Monster 2.6.0 (with tutorials). Corresponding source code is at github.com/jboss-developer/ticket-monster/tree/2.6.0.Final-with-tutorials.
Set up Red Hat Maven repositories as explained here. If you don’t care reading through the instructions, overwrite .m2/settings.xml with this settings.xml.

Build the WAR of your application

mvn clean package

mvn clean package

To run on local JBoss instance:

Download JBoss EAP 6.3

Unzip and start as

./bin/standalone.sh

./bin/standalone.sh

Deploy the application as

mvn package jboss-as:deploy

mvn package jboss-as:deploy

This will also build the application again.

The application is now accessible at localhost:8080/ticket-monster.

To run on JBoss instance in OpenShift

Create a JBoss EAP 6 application in OpenShift
Add PostgreSQL cartridge for this application

Create an archive as

mvn clean package -Ppostgresql-openshift

mvn clean package -Ppostgresql-openshift

This will use the installed PostgreSQL cartridge for persistence.

Clone the git workspace from OpenShift

git clone ssh://XXXXXXXXXXXXXX@timo-milestogo.rhcloud.com/~/git/timo.git/

git clone ssh://XXXXXXXXXXXXXX@timo-milestogo.rhcloud.com/~/git/timo.git/

The actual git url will be specific to your application.

Copy generated WAR file to git workspace and rename to ROOT.war

cp target/ticket-monster.war &lt;openshift-git-workspace&gt;/deployments/ROOT.war

cp target/ticket-monster.war <openshift-git-workspace>/deployments/ROOT.war

Remove existing source and pom.xml from git workspace, add WAR, and push

git rm -rf src
git rm pom.xml
git add deployments/ROOT.war
git commit . -m"deploying TicketMonster"
git push

git rm -rf src

git rm pom.xml

git add deployments/ROOT.war

git commit . -m"deploying TicketMonster"

git push

Access the application at htp://<appname-domainname>.rhcloud.com.The following video shows the steps for running TicketMonster on OpenShift:

Ask your questions about Ticket Monster at jbossdeveloper@lists.jboss.org.
Enjoy!

WildFly 9: Features and Getting Started (Tech Tip #43)

August 20, 2014techtip, wildflywildflyarungupta

WildFly 8.1 provides a Java EE 7 compliant application server, and is pretty awesome!

WildFly team has been actively working this summer on the next release. WildFly 9 features were announced a few weeks ago. Here is a quick summary and links to discussions on wildfly-dev:

Core/Servlet/Full Split
Graceful shutdown
Elytron (Security improvments)
Switching to the JDK ORB from JacORB
Undertow as a mod_cluster frontend
Subsystem Capabilities and Requirements
EAP 6.4 RFEs (TBA)

Links/details to rest of the features TBD.

So how do you get started with WildFly 9 ?

Building WildFly 9 requires at least have Maven 3.2.1, download the latest here.

Clone the workspace as:

git clone https://github.com/wildfly/wildfly.git

git clone https://github.com/wildfly/wildfly.git

Build the workspace as:

mvn install -DskipTests

mvn install -DskipTests

Took 02:36 mins to build on my machine

Unzip dist/target/wildfly-9.0.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT.zip to a new directory

Run WildFly as:

wildfly-9.0.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT&gt; <strong>./bin/standalone.sh</strong> 
=========================================================================

  JBoss Bootstrap Environment

  JBOSS_HOME: /Users/arungupta/tools/wildfly-9.0.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT

  JAVA: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_20.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java

  JAVA_OPTS:  -server -XX:+UseCompressedOops  -server -XX:+UseCompressedOops -Xms64m -Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Djboss.modules.system.pkgs=org.jboss.byteman -Djava.awt.headless=true

=========================================================================

Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM warning: ignoring option MaxPermSize=256m; support was removed in 8.0
14:58:52,501 INFO  [org.jboss.modules] (main) JBoss Modules version 1.3.4.Final
14:58:53,043 INFO  [org.jboss.msc] (main) JBoss MSC version 1.2.2.Final
14:58:53,122 INFO  [org.jboss.as] (MSC service thread 1-6) WFLYSRV0049: WildFly 1.0.0.Alpha5 "Kenny" starting
14:58:53,941 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server] (Controller Boot Thread) WFLYSRV0039: Creating http management service using socket-binding (management-http)
14:58:53,957 INFO  [org.xnio] (MSC service thread 1-11) XNIO version 3.3.0.Beta1
14:58:53,963 INFO  [org.xnio.nio] (MSC service thread 1-11) XNIO NIO Implementation Version 3.3.0.Beta1
14:58:53,986 INFO  [org.jboss.as.security] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 49) WFLYSEC0002: Activating Security Subsystem
14:58:53,986 WARN  [org.jboss.as.txn] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 50) WFLYTX0013: Node identifier property is set to the default value. Please make sure it is unique.
14:58:54,000 INFO  [org.jboss.as.webservices] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 52) WFLYWS0002: Activating WebServices Extension
14:58:54,000 INFO  [org.jboss.as.security] (MSC service thread 1-15) WFLYSEC0001: Current PicketBox version=4.0.21.Beta3
14:58:54,000 INFO  [org.jboss.as.clustering.infinispan] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 35) WFLYCLINF0001: Activating Infinispan subsystem.
14:58:54,001 INFO  [org.jboss.as.naming] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 43) WFLYNAM0001: Activating Naming Subsystem
14:58:54,006 INFO  [org.jboss.as.jsf] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 41) WFLYJSF0007: Activated the following JSF Implementations: [main]
14:58:54,035 INFO  [org.wildfly.extension.io] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 34) WFLYIO001: Worker 'default' has auto-configured to 16 core threads with 128 task threads based on your 8 available processors
14:58:54,056 INFO  [org.jboss.as.connector] (MSC service thread 1-9) WFLYJCA0009: Starting JCA Subsystem (IronJacamar 1.2.0.Beta3)
14:58:54,071 INFO  [org.wildfly.extension.undertow] (MSC service thread 1-10) WFLYUT0003: Undertow 1.1.0.Beta6 starting
14:58:54,071 INFO  [org.wildfly.extension.undertow] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 51) WFLYUT0003: Undertow 1.1.0.Beta6 starting
14:58:54,090 INFO  [org.jboss.as.connector.subsystems.datasources] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 30) WFLYJCA0004: Deploying JDBC-compliant driver class org.h2.Driver (version 1.3)
14:58:54,100 INFO  [org.jboss.as.connector.deployers.jdbc] (MSC service thread 1-7) WFLYJCA0018: Started Driver service with driver-name = h2
14:58:54,150 INFO  [org.jboss.as.naming] (MSC service thread 1-12) WFLYNAM0003: Starting Naming Service
14:58:54,150 INFO  [org.jboss.as.mail.extension] (MSC service thread 1-7) WFLYMAIL0001: Bound mail session [java:jboss/mail/Default]
14:58:54,155 INFO  [org.jboss.remoting] (MSC service thread 1-11) JBoss Remoting version 4.0.3.Final
14:58:54,310 INFO  [org.wildfly.extension.undertow] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 51) WFLYUT0014: Creating file handler for path /Users/arungupta/tools/wildfly-9.0.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT/welcome-content
14:58:54,349 INFO  [org.wildfly.extension.undertow] (MSC service thread 1-8) WFLYUT0012: Started server default-server.
14:58:54,372 INFO  [org.wildfly.extension.undertow] (MSC service thread 1-5) WFLYUT0018: Host default-host starting
14:58:54,449 INFO  [org.wildfly.extension.undertow] (MSC service thread 1-3) WFLYUT0006: Undertow HTTP listener default listening on /127.0.0.1:8080
14:58:54,701 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server.deployment.scanner] (MSC service thread 1-14) WFLYDS0013: Started FileSystemDeploymentService for directory /Users/arungupta/tools/wildfly-9.0.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT/standalone/deployments
14:58:54,732 INFO  [org.jboss.as.connector.subsystems.datasources] (MSC service thread 1-9) WFLYJCA0001: Bound data source [java:jboss/datasources/ExampleDS]
14:58:54,848 INFO  [org.jboss.ws.common.management] (MSC service thread 1-3) JBWS022052: Starting JBoss Web Services - Stack CXF Server 4.3.0.Final
14:58:54,886 INFO  [org.jboss.as] (Controller Boot Thread) WFLYSRV0060: Http management interface listening on http://127.0.0.1:9990/management
14:58:54,887 INFO  [org.jboss.as] (Controller Boot Thread) WFLYSRV0051: Admin console listening on http://127.0.0.1:9990
14:58:54,887 INFO  [org.jboss.as] (Controller Boot Thread) WFLYSRV0025: WildFly 1.0.0.Alpha5 "Kenny" started in 2667ms - Started 193 of 295 services (135 services are lazy, passive or on-demand)

wildfly-9.0.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT> ./bin/standalone.sh

=========================================================================

JBoss Bootstrap Environment

JBOSS_HOME: /Users/arungupta/tools/wildfly-9.0.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT

JAVA: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_20.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java

JAVA_OPTS: -server -XX:+UseCompressedOops -server -XX:+UseCompressedOops -Xms64m -Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Djboss.modules.system.pkgs=org.jboss.byteman -Djava.awt.headless=true

=========================================================================

Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM warning: ignoring option MaxPermSize=256m; support was removed in 8.0

14:58:52,501 INFO [org.jboss.modules] (main) JBoss Modules version 1.3.4.Final

14:58:53,043 INFO [org.jboss.msc] (main) JBoss MSC version 1.2.2.Final

14:58:53,122 INFO [org.jboss.as] (MSC service thread 1-6) WFLYSRV0049: WildFly 1.0.0.Alpha5 "Kenny" starting

14:58:53,941 INFO [org.jboss.as.server] (Controller Boot Thread) WFLYSRV0039: Creating http management service using socket-binding (management-http)

14:58:53,957 INFO [org.xnio] (MSC service thread 1-11) XNIO version 3.3.0.Beta1

14:58:53,963 INFO [org.xnio.nio] (MSC service thread 1-11) XNIO NIO Implementation Version 3.3.0.Beta1

14:58:53,986 INFO [org.jboss.as.security] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 49) WFLYSEC0002: Activating Security Subsystem

14:58:53,986 WARN [org.jboss.as.txn] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 50) WFLYTX0013: Node identifier property is set to the default value. Please make sure it is unique.

14:58:54,000 INFO [org.jboss.as.webservices] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 52) WFLYWS0002: Activating WebServices Extension

14:58:54,000 INFO [org.jboss.as.security] (MSC service thread 1-15) WFLYSEC0001: Current PicketBox version=4.0.21.Beta3

14:58:54,000 INFO [org.jboss.as.clustering.infinispan] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 35) WFLYCLINF0001: Activating Infinispan subsystem.

14:58:54,001 INFO [org.jboss.as.naming] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 43) WFLYNAM0001: Activating Naming Subsystem

14:58:54,006 INFO [org.jboss.as.jsf] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 41) WFLYJSF0007: Activated the following JSF Implementations: [main]

14:58:54,035 INFO [org.wildfly.extension.io] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 34) WFLYIO001: Worker 'default' has auto-configured to 16 core threads with 128 task threads based on your 8 available processors

14:58:54,056 INFO [org.jboss.as.connector] (MSC service thread 1-9) WFLYJCA0009: Starting JCA Subsystem (IronJacamar 1.2.0.Beta3)

14:58:54,071 INFO [org.wildfly.extension.undertow] (MSC service thread 1-10) WFLYUT0003: Undertow 1.1.0.Beta6 starting

14:58:54,071 INFO [org.wildfly.extension.undertow] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 51) WFLYUT0003: Undertow 1.1.0.Beta6 starting

14:58:54,090 INFO [org.jboss.as.connector.subsystems.datasources] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 30) WFLYJCA0004: Deploying JDBC-compliant driver class org.h2.Driver (version 1.3)

14:58:54,100 INFO [org.jboss.as.connector.deployers.jdbc] (MSC service thread 1-7) WFLYJCA0018: Started Driver service with driver-name = h2

14:58:54,150 INFO [org.jboss.as.naming] (MSC service thread 1-12) WFLYNAM0003: Starting Naming Service

14:58:54,150 INFO [org.jboss.as.mail.extension] (MSC service thread 1-7) WFLYMAIL0001: Bound mail session [java:jboss/mail/Default]

14:58:54,155 INFO [org.jboss.remoting] (MSC service thread 1-11) JBoss Remoting version 4.0.3.Final

14:58:54,310 INFO [org.wildfly.extension.undertow] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 51) WFLYUT0014: Creating file handler for path /Users/arungupta/tools/wildfly-9.0.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT/welcome-content

14:58:54,349 INFO [org.wildfly.extension.undertow] (MSC service thread 1-8) WFLYUT0012: Started server default-server.

14:58:54,372 INFO [org.wildfly.extension.undertow] (MSC service thread 1-5) WFLYUT0018: Host default-host starting

14:58:54,449 INFO [org.wildfly.extension.undertow] (MSC service thread 1-3) WFLYUT0006: Undertow HTTP listener default listening on /127.0.0.1:8080

14:58:54,701 INFO [org.jboss.as.server.deployment.scanner] (MSC service thread 1-14) WFLYDS0013: Started FileSystemDeploymentService for directory /Users/arungupta/tools/wildfly-9.0.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT/standalone/deployments

14:58:54,732 INFO [org.jboss.as.connector.subsystems.datasources] (MSC service thread 1-9) WFLYJCA0001: Bound data source [java:jboss/datasources/ExampleDS]

14:58:54,848 INFO [org.jboss.ws.common.management] (MSC service thread 1-3) JBWS022052: Starting JBoss Web Services - Stack CXF Server 4.3.0.Final

14:58:54,886 INFO [org.jboss.as] (Controller Boot Thread) WFLYSRV0060: Http management interface listening on http://127.0.0.1:9990/management

14:58:54,887 INFO [org.jboss.as] (Controller Boot Thread) WFLYSRV0051: Admin console listening on http://127.0.0.1:9990

14:58:54,887 INFO [org.jboss.as] (Controller Boot Thread) WFLYSRV0025: WildFly 1.0.0.Alpha5 "Kenny" started in 2667ms - Started 193 of 295 services (135 services are lazy, passive or on-demand)

Note that is still very early in the development stages and workspace is constantly evolving. So things may be broken but you know that Red Hat is working actively on your favorite application server

Some useful references …

Feel free to subscribe to wildfly-dev alias and participate in the discussion
Ask your questions on WildFly forum
WildFly 9 docs (very early, mostly placeholder)
Follow us at @WildFlyAS

Java EE 7 Javadocs Download, Online, Tutorial, Samples (Tech Tip #42)

August 16, 2014javaee, techtipjavaee7arungupta

I was surprised when Google could not find Java EE 7 Javadocs download link clearly on the first page. StackOverflow was helpful here again, but even that was the last link on first page.

Now, I do know the location and can find my ways around. But this needs to be simplified and made more accessible for developers around the world.

So here are some usual Java EE 7 references:

Java EE 7 Javadocs Download Full Platform (bit.ly/ee7-javadocs), Web Profile
Java EE 7 Javadocs Online
Java EE 7 Tutorial
Java EE 7 Whitepaper
Java EE 7 Samples

Javadocs can also be installed on Dash as explained in Antonio’s blog.

And as usual, you can download WildFly or GlassFish to get started with Java EE 7!

Enjoy!

Using Infinispan as a persistency solution

August 15, 2014redhatarungupta

Cross-posted from https://vaadin.com/blog/-/blogs/using-infinispan-as-a-persistency-solution. Thanks Fredrik and Matti for your permission!

Various RDBMSs are the de-facto standard for persistency. Using them is such a safe bet by architects that I dare say they are used in too many places nowadays. To fight against this, I have recently been exploring with alternative persistency options, like graph databases. This time I played with Infinispan.

In case you are not familiar with Infinispan, or distributed key/value data stores in general, you could think of it as a HashMap on steroids. Most essentially, the map is shared among all your cluster nodes. With clustering you can gain huge size, blazing fast access and redundancy, depending on how you configure it. There are several products that compete with Infinispan, like Ehcache and Hazelcast from OS world and Oracle Coherence from the commercial side.

Actually, Infinispan is a technology that you might have used without noticing it at all. For example high availability features of Wildfly heavily rely on Infinispan caches. It is also often used as a second level cache for ORM libraries. But it can also be used directly as a persistency library as such.

Why would you consider it as your persistency solution:

It is a lightning fast in-memory data storage
The stored value can be any serializable object, no complex mapping libraries needed
It is built from the ground up for a clustered environment – your data is safer and faster to access. It is very easy for horizontal scaling
It has multiple optional cache store alternatives, for writing the state to e.g. disk for cluster wide reboots
Not all data needs to be stored forever, Infinispan has built-in sophisticated evict rules
Possibility to use transactional access for ACID changes

Sounds pretty amazing, doesn’t it? And it sure is for certain use cases, but all technologies have their weaknesses and so do key/value data stores. When comparing to RDBMSs, the largest drawback is with relations to other entities. You’ll have to come up with a strategy for how to store references to other entities and searching based on related features must also be tackled. If you end up wondering these questions, be sure to check if Hibernate OGM could help you.

Also, doing some analysis on the data can be considered simpler, or at least more familiar, with traditional SQL queries. Especially if you end up having a lot of data, distributed on multiple nodes, you’ll have to learn the basics of MapReduce programming model to do any non trivial queries.

Using Infinispan in a web application

Although Infinispan is not tied to Wildfly, I decided to base my experiments on Wildfly. Its built in version is available for web applications, if you explicitly request it. The easiest method to do this is to add the following MANIFEST.MF entry to your war file. If you don’t want to spoil your project with obsolete files, just add it using a small war plugin config.

Dependencies: org.infinispan export

Dependencies: org.infinispan export

Naturally you’ll still want to add an Infinispan dependency to your application, but you can leave it to provided. Be sure to use the same version provided by your server, in Wildlfy 8, Infinispan version is 6.0.2. In a Maven project, add this kind of dependency declaration:

&lt;dependency&gt;
    &lt;groupId&gt;org.infinispan&lt;/groupId&gt;
    &lt;artifactId&gt;infinispan-core&lt;/artifactId&gt;
    &lt;version&gt;6.0.2.Final&lt;/version&gt;
    &lt;!-- Provided as we use the Infinispan provided by Wildfly --&gt;
    &lt;scope&gt;provided&lt;/scope&gt;
&lt;/dependency&gt;

<groupId>org.infinispan</groupId>

<artifactId>infinispan-core</artifactId>

<version>6.0.2.Final</version>

<scope>provided</scope>

</dependency>

Before accessing Infinispan “caches”, you need to configure them. There are both programmatic and xml configurations available. With Wildfly, it is most natural to configure the Infinispan data store right into the server config. The “right” config file depends on how you are launching your Wildfly server. If you are testing clustering locally, you probably want to add something like this into your domain.xml, under the <subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:infinispan:2.0"> section.

&lt;cache-container name="myCache" default-cache="cachedb"&gt;
    &lt;transport lock-timeout="60000"/&gt;
    &lt;replicated-cache name="cachedb" batching="true" mode="SYNC"/&gt;
&lt;/cache-container&gt;

<cache-container name="myCache" default-cache="cachedb">

<replicated-cache name="cachedb" batching="true" mode="SYNC"/>

</cache-container>

Note that with this config, the data is only stored within the memory of cluster nodes. To learn how to tweak cache settings or to set up disk “backup”, refer to the extensive Infinispan documentation.

To remove all Infinispan references from the UI code, I created an EJB that does all the data access. There I inject the CacheContainer provided by Wildfly and fetch the default cache in an init method.

@Resource(lookup = "java:jboss/infinispan/container/myCache")
CacheContainer cc;

Map&lt;String, MyEntity&gt; cache;

@PostConstruct
void init() {
   this.cache = cc.getCache();
}

@Resource(lookup = "java:jboss/infinispan/container/myCache")

CacheContainer cc;

Map<String, MyEntity> cache;

@PostConstruct

void init() {

this.cache = cc.getCache();

}

I guess you are already wondering it: yes, the Map is the very familiar java.util.Map interface and the rest of the implementation is trivial to any Java developer. Infinispan caches extend the basic Map interface, but in case you need some more advanced features, you can also use Cache or AdvancedCache types.

The MyEntity in the previous code snippet is just a very simple POJO I created for the example. With Vaadin CDI usage, I can then inject the EJB to my UI class and do pretty much anything with it. The actual Vaadin code has no special tricks, just normal CDI spiced Vaadin code.

Based on this exercise, would I use Infinispan directly for persistency in my next project? Probably not, but for certain apps, without hesitation. I can also imagine certain hybrid models where some of the data is only in an Infinispan cache and some in traditional RDBMS, naturally behind ORM, taking the best of both worlds.

We’ll also be using Infinispan in our upcoming joint webinar with Arun Gupta from RedHat on September 8th, 2014. There we’ll show you a simple Vaadin application and how easy it can be to cluster it using Wildfly.

Ceylon JUG Tour – US 2014

August 14, 2014conferences, redhatceylon, jugarungupta

Ceylon is a statically and strong-typed programming language, created by Red Hat. Version 1.0.0 was released late last year and 1.1 is coming soon.

Gavin King (creator of Hibernate and CDI) and Stéphane Épardaud will be touring the USA East coast JUGs in October. At each venue, they will explain what Ceylon is, and why you will want to use it for your next production applications. The talks will be aimed at people who have never heard of Ceylon, or who have heard about it but want to know more. At the end of the evening you will be up to date with all that Ceylon is and has to offer.

Their complete itinerary is explained at https://community.jboss.org/docs/DOC-52715.

Don’t miss this opportunity. Make sure to show up at JUGs in your neighborhood and ask all your questions to the language creators!

JBoss Middleware: Accelerate, Integrate, Automate

August 13, 2014jboss, redhatjbossarungupta

Ever wondered how to understand multiple Red Hat JBoss middleware offerings ?

Mike Piech (@mpiech), GM of JBoss Middleware Business Unit explains them in a succinct video:

Its structured in three buckets:

Accelerate – Building things faster

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform provides an innovative modular, cloud-ready architecture, powerful management and automation, and world class developer productivity. It is Java™ EE 6 certified and features powerful yet flexible management, improved performance and scalability, and many new features to maximize developer productivity.
Red Hat JBoss Web Server is the only enterprise-class web server solution you need for large-scale websites and lightweight web applications. It provides a more secure and a more stable environment of open source web software, like Apache and Tomcat.
Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio provides superior support for your entire development lifecycle. It includes a broad set of tooling capabilities and support for multiple programming models and frameworks, including Java™ Enterprise Edition 6, HTML5, and many other popular technologies. It provides developer choice in supporting multiple JVMs, productivity with Maven, and in testing with Arquillian. It is fully tested and certified to ensure that all its plug-ins, runtime components, and their dependencies are compatible with each other.
Red Hat JBoss Data Grid gives you a straightforward approach to overcoming data obstacles, providing the ability to quickly access accurate, real-time information, meet high uptime requirements, streamline interaction with complex and rigid data tiers, and handle unprecedented transaction volumes.
Red Hat JBoss Portal is a proven solution for building high-impact, self-service applications

Integrate – Pull the pieces together

Red Hat JBoss Fuse is a flexible, small-footprint enterprise service bus (ESB) that enables rapid integration across the extended enterprise. Integration everywhere – on-premise or in the cloud.
Red Hat JBoss A-MQ is a flexible, high-performance messaging platform that delivers information reliably, enabling real-time integration and the Internet of Things (IOT).
Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works is a platform that creates reusable, changeable, and flexible business services that hide the complexity of connecting to different applications in your enterprise. It sets the stage for faster and easier cloud applications, mobile applications, and business process development projects.
Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization is a lean, virtual data integration solution that unlocks trapped data and delivers it as easily consumable, unified, and actionable information. JBoss Data Virtualization makes data spread across physically diverse systems—such as multiple databases, XML files, and Hadoop systems—appear as a set of tables in a local database.

Automate – Automate significant parts of your business

Red Hat JBoss BRMS is a comprehensive platform for business rules management and complex event processing. Organizations can incorporate sophisticated decision logic into line-of-business applications and quickly update underlying business rules as market conditions change.
Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite is a comprehensive platform for business process management. It includes all the business rules and complex event processing (CEP) capabilities of Red Hat JBoss BRMS [business rules management system], along with advanced tools and runtime support for Business Process Model and Notation v2.0 (BPMN2)-compliant business processes.

And this is also shown in the following image:

Learn all about it at:

http://www.redhat.com/products/jbossenterprisemiddleware/
Get a quick overview in this technology brochure
Why choose JBoss Middleware over IBM Web’s fear ?
Why choose JBoss Middleware over Oracle conFusion ?

WildFly Administration Course by Alexis Hassler

August 11, 2014wildflyarungupta

Alexis Hassler (@alexishassler) is a software developer, specialized in Java and Java EE. He is using JBoss since version 2.0, more than twelve years ago. His business is to code for other companies or help them to improve the way they develop and deploy Java applications. He is co-leader of LyonJUG and helps to organize Mix-IT, an annual conference in Lyon.

He recently concluded a WildFly administration course. Here is a brief Q&A with him:

Q. You recently concluded a 4-day WildFly administration course. Tell us more about that.
A. This course will help you understand the operation, configuration principles of WildFly. The core of the course is 3 days long. It deals with installation, deployment, administration tools, security and tuning. The forth day is on clustering and is optional. The recently concluded session was the first one and was conducted on-site in Brussels.

Q. Who is this course targeted for ?
A. The course is designed for application server administrators. But it is useful for developers and software architects too. In fact, it is useful for anybody who have to work with WildFly.

Q. Where can users register for this course ?
A. The schedule of the course is on my company web site : http://www.sewatech.fr/formation-wildfly.html. Registration can be done by e-mail : formation -at- sewatech.fr.

Q. How much of this course would be relevant for JBoss EAP users/customers ?
A. JBoss EAP 6 is based on JBoss AS 7, but a lot of administration features of the latest EAP has been added in WildFly 8. So if you have EAP 6.2 or 6.3, this course will match ~ 80%. If you have an older EAP, a JBoss AS 7 course would be better (http://www.sewatech.fr/formation-jboss-7.html). JBoss EAP users is not the main target of this course. RedHat has some great courses on JBoss Middleware Development and JBoss Middleware Administration.

Q. How is your experience with JBoss / WildFly management tools ?
A. Comparing with older versions of JBoss (I mean before JBoss AS 6), WildFly management tools are a huge step ahead. You can choose your tool:

Web console
Command line
JMX
HTTP API
Java API

Jboss-cli is the most useful one. It allow an admin to automate the whole setup his application server. The HTTP API is great too, as it allow to make custom tools in any language. For example, you can build your own simplified admin console in pure JavaScript. I don’t really like the Java API because, it’s a detyped API and it doesn’t fit with a compiled-time typed language. Maybe a Groovy guy could make a nice DSL on top of it. All in one, the greatest thing is that the different tools are really consistent : same data and same logic to manipulate these data. If you learn jboss-cli, it’s really easy to understand the HTTP API.

Q. What tips would you give for users coming new to WildFly ?
A. If you know JBoss AS 7, it will be easy. WildFly 8 is just the next version. Read the changelog and everything will be fne. If you know older versions of JBoss AS, forget everything you know, and start from the beginning with a good book. If you know Tomcat, be prepared to discover the power to “fly”. And for everybody, learn the CLI tool.

Q. Which application servers developers should choose, for both development and deployment ?
A. It mainly depends on what you want to do. Tomcat can be great too, because it’s really simple. When it comes with Java EE, TomEE is a very nice application server but lacks of administration tools. For Glassfish, we will see with the next versions if the current quality is maintained or if it comes back to a simple RI software. So, OK, WildFly is my favorite choice : great module system, great admin tools and great community.

Q. What resources do you generally refer to when looking for help on WildFly ?
A. For me, the main resource are the official documentation (https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/WFLY8/) and Francesco Marchioni’s blog (http://www.mastertheboss.com/). For a beginner, Francesco’s book WildFly 8, administration guide would be easier. The last resource I would recommend is the WildFly section on my wiki (http://jtips.info/index.php?title=Cat%C3%A9gorie:WildFly), but it’s in French.

JBoss EAP 6.3 now available!

August 7, 2014jboss, redhatarungupta

JBoss EAP 6.3 is now available!

This release brings continued progress on the road to making EAP the most manageable and secure Java EE 6-compliant Application Server for traditional and cloud based workloads. It also continues the core themes of the EAP 6 major version family of better user experience, improved manageability, and enhanced performance.

Where to download ?

For current customers with active subscriptions, the Beta can be downloaded from the customer support portal.

For community users developing applications that will be deployed on a supported EAP, the bits will soon be made available from www.jboss.org/products/eap under development terms & conditions, and questions can be posed to the EAP Forum.

Where are docs ?

Complete documentation is available on customer support portal, and here are quick links:

Release Notes
Administration and Configuration Guide
Development Guide
Getting Started Guide
Installation Guide
Migration Guide
Security Guide

What’s new ?

PicketLink enhancements
Domain recovery improvements
Support for PKCS11 keystores
Web management console
- Patching available
- Testing DataSources
- Unified navigation labels
- Opt-in analytics collection
Deployment overlay enhancement
Support for Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Complete list of new features is described here.

Some of the features are available in Tech Preview mode such as WebSockets, adding/removing modules using JBoss CLI, multi-JSF and many more.

Features like JBoss OSGi, STOMP with HornetQ, mod_jk and mod_cluster with Apache on RHEL 7 and some others are not supported.

If you are looking for a Java EE 7-compliant Application Server, then download WildFly.

Miles to go 4.0 …

Arun Gupta is a technology enthusiast, avid runner, author of a best-selling book, globe trotter, a community guy, Java Champion, JavaOne Rockstar, JUG Leader, Minecraft Modder, NetBeans Dream Teamer, Devoxx4Kids-er, Docker Captain and works at AWS.

Monthly Archives: August 2014

Load Balance WebSockets using Apache HTTPD (Tech Tip #48)

WildFly with a custom configuration in OpenShift (Tech Tip #47)

Java EE 7 Real World Experience: Campground Management with Tipi.camp

Cloud in a Box: OpenShift Online in VirtualBox (Tech Tip #46)

Compiling Apache HTTPD on Mac (Tech Tip #45)

Java EE 6 Sample, with HTML5, jQuery, Hybrid mobile: aka Ticket Monster (Tech Tip #44)

WildFly 9: Features and Getting Started (Tech Tip #43)

Java EE 7 Javadocs Download, Online, Tutorial, Samples (Tech Tip #42)

Using Infinispan as a persistency solution

Using Infinispan in a web application

Ceylon JUG Tour – US 2014

JBoss Middleware: Accelerate, Integrate, Automate

WildFly Administration Course by Alexis Hassler

JBoss EAP 6.3 now available!