Tag: eap
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Customizing application properties with JBoss EAP/Wildfly
Usually developers have to create and deploy different versions of their application: For local development, testing, training, production, … Different third-party and system dependencies for those different versions will preferably be configured via the container, e.g. data sources, JMS, topics, mail server, etc. However, most applications also contain several custom application properties such as the…
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WildFly 8-10 and JBoss EAP 7 verbose HTTP headers
As a developer I am really happy to have an easy way to determine which version of a software I’m running. But I do not like it if my software tells everyone its name and version, as this gives important fingerprinting information to possible attackers. If you use WildFly versions 8 through 10 or JBoss…
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ActiveMQ Confusion and What comes with your JBoss EAP / WildFly
Oftentimes people talk to each other about using ActiveMQ, but they’re actually referring to different brokers. That is because there are 3 different message brokers with ‘ActiveMQ’ in their name and this turns out to be pretty confusing when a project as big as WildFly starts to use a broker with ‘ActiveMQ’ in its name that is…
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JBoss EAP/WildFly configuration project
When developing applications using the JBoss EAP/WildFly application server there is a repetitive task that has been solved differently over and over again: The configuration of the application server, i.e. installing JDBC drivers, startup scripts, data sources, JMS destinations, logging categories, etc. Within our company there are several projects addressing this problem. In this post we’d…
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Red Hat JBoss Middleware: A technology stack for IoT-Applications
JBoss EAP 7 and ActiveMQ Artemis as connector between temperature and humidity and the application architecture Most IoT-Applications face similar challenges on its way from sensor to final aggregation in terms of usage and, where applicable relaying of data. In this article, we introduce an architecture based on the new Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application…
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Shrinking patched JBoss EAP server to a reasonable size
As explained in the blog entry Upgrading and patching the Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform JBoss EAP offers the possibility to conveniently update the server installation with the latest patches. However, the way this is implemented leaves all previous versions and patches of your modules behind. I.e., older versions of the JAR files will not be used…
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Getting started with ELK and JBoss EAP6
In this post we will describe what is needed to get started with managing your EAP 6 logs with ElasticSearch, Logstash and Kibana. There are several reasons why you would want to collect your logging output in a central place. Aggregate (output from multiple applications / hosts) Correlate events in different systems Analyze (more than…
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Red Hat JBoss EAP 6.4 now supports Java 1.8 / JDK 8
A few weeks ago Red Hat release the Red Hat JBoss EAP 6.4.0 Beta1 as tech preview. Featuring many updates, with additional supported and updated database certifications and the EAP 6.4.0 Beta1 including targeted support of Java 8 / JDK 8. Oracle JDK 8 Oracle Java Platform, Standard Edition 1.8 (JDK 8) has been added…
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JBoss EAP / Wildfly – Three ways to invoke remote EJBs
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The JBoss EAP / Wildfly application server provides as primary API the EJB client library to invoke remote EJB components. This client library is the implementation of the WildFly application server to invoke EJB components. The lookup of an object, such as a JMS connection factory, from the naming service is with the EJB client…
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JBoss EAP / Wildfly Management Interfaces and Clients
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The JBoss EAP / Wildfly provides a powerful concept for management, configuration, and monitoring of the application server itself and its Java EE applications. In the previous post we focused on some useful runtime metrics, which are of interest when monitoring your application server and applications. This post introduces the management clients provided by the…
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