WildFly Project News

I am very excited to announce that Brian Stansberry (@bestansberry) will be taking on the role of WildFly project lead. Brian has been a major contributor to the project for almost 15 years now. During this time, he led a number of critical and complex subsystems including Clustering, Management, and most recently the cross-cutting cloud integration work. He is also one of our most active reviewers, and has helped many contributors navigate deep WildFly internals....

WildFly 15 Final is now available for download! This is our fourth release following our quarterly delivery model. The major objective of this year’s release plan was to deliver EE8 functionality in incremental chunks over the first three quarters, and then to ensure WildFly ran well on the latest long term support version of Java. Accordingly, in this fourth release our focus was less on new features and more on polishing our support for JDK...

Until now the history of configuration in WildFly was using the folder + filename pattern. Now we have moved to a proper SCM integrating Git to manage history. You can now take advantage of a full Git support for your configuration history: every change in your configuration is now a commit. you can use branches to develop in parallel. you can create tags for stable points in your configuration. pull configuration from a remote repository....

I am happy to announce that the WildFly 14 release is Java EE8 Certified! Since WildFly is now certified, the default EE7 mode and EE8 preview option have been dropped.

WildFly 13 comes with a management console (HAL) which has been rewritten from scratch. HAL still uses a similar technical stack (GWT) and user experience, but now fully adopts PatternFly. More important we enhanced the existing features and added support for many new subsystems and attributes. The following sections show some highlights of the latest version. For more details about the new features see the release notes for HAL 3.0.0.Final. Finder The column based navigation...

WildFly 13 Final is now available for download! EE8 Capabilities & New Release Model This is our second release following our new quarterly delivery model. A central theme of this plan, is to deliver EE8 functionality in fully completed incremental chunks, as opposed to waiting for everything to finish in a big bang relase. WildFly 13 largely accomplishes this goal, by achieving EE8 feature completeness. WildFly 14 will focus on achieving formal certification, and converting...

WildFly 12 Final is now available for download! EE8 Capabilities & New Release Model This is our first release following our new quarterly delivery model. As part of this plan, we are delivering EE8 functionality in fully completed incremental chunks, as opposed to waiting for everything to finish in a big bang reelase. WildFly 12 makes significant progress on this front, adding support for the majority of the new standards: Name From Version From JSR...

WildFly 11 Final is now available for download! 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 infrastructures (picketbox and security-realms), each covering separate use cases, and largely operating independent of the other. In addition to unification, Elytron brings a number of advanced capabilities such as...

WildFly supports running a standalone server in Offline mode as an embedded server. An analogous capability has been added for domain mode in the form of running an offline host controller. This article discusses some of the details and possible applications of this feature. Introduction For those not familiar with the existing embedded standalone server, see: Offline mode Running an Embedded WildFly 9 Server in the CLI · WildFly. One of the major use cases...

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 to MacOS...