2023

July

• Incorporating preview/experimental features in WildFly

  One of the toughest challenges facing a mature product like WildFly is adding features without breaking existing users. It’s especially difficult when that project serves as the foundation for a commercial product downstream that requires a higher degree of stability. While WildFly is a wholly independent project, it’s not completely immune to concerns that EAP may have with regard to API stability, long term support, etc. That has made it difficult at times to change WildFly, though efforts like WildFly Preview have certainly helped.

  With that in mind, I’d like to draw your attention to a project WildFly/EAP engineer extraordinaire, Paul Ferraro recently announced on the wildfly-dev email list. You can click through to the list archive, or read a more nicely-formatted copy of the email below. Either way, we would greatly value any feedback you might provide.

• MyFaces 4 on WildFly

  For several years now, WildFly has supported the ability to install and use different Jakarta Faces (Faces) implementations, either across every application deployed to the server, or for a specific application only. We supported running either Mojarra and MyFaces, with versions running all the way back to 1.2. With the move to Jakarta EE 10, however, that feature was temporarily broken simply because there was not a 4.0-compliant version of MyFaces available by the time we were ready to ship. That has changed now, though, as has the manner in which we support changing the implementations. In this short post, I’ll show you how that works starting in WildFly 29.

May

• WildFly, Micrometer, and OpenTelemetry

  With the release of WildFly 28, we’ve made a few changes to our supported telemetry libraries that are worth noting. In this post, I’ll give a quick overview of those changes.

2022

August

• WildFly, Arquillian, Testcontainers, and Kafka

  Back again with another Testcontainers example. This time, though, the environment is a bit different. We’ll be looking at a Jakarta EE application using WildFly and MicroProfile Reactive Messaging (MP RM), and we’re going to test it using Arquillian and Testcontainers. Let’s get to it. :)

2021

October

• WildFly and Micrometer

  Earlier in the summer, I wrote some about the addition of OpenTelemetry support in WildFly. With the release of WildFly 25, that support is now official and in the wild. With 25 behind us, we start looking at 26, and my next effort will be to integrate Micrometer metrics into the server. In this post, we’ll take a look at what that might mean, as well as presenting a way to take an early look.

July

• An Update on OpenTelemetry and WildFly

  In a recent post, I worked through setting up OpenTelemetry support in your Jakarta EE application. Since that time, I’ve put quite a bit of work into integrating that support, as teased in the post, into WildFly. In this post, I’d like to provide an update on what that WildFly support currently looks like, and put out a request for feedback.

June

• OpenTelemetry and Jakarta REST Services

  Knowing what’s going on in your microservices deployment is extremely important when something goes wrong. In a distributed system, though, it can be difficult to know where things have gone wrong. That’s where a tracing system such as OpenTelemetry can be immensely valuable. In this post, we’ll build two simple services, one of which calls the other, and trace the execution from end to end.

May

• A Simple Jakarta EE 9.1 REST Project

  Jakarta EE 9.1 was released today, which now lets developers use — officially — Java 11 with the shiny new Jakarta EE namespace introduce in EE 9. So what does a simple Jakarta EE 9.1 REST project look like? I’m so glad you asked. :)