WildFly Project News
Tuesday was a great day in the world of enterprise Java. It’s been a long road since Jakarta EE was born following Oracle’s announcement that stewardship of Java EE would be moving to the Eclipse Foundation. But after a lot of hard work by folks in the Jakarta community, Jakarta EE 8 has been released. Congratulations to everyone involved with the Jakarta EE Platform project and all the various spec projects. The ability to enhance...
WildFly 17.0.1 Final is now available for download. We had a number of important bug fixes ready to go so we decided to do a micro release for WildFly 17. I also wanted to blog a bit about using Galleon to update an existing Galleon-provisioned WildFly installation after a new release comes out. Jira Release Notes The full list of issues resolved in WildFly 17.0.1 is available here. Issues resolved in the WildFly Core 9.0.2...
WildFly 17 S2I image on quay.io Starting with WildFly 17, the WildFly S2I Docker image is now accessible from quay.io at this URL: https://quay.io/repository/wildfly/wildfly-centos7 A companion image, a WildFly runtime Docker image that allows you to chain builds in OpenShift or use Docker multi stage builds, is available from: https://quay.io/repository/wildfly/wildfly-runtime-centos7 For a complete documentation on how to use these images using s2i, OpenShift and Docker, refer to this documentation. WildFly 17 S2I image and the...
I’m pleased to announce that WildFly 17 Final is now available for download. A lot of effort in this last quarter has gone into using WildFly in cloud environments, which I’ll expand on more below, but first I wanted to touch on improvements we’ve made in the main WildFly server. Clustering Improvements You can now use a separate subsystem for configuring distributed web session managers. This will help users avoid common configuration mistakes, and is...
After HipChat got closed down earlier this year we evaluated a few alternative chat solutions. During this period we temporarily moved community discussions back to IRC (#wildfly on Freenode). We found that Zulip worked well for us and have now settled on this as our main chat tool. Thanks to the people at Zulip for their open source license! To join in, go to https://wildfly.zulipchat.com and sign up. The most obvious stream to join is...
Following the release of WildFly 16, I thought it would be a good time to give the WildFly community a sense of what I see coming in the project over the next few releases. WildFly will continue with the quarterly delivery model we began last year with WildFly 12. These releases are essentially time-boxed; i.e. we typically won’t significantly delay a release in order to get a feature in. So when I discuss general feature...
This post has been co-authored with Jorge Morales and Josh Wood from the OpenShift Developer Advocacy Team. Jorge is passionate about Developer experience, Java programming, and, most importantly, improving the integration of Red Hat’s Middleware into the OpenShift platform. Josh is committed to constructing the future of utility computing with open source technologies like Kubernetes. Problem space Containers are becoming the default deployment strategy for applications in the enterprise. We’ve seen the software packaged in...
WildFly 16 Final is now available for download! Provisioning WildFly with Galleon As we continue with our quarterly delivery model, a major focus over the next few quarters will be on making WildFly as easy and productive as possible to use on the cloud, particularly on Kubernetes and OpenShift. An important requirement for the cloud is to be able to reduce the footprint of your server to what you need to run your application, eliminating...
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...
