The document discusses upcoming releases of the WildFly application server. It notes that WildFly 8 is Java EE7 certified and includes performance and usability improvements. WildFly 9 is still in development and will include splitting the codebase into modular feature packs, improved security features like Elytron, and support for capabilities and requirements. The goal is to make WildFly more customizable and modular and reduce testing time.

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BOF - v9 Update
Dimitris Andreadis
JBoss EAP / WildFly
Sr. Engineering Manager
Red Hat

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8.0 Final – Feb/2014
8.1 Final – May/2014
9.0 Alpha1 – Sep/2014
8.2 Final – really soon  We are Here!
9.0 Final – End of Q1 2015?
WildFly Releases

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WildFly 8 Final
•100% Java EE7 certified (Web & Full Profiles)
•High Performance Web Server (Undertow)
•Port Reduction (8080, 9990)
•Update Infrastructure
•Audit Logging
•Role Based Administration
•New “minimal” core distribution

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EE7 Highlights

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WildFly 8.1
•Misc. security enhancements
•Smaller distro/admin console
•Better JDK8 support (JSPs)
•Lots of fixes (247)
•…
•Offered also as an update

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Updating an installation
•Preserves configuration and deployments
•Can be applied offline or on a running server
./bin/jboss-cli.sh
[disconnected /] patch apply /wildfly-8.1.0.Final.patch
[disconnected /] quit
patch rollback --reset-configuration=true
patch --help

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WildFly 8.2
•CDI 1.2
•WebSockets 1.1
•Notifications support (incl. JMX)
•…
•Many smaller features and fixes

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WildFly 9 (WIP)
•Core/Servlet/Full Split
•Subsystem Capabilities and Requirements
•Graceful shutdown (suspend(timeout)/resume)
•Elytron (Security improvements)
•Switching to the JDK ORB from JacORB
•Undertow as a mod_cluster frontend
•HTTP/2 (SPDY)

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WF-Core
•Modular class loading
•Unified management, including domain mode
•Basic deployment architecture
•CLI for management

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Motivation
•Reducing testing time (2h+, 1M+ LOC)
•Promote WF-Core as an independent framework
•Ease the creation of custom configurations

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Separate Repos for Feature Packs
•Arquillian - the Arquillian adaptors
•Servlet - Undertow and basic EE (e.g Naming)
•EE – All of EE related functionality (EJB, JMS, etc.)
•Clustering – Clustering functionality
•Console – The GWT based console
•Dist: combines everything

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Feature Pack
•Description
•Core and other feature dependencies
•Module dependencies
•Configuration snippets
A simple tool assembles features packs into a server,
with overrides and config changes.

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Capabilities & Requirements
•MESSAGING
•Capabilities
•BASE -- core messaging/JMS functionality
•Requires: SECURITY:SECURITY-DOMAIN, JCA:BASE, CDI:BASE, TRANSACTIONS:TRANSACTION-MANAGER, NAMING:BASE
•CLUSTERED -- clustered messaging
•Requires: JGROUPS:BASE (optional)
•HTTP-UPGRADE -- JMS multiplexing over HTTP
•Requires: UNDERTOW:HTTP-UPGRADE

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Graceful Shutdown
•Essentially suspend(timeout) / resume()
•Action per subsystem may vary
•Reject new requests (HTTP Error 503 - Service unavailable)
•Clustering could fail over sessions
•mod_cluster could notify load balancer
•…
•Might be possible to suspend specific deployments or entry points (e.g. web requests)

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Elytron
•Replacement for PicketBox (old JBossSX)
•Get rid of JAAS as the internal SPI
•Stop “sending the password around”
•Multiple security associations per context
•Support HTTP, SASL+GSSAPI, TSL, RADIOUS, etc.
•Integrate with PicketLink and Keycloak
•…

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