WildFly 26 Schedule
by Brian Stansberry
Work is well underway on WildFly 26. Here's the schedule we're shooting
for:
Fri Nov 26 -- Core Feature Freeze
Tue Nov 30 -- Feature freeze / WF 26 Beta1 Tag
Fri Dec 10 -- WildFly Core code freeze
Wed Dec 15 -- WF 26 tag
Thu Dec 16 -- WF 26 available on wildfly.org
The WildFly OpenShift images usually are released a few days after the zip
is available on wildfly.org, but for WildFly 26 we expect the delay to be
longer, with the images being released after the New Year.
This release has a shorter development cycle, as we'd like to complete the
zip release by mid-December so our great contributors can see it in the
rear view mirror and relax over the year -end quiet period. We delayed the
WildFly 25 release a couple weeks to finish up on our SE 17 work, but we
didn't want to push WildFly 26 as well and have work on it open over the
year end.
Best regards,
--
Brian Stansberry
Project Lead, WildFly
He/Him/His
2 years, 7 months
WildFly 25.0.1 freeze
by Kabir Khan
Hi all,
The freeze for WildFly 25.0.1 will be Friday 29th October.
Please file any PRs against the 25.x
<https://github.com/wildfly/wildfly/tree/25.x>*) branch, and make sure
there is an associated Jira.
In the Jira for the issue, make sure that it has 25.0.1.Final*) as the Fix
Version. In the PR please also link to any new or already merged PRs
against the main branch.
Note that the payload is meant to be limited, containing only critical
fixes, things community members are eager for etc., and component upgrades
addressing similar issues.
*) - if the fix is needed for WildFly Core, use the 17.x
<https://github.com/wildfly/wildfly-core/tree/17.x> branch and 17.0.2.Final
release in Jira.
Any questions, please let me know.
Thanks,
Kabir
2 years, 7 months
Upcoming provisioning and cloud features for WildFly
by Jean-Frederic Mesnil
Hi,
WildFly 26 development has started and we have made some significant updates for WildFly provisioning and its use on the cloud.
This mail is an opportunity to showcase the upcoming features and give a taste of things to come for WildFly users :)
This work is still in alpha/beta stage and is subject to change before their final releases but the overall idea is already there.
The most important thing to explain is that we are leveraging the existing wildlfy-maven-plugin to provision WildFly and build application images for WildFly on the cloud.
This plugin now enables to provision and configure a WildFly runtime directly from the application's pom.xml.
There are few steps required to use this new plugin.
Let's use our simple helloworld-rs quickstart for that (https://github.com/wildfly/quickstart/tree/main/helloworld-rs).
We can checkout this project with:
git clone https://github.com/wildfly/quickstart.git
cd quickstart/helloworld-rs
To use the provisioning feature of the wildfly-maven-plugin, we need to use its 3.0.0.Alpha1 release that has just been released:
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.wildfly.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>wildfly-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.0.0.Alpha1</version>
<configuration>
<feature-packs>
<feature-pack>
<location>org.wildfly:wildfly-ee-galleon-pack:25.0.0.Final</location>
</feature-pack>
</feature-packs>
<layers>
<layer>jaxrs-server</layer>
</layers>
<runtime-name>ROOT.war</runtime-name>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>package</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
This plugin configuration will provision WildFly using its org.wildfly:wildfly-ee-galleon-pack:25.0.0.Final feature pack and install the jaxrs-server layer that contains all we need to run a Jakarta Restful application.
I can now run `mvn clean package` to package the application, provision WildFly, and deploy the application in WildFly.
At the end of the execution, I have a WildFly 25.0.0.Final with the deployment in the target/server directory of my application project.
I can run my application with a simple `./target/server/bin/standalone.sh`:
$ ./target/server/bin/standalone.sh
...
JBOSS_HOME: /Users/jmesnil/tmp/quickstart/helloworld-rs/target/server
...
09:10:25,564 INFO [org.jboss.as.server] (Controller Boot Thread) WFLYSRV0010: Deployed "helloworld-rs.war" (runtime-name : "ROOT.war")
...
09:05:37,099 INFO [org.jboss.as] (Controller Boot Thread) WFLYSRV0025: WildFly EE 25.0.0.Final (WildFly Core 17.0.1.Final) started in 12290ms - Started 274 of 359 services (138 services are lazy, passive or on-demand)
And I have now my application served by WildFly:
$ curl http://:8080/rest/json
{"result":"Hello World!"}
Using this new plugin mechanism to provision WildFly will have tremendous impact on developing and running WildFly application:
* The application's pom.xml now can be the self-contained definition of the application as a whole (including the WildFly runtime configuration to run the application code)
* Arquillian tests can be run against a runtime consisting of the provisioned WildFly and the deployed application. You can test your actual deployment and its runtime during the application test phase.
* We are also developing new source-to-images (S2I) builder and runtime image that leverages this new provisioning capability of the wildfly-maven-plugin. These images will provide all the infrastructure to build application image that can be deployed on Kubernete platforms.
We will have a serie of blog posts that provides more details on these new developments.
Best regards,
Jeff
--
Jeff Mesnil
Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat
http://jmesnil.net/
2 years, 7 months
MicroProfile Reactive Messaging 2.0 in WildFly 25
by Kabir Khan
Hi all,
I've just published a blog showing some of the MicroProfile Reactive
Messaging improvements we did in WildFly 25.
https://www.wildfly.org/news/2021/10/14/MicroProfile-Reactive-Messaging-2...
It showcases the new @Channel/Emitter functionality which is intended to
facilitate pushing data into Kafka from code initiated by the user.
It also briefly shows the new Kafka user API for more control over how
messages are sent to Kafka.
Finally, it shows a very simple Kafka Streams application to get data out
of Kafka, as an example of how you could process the data stored in Kafka.
Enjoy,
Kabir
2 years, 7 months
