[jboss-as7-dev] HTTP Upgrade for AS8 Management

Hi everyone, Now that we are using Undertow as the domain management HTTP server it is now possible to use a HTTP upgrade for the native management and remote-jmx protocols. This will allow us to run all management protocols over port 9990, and allow us to remove 9999 from our default config. The idea is significantly reduce the ports that are open in our default config, ideally eventually we will just have a management and application HTTP ports and that will be it (although some technologies such as CORBA are not compatible with HTTP Upgrade). With this in mind I have started working on a series of patches[1] to implement this, that I am hoping will be ready to merge early next week. (These patches are still a work in progress, but the core functionality works). For those of you who are not familiar with HTTP upgrade it is a mechanism where a client makes a HTTP request to the client with the Upgrade: header set, the server will then respond with a HTTP 101 response. In our implementation the server then hands the channel over to JBoss Remoting which then performs its normal handshake, including authentication. The upshot of all this will be: - We no longer have port 9999 open by default, which will break older clients that attempt to talk to a default AS8 instance (it will still be possible to add a native interface to allow it to work with older clients). - ModelControllerClient.Factory.create() now allows you to specify a protocol, which can be either remote, http or https. - Remote JMX will now require a service:jmx:http(s)-remoting-jmx:// URL rather than the current service:jmx:remoting-jmx:// I have not touched domain management yet, and these patches are not yet ready for merging, but because this is a fairly big change I thought I would get peoples thoughts before I finish it off and submit a PR. Stuart [1] https://github.com/stuartwdouglas/xnio/compare/http-upgrade https://github.com/stuartwdouglas/jboss-remoting/compare/http-upgrade https://github.com/stuartwdouglas/remoting-jmx/compare/http-upgrade https://github.com/stuartwdouglas/jboss-as/compare/http-upgrade