WildFly Community Call - 2025-11-13
by Jean-Frederic Mesnil
Hi, we held a WildFly Community call on Thursday, November 13th.
Recording can be watched at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgJti-R_wDk&t=1091s
As a reminder this call is open to any community members -- users and developers alike (the meetings are in our WildFly calendar at https://www.wildfly.org/events/#calendar
Please find below the agenda of the call:
Week 46 (2025-11-13)
📺 YouTube video<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgJti-R_wDk&t=1091s>
Community Announcements (:00)
* WildFly 38.0.1.Final release
* Delayed due to infrastructure issues
Agenda (:10)
* Brian Stansberry<mailto:brian.stansberry@redhat.com> & Wolfgang Knauf | Maven Archetypes for WildFly
* wildfly-archetypes PRs<https://github.com/wildfly/wildfly-archetypes/pulls>. Decide what to do with the 2 long-standing open PRs
Current state:
* getting-started: during build, a wildfly server is provisioned including the war file. Tests are executed using Arquillian. There are 2 types of tests:
* “Close-box” test that @RunAsClient and communicates with the actual war file ApplicationIT.java<https://github.com/wildfly/wildfly-archetypes/blob/085c8ac2ca8391cf0d20a6...>
* “Open-box” test that creates an enriched war (with only the classes under tests) and run the test inside this enriched war (eg to access CDI components directly) ServiceIT.java#L24<https://github.com/wildfly/wildfly-archetypes/blob/085c8ac2ca8391cf0d20a6...>
* webapp/ear archetype: during build a war / ear file is created in “target”. Two profiles are used to execute the tests with “wildfly-arquillian-container-managed” or “wildfly-arquillian-container-remote”. Both profiles require an installed wildfly server, the arquillian container launches tests by creating an enriched war / ear file and deploying it to this server.
Proposed enhancement in webapp/ear archetype:
* New profile “provision”: provisions a wildfly server that contains the war/ear application.
* New profile “arq-provision”: also provisions a wildfly server (but without deployed war), then start this server by using “wildfly-arquillian-container-managed”, enrich the war file with tests, deploy it to server and run the arquillian tests.
Discussion: is this too much for a single archetype? Should the old profiles be cleaned up? Should some interactive part be added when creating a project from the archetype so that some features of it (arquillian/provisioning/faces support) can be skipped?
* Related to the Maven archetypes, we could extend the subsystem archetype (or create another archetype) to help development of new Galleon feature pack (reported in [wildfly/wildfly-archetypes#185] gProvide an archetype for WildFly feature packs <https://github.com/wildfly/wildfly-archetypes/issues/185> )
* FYI about interesting discussions
* Brian Stansberry<mailto:brian.stansberry@redhat.com> Classloading of optional modules<https://wildfly.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/174184-wildfly-developers/t...> (new today; I haven't read it beyond the first few posts...)
* Brian Stansberry<mailto:brian.stansberry@redhat.com> JPMS for Modules<https://wildfly.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/174184-wildfly-developers/t...> This is about a bunch of lower priority issues I filed Tuesday re adding module-info.class to various components. These are background tasks to help be ready for a future where Java SE is more insistent on using JPMS.
Parking lot (:45)
* Next meeting, Emmanuel Hugonnet will present the Generative AI feature pack for WildFly (Langchain4J, MCP, WASM)
End of meeting (:50)
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Jeff Mesnil
Software Engineer
Red Hat JBoss EAP
http://jmesnil.net/
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