On 9 Aug 2023, at 18:25, James Perkins <jperkins@redhat.com> wrote:

On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 2:35 AM Jeff Mesnil <jmesnil@redhat.com> wrote:

Hi,

We are evaluating how we could improve the user experience for using WildFly and one of the idea is to create a « Get Started » page on wildfly.org that would be an entry point for users that wants to try WildFly.

This would be useful not only for new users (that have no previous knowledge of WildFly) but also existing users to let them understand the more recent ways to use WildFly.

The expectation for this page would be simple:

* no knowledge of WildFly required

* Few prerequisites:

  * Java & Maven installed

* Few steps:

  * Step 1: create a Maven project (using WildFly archetypes, more on that below)

  * Step 2: run mvn package

  * Step 3: run ./targer/server/bin/standalone.sh

Any reason not to combine steps 2 and 3 and suggest either using mvn wildfly:run or mvn wildfly:dev?

I did not think about that :) 

For this page, I wanted to have clear boundaries on the steps (this is how you build, this is how you run).

Having said that, another Step that would be very interesting to showcase would be to run « mvn wildly:dev » make a tweak to the application codebase and see the changes in the running app.

-- 
Jeff Mesnil
Engineer @ Red Hat JBoss EAP
http://jmesnil.net/