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PrimeFaces vs RichFaces vs IceFaces

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Important notice: This tutorial has been written in 2010 when JSF was still quite popular as UI framework with many frameworks available on the top of it. Ten years later things changed quite a bit: Richfaces reached the End of Life in 2016 and it’s not being maintained by any organization. Icefaces is still being … Read more

Configuring TLS 1.3 on WildFly application Server

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This tutorial will teach you how to configure Transport Layer Security (TLS) v.1.3 on WildFly application server. TLS 1.3 offers improved speed compared to TLS 1.2. The earlier version of TLS (1.2) required two round-trips to finish a TLS handshake. On the other hand, TLS 1.3 only needs to complete a single round-trip. This substantially … Read more

Cannot connect to WildFly CLI? a simple way to solve it

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One common issue when you are starting to use WildFly is the following issue. You have tried connecting to the CLI: $ ./jboss-cli.sh -c However the following error is returned: Failed to connect to the controller: The controller is not available at localhost:9990: java.net.ConnectException: WFLYPRT0053: Could not connect to remote+http://localhost:9990. The connection failed: WFLYPRT0053: Could … Read more

How to create a start up class for Enterprise application servers

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This article discusses how to create a start up class for a Java Enterprise / Jakarta EE compliant application server such as WildFly. There is no concept of start up class for an application server however you can deploy an application which contains a component bound to the deployment life cycle. For example, the javax.servlet.ServletContextListener … Read more

Reading properties from a configuration folder in WildFly

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There are several approaches for reading properties from a directory in WildFly. We will show in this tutorial two alternative solutions: Reading properties from a file using MicroProfile Config API The recommended solution for Microservices deployments is to use the Eclipse MicroProfile Config which is a solution to externalise configuration from microservices. The config properties … Read more

Installing Keycloak Client adapters on WildFly

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This article covers how to install Keycloak Client Adapters on WildFly so that you can let Keycloak manage the whole authentication/authorization of your applications running on WildFly. Please note: If you are running WildFly 25 or above, you can secure your applications with Keycloak using Elytron OpenID Connect which is available out of the box. … Read more

Configuring WildFly as Load Balancer for a Cluster

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This tutorial is about Load Balancing a cluster of WildFly servers using a WildFly front-end server configured using the load-balancer profile. Since WildFly 9, you can use an instance of the Application Server as a mod_cluster front-end for your back-end applications. This removes the need to use a native Web server like Apache (and mod_cluster … Read more