JBoss EAP / Wildfly Management Interfaces and Clients

The JBoss EAP / Wildfly provides a powerful concept for management, configuration, and monitoring of the application server itself and its Java EE applications.

In the previous post we focused on some useful runtime metrics, which are of interest when monitoring your application server and applications. This post introduces the management clients provided by the JBoss EAP / Wildfly Application Server to manage and configure server instances.

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Descriptor property substitution in EAP6 and JBoss AS7

Motivation

In a software development process, there are usually multiple environments, such as development, test and production, etc. The development team usually provides the QA users a test version before acceptance and production, as illustrated below.
deployment chain in development
If, however, the application contains assumptions about the environment, this chain is broken. Therefore it is good practice, for the deployment to make no assumptions about the target environment. A good way to achieve this is that the application servers provide the environment specific configurations of the application, such as datasource configuration or integration of other Enterprise Information Systems (EIS). But this is often not so easy.

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