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WildFly 8-10 and JBoss EAP 7 verbose HTTP headers

| Immanuel Sims

As a developer I am really happy to have an easy way to determine which version of a software I’m running. But I do not like it if my software tells everyone its name and version, as this gives important fingerprinting information to possible attackers.

If you use WildFly versions 8 through 10 or JBoss EAP version 7 the default configuration includes some HTTP headers that are too verbose in my opinion. JBoss EAP 6 is not affected by the way. The headers you get look like this

Server: JBoss-EAP/7
X-Powered-By: Undertow/1

Getting rid of these headers is really easy. So I think the tiny effort to remove these headers should be put into any project even if the probability of getting attacked and the possible impact are really small.

To fix the problem let’s have a look at the default configuration in the standalone.xml:

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Red Hat JBoss Middleware: A technology stack for IoT-Applications

| Heinz Wilming

JBoss EAP 7 and ActiveMQ Artemis as connector between temperature and humidity and the application architecture

Most IoT-Applications face similar challenges on its way from sensor to final aggregation in terms of usage and, where applicable relaying of data. In this article, we introduce an architecture based on the new Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP) in Version 7 to outline a IoT application as a showcase.

MQTT has certainly become a standard protocol for IoT and in this context the Internet of Things is integrated via MQTT.

One new major update of JBoss EAP 7 is ActiveMQ Artemis as Messaging Broker with support for MQTT as transport protocol. JBoss EAP 7 is our preferred technology, i.a. for IoT architectures because of its outstanding technological capabilities thus facilitating efficient development of scalable and secure applications.

A combined temperature and humidity sensor, the Bosch XDK, and Harting’s Mica Box are used to supply data. It is the MQTT and the JBoss EAP 7 Middleware that connect and build a bridge between this sensor setup and the rest of the world.

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Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 (JBoss EAP 7) – final release

| Heinz Wilming

A few days ago, Red Hat released the major version 7 of the open source Java EE application server, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP).

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP) is the supported and quality assured version of the WildFly application server from the JBoss community.

jboss-eap-wildfly-upstream-history

The JBoss EAP 7 is based on the version 10 of the WildFly application server. In 2013 Red Hat renamed the JBoss AS community project to WildFly to avoid confusion with the JBoss brand which referred to several different things at once, the application server, the JBoss Community, and a range of other JBoss Products.

The main improvements and highlights of the JBoss EAP 7 release

This article focuses on the following main improvements and highlights of the new major release of the JBoss EAP 7:

  • implementation of the new specifications of the Java Enterprise Edition 7
  • enhanced modularity
  • management improvements
  • component updates
  • compatibility and interoperability

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