In this chapter, we've gone through the basics of the application server configuration, which is now composed of a single monolithic file that contains the configuration for all the installed services.

Although this main configuration file will be your main point of reference to get a full understanding of the WildFly infrastructure, we must stress the importance of modifying it via one of the management interfaces.

We have examined each of the sections within the thread pool configuration in detail. We have also seen that the thread pool relies on the Java Standard Edition Thread Executor API to define a set of pools, and that these pools are used by the application servers' core services.

Next, we discussed the JBoss logging framework, which is built on top of the Java Util Logging framework and addresses some known shortcomings of JUL. We described how to configure per-application logging in your applications.

In the next chapter, we will take a look at some core enterprise service...