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JBoss: Developer's Guide

By : Elvadas Nono Woguia
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JBoss: Developer's Guide

By: Elvadas Nono Woguia

Overview of this book

Have you often wondered what is the best JBoss product to solve a specific problem? Do you want to get started with a specific JBoss product and know how to integrate different JBoss products in your IT Systems? Then this is the book for you. Through hands-on examples from the business world, this guide presents details on the major products and how you can build your own Enterprise services around the JBoss ecosystem. Starting with an introduction to the JBoss ecosystem, you will gradually move on to developing and deploying clustered application on JBoss Application Server, and setting up high availability using undertow or HA proxy loadbalancers. As you are moving to a micro service archicture, you will be taught how to package existing Java EE applications as micro service using Swarm or create your new micro services from scratch by coupling most popular Java EE frameworks like JPA, CDI with Undertow handlers. Next, you will install and configure JBoss Data grid in development and production environments, develop cache based applications and aggregate various data source in JBoss data virtualization. You will learn to build, deploy, and monitor integration scenarios using JBoss Fuse and run both producers/consumers applications relying on JBoss AMQ. Finally, you will learn to develop and run business workflows and make better decisions in your applications using Drools and Jboss BPM Suite Platform.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Developing and Hosting Scalable Web Applications

The JBoss Application Server is the oldest and the most popular product of the JBoss family. The community version was renamed to WildFly in 2013, and Red Hat began making the binaries for the Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) available for download for the developers.

This table shows the relation links between the community and commercial editions for the last three releases:

Community edition Enterprise edition
JBoss AS 7.4.0.Final JBoss EAP 6.3
JBoss AS 7.5.0.Final JBoss EAP 6.4
WildFly 10 JBoss EAP 7.0.0

JBoss EAP 7.0 is a certified Java EE 7 application server and supports both Java SE8 and Java EE7 specifications. After installing JBoss EAP, we will discover its features and architecture through practical samples. The reader will get familiar with simple administration and configuration tips to leverage...