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Hands-On Cloud Development with WildFly

By : Tomasz Adamski
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Hands-On Cloud Development with WildFly

By: Tomasz Adamski

Overview of this book

The book starts by introducing you to WildFly Swarm—a tool that allows you to create runnable microservices from Java EE components. You’ll learn the basics of Swarm operation—creating microservices containing only the parts of enterprise runtime needed in a specific case. Later, you’ll learn how to configure and test those services. In order to deploy our services in the cloud, we’ll use OpenShift. You’ll get to know basic information on its architecture, features, and relationship to Docker and Kubernetes. Later, you’ll learn how to deploy and configure your services to run in the OpenShift cloud. In the last part of the book, you’ll see how to make your application production-ready. You’ll find out how to configure continuous integration for your services using Jenkins, make your application resistant to network failures using Hystrix, and how to secure them using Keycloak. By the end of the book, you’ll have a functional example application and will have practical knowledge of Java EE cloud development that can be used as a reference in your other projects.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Right-Sizing Your Services

In this chapter, you will learn what Swarm does to create your services with only those dependencies that are necessary for them. You will learn in greater detail what a fraction is, how Swarm detects what fractions should be used, and how you can modify the fraction discovery behavior. Finally, you will learn how to further modify the service creation size and behavior using hollow JARs and thin JARs.

Before we explain all of that, we will introduce the service on which we are going to work.