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WildFly Configuration, Deployment, and Administration - Second Edition

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WildFly Configuration, Deployment, and Administration - Second Edition

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
WildFly Configuration, Deployment, and Administration Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating and deploying a web application


As you can see, the application server provides a relatively straightforward way to configure the web container. In order to build and deploy a web application, it would be good for you to learn how to organize an application along with its specific configuration files.

WildFly 8 is a Java EE 7 compliant application server and thus, can be used to deploy a wide range of web applications. One way of building a web application is to use the JavaServer Faces (JSF) technology, which is an evolution of the JSP technology. It is also part of Enterprise Java, meaning that WildFly supports it out of the box. WildFly 8 supports the JSF release 2.2 using the Mojarra implementation.

Note

The purpose of this example is to show you how to create, configure, and deploy a Java EE 7 application on WildFly 8. If you want to learn more about the various Java EE 7 technologies, you should check out the many Java EE 7 examples created by Arun Gupta, which have been configured...