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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)

JBoss BRMS components and architecture

The JBoss BRMS platform is built on top of a set of open source projects and independent components:

JBoss BRMS core components include the following:

  • A generic UI application built from the Drools Workbench project to author, manage, and test business rules and decisions tables. In the BRMS platform, this module is called Business Central.
  • BRMS includes a set of plugins shipped with Integration Stack to improve the user experience while developing business rules applications with JBoss Developer Studio; this set can be extended with Drools IDE, which is an optional Eclipse plugin that allows users to author rules within Eclipse.
  • Knowledge Is Everything (KIE) provides two distinct functionalities:
    • A knowledge store where all resources are stored. The store also provides a rule and domain model artifact versioning.
    • A knowledge API that...