Before we begin, I will describe the activities that need to be performed, and configuration that needs to be done, on the server to execute the deployment of a simple application that will be used in this chapter to illustrate a basic deployment. This application will be used to accomplish a few more settings, such as context root and virtual host. Also, I will describe a little about deployment into a single standalone server and, in some server instances, running in the domain mode. For the domain mode deployments, you should proceed to Chapter 3, WildFly CLI and Management Console.

The standalone/deployments directory, as in the previous releases of JBoss Application Server, is the location used by end users to perform their deployments and applications are automatically deployed into the server at runtime. The artifacts that can be used to deploy are as follows: