Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

Red Hat JBoss EAP 6 introduced some new concepts like configuration simplification, Modularity, new management CLI , user-friendly management console and an amazing feature called "Domains". Domain mode changes the way applications are deployed on EAP instances. JBoss EAP 7.0 was just released and announced by Red Hat. In this series of articles, I will present several ways to deploy an application on an EAP Domain. T he series consists of four parts. Each one will be a standalone article...

If you are using JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) for J2EE development, the CloudBees Jenkins Platform provides an enterprise-class toolchain for an automated CI/CD from development to production. The CloudBees Jenkins Platform now supports integrations with both Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) and Red Hat OpenShift across the software delivery pipeline. This enables developers to build, test and deploy applications, with Jenkins-based continuous delivery pipelines in JBoss via JBoss EAP 7 or JBoss EAP 7 on OpenShift. The...

JBoss EAP 7 was recently released, and brings with it a whole host of new features and support, such as support for Java EE 7, reduced port usage, graceful shutdown, improved GUI and CLI management, optimizations for cloud and containers, and much more. EAP 7's small footprint, fast startup time and support for modern Java and non-Java frameworks make it uniquely suitable for deployment onto PaaS cloud environments, and Red Hat happens to have a leading one: OpenShift. I put...

JBoss EAP 7 was recently released, and brings with it a whole host of new features and support, such as support for Java EE 7, Undertow (a highly scalable web server), reduced port usage, graceful shutdown, improved GUI and CLI management, and much more. Go ahead and download it, unzip, and run bin/standalone.sh and check out all these great features. What's that? It didn't work? Did you check that your JRE is compatible? Are there outstanding incompatibility or security issues...

Over the years, I've come across many command line interfaces ( CLI) to larger applications, each with varying levels of access and power. Having a CLI at all is a great first step for an application, as it opens up a much wider range of possibilities: administration, extension, and trust. CLIs also promote scriptability - the ability to create and maintain repeatable scripts, and the easier it is to develop said scripts, the better. Sometimes scripts can solve issues that...

WildFly Swarm is a "Just Enough" Application Server. If you don't need EJB, don't bundle it. Likewise for JPA, JAX-RS, or whatever subsystem. Bringing only the portions of an App Server that you need is the strategy that makes Java EE and the JVM a real contender in the microservices space. Ken Finnigan, Co Founder/Lead of WildFly Swarm, walked us through how easy it is to move a monolith deployment to a WildFly Swarm Microservice. Getting Started Getting started is...

Today at the DevNation conference in San Francisco, Red Hat’s Mark Little was joined on-stage by Alasdair Nottingham from IBM, Theresa Nguyen from Tomitribe, Mike Croft from Payara and Martijn Verburg from the London Java Community to announce a new community collaboration - MicroProfile - whose goal is to make it easier for developers to use familiar Java EE technologies and APIs for building microservice applications. Mark talked about some of the reasons Java EE has established itself as the...

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 is here. This is a significant new release. There are the obvious benefits — Java EE 7 certification, numerous bug fixes, a simplified and more intuitive administrative UI — but there are a lot of features just under the hood that really make JBoss EAP 7 a pathway for IT departments and app developers to move their projects forward. Agility and Transformation There are a lot of buzzwords and think-pieces on changes in...

Red Hat JBoss Core Services Collection is a group of common services that are critical for application developers. The services included change as new services and projects are added over time, but the idea is to include common, developer-friendly projects under a single subscription. The collection makes it much easier for developers to access these services. The launch of the Core Services Collection includes services that focus on three areas: web servers, security, and monitoring. New Components There are six...

I'm guessing if you've done enough repeated builds on OpenShift, using Maven, that you are probably aware of the " download the internet" phenomenon that plagues build times. You start a build, expecting all those Maven dependencies you downloaded for your last build to be re-used, but quickly see your network traffic ramp up while the same 100MB of jars are downloaded again and again. Even builds of a few minutes tend to grind on me, frustrate me as a...

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As a developer, certifications offer a unique opportunity to increase your personal marketability - they are a tangible indication of your subject matter expertise. Not only can the necessary preparation provide an opportunity to learn new material, but having a way (the certification exam) to verify you've actually learned the core skills can be a valuable tool to ensure you're "doing and learning the right things". There is constant debate about the utility of certifications within some IT circles, but...

Over the last few weeks reports of crypto-ransomware have been circulated on the Internet and in the Press. While public details are sparse and victims are hesitant to share details, Red Hat is aware that older, un-patched versions of JBoss have been linked to several cases. The main flaw seen used has been CVE-2010-0738. Unsecured consoles appear to have been the main culprit of allowing attackers into internal networks using the JexBoss testing tool. Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform...

Cloud based technology offers the ability to build, deploy and scale applications with ease; however, deploying to the cloud is only half of the battle. How cloud applications are monitored becomes a paramount concern with operations teams. When issues arise, teams and their monitoring systems must be able to detect, react, and rectify the situation. CPU, system memory, and disk space are three common indicators used to monitor applications, and are typically reported by the operating system. However, for Java...

Automated testing is one of the hardest, but also the most important thing to get right when doing Continuous Delivery or DevOps. Recently Aslak Knutsen and I hosted a webinar with the title "Continuous Development with Automated Testing". The webinar had quite a few viewers (and maybe that was one of the reasons that the demo in the webinar didn't exactly go as planned.) Aslak did a great job trying to talk through a demo that played at 1/3 of...

Background The Java Persistence API (JPA) provides Java developers with an object/relational mapping facility for managing relational data in Java applications. The latest version of the JPA standard is 2.1 and is part of Java EE 7. JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is a fully certified Java EE application server and JBoss EAP 7 which is currently in Beta is certified according to the most recent Java EE 7 specification. Hibernate is one of the most popular JPA implementations and is...

Now, that the beta of latest Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 is out, it is about time to explore the available Java EE 7 quickstarts and deploy your first application with JBoss Developer Studio (JDBS). The quickstarts demonstrate JBoss EAP, Java EE 7 and a few additional technologies. They provide small, specific, working examples that can be used as a reference for your own project. To make it a real quick start for you, I recorded a little...

This article describes how efficient development is on JBoss EAP 7. It will also give example of different build tools and Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) to use for application development on JBoss EAP 7. Additionally it will briefly explain how dependency management [1] works for Java EE 7 and JBoss EAP specific artifacts. Finally there is a step-by-step guide that demonstrates how fast and efficient it is to develop on JBoss EAP 7. If you don't like to read such...

JBoss EAP 7 Beta is now available! Here's a preview of what's to come... Today, we officially announced the availability of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 beta. We truly believe this release will shift the way the enterprise Java community thinks about application servers and builds Java applications. But, before we get into the details of how you can use JBoss EAP 7 to accomplish this, I want to bring attention and recognition to the community who made...

The Virtual JBoss User Group had another successful session on November 10th. This time it was Martyn Taylor talking about Messaging for the Internet of Things (IoT). He is a senior software engineer at Red Hat and has over 7 years' experience working on cloud, middleware and messaging software. Martyn currently works on the Apache ActiveMQ suite of projects. The presentation gives you a brief intro into IoT in general and explains why it brings all kinds of challenges to...

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Have you heard about your local JBoss User Group (JBUG)? A JBUG is a group of people who share a common interest in JBoss technologies. They are organized and supported by the community and meet on a regular basis to discuss new technologies, development methodologies, interesting use cases, and other technical topics. The common goal is to provide education, help, and social events for the community and to promote open source. You can find a list of 38 JBUGs around...

Introduction This article aims to provide a step by step guide for setting up a remote Red Hat JBoss Data Grid (JDG) cluster as an HTTP session store for your state-full web applications running on Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP). I had recently explored this setup for another customer and figured it would be helpful to put together a set of detailed instructions for replicating this. This feature was recently released with the GA of JDG 6.5. Benefits...