WildFly Application Server (WildFly) Quickstarts

The quickstarts demonstrate Java EE 7 and a few additional technologies from the JBoss stack. They provide small, specific, working examples that can be used as a reference for your own project.

Introduction

These quickstarts run on WildFly Application Server 12 or later. We recommend using the WildFly ZIP file. This version uses the correct dependencies and ensures you test and compile against your runtime environment.

Make sure you read this entire document before you attempt to work with the quickstarts. It contains the following information:

• Available Quickstarts: List of the available quickstarts and details about each one.

• Suggested Approach to the Quickstarts: A suggested approach on how to work with the quickstarts.

• System Requirements: List of software required to run the quickstarts.

• Configure Maven: How to configure the Maven repository for use by the quickstarts.

• Run the Quickstarts: General instructions for building, deploying, and running the quickstarts.

• Run the Arquillian Tests: How to run the Arquillian tests provided by some of the quickstarts.

• Optional Components: How to install and configure optional components required by some of the quickstarts.

• Contributing Guide: This document contains information targeted for developers who want to contribute to JBoss developer projects.

Use of WILDFLY_HOME and JBOSS_HOME Variables

The quickstart README files use the replaceable value WILDFLY_HOME to denote the path to the WildFly installation. When you encounter this value in a README file, make sure you replace it with the actual path to your WildFly installation. The installation path is described in detail here: Use of WILDFLY_HOME and JBOSS_HOME Variables.

Available Quickstarts

All available quickstarts can be found here: https://developers.redhat.com/quickstarts/eap/. You can review the technologies demonstrated by the quickstart. You can also view the required experience level. Click on the quickstart to see more detailed information about how to run it. Some quickstarts require deployment of other quickstarts. This information is noted in the Prerequisites section of the quickstart README file.

Note	Some of these quickstarts use the H2 database included with WildFly. It is a lightweight, relational example datasource that is used for examples only. It is not robust or scalable, is not supported, and should NOT be used in a production environment!

Quickstart Name	Demonstrated Technologies	Description	Experience Level Required	Prerequisites
app-client	EJB, EAR, AppClient	The app-client quickstart demonstrates how to code and package a client app and use the WildFly client container to start the client Main program.	Intermediate	none
batch-processing	CDI, Batch 1.0, JSF	The batch-processing quickstart shows how to use chunk oriented batch jobs to import a file to a database.	Intermediate	none
bean-validation	CDI, JPA, BV	The bean-validation quickstart provides Arquillian tests to demonstrate how to use CDI, JPA, and Bean Validation.	Beginner	none
bean-validation-custom-constraint	CDI, JPA, BV	The bean-validation-custom-constraint quickstart demonstrates how to use the Bean Validation API to define custom constraints and validators.	Beginner	none
bmt	EJB, BMT	The bmt quickstart demonstrates Bean-Managed Transactions (BMT), showing how to manually manage transaction demarcation while accessing JPA entities.	Intermediate	none
cmt	EJB, CMT, JMS	The cmt quickstart demonstrates Container-Managed Transactions (CMT), showing how to use transactions managed by the container.	Intermediate	none
contacts-jquerymobile	jQuery Mobile, jQuery, JavaScript, HTML5, REST	The contacts-jquerymobile quickstart demonstrates a Java EE 7 mobile database application using HTML5, jQuery Mobile, JAX-RS, JPA, and REST.	Beginner	none
deltaspike-authorization	JSF, CDI, Deltaspike	Demonstrate the creation of a custom authorization example using @SecurityBindingType from DeltaSpike	Beginner	none
deltaspike-beanbuilder	CDI, DeltaSpike	Shows how to create new beans using DeltaSpike utilities.	Advanced	none
deltaspike-projectstage	JSF, CDI, Deltaspike	Demonstrate usage of DeltaSpike project stage and shows usage of a conditional @Exclude	Beginner	none
ejb-asynchronous	Asynchronous EJB	The ejb-asynchronous quickstart demonstrates the behavior of asynchronous EJB invocations by a deployed EJB and a remote client and how to handle errors.	Advanced	none
ejb-in-ear	EJB, EAR	The ejb-in-ear quickstart demonstrates how to deploy an EAR archive that contains a JSF WAR and an EJB JAR.	Intermediate	none
ejb-in-war	EJB, JSF, WAR	The ejb-in-war quickstart demonstrates how to package an EJB bean in a WAR archive and deploy it to WildFly. Arquillian tests are also provided.	Intermediate	none
ejb-multi-server	EJB, EAR	The ejb-multi-server quickstart shows how to communicate between multiple applications deployed to different servers using an EJB to log the invocation.	Advanced	none
ejb-remote	EJB, JNDI	The ejb-remote quickstart uses EJB and JNDI to demonstrate how to access an EJB, deployed to WildFly, from a remote Java client application.	Intermediate	none
ejb-security	EJB, Security	The ejb-security quickstart demonstrates the use of Java EE declarative security to control access to EJBs in WildFly.	Intermediate	none
ejb-security-context-propagation	EJB, Security	The ejb-security-context-propagation quickstart demonstrates how the security context can be propagated to a remote EJB using a remote outbound connection configuration	Advanced	none
ejb-security-jaas	EJB, Security	The ejb-security-jaas quickstart demonstrates how legacy JAAS security domains can be used in conjunction with Elytron	Intermediate	none
ejb-security-programmatic-auth	EJB, Security	The ejb-security-programmatic-auth quickstart demonstrates how to programmatically setup different identities when invoking a remote secured EJB.	Intermediate	none
ejb-throws-exception	EJB, EAR	The ejb-throws-exception quickstart demonstrates how to throw and handle exceptions across JARs in an EAR.	Intermediate	none
ejb-timer	EJB Timer	The ejb-timer quickstart demonstrates how to use the EJB timer service @Schedule and @Timeout annotations with WildFly.	Beginner	none
greeter	CDI, JSF, JPA, EJB, JTA	The greeter quickstart demonstrates the use of CDI, JPA, JTA, EJB and JSF in WildFly.	Beginner	none
ha-singleton-deployment	EJB, Singleton Deployments, Clustering	The ha-singleton-deployment quickstart demonstrates the recommended way to deploy any service packaged in an application archive as a cluster-wide singleton.	Advanced	none
ha-singleton-service	MSC, Singleton Service, Clustering	The ha-singleton-service quickstart demonstrates how to deploy a cluster-wide singleton MSC service.	Advanced	none
helloworld	CDI, Servlet	The helloworld quickstart demonstrates the use of CDI and Servlet 3 and is a good starting point to verify WildFly is configured correctly.	Beginner	none
helloworld-classfiletransformer	ClassLoading	This is a WAR based application showing you how Wildfly let you apply a ClassTransformer to the classes in your enterprise archive.	Advanced	none
helloworld-html5	CDI, JAX-RS, HTML5	The helloworld-html5 quickstart demonstrates the use of CDI 1.2 and JAX-RS 2.0 using the HTML5 architecture and RESTful services on the backend.	Beginner	none
helloworld-jms	JMS	The helloworld-jms quickstart demonstrates the use of external JMS clients with WildFly.	Intermediate	none
helloworld-mbean	CDI, JMX, MBean	The helloworld-mbean quickstart demonstrates the use of CDI and MBean in WildFly and includes JConsole instructions and Arquillian tests.	Intermediate	none
helloworld-mdb	JMS, EJB, MDB	The helloworld-mdb quickstart uses JMS and EJB Message-Driven Bean (MDB) to create and deploy JMS topic and queue resources in WildFly.	Intermediate	none
helloworld-mdb-propertysubstitution	JMS, EJB, MDB	The helloworld-mdb-propertysubstitution quickstart demonstrates the use of JMS and EJB MDB, enabling property substitution with annotations.	Intermediate	none
helloworld-mutual-ssl	Mutual SSL, Undertow	The helloworld-mutual-ssl quickstart is a basic example that demonstrates mutual SSL configuration in WildFly	Intermediate	none
helloworld-mutual-ssl-secured	Mutual SSL, Security, Undertow	The helloworld-mutual-ssl-secured quickstart demonstrates securing a Web application using client mutual SSL authentication and role-based access control	Intermediate	none
helloworld-rf	CDI, JSF, RichFaces	Similar to the helloworld quickstart, but with a JSF front end	Beginner	none
helloworld-rs	CDI, JAX-RS	The helloworld-rs quickstart demonstrates a simple Hello World application, bundled and deployed as a WAR, that uses JAX-RS to say Hello.	Intermediate	none
helloworld-singleton	EJB, Singleton	The helloworld-singleton quickstart demonstrates an EJB Singleton Bean that is instantiated once and maintains state for the life of the session.	Beginner	none
helloworld-ssl	SSL, Undertow	The helloworld-ssl quickstart is a basic example that demonstrates server side SSL configuration in WildFly.	Beginner	none
helloworld-ws	JAX-WS	The helloworld-ws quickstart demonstrates a simple Hello World application, bundled and deployed as a WAR, that uses JAX-WS to say Hello.	Beginner	none
hibernate	Hibernate	The hibernate quickstart demonstrates how to use Hibernate ORM 5 API over JPA, using Hibernate-Core and Hibernate Bean Validation, and EJB.	Intermediate	none
hibernate4	Hibernate 4	This quickstart performs the same functions as the hibernate quickstart, but uses Hibernate 4 for database access. Compare this quickstart to the hibernate quickstart to see the changes needed to run with Hibernate 5.	Intermediate	none
http-custom-mechanism	EJB, Security	The http-custom-mechanism quickstart demonstrates how to implement a custom HTTP authentication mechanism that can be registered with Elytron.	Intermediate	none
inter-app	EJB, CDI, JSF	The inter-app quickstart shows you how to use a shared API JAR and an EJB to provide inter-application communication between two WAR deployments.	Advanced	none
jaxrs-client	JAX-RS	The jaxrs-client quickstart demonstrates JAX-RS Client API, which interacts with a JAX-RS Web service that runs on WildFly.	Beginner	none
jaxrs-jwt	JAX-RS, Security	The jaxrs-jwt quickstart demonstrates a JAX-RS secured application using JSON Web Tokens (JWT) with Elytron.	Intermediate	none
jaxws-addressing	JAX-WS	The jaxws-addressing quickstart is a working example of the web service using WS-Addressing.	Beginner	none
jaxws-ejb	JAX-WS	The jaxws-ejb quickstart is a working example of the web service endpoint created from an EJB.	Beginner	none
jaxws-pojo	JAX-WS	The jaxws-pojo quickstart is a working example of the web service endpoint created from a POJO.	Beginner	none
jaxws-retail	JAX-WS	The jaxws-retail quickstart is a working example of a simple web service endpoint.	Beginner	none
jsonp	CDI, JSF, JSON-P	The jsonp quickstart demonstrates how to use the JSON-P API to produce object-based structures and then parse and consume them as stream-based JSON strings.	Beginner	none
jta-crash-rec	JTA, Crash Recovery	The jta-crash-rec quickstart uses JTA and Byteman to show how to code distributed (XA) transactions in order to preserve ACID properties on server crash.	Advanced	none
jts	JTS, EJB, JMS	The jts quickstart shows how to use JTS to perform distributed transactions across multiple containers, fulfilling the properties of an ACID transaction.	Intermediate	cmt
jts-distributed-crash-rec	JTS, Crash Recovery	The jts-distributed-crash-rec quickstart uses JTS and Byteman to demonstrate distributed crash recovery across multiple application servers.	Advanced	jts
kitchensink	CDI, JSF, JPA, EJB, JAX-RS, BV	The kitchensink quickstart demonstrates a Java EE 7 web-enabled database application using JSF, CDI, EJB, JPA, and Bean Validation.	Intermediate	none
kitchensink-angularjs	AngularJS, CDI, JPA, EJB, JPA, JAX-RS, BV	The kitchensink-angularjs quickstart demonstrates a Java EE 7 application using AngularJS with JAX-RS, CDI, EJB, JPA, and Bean Validation.	Intermediate	none
kitchensink-ear	CDI, JSF, JPA, EJB, JAX-RS, BV, EAR	The kitchensink-ear quickstart demonstrates web-enabled database application, using JSF, CDI, EJB, JPA, and Bean Validation, packaged as an EAR.	Intermediate	none
kitchensink-jsp	JSP, JSTL, CDI, JPA, EJB, JAX-RS, BV	The kitchensink-jsp quickstart demonstrates how to use JSP, JSTL, CDI, EJB, JPA, and Bean Validation in WildFly.	Intermediate	none
kitchensink-ml	CDI, JSF, JPA, EJB, JAX-RS, BV, i18n, l10n	The kitchensink-ml quickstart demonstrates a localized Java EE 7 compliant application using JSF, CDI, EJB, JPA, and Bean Validation.	Intermediate	none
kitchensink-utjs-angularjs	Undertow.js, Angular.js	Based on kitchensink, but uses a Angular for the front end and Undertow.js for the back end.	Intermediate	none
kitchensink-utjs-mustache	Undertow.js, Mustache	Based on kitchensink, but uses Mustache for the front end and Undertow.js for the back end.	Intermediate	none
logging	Logging	The logging quickstart demonstrates how to configure different logging levels in WildFly. It also includes an asynchronous logging example.	Intermediate	none
logging-tools	JBoss Logging Tools	The logging-tools quickstart shows how to use JBoss Logging Tools to create internationalized loggers, exceptions, and messages and localize them.	Beginner	none
mail	JavaMail, CDI, JSF	The mail quickstart demonstrates how to send email using CDI and JSF and the default Mail provider that ships with WildFly.	Beginner	none
managed-executor-service	EE Concurrency Utilities, JAX-RS, JAX-RS Client API	The managed-executor-service quickstart demonstrates how Java EE applications can submit tasks for asynchronous execution.	Beginner	none
messaging-clustering	JMS, MDB	The messaging-clustering quickstart does not contain any code and instead uses the helloworld-mdb quickstart to demonstrate clustering using ActiveMQ Messaging.	Intermediate	helloworld-mdb
messaging-clustering-singleton	JMS, MDB, Clustering	The messaging-clustering-singleton quickstart uses a JMS topic and a queue to demonstrate clustering using WildFly messaging with MDB singleton configuration where only one node in the cluster will be active.	Advanced	none
numberguess	CDI, JSF	The numberguess quickstart demonstrates the use of CDI (Contexts and Dependency Injection) and JSF (JavaServer Faces) in WildFly.	Beginner	none
payment-cdi-event	CDI, JSF	The payment-cdi-event quickstart demonstrates how to create credit and debit CDI Events in WildFly, using a JSF front-end client.	Beginner	none
resteasy-jaxrs-client	JAX-RS, CDI	The resteasy-jaxrs-client quickstart demonstrates an external JAX-RS RestEasy client, which interacts with a JAX-RS Web service that uses CDI and JAX-RS.	Intermediate	helloworld-rs
security-domain-to-domain	Servlet, EJB, Security	The security-domain-to-domain quickstart demonstrates the propagation of an identity across two different deployments using different security domains.	Advanced	none
servlet-async	Asynchronous Servlet, CDI, EJB	The servlet-async quickstart demonstrates how to use asynchronous servlets to detach long-running tasks and free up the request processing thread.	Intermediate	none
servlet-filterlistener	Servlet Filter, Servlet Listener	The servlet-filterlistener quickstart demonstrates how to use Servlet filters and listeners in an application.	Intermediate	none
servlet-security	Servlet, Security	The servlet-security quickstart demonstrates the use of Java EE declarative security to control access to Servlets and Security in WildFly.	Intermediate	none
shopping-cart	SFSB EJB	The shopping-cart quickstart demonstrates how to deploy and run a simple Java EE 7 shopping cart application that uses a stateful session bean (SFSB).	Intermediate	none
spring-greeter	Spring MVC, JSP, JPA	The spring-greeter quickstart is based on the greeter quickstart, but differs in that it uses Spring MVC for Mapping GET and POST requests.	Beginner	none
spring-kitchensink-basic	JSP, JPA, JSON, Spring, JUnit	The spring-kitchensink-basic quickstart is an example of a Java EE 7 application using JSP, JPA and Spring 4.x.	Intermediate	none
spring-kitchensink-springmvctest	JSP, JPA, JSON, Spring, JUnit	The spring-kitchensink-springmvctest quickstart demonstrates how to create an MVC application using JSP, JPA and Spring 4.x.	Intermediate	none
spring-resteasy	Resteasy, Spring	The spring-resteasy quickstart demonstrates how to package and deploy a web application that includes resteasy-spring integration.	Beginner	none
tasks-jsf	JSF, JPA	The tasks-jsf quickstart demonstrates how to use JPA persistence with JSF as the view layer.	Intermediate	tasks
tasks-rs	JPA, JAX-RS	The tasks-rs quickstart demonstrates how to implement a JAX-RS service that uses JPA persistence.	Intermediate	tasks
temperature-converter	CDI, JSF, SLSB EJB	The temperature-converter quickstart does temperature conversion using an EJB Stateless Session Bean (SLSB), CDI, and a JSF front-end client.	Beginner	none
thread-racing	Batch, CDI, EE Concurrency, JAX-RS, JMS, JPA, JSON, Web Sockets	A thread racing web application that demonstrates technologies introduced or updated in the latest Java EE specification.	Beginner	none
websocket-client	Web Socket, CDI Events, JSON, SSL	Demonstrates use of a Javascript WebSocket client, WebSocket configuration, programmatic binding, and secure WebSocket.	Intermediate	none
websocket-endpoint	CDI, WebSocket, JSON-P	Shows how to use WebSockets with JSON to broadcast information to all open WebSocket sessions in WildFly.	Beginner	none
websocket-hello	WebSocket, CDI, JSF	The websocket-hello quickstart demonstrates how to create a simple WebSocket application.	Beginner	none
wicket-ear	Apache Wicket, JPA	Demonstrates how to use the Wicket Framework 7.x with the JBoss server using the Wicket Java EE integration, packaged as an EAR	Intermediate	none
wicket-war	Apache Wicket, JPA	Demonstrates how to use the Wicket Framework 7.x with the JBoss server using the Wicket Java EE integration packaged as a WAR	Intermediate	none
wsat-simple	WS-AT, JAX-WS	The wsat-simple quickstart demonstrates a WS-AT (WS-AtomicTransaction) enabled JAX-WS Web service, bundled as a WAR, and deployed to WildFly.	Intermediate	none
wsba-coordinator-completion-simple	WS-BA, JAX-WS	The wsba-coordinator-completion-simple quickstart deploys a WS-BA (WS Business Activity) enabled JAX-WS Web service WAR (CoordinatorCompletion protocol).	Intermediate	none
wsba-participant-completion-simple	WS-BA, JAX-WS	The wsba-participant-completion-simple quickstart deploys a WS-BA (WS Business Activity) enabled JAX-WS Web service WAR (ParticipantCompletion Protocol).	Intermediate	none
xml-jaxp	JAXP, SAX, DOM, Servlet	The xml-jaxp quickstart demonstrates how to use Servlet and JSF to upload an XML file to WildFly and validate and parse it using DOM or SAX.	Intermediate	none

Suggested Approach to the Quickstarts

We suggest you approach the quickstarts as follows:

• Regardless of your level of expertise, we suggest you start with the helloworld quickstart. It is the simplest example and is an easy way to prove your server is configured and started correctly.

• If you are a beginner or new to JBoss, start with the quickstarts labeled Beginner, then try those marked as Intermediate. When you are comfortable with those, move on to the Advanced quickstarts.

• Some quickstarts are based upon other quickstarts but have expanded capabilities and functionality. If a prerequisite quickstart is listed, make sure you deploy and test it before looking at the expanded version.

System Requirements

The applications these projects produce are designed to be run on WildFly Application Server 12 or later.

All you need to build these projects is {buildRequirements}. See Configure Maven to Build and Deploy the Quickstarts to make sure you are configured correctly for testing the quickstarts.

To run these quickstarts with the provided build scripts, you need the WildFly distribution ZIP. For information on how to install and run JBoss, see the {LinkGettingStartedGuide}[{GettingStartedBookName}] for {DocInfoProductName} located on the Red Hat Customer Portal.

You can also run the quickstarts in JBoss Developer Studio or Eclipse.

Run the Quickstarts

The root folder of each individual quickstart contains a README file with specific details on how to build and run the example. In most cases you do the following:

• Start the WildFly Server

• Build and Deploy the Quickstarts

Build and Deploy the Quickstarts

See the README file in each individual quickstart folder for specific details and information on how to run and access the example.

Build the Quickstart Archive

In most cases, you can use the following steps to build the application to test for compile errors or to view the contents of the archive. See the specific quickstart README file for complete details.

1. Open a terminal and navigate to the root directory of the quickstart you want to build.

2. Use the following command if you only want to build the archive, but not deploy it.

   $ mvn clean install

Build and Deploy the Quickstart

This section describes the basic steps to build and deploy an application. See the specific instructions in each quickstart README file for any variations to this process.

1. Make sure you start the WildFly server as described in the quickstart README file.

2. Open a terminal and navigate to the root directory of the quickstart you want to run.

3. Use the following command to build and deploy the archive.

   $ mvn clean install wildfly:deploy

Undeploy an Archive

Use the following command to undeploy the quickstart.

$ mvn wildfly:undeploy

Verify the Quickstarts Build with One Command

You can verify the quickstarts build using one command. However, quickstarts that have complex dependencies must be skipped. For example, the resteasy-jaxrs-client quickstart is a RESTEasy client that depends on the deployment of the helloworld-rs quickstart. As noted above, the root pom.xml file defines a complex-dependencies profile to exclude these quickstarts from the root build process.

To build all of the quickstarts:

1. Do not start the WildFly server.

2. Open a terminal and navigate to the root directory of the quickstarts.

3. Use the following command to build the quickstarts that do not have complex dependencies:

   $ mvn clean install '-Pdefault,!complex-dependencies'

Undeploy the Deployed Quickstarts with One Command

To undeploy the quickstarts from the root of the quickstart folder, you must pass the argument -fae (fail at end) on the command line. This allows the command to continue past quickstarts that fail due to complex dependencies and quickstarts that only have Arquillian tests and do not deploy archives to the server.

You can undeploy quickstarts using the following procedure:

1. Start the WildFly server.

2. Open a terminal and navigate to the root directory of the quickstarts.

3. Use the following command to undeploy any deployed quickstarts.

   $ mvn wildfly:undeploy -fae

To undeploy any quickstarts that fail due to complex dependencies, follow the undeploy procedure described in the quickstart’s README file.

Run the Quickstarts in Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio or Eclipse

You can also start the server and deploy the quickstarts or run the Arquillian tests from Eclipse using JBoss tools. For general information about how to import a quickstart, add a WildFly server, and build and deploy a quickstart, see Use JBoss Developer Studio or Eclipse to Run the Quickstarts.

Optional Components

The following components are needed for only a small subset of the quickstarts. Do not install or configure them unless the quickstart requires it.

• Create Users Required by the Quickstarts: Add a Management or Application user for the quickstarts that run in a secured mode.

• Configure the PostgreSQL Database for Use with the Quickstarts: The PostgreSQL database is used for the distributed transaction quickstarts.

• Configure Byteman for Use with the Quickstarts: This tool is used to demonstrate crash recovery for distributed transaction quickstarts.