WildFly Quickstarts

Table of Contents

• 1. Introduction
• 2. System Requirements
• 3. Use of WILDFLY_HOME and QUICKSTART_HOME Variables
• 4. Suggested Approach to the Quickstarts
• 5. Table of Available Quickstarts

The quickstarts demonstrate Jakarta EE 10 and a few additional technologies from the WildFly Application Server stack. They provide small, specific, working examples that can be used as a reference for your own project.

1. Introduction

These quickstarts run on the WildFly application server. The quickstarts are configured to use the correct Maven dependencies and ensure that you test and compile the quickstarts against the correct runtime environment.

Each quickstart folder contains a README-source.adoc file that describes the quickstart features and provides instructions about how to build and run it. Instructions are provided to build the more readable README.html files.

Make sure you read this entire document before you attempt to work with the quickstarts.

2. System Requirements

The applications these projects produce are designed to be run on WildFly Application Server 32 or later.

All you need to build these projects is Java 11.0 (Java SDK 11) or later and Maven 3.6.0 or later.

3. Use of WILDFLY_HOME and QUICKSTART_HOME Variables

The quickstart README files use the replaceable value WILDFLY_HOME to denote the path to the WildFly server. When you encounter this value in a README file, make sure you replace it with the actual path to your WildFly server.

When you see the replaceable variable QUICKSTART_HOME, replace it with the path to the root directory of all of the quickstarts.

4. Suggested Approach to the Quickstarts

We recommend that 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 the server is configured and running 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.

The root folder of each individual quickstart contains a README.html file with detailed instructions on how to build and run the example.

5. Table of Available Quickstarts

The sources for all available quickstarts, which are listed in the following table, can be found here: https://github.com/wildfly/quickstart/.

Each quickstart provides the list of technologies demonstrated by the quickstart and the required experience level needed to build and deploy it. Click on the quickstart link in the table 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.html file.

Note	Some of these quickstarts use the H2 database included with WildFly Application Server 32. 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
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
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
ee-security	EE Security, Servlet, CDI	The ee-security quickstart demonstrates Jakarta EE security.	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-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-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 Jakarta Enterprise Bean timer service @Schedule and @Timeout annotations with WildFly.	Beginner	none
ejb-txn-remote-call	EJB, JTA, Clustering	The ejb-txn-remote-call quickstart demonstrates remote transactional EJB calls over two application servers of WildFly.	Intermediate	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	JBoss MSC, Singleton Service, Clustering	The ha-singleton-service quickstart demonstrates how to deploy a cluster-wide singleton JBoss MSC service.	Advanced	none
helloworld	Servlet	The helloworld quickstart demonstrates the use of Servlet 6 and is a good starting point to verify WildFly is configured correctly.	Beginner	none
helloworld-jms	JMS	The helloworld-jms quickstart demonstrates the use of external JMS clients with WildFly.	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-mutual-ssl	Mutual TLS, Undertow	The helloworld-mutual-ssl quickstart is a basic example that demonstrates mutual TLS configuration in WildFly	Intermediate	none
helloworld-mutual-ssl-secured	Mutual TLS, Security, Undertow	The helloworld-mutual-ssl-secured quickstart demonstrates securing a Web application using client certificate authentication with authorization	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-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 6 over Persistence, using Bean Validation, and Enterprise Beans.	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
jaxrs-client	JAX-RS	The jaxrs-client quickstart demonstrates Jakarta REST Client API, which interacts with a Jakarta REST Web service that runs on WildFly.	Beginner	none
jaxrs-jwt	JAX-RS, Security	The jaxrs-jwt quickstart demonstrates a Jakarta REST secured application using JSON Web Tokens (JWT) with Elytron.	Intermediate	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-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
kitchensink	CDI, JSF, JPA, EJB, JAX-RS, BV	The kitchensink quickstart demonstrates a localized Jakarta EE 10 web-enabled database application using JSF, CDI, EJB, JPA, and Bean Validation.	Intermediate	none
logging	Logging	The logging quickstart demonstrates how to configure different logging levels in WildFly.	Intermediate	none
mail	JavaMail, CDI, JSF	The mail quickstart demonstrates how to send and receive emails using CDI and JSF and with custom Mail provider configured in WildFly.	Beginner	none
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
micrometer	Micrometer	The micrometer quickstart demonstrates the use of the Micrometer library in WildFly.	Beginner	none
microprofile-config	MicroProfile Config	The microprofile-config quickstart demonstrates the use of the MicroProfile Config specification in WildFly.	Beginner	none
microprofile-fault-tolerance	MicroProfile, Fault Tolerance	The microprofile-fault-tolerance quickstart demonstrates how to use Eclipse MicroProfile Fault Tolerance in WildFly.	Intermediate	none
microprofile-health	MicroProfile Health	The microprofile-health quickstart demonstrates the use of the MicroProfile Health specification in WildFly.	Beginner	none
microprofile-jwt	JWT, Security, MicroProfile	The microprofile-jwt quickstart demonstrates the use of the MicroProfile JWT specification in WildFly.	Intermediate	none
microprofile-lra	MicroProfile LRA	The microprofile-lra quickstart demonstrates the use of the MicroProfile LRA specification in WildFly.	Beginner	none
microprofile-openapi	MicroProfile OpenAPI	This guide demonstrate how to use the MicroProfile OpenAPI functionality in WildFly to expose an OpenAPI document for a simple REST application.	Beginner	none
microprofile-reactive-messaging-kafka	MicroProfile Reactive Messaging	The microprofile-reactive-messaging-kafka quickstart demonstrates the use of the MicroProfile Reactive Messaging specification backed by Apache Kafka in WildFly.	Beginner	none
microprofile-rest-client	MicroProfile REST Client	The microprofile-rest-client quickstart demonstrates the use of the MicroProfile REST Client specification in WildFly.	Beginner	none
numberguess	CDI, JSF	The numberguess quickstart demonstrates the use of CDI (Contexts and Dependency Injection) and JSF (JavaServer Faces) in WildFly.	Beginner	none
opentelemetry-tracing	OpenTelemetry Tracing	The opentelemetry-tracing quickstart demonstrates the use of the OpenTelemetry tracing specification in WildFly.	Beginner	none
remote-helloworld-mdb	JMS, EJB, MDB	The remote-helloworld-mdb quickstart demonstrates the use of JMS and EJB Message-Driven Bean in WildFly with a remote broker.	Intermediate	none
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 Jakarta EE declarative security to control access to Servlets and Security in WildFly.	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	none
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 Jakarta EE specification.	Beginner	none
todo-backend	JPA, JAX-RS, OpenShift, Galleon	The todo-backend quickstart demonstrates how to implement a backend that exposes a HTTP API with JAX-RS	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