WildFly (previously known as JBoss) is a powerful, modular and lightweight application server.
It offers a fast startup, small footprint, modular design, unified configuration/management, and Jakarta EE.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Powerful – configuration in WildFly is centralized, simple and user-focused. All management capabilities are exposed in a unified manner across many forms of access. These include a CLI, a web based administration console, a native Java API, an HTTP/JSON based REST API, and a JMX gateway. These options allow for custom automation using the tools and languages that best fit your needs.
- Modular – uses JBoss Modules to provide true application isolation, hiding server implementation classes from the application and only linking with JARs your application needs. Visibility rules have sensible defaults, yet can be customized.
- Lightweight – takes an aggressive approach to memory management. The base runtime services were developed to minimize heap allocation by using common cached indexed metadata over duplicate full parses, which reduces heap and object churn.
- Standards based – implements the latest in enterprise Java standards from Jakarta EE and Eclipse MicroProfile.
Website: www.wildfly.org
Support: Documentation, GitHub Code Repository
Developer: JBoss, Red Hat
License: GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1
Wildfly is written in Java. Learn Java with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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