WildFly 9 CR1 was recently released. Lots of cool features are included:

• Intelligent load balancing
• HTTP/2 and SPDY support
• A new offline CLI mode
• Graceful single node shutdown
• A new Servlet-only distribution

And this is above the usual Java EE 7 compliance!

This blog is a quick check to verify that it works in all three major IDEs and OpenShift.

WildFly 9 and NetBeans

Lets start with NetBeans 8.0.x first. The screenshot shows WildFly 9 CR1 configured in NetBeans and started. The log is shown in the console.

👁 wildfly9cr1-netbeans801

Complete instructions to setup WildFly in NetBeans are in NetBeans 8 and WildFly 8.

WildFly 9 and Eclipse

Getting Started with JBoss Tools and WildFly 8 shows how to configure WildFly with JBoss Tools. Here are the series of snapshots that shows configuring WildFly 9 in JBoss Tools with Eclipse Mars M6.

A new experimental runtime …

👁 wildfly9cr1-eclipse-experimental

Specify the directory …

👁 wildfly9cr1-new-runtime-1024x671

Now WildFly 9 is configured as a Server in Eclipse …

👁 wildfly9cr1-eclipse-servers-1024x866

And finally the server is up and running …

👁 wildfly9cr1-eclipse-console-1024x678

Complete details, including download and update center coordinates, are explained at JBoss Tools Alpha 2 for Eclipse Mars.

WildFly 9 and IntelliJ

WildFly 8 and IntelliJ IDEA Screencast provide complete details on how to setup IntelliJ with WildFly. The snapshot below shows WildFly 9 configured in IntelliJ 14.1.2.

👁 wildfly9cr1-intellij14-1024x341

WildFly 9 and OpenShift

Creating an OpenShift application is pretty straightforward as well:

tmp> rhc app create wildfly -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openshift-cartridges/openshift-wildfly-cartridge/wildfly-9/metadata/manifest.yml
The cartridge 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openshift-cartridges/openshift-wildfly-cartridge/wildfly-9/metadata/manifest.yml' will be downloaded
and installed

Application Options
-------------------
Domain: milestogo
Cartridges: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openshift-cartridges/openshift-wildfly-cartridge/wildfly-9/metadata/manifest.yml
Gear Size: default
Scaling: yes

Creating application 'wildfly' ... Artifacts deployed: ./ROOT.war
done

 WildFly 9 administrator added. Please make note of these credentials:

 Username: adminXXXXXXX
 Password: XXXXXXXXXXXX
 
 run 'rhc port-forward wildfly' to access the web admin area on port 9990.

Waiting for your DNS name to be available ... done

Cloning into 'wildfly'...
Warning: Permanently added the RSA host key for IP address 'NN.NN.NN.NN' to the list of known hosts.

Your application 'wildfly' is now available.

 URL: http://wildfly-milestogo.rhcloud.com/
 SSH to: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX@wildfly-milestogo.rhcloud.com
 Git remote: ssh://XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX@wildfly-milestogo.rhcloud.com/~/git/wildfly.git/
 Cloned to: /Users/arungupta/tmp/wildfly

Run 'rhc show-app wildfly' for more details about your app.

This creates a new application and uses WildFly 9 as the underlying application server. Complete details about the OpenShift cartridge are at github.com/openshift-cartridges/openshift-wildfly-cartridge/tree/wildfly-9. You can find about how to create an OpenShift application with an existing application, how to connect to this WildFly instance using JBoss CLI.

WildFly 8 CR1 on OpenShift also provide more details.

WildFly 9 and Maven

WildFly Maven Plugin  provide the latest information about how to get started with WildFly Maven plugin.

But you just need to fire up a WildFly server as:

wildfly-9.0.0.CR1> ./bin/standalone.sh -c standalone-full.xml

And then deploy the Java EE 7 Movieplex application as:

mvn wildfly:deploy -DskipTests

And the plugin definition is very simple:

<plugin>
 <groupId>org.wildfly.plugins</groupId>
 <artifactId>wildfly-maven-plugin</artifactId>
 <version>1.0.2.Final</version>
</plugin>

Enjoy!