Chapter 1. Welcome to WildFly!

In this chapter, you will learn the following recipes:

  • Software prerequisites
  • Downloading and installing WildFly
  • Understanding WildFly's directory overview
  • Running WildFly in standalone mode
  • Running WildFly in domain mode
  • Running WildFly as a service

Introduction

In this first chapter, we will describe WildFly's history, its prerequisites, where to get it, and how to install it. We will also explain the standalone and domain running modes, that is, how to run them up.

JBoss.org community is a huge community, where people all over the world develop, test, and document pieces of code. There are a lot of projects in there other than JBoss AS or the recent WildFly such as Infinispan, Undertow, PicketLink, Arquillian, HornetQ, ...

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