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WildFly pros and cons

WildFly pros and cons

From the course: Java EE: Application Servers

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WildFly pros and cons

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- [Instructor] Here's a good deal of information that we have covered here with JBoss WildFly. The hope was that we could explore some of the high level details needed to install, start up, configure, and deploy applications, but honestly there is a good deal I had to skip over as well because JBoss WildFly could be a video series unto itself. Let's pause for a moment and consider some of the high level advantages to using WildFly. Starting with JDK 11, the modularization features have affected areas like class loading and reflection, which are hugely important to any Java application sever. WildFly has readily addressed this in the latest edition. WildFly also uses a new flexible performance web server called Undertow. Undertow uses NIO's non-blocking and buffer ability. The traditional IO API is streamed, and so you can't move backwards and forward, in the data stream. The traditional IO, as well, is also blocking when a read or an execute is invoked and so the thread can do nothing…

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