The remote-helloworld-mdb
quickstart demonstrates the use of JMS and EJB Message-Driven Bean in WildFly with a remote broker.
The remote-helloworld-mdb
quickstart demonstrates the use of JMS and EJB Message-Driven Bean in WildFly Application Server with a remote Apache Artemis broker.
This project uses two JMS resources on a remote broker:
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A queue named
HELLOWORLDMDBQueue
bound in JNDI asjava:/queue/HELLOWORLDMDBQueue
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A topic named
HELLOWORLDMDBTopic
bound in JNDI asjava:/topic/HELLOWORLDMDBTopic
The application this project produces is designed to be run on WildFly Application Server 34 or later.
All you need to build this project is Java SE 17.0 or later, and Maven 3.6.0 or later. See Configure Maven to Build and Deploy the Quickstarts to make sure you are configured correctly for testing the quickstarts.
In the following instructions, replace WILDFLY_HOME
with the actual path to your WildFly installation. The installation path is described in detail here: Use of WILDFLY_HOME and JBOSS_HOME Variables.
When you see the replaceable variable QUICKSTART_HOME, replace it with the path to the root directory of all of the quickstarts.
You can run Apache Artemis broker locally using docker or podman:
$ docker run --rm --name artemis -e AMQ_USER=admin -e AMQ_PASSWORD=admin -p8161:8161 -p61616:61616 -e AMQ_DATA_DIR=/home/jboss/data quay.io/artemiscloud/activemq-artemis-broker-kubernetes
You can access the console of Apache Artemis at the URL: http://localhost:8161/console with admin/admin to authenticate.
You configure the JMS connection factory to the remote broker by running JBoss CLI commands. For your convenience, this quickstart batches the commands into a configure-remote-broker.cli
script provided in the root directory of this quickstart.
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Before you begin, make sure you do the following:
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Back up the WildFly standalone server configuration as described above.
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Start the WildFly server with the standalone full profile as described above.
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Review the
configure-remote-broker.cli
file in the root of this quickstart directory. This script adds thetest
queue to themessaging-activemq
subsystem in the server configuration file. -
Open a new terminal, navigate to the root directory of this quickstart, and run the following command, replacing WILDFLY_HOME with the path to your server:
$ WILDFLY_HOME/bin/jboss-cli.sh --connect --file=configure-remote-broker.cli
NoteFor Windows, use the WILDFLY_HOME\bin\jboss-cli.bat
script. -
You should see the following result when you run the script:
"outcome" => "success", "response-headers" => {"process-state" => "reload-required"}
After stopping the server, open the WILDFLY_HOME/standalone/configuration/standalone-full.xml
file and review the changes.
The following testQueue
jms-queue was configured in the configuration of the messaging-activemq
subsystem.
<remote-connector name="artemis" socket-binding="remote-artemis"/>
<pooled-connection-factory name="RemoteConnectionFactory" entries="java:jboss/RemoteConnectionFactory java:jboss/exported/jms/RemoteConnectionFactory" connectors="artemis" user="admin" password="admin" enable-amq1-prefix="false"/>
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Open a terminal and navigate to the root of the WildFly directory.
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Start the WildFly server with the full profile by typing the following command.
$ WILDFLY_HOME/bin/standalone.sh -c standalone-full.xml
NoteFor Windows, use the WILDFLY_HOME\bin\standalone.bat
script.
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Make sure WildFly server is started.
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Open a terminal and navigate to the root directory of this quickstart.
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Type the following command to build the quickstart.
$ mvn clean package
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Type the following command to deploy the quickstart.
$ mvn wildfly:deploy
This deploys the remote-helloworld-mdb/target/remote-helloworld-mdb.war
to the running instance of the server.
You should see a message in the server log indicating that the archive deployed successfully.
The application will be running at the following URL: http://localhost:8080/remote-helloworld-mdb/.
Look at the WildFly console or Server log and you should see log messages like the following:
INFO [class org.jboss.as.quickstarts.mdb.HelloWorldQueueMDB] (Thread-9 (ActiveMQ-client-global-threads-1189700957)) Received Message from queue: This is message 1
INFO [class org.jboss.as.quickstarts.mdb.HelloWorldQueueMDB] (Thread-6 (ActiveMQ-client-global-threads-1189700957)) Received Message from queue: This is message 2
INFO [class org.jboss.as.quickstarts.mdb.HelloWorldQueueMDB] (Thread-7 (ActiveMQ-client-global-threads-1189700957)) Received Message from queue: This is message 3
INFO [class org.jboss.as.quickstarts.mdb.HelloWorldQueueMDB] (Thread-5 (ActiveMQ-client-global-threads-1189700957)) Received Message from queue: This is message 4
INFO [class org.jboss.as.quickstarts.mdb.HelloWorldQueueMDB] (Thread-4 (ActiveMQ-client-global-threads-1189700957)) Received Message from queue: This is message 5
This script removes the remote broker connection from the messaging-activemq
subsystem and restore the default
internal broker. You should see the following result when you run the script:
"outcome" => "success",
"response-headers" => {
"operation-requires-reload" => true,
"process-state" => "reload-required"
}
This quickstart includes integration tests, which are located under the src/test/
directory. The integration tests verify that the quickstart runs correctly when deployed on the server.
Follow these steps to run the integration tests.
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Make sure WildFly server is started.
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Make sure the quickstart is deployed.
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Type the following command to run the
verify
goal with theintegration-testing
profile activated.$ mvn verify -Pintegration-testing
Note
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The integration tests expect a running Apache Artemis broker, so make sure you have started the broker before you begin. |
When you are finished testing the quickstart, follow these steps to undeploy the archive.
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Make sure WildFly server is started.
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Open a terminal and navigate to the root directory of this quickstart.
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Type this command to undeploy the archive:
$ mvn wildfly:undeploy
When you have completed testing the quickstart, you can restore the original server configuration by manually restoring the backup copy the configuration file.
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If it is running, stop the WildFly server.
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Replace the
WILDFLY_HOME/standalone/configuration/standalone-full.xml
file with the backup copy of the file.
Instead of using a standard WildFly server distribution, you can alternatively provision a WildFly server to deploy and run the quickstart. The functionality is provided by the WildFly Maven Plugin, and you may find its configuration in the quickstart pom.xml
:
<profile>
<id>provisioned-server</id>
<activation>
<activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
</activation>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.wildfly.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>wildfly-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<discover-provisioning-info>
<version>${version.server}</version>
</discover-provisioning-info>
<add-ons>...</add-ons>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>package</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
...
</plugins>
</build>
</profile>
When built, the provisioned WildFly server can be found in the target/server
directory, and its usage is similar to a standard server distribution, with the simplification that there is never the need to specify the server configuration to be started.
Follow these steps to run the quickstart using the provisioned server.
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Make sure the server is provisioned.
$ mvn clean package
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Start the WildFly provisioned server, using the WildFly Maven Plugin
start
goal.$ mvn wildfly:start
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Type the following command to run the integration tests.
$ mvn verify -Pintegration-testing
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Shut down the WildFly provisioned server.
$ mvn wildfly:shutdown
On OpenShift, the S2I build with Apache Maven uses an openshift
Maven profile to provision a WildFly server, deploy and run the quickstart in OpenShift environment.
The server provisioning functionality is provided by the WildFly Maven Plugin, and you may find its configuration in the quickstart pom.xml
:
<profile>
<id>openshift</id>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.wildfly.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>wildfly-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<discover-provisioning-info>
<version>${version.server}</version>
<context>cloud</context>
</discover-provisioning-info>
<add-ons>...</add-ons>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>package</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
...
</plugins>
</build>
</profile>
You may note that unlike the provisioned-server
profile it uses the cloud context which enables a configuration tuned for OpenShift environment.
The plugin uses WildFly Glow to discover the feature packs and layers required to run the application, and provisions a server containing those layers.
If you get an error or the server is missing some functionality which cannot be auto-discovered, you can download the WildFly Glow CLI and run the following command to see more information about what add-ons are available:
wildfly-glow show-add-ons
This section contains the basic instructions to build and deploy this quickstart to WildFly for OpenShift or WildFly for OpenShift Online using Helm Charts.
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You must be logged in OpenShift and have an
oc
client to connect to OpenShift -
Helm must be installed to deploy the backend on OpenShift.
Once you have installed Helm, you need to add the repository that provides Helm Charts for WildFly.
$ helm repo add wildfly https://docs.wildfly.org/wildfly-charts/
"wildfly" has been added to your repositories
$ helm search repo wildfly
NAME CHART VERSION APP VERSION DESCRIPTION
wildfly/wildfly ... ... Build and Deploy WildFly applications on OpenShift
wildfly/wildfly-common ... ... A library chart for WildFly-based applications
$ oc run artemis --env AMQ_USER=admin --env AMQ_PASSWORD=admin --image=quay.io/artemiscloud/activemq-artemis-broker-kubernetes --port=61616 --expose=true
This will create a broker instance named artemis
on OpenShift that can be accessed on the port 61616
on the service artemis
with the account admin/admin.
Log in to your OpenShift instance using the oc login
command.
The backend will be built and deployed on OpenShift with a Helm Chart for WildFly.
Navigate to the root directory of this quickstart and run the following command:
$ helm install remote-helloworld-mdb -f charts/helm.yaml wildfly/wildfly --wait --timeout=10m0s
NAME: remote-helloworld-mdb
...
STATUS: deployed
REVISION: 1
This command will return once the application has successfully deployed. In case of a timeout, you can check the status of the application with the following command in another terminal:
oc get deployment remote-helloworld-mdb
The Helm Chart for this quickstart contains all the information to build an image from the source code using S2I on Java 17:
build:
uri: https://github.com/wildfly/quickstart.git
ref: main
contextDir: remote-helloworld-mdb
deploy:
replicas: 1
env:
# Env vars to connect to Artemis
- name: JBOSS_MESSAGING_CONNECTOR_HOST
value: "artemis"
- name: JBOSS_MESSAGING_CONNECTOR_PORT
value: "61616"
This will create a new deployment on OpenShift and deploy the application.
If you want to see all the configuration elements to customize your deployment you can use the following command:
$ helm show readme wildfly/wildfly
Get the URL of the route to the deployment.
$ oc get route remote-helloworld-mdb -o jsonpath="{.spec.host}"
Access the application in your web browser using the displayed URL.
The integration tests included with this quickstart, which verify that the quickstart runs correctly, may also be run with the quickstart running on OpenShift.
Note
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The integration tests expect a deployed application, so make sure you have deployed the quickstart on OpenShift before you begin. |
Run the integration tests using the following command to run the verify
goal with the integration-testing
profile activated and the proper URL:
$ mvn verify -Pintegration-testing -Dserver.host=https://$(oc get route remote-helloworld-mdb --template='{{ .spec.host }}')
Note
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The tests are using SSL to connect to the quickstart running on OpenShift. So you need the certificates to be trusted by the machine the tests are run from. |
For Kubernetes, the build with Apache Maven uses an openshift
Maven profile to provision a WildFly server, suitable for running on Kubernetes.
The server provisioning functionality is provided by the WildFly Maven Plugin, and you may find its configuration in the quickstart pom.xml
:
<profile>
<id>openshift</id>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.wildfly.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>wildfly-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<discover-provisioning-info>
<version>${version.server}</version>
<context>cloud</context>
</discover-provisioning-info>
<add-ons>...</add-ons>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>package</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
...
</plugins>
</build>
</profile>
You may note that unlike the provisioned-server
profile it uses the cloud context which enables a configuration tuned for Kubernetes environment.
The plugin uses WildFly Glow to discover the feature packs and layers required to run the application, and provisions a server containing those layers.
If you get an error or the server is missing some functionality which cannot be auto-discovered, you can download the WildFly Glow CLI and run the following command to see more information about what add-ons are available:
wildfly-glow show-add-ons
This section contains the basic instructions to build and deploy this quickstart to Kubernetes using Helm Charts.
In this example we are using Minikube as our Kubernetes provider. See the Minikube Getting Started guide for how to install it. After installing it, we start it with 4GB of memory.
minikube start --memory='4gb'
The above command should work if you have Docker installed on your machine. If, you are using Podman instead of Docker, you will also need to pass in --driver=podman
, as covered in the Minikube documentation.
Once Minikube has started, we need to enable its registry since that is where we will push the image needed to deploy the quickstart, and where we will tell the Helm charts to download it from.
minikube addons enable registry
In order to be able to push images to the registry we need to make it accessible from outside Kubernetes. How we do this depends on your operating system. All the below examples will expose it at localhost:5000
# On Mac:
docker run --rm -it --network=host alpine ash -c "apk add socat && socat TCP-LISTEN:5000,reuseaddr,fork TCP:$(minikube ip):5000"
# On Linux:
kubectl port-forward --namespace kube-system service/registry 5000:80 &
# On Windows:
kubectl port-forward --namespace kube-system service/registry 5000:80
docker run --rm -it --network=host alpine ash -c "apk add socat && socat TCP-LISTEN:5000,reuseaddr,fork TCP:host.docker.internal:5000"
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Helm must be installed to deploy the backend on Kubernetes.
Once you have installed Helm, you need to add the repository that provides Helm Charts for WildFly.
$ helm repo add wildfly https://docs.wildfly.org/wildfly-charts/
"wildfly" has been added to your repositories
$ helm search repo wildfly
NAME CHART VERSION APP VERSION DESCRIPTION
wildfly/wildfly ... ... Build and Deploy WildFly applications on OpenShift
wildfly/wildfly-common ... ... A library chart for WildFly-based applications
$ kubectl run artemis --env AMQ_USER=admin --env AMQ_PASSWORD=admin --image=quay.io/artemiscloud/activemq-artemis-broker-kubernetes --port=61616 --expose=true
This will create a broker instance named artemis
on Kubernetes that can be accessed on the port 61616
on the service artemis
with the account admin/admin.
The backend will be built and deployed on Kubernetes with a Helm Chart for WildFly.
Navigate to the root directory of this quickstart and run the following commands:
mvn -Popenshift package wildfly:image
This will use the openshift
Maven profile we saw earlier to build the application, and create a Docker image containing the WildFly server with the application deployed. The name of the image will be remote-helloworld-mdb
.
Next we need to tag the image and make it available to Kubernetes. You can push it to a registry like quay.io
. In this case we tag as localhost:5000/remote-helloworld-mdb:latest
and push it to the internal registry in our Kubernetes instance:
# Tag the image
docker tag remote-helloworld-mdb localhost:5000/remote-helloworld-mdb:latest
# Push the image to the registry
docker push localhost:5000/remote-helloworld-mdb:latest
In the below call to helm install
which deploys our application to Kubernetes, we are passing in some extra arguments to tweak the Helm build:
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--set build.enabled=false
- This turns off the s2i build for the Helm chart since Kubernetes, unlike OpenShift, does not have s2i. Instead, we are providing the image to use. -
--set deploy.route.enabled=false
- This disables route creation normally performed by the Helm chart. On Kubernetes we will use port-forwards instead to access our application, since routes are an OpenShift specific concept and thus not available on Kubernetes. -
--set image.name="localhost:5000/remote-helloworld-mdb"
- This tells the Helm chart to use the image we built, tagged and pushed to Kubernetes' internal registry above.
$ helm install remote-helloworld-mdb -f charts/helm.yaml wildfly/wildfly --wait --timeout=10m0s --set build.enabled=false --set deploy.route.enabled=false --set image.name="localhost:5000/remote-helloworld-mdb"
NAME: remote-helloworld-mdb
...
STATUS: deployed
REVISION: 1
This command will return once the application has successfully deployed. In case of a timeout, you can check the status of the application with the following command in another terminal:
kubectl get deployment remote-helloworld-mdb
The Helm Chart for this quickstart contains all the information to build an image from the source code using S2I on Java 17:
build:
uri: https://github.com/wildfly/quickstart.git
ref: main
contextDir: remote-helloworld-mdb
deploy:
replicas: 1
env:
# Env vars to connect to Artemis
- name: JBOSS_MESSAGING_CONNECTOR_HOST
value: "artemis"
- name: JBOSS_MESSAGING_CONNECTOR_PORT
value: "61616"
This will create a new deployment on Kubernetes and deploy the application.
If you want to see all the configuration elements to customize your deployment you can use the following command:
$ helm show readme wildfly/wildfly
To be able to connect to our application running in Kubernetes from outside, we need to set up a port-forward to the remote-helloworld-mdb
service created for us by the Helm chart.
This service will run on port 8080
, and we set up the port forward to also run on port 8080
:
kubectl port-forward service/remote-helloworld-mdb 8080:8080
The server can now be accessed via http://localhost:8080
from outside Kubernetes. Note that the command to create the port-forward will not return, so it is easiest to run this in a separate terminal.
The integration tests included with this quickstart, which verify that the quickstart runs correctly, may also be run with the quickstart running on Kubernetes.
Note
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The integration tests expect a deployed application, so make sure you have deployed the quickstart on Kubernetes before you begin. |
Run the integration tests using the following command to run the verify
goal with the integration-testing
profile activated and the proper URL:
$ mvn verify -Pintegration-testing -Dserver.host=http://localhost:8080