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You're reading from Hands-On Cloud Development with WildFly Develop, deploy, and configure cloud-based, enterprise Java applications with WildFly Swarm and OpenShift

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786462374

Length 310 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Openshift

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Author (1):

Tomasz Adamski

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Title Page

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Contributors

Preface

1. Java EE and Modern Architectural Methodologies

2. Getting Familiar with WildFly Swarm FREE CHAPTER

3. Right-Sizing Your Services

4. Tuning the Configuration of Your Services

5. Testing Your Services with Arquillian

6. Deploying Applications on the Cloud with OpenShift

7. Configuring Storage for Your Applications

8. Scaling and Connecting Your Services

9. Configuring Continuous Integration Using Jenkins

10. Providing Security Using Keycloak

11. Adding Resilience Using Hystrix

12. Future Direction

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Modifying your archive

In our previous examples, each time we created the Swarm instance and applied some configuration on top of it, we used the no-argument deploy method. This method takes the archive generated by the standard Maven build and deploys it on the previously configured container. This is not the only version of the deploy method, though. You are able to create your own archive (or archives) and deploy them to the Swarm container. How? It is possible using the ShrinkWrap API.

The ShrinkWrap API

If you have ever worked with WildFly AS, and, especially, its testing framework Arquillian, you are probably also familiar with the ShrinkWrap API, which is used to build application archives before they are deployed in the test environment. However, if you have never used it, don't worry—the API is very simple and straightforward.

The central class in the API is the org.jboss.shrinkwrap.api.Archive instance. It is an abstract class that represents the archive. The concrete implementations...