Deploying applications to WildFly Server using Apache NetBeans IDE

NetBeans has built-in support for Glassfish.

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Install WildFly Application Server plugin

There is no built-in support for WildFly application server in the newest NetBeans IDE. To get WildFly integration support, follow these steps to install the WildFly plugin from NetBeans Plugin Portal.

  1. Download WildFly Application Server plugin from NetBeans Plugin portal.
  2. Open Plugins dialog from NetBeans IDE main menu Tools->Plugins.
  3. Switch to Downloaded tab, and click Add Plugins… button to select the downloaded plugin(a .nbm file).
  4. When it is added, click Install button to start the installation progress.
  5. Follow the wizard to complete the installation. When it is done, restart NetBeans IDE to apply the change.

Add a WildFly Server instance

Firstly, you should add a WildFly Server instance in NetBeans.

  1. Click Windows->Services or use Ctrl+5 shortcuts to open Services view .
  2. Right click the Servers node, select Add Server… in the context menu.
  3. In the Add Server Instance dialog, there are three steps:

    • Choose Server :select WildFly Application Server in the server list, click Next button.

      choose server

    • Server Location: select the WildFly server location, click Next button.

      server location

    • Instance Properties: use the default values, if you have set an administration user, fill them in User and Password fields, click Finish button.

      instance properties

After it is done, there is a new node WildFly Application Server added under the Servers nodes.

WildFlyserver node in Netbeans

Right click the WildFly Application Server node, there is a few actions available for you to control the server instance, such as Start, Stop, Debug etc.

Start and Stop WildFly Server

Let’s start the WildFly server by clicking Start in the context menu. Wait for seconds, you will see the Output screen similar to the following.

To stop the running WildFly Server, click Stop in the context menu of the existed WildFly Server node. Or jus click the stop button the Output - Wildfly Application Server window.

Deploy and undeploy applications

Generally, like what we have done with Glassfish and Payara servers, we can simply deploy and run a Jakarta EE application on an application server by simply clicking Run in the context menu of the project node in the Projects view.

However when I try to run this application on Wildfly server, there is no such a Wildfly option in the dropdown list in the popup Select deployment server. It should be a bug.

Select deployment server

To select WildFly server as target server, let’s switch to Projects view, right click the project node, and select Properties in the context menu.

In the project properties window, select Run in the left navigation tree, and in the right panel, select Wildfly Application Server in the Server dropdown list.

project properties

Click OK button. It will try to build the project and deploy the application package into the NetBeans managed WildFly server.

After it is deployed successfully, there is a success message similar with the following in the Run tab of the Output window.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Deploying on WildFly Application Server
    profile mode: false
    debug mode: false
    force redeploy: true
Starting WildFly Application Server
WildFly Application Server Started
Initial deploying jakartaee8-starter to D:\appsvr\wildfly-18.0.1.Final\standalone\deployments\jakartaee8-starter.war
Completed initial distribution of jakartaee8-starter
Deploying D:\appsvr\wildfly-18.0.1.Final\standalone\deployments\jakartaee8-starter.war
Application Deployed

Switch to WildFly Application Server console tab, you will see the following messages instead.

...
20:50:59,798 INFO  [org.jboss.as] (Controller Boot Thread) WFLYSRV0051: Admin console listening on http://127.0.0.1:9990
20:50:59,798 INFO  [org.jboss.as] (Controller Boot Thread) WFLYSRV0025: WildFly Full 18.0.1.Final (WildFly Core 10.0.3.Final) started in 13378ms - Started 355 of 618 services (385 services are lazy, passive or on-demand)
20:51:06,232 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server.deployment.scanner] (DeploymentScanner-threads - 2) WFLYDS0004: Found jakartaee8-starter.war in deployment directory. To trigger deployment create a file called jakartaee8-starter.war.dodeploy
20:51:06,284 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server.deployment] (MSC service thread 1-2) WFLYSRV0027: Starting deployment of "jakartaee8-starter.war" (runtime-name: "jakartaee8-starter.war")
20:51:08,994 INFO  [org.jboss.weld.deployer] (MSC service thread 1-7) WFLYWELD0003: Processing weld deployment jakartaee8-starter.war
20:51:09,956 INFO  [org.hibernate.validator.internal.util.Version] (MSC service thread 1-7) HV000001: Hibernate Validator 6.0.18.Final
20:51:10,670 INFO  [org.jboss.weld.Version] (MSC service thread 1-3) WELD-000900: 3.1.2 (Final)
20:51:10,797 INFO  [org.infinispan.factories.GlobalComponentRegistry] (MSC service thread 1-5) ISPN000128: Infinispan version: Infinispan 'Infinity Minus ONE +2' 9.4.16.Final
20:51:11,494 INFO  [io.smallrye.metrics] (MSC service thread 1-4) MicroProfile: Metrics activated
20:51:11,688 INFO  [org.jboss.as.clustering.infinispan] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 40) WFLYCLINF0002: Started client-mappings cache from ejb container
20:51:13,027 INFO  [org.jboss.resteasy.resteasy_jaxrs.i18n] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 40) RESTEASY002225: Deploying javax.ws.rs.core.Application: class com.example.JaxrsActivator
20:51:13,197 INFO  [org.wildfly.extension.undertow] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 40) WFLYUT0021: Registered web context: '/jakartaee8-starter' for server 'default-server'
20:51:13,312 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server] (DeploymentScanner-threads - 1) WFLYSRV0010: Deployed "jakartaee8-starter.war" (runtime-name : "jakartaee8-starter.war")

Let’s open the Server view, there several nodes are displayed under WildFly Application Server. Expand the Application/Web Applications node, you will see there is a new node jakartaee8-starter there.

deployed apps

Open your terminal and use curl to verify the APIs.

curl http://localhost:8080/jakartaee8-starter/api/greeting/hantsy
{"message":"Say Hello to hantsy at 2019-11-04T16:16:13.509"}

To undeploy the application, in the Service view, expand Servers/WildFly Application Server/Applications/Web Applications, right click the jakartaee8-starter node, click Undeploy to undeploy it from the WildFly server.