A thread racing web application that demonstrates technologies introduced or updated in the latest Jakarta EE specification.
The thread-racing
quickstart is a web application that demonstrates new and updated technologies introduced by the Jakarta EE 10 specification through simple use cases.
The web application allows the user to trigger a race between 4 threads and follow, in real time, the progress of each thread until the race ends.
The race itself consists of multiple stages, each demonstrating the usage of a specific new or updated Jakarta EE 10 technology:
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Batch 2.1
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EE Concurrency 3.0
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JAX-RS 3.1
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JMS 3.1
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JSON 2.1
WebSockets 2.1 is one of the most relevant new technologies introduced by Jakarta EE 10. Instead of being used in a race stage, a WebSockets 2.1 ServerEndpoint provides the remote application interface.
A new race is run when a client establishes a session. That session is then used to update the client in real time, with respect to the race progress and results. The src/main/java/org/jboss/as/quickstarts/threadracing/WebSocketRace.java
file is the WebSocket server endpoint class and is a good entry point when studying how the application code works.
JPA 3.1 is also present in the application code. Specifically it is used to store race results in the default data source instance, which is also new to Jakarta EE. Further details are included in the src/main/java/org/jboss/as/quickstarts/threadracing/results/RaceResults.java
class.
- H2 Database
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This quickstart uses the H2 database included with WildFly Application Server 31. It is a lightweight, relational example datasource that is used for examples only. It is not robust or scalable, is not supported, and should NOT be used in a production environment.
The application this project produces is designed to be run on WildFly Application Server 31 or later.
All you need to build this project is Java 11.0 (Java SDK 11) 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.
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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 you start the WildFly server as described above.
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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 thread-racing/target/thread-racing.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/thread-racing/.
To start a race press the Insert Coin
button. The page displays the names of the threads as they join the race. It then tracks the progress of each thread through the Batch, EE Concurrency, JAX-RS, JMS, and JSON stages of the race. Finally, it displays the official race results and championship standings.
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 you start the WildFly server, as previously described.
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Make sure you build and deploy the quickstart, as previously described.
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Type the following command to run the
verify
goal with theintegration-testing
profile activated.$ mvn verify -Pintegration-testing
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You may also use the environment variable |
When you are finished testing the quickstart, follow these steps to undeploy the archive.
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Make sure you start the WildFly server as described above.
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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
Instead of using a standard WildFly server distribution, you can alternatively provision a WildFly server to deploy and run the quickstart, by activating the Maven profile named provisioned-server
when building the quickstart:
$ mvn clean package -Pprovisioned-server
The provisioned WildFly server, with the quickstart deployed, can then 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.
The server provisioning functionality is provided by the WildFly Maven Plugin, and you may find its configuration in the quickstart pom.xml
:
<profile>
<id>provisioned-server</id>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.wildfly.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>wildfly-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<feature-packs>
<feature-pack>
<location>org.wildfly:wildfly-galleon-pack:${version.server}</location>
</feature-pack>
</feature-packs>
<layers>...</layers>
<!-- deploys the quickstart on root web context -->
<name>ROOT.war</name>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>package</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
...
</plugins>
</build>
</profile>
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Since the plugin configuration above deploys quickstart on root web context of the provisioned server, the URL to access the application should not have the |
The integration tests included with this quickstart, which verify that the quickstart runs correctly, may also be run with a provisioned server.
Follow these steps to run the integration tests.
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Make sure the server is provisioned.
$ mvn clean package -Pprovisioned-server
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Start the WildFly provisioned server, this time using the WildFly Maven Plugin, which is recommended for testing due to simpler automation. The path to the provisioned server should be specified using the
jbossHome
system property.$ mvn wildfly:start -DjbossHome=target/server
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Type the following command to run the
verify
goal with theintegration-testing
profile activated, and specifying the quickstart’s URL using theserver.host
system property, which for a provisioned server by default ishttp://localhost:8080
.$ mvn verify -Pintegration-testing -Dserver.host=http://localhost:8080
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Shutdown the WildFly provisioned server, this time using the WildFly Maven Plugin too.
$ 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>
<feature-packs>
<feature-pack>
<location>org.wildfly:wildfly-galleon-pack:${version.server}</location>
</feature-pack>
<feature-pack>
<location>org.wildfly.cloud:wildfly-cloud-galleon-pack:${version.pack.cloud}</location>
</feature-pack>
</feature-packs>
<layers>...</layers>
<name>ROOT.war</name>
</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 feature pack which enables a configuration tuned for OpenShift environment.
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
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 thread-racing -f charts/helm.yaml wildfly/wildfly --wait --timeout=10m0s
NAME: thread-racing
...
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 thread-racing
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: thread-racing
deploy:
replicas: 1
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 thread-racing -o jsonpath="{.spec.host}"
Access the application in your web browser using the displayed URL.
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The Maven profile named |
The integration tests included with this quickstart, which verify that the quickstart runs correctly, may also be run with the quickstart running on OpenShift.
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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 thread-racing --template='{{ .spec.host }}')
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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. |