Shows how to use WebSockets with JSON to broadcast information to all open WebSocket sessions in WildFly.
The websocket-endpoint
quickstart demonstrates how to use Java API for WebSockets to create server endpoints in WildFly Application Server.
The BidWebSocketEndpoint
provides the WebSocket endpoint that receives Message
instances from clients/browsers and replies with the current Bidding
instance. The conversion from JSON content to the specific instances are made by MessageDecoder
and BiddingEncode
classes.
Every update made on the Bidding
are immediately propagated to all opened WebSocket sessions without any browser submission or AJAX polling mechanism.
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 default profile by typing the following command.
$ WILDFLY_HOME/bin/standalone.sh
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 websocket-endpoint/target/websocket-endpoint.war
to the running instance of the server.
You should see a message in the server log indicating that the archive deployed successfully.
Access the running application in a browser at the following URL: http://localhost:8080/websocket-endpoint/.
You are presented with a simple form that shows a bidding with the status NOT_STARTED
.
Click on Do a bid!
button. That will start the bidding and trigger the 1 minute countdown timer. You can also notice that every Bid will be listed under the List of bids
section.
You should open the application URL in other browsers or tabs. You will notice that every change on the bidding is automatically update in all opened browser or tabs. The item will be SOLD once that it reaches the Buy now price
. At the countdown timeout, the bidding will be EXPIRED. You can click on Buy it now
button to immediately buy the item.
You can restart the bidding if you click on Reset bidding
button.
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 websocket-endpoint -f charts/helm.yaml wildfly/wildfly --wait --timeout=10m0s
NAME: websocket-endpoint
...
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 websocket-endpoint
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: websocket-endpoint
deploy:
replicas: 2
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 websocket-endpoint -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 websocket-endpoint --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. |