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Introducing Java EE and Configuring the Development Environment

WildFly 10 is an open source application server compliant with Java EE 7. Once called EJB-OSS and then JBoss, it was always one of the most used in the world. Redhat acquired JBoss and all of the community committed to it in 2005, with effect from version 5. Thanks to an internal Redhat policy, JBoss become WildFly in 2012; since version 8, WildFly is the first implementation of EE 7 by Redhat.

This application server is built with different architectures. Luckily WildFly maintains the same core architecture of the previous JBoss 7, adding some innovation from EE 7, a new set of competitive open source products and a very modular core, which simplify sharing libraries through ...

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