What is Wildfly?
It is a flexible, lightweight, managed application runtime that helps you build amazing applications. It supports the latest standards for web development.
Wildfly is a tool in the Web Servers category of a tech stack.
Who uses Wildfly?
Companies
37 companies reportedly use Wildfly in their tech stacks, including doubleSlash, Liferay, and GittiGidiyor.
Developers
138 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Wildfly.
Wildfly Integrations
IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, Undertow, Devo, and Scala IDE are some of the popular tools that integrate with Wildfly. Here's a list of all 5 tools that integrate with Wildfly.
Pros of Wildfly
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Decisions about Wildfly
Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Wildfly in their tech stack.
Nilesh Ratta
I have an EAR deployed in a Wildfly instance. And it has many WAR folders. Is it possible to secure the whole EAR with Keycloak? And if I want to secure some of the WAR inside that EAR with Keycloak, is that possible?
Wildfly Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Wildfly?
JBoss
An application platform for hosting your apps that provides an innovative modular, cloud-ready architecture, powerful management and automation, and world class developer productivity.
Apache Tomcat
Apache Tomcat powers numerous large-scale, mission-critical web applications across a diverse range of industries and organizations.
Jetty
Jetty is used in a wide variety of projects and products, both in development and production. Jetty can be easily embedded in devices, tools, frameworks, application servers, and clusters. See the Jetty Powered page for more uses of Jetty.
Undertow
It is a flexible performant web server written in java, providing both blocking and non-blocking API’s based on NIO. It has a composition based architecture that allows you to build a web server by combining small single purpose handlers. The gives you the flexibility to choose between a full Java EE servlet 4.0 container, or a low level non-blocking handler, to anything in between.
GlassFish
An Application Server means, It can manage Java EE applications You should use GlassFish for Java EE enterprise applications. The need for a seperate Web server is mostly needed in a production environment.
