Yesterday I presented “WildFly 8 - the artist formerly known as JBoss AS” at the JBoss One Day Talk in Munich. Furthermore I had the chance to give a brief introduction to “DMR.scala / DMR.repl”.

I really enjoyed attending the conference. It was well organized and packed with great talks. Here are the slides of my talks (partly in German):

• WildFly 8 - the artist formerly known as JBoss AS
• DMR.scala / DMR.repl

The dynamic or detyped model representation (DMR) is an API to interact with the management model of a running WildFly instance. There’s an Java API available at https://github.com/jbossas/jboss-dmr which is described in the WildFly Wiki. Though the Java API is very rich and powerful it is somewhat hard to write scripts that perform useful tasks like

• Periodically read the memory and send an SMS / tweet / email when a threshold is reached
• Rollout a deployment over all servers in a cluster
• Monitor the state of an application

OpenShift is a great place to host your applications. In this post I’m going to show you how you can easily send mails from your JEE applications running on JBoss. For sending mails I’m going to configure an external SMTP server. Any SMTP server will do, I’m going to use GMail.

If you ever wanted to administer your JBoss servers from your iOS or Andoird phone, checkout these great apps from Christos Vasilakis:

• Android: https://github.com/cvasilak/JBoss-Admin-Android
• iOS: http://www.cvasilak.org/JBossAdmin.html

Keep it up, Christos!

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