This repository contains two plugins: one to create a custom WildFly server by assembling various feature packs, and one to create such feature packs.

org.wildfly.build.provision plugin. See also the plugin page on the Gradle Plugin Portal for details on how to apply the latest plugin version to your build.

plugins {
	id 'org.wildfly.build.provision' version '0.0.7'
}

provision {
    variables['wildfly.version'] = '11.0.0.Final'
}

Run with

gradle provision

You'll find a fully working copy of WildFly 11.0.0.Final in your build/provisioned-wildfly directory.

plugins {
   id 'org.wildfly.build.provision' version "0.0.7"
}

repositories {
	mavenLocal()
	mavenCentral()
	maven {
		name 'jboss-nexus'
		url "http://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/groups/public/"
	}
}

provision {
	//Optional provisioning configuration:
	//configuration = "custom-server-provisioning.xml"

	//You can set variables to be injected in the provisioning.xml configuration;
	//The 'wildfly.version' variable is required by the default configuration:
	variables['wildfly.version'] = '11.0.0.Final'

	//The default is to add jboss-nexus automatically as you'll likely need it,
	//yet most builds will want to control such details explicitly.
	autoAddRepositories = false
	
	//Optional destination directory:
	//destinationDir = file("$buildDir/light-wildfly")
	//Overrides the version of an artifact:
	override( 'org.hibernate:hibernate-core' ) {
		version = '5.3.0.Beta1'
	}
	override( 'org.hibernate:hibernate-envers' ) {
		version = '5.3.0.Beta1'
	}
	//Overrides version, group, etc.. :
	override( 'org.hibernate.javax.persistence:hibernate-jpa-2.1-api' ) {
		groupId = 'javax.persistence'
		artifactId = 'javax.persistence-api'
		version = '2.2'
	}
}

The provision task will download and install a WildFly server to the target directory, while upgrading the two Hibernate ORM libraries and replacing the JPA 2.1 API with the standard JPA 2.2 API.

N.B. this example is not replacing all Hibernate ORM libraries so it wouldn't provide a reliable server! Doing such an upgrade properly shouldn't be done via version overrides but using an appropriate feature pack - using the more powerful 'configuration' property. The overrides capability is meant for developers experimenting with changes to the WildFly server.

The created server will be of the "thin" kind: almost no jars and will take minimal space, but the necessary jars will be stored in your local maven repository.

You can use a server-provisioning.xml to pick and choose only the feature packs you need; this way you can materialize a slim server which only has the features you need.

Currently there isn't a large collection of feature packs but this will improve soon.

An example server-provisioning.xml could be:

<server-provisioning xmlns="urn:wildfly:server-provisioning:1.1">
   <feature-packs>
      <feature-pack groupId="org.wildfly" artifactId="wildfly-feature-pack" version="11.0.0.Final"/>
   </feature-packs>
</server-provisioning>

The above will materialize a "full" WildFly 11.0.0.Final in the target directory.

A more complex example:

<server-provisioning xmlns="urn:wildfly:server-provisioning:1.1">
   <feature-packs>
      <feature-pack groupId="org.wildfly" artifactId="wildfly-servlet-feature-pack" version="11.0.0.Final"/>
      <feature-pack groupId="org.hibernate.lucene-jbossmodules" artifactId="lucene-jbossmodules" version="5.5.5.hibernate05"/>
   </feature-packs>
</server-provisioning>

The above example will materialize a smaller WildFly server (the "servlet" edition), but then include as well the Apache Lucene libraries appropriately packaged as modules.

The default is to unpack a copy of the server in the "provisioned-wildfly" subdirectory of your build directory.

Set the destinationDir property to any other directory to change this.

If you choose a destinationDir which is not in your build directory you might want to explicitly add a clean task:

clean {
   delete file("/somehere/custom-wildfly")
}

Provisioning is a powerful feature of the WildFly server which includes several other capabilities which have not yet been implemented in this plugin. Patches and help welcome!

This plugin is actually a fairly limited port to Gradle of an existing, more powerful and more mature Maven plugin. Maven users should use the original plugin.

This software and its documentation are distributed under the Apache Software License 2.0. Refer to LICENSE.txt for more information.