[Engine-devel] When is ovirt-engine expected to start supporting wildfly?

[Michael Pasternak]

On 11/18/2013 09:08 PM, Juan Hernandez wrote:
> On 11/17/2013 09:31 PM, Itamar Heim wrote:
>> On 11/17/2013 06:56 PM, Mooli Tayer wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Mooli Tayer.
>>
>> well, fedora 20 comes with wildfly (formerly JBoss AS8), so i think we 
>> should aim for 3.4 support on fedora 20 with wildfly, but preserving 
>> compatibility with AS7/EAP6 for other platforms.
>> iirc, juan has been looking at wildfly compatibility implications - juan?
> 
> At the moment I have identified two issues that will prevent us from
> running in WildFly 8:
> 
> 1. WildFly 8 changed the default web container from JBoss Web (based on
> Tomcat) to Undertow. This shouldn't mean much changes in the
> application, as we don't use Tomcat specific APIs. But in means changes
> in the XML configuration that we use, including changes in how we
> configure connectors.
> 
> 2. WildFly 8 comes with a new version of Resteasy, and we do use some
> Resteasy specific APIs. We will need minor changes in this area.


it means RESTEasy breaks backward compatibility, can you elaborate on this a bit?

thanks.

> 
> These two aren't huge issues, but I think it isn't worth going deeper
> before there is a release of WildFly 8.
> 
> Anyhow, one can always use JBoss AS 7 or EAP in Fedora 20, it is a
> matter of uncompressing the JBoss .zip in some directory and setting
> JBOSS_HOME=/that/directory in the engine configuration.
> 


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Michael Pasternak
RedHat, ENG-Virtualization R&D