Introducing the WildFly application server

WildFly is by far the application server that I've come across most often in my daily job. It's probably the most widespread Java application server. It was renamed from JBoss, as a contraction of Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) and Open-Source Software (OSS), EJBoss then becoming JBoss for copyright reasons relating to the EJB trademark. Since 2014, after a community vote, JBoss was renamed WildFly in its upstream distribution. This was to reduce the confusion in names between the project (WildFly), the community (JBoss.org), and the product family commercially supported by Red Hat (including JBoss EAP).

It is worth mentioning that JBoss EAP is made of the same components as WildFly. There are no hidden features available in the commercial distribution. JBoss EAP is simply a frozen distribution of the WildFly components at a certain version, which is used to provide stability, certifications, and commercial support for enterprise...