If you desire to move away from traditionally-packaged .war applications, more options are available to you with WildFly Swarm. Though a fluent API, you can fully configure the facilities brought to your application and control what gets deployed.
When your application is packaged as a .jar, you can also (but are not required) to provide your own main(…) method. In your main(…) you can configure the container as much or as little as you require. You can also .deploy(…) one or more deployments.
The main(…) method should exactly match the typical requirements of a main method in Java, and is executable from your IDE.
public class Main {
public static void main(String...args) {
..
}
}Within the main method, you can work with the org.wildfly.swarm.Swarm API to configure fractions into the system and deploy components.
The primary methods on Swarm are:
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
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Add an explicitly-configured fraction |
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Start the configured container |
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Deploy a ShrinkWrap archive |
When you add dependencies to your project, they automatically activate the related fraction. For instance, simply having the logging dependency adds the logging fraction to the container and initializes it.
You only need to call .fraction(new LoggingFraction()) if you want to change the configuration to be different from the default. Any fraction that has been brought in through the dependency mechanism but has not been explicitly configured will be added with its default configuration.
Once a container is created, one or more deployments may be created using ShrinkWrap and deployed into the container. Please see the chapter on ShrinkWrap for general details on how to create deployments.