A thread racing web application that demonstrates technologies introduced or updated in the latest Jakarta EE specification.
The thread-racing
quickstart is a web application that demonstrates new and updated technologies introduced by the Jakarta EE 10 specification through simple use cases.
The web application allows the user to trigger a race between 4 threads and follow, in real time, the progress of each thread until the race ends.
The race itself consists of multiple stages, each demonstrating the usage of a specific new or updated Jakarta EE 10 technology:
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Batch 2.1
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EE Concurrency 3.0
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JAX-RS 3.1
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JMS 3.1
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JSON 2.1
WebSockets 2.1 is one of the most relevant new technologies introduced by Jakarta EE 10. Instead of being used in a race stage, a WebSockets 2.1 ServerEndpoint provides the remote application interface.
A new race is run when a client establishes a session. That session is then used to update the client in real time, with respect to the race progress and results. The src/main/java/org/jboss/as/quickstarts/threadracing/WebSocketRace.java
file is the WebSocket server endpoint class and is a good entry point when studying how the application code works.
JPA 3.1 is also present in the application code. Specifically it is used to store race results in the default data source instance, which is also new to Jakarta EE. Further details are included in the src/main/java/org/jboss/as/quickstarts/threadracing/results/RaceResults.java
class.
- H2 Database
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This quickstart uses the H2 database included with Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.0. It is a lightweight, relational example datasource that is used for examples only. It is not robust or scalable, is not supported, and should NOT be used in a production environment.
The application this project produces is designed to be run on Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.0 or later.
All you need to build this project is Java 11.0 (Java SDK 11) or later and Maven 3.6.0 or later. See Configure Maven to Build and Deploy the Quickstarts to make sure you are configured correctly for testing the quickstarts.
In the following instructions, replace EAP_HOME
with the actual path to your JBoss EAP installation. The installation path is described in detail here: Use of EAP_HOME and JBOSS_HOME Variables.
When you see the replaceable variable QUICKSTART_HOME, replace it with the path to the root directory of all of the quickstarts.
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Open a terminal and navigate to the root of the JBoss EAP directory.
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Start the JBoss EAP server with the full profile by typing the following command.
$ EAP_HOME/bin/standalone.sh -c standalone-full.xml
NoteFor Windows, use the EAP_HOME\bin\standalone.bat
script.
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Make sure you start the JBoss EAP server as described above.
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Open a terminal and navigate to the root directory of this quickstart.
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Type the following command to build the quickstart.
$ mvn clean package
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Type the following command to deploy the quickstart.
$ mvn wildfly:deploy
This deploys the thread-racing/target/thread-racing.war
to the running instance of the server.
You should see a message in the server log indicating that the archive deployed successfully.
The application will be running at the following URL http://localhost:8080/thread-racing/.
To start a race press the Insert Coin
button. The page displays the names of the threads as they join the race. It then tracks the progress of each thread through the Batch, EE Concurrency, JAX-RS, JMS, and JSON stages of the race. Finally, it displays the official race results and championship standings.
This quickstart includes Arquillian integration tests. They are located under the src/test/
directory. The integration tests verify that the quickstart runs correctly when deployed on the server.
Follow these steps to run the integration tests.
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Make sure you start the JBoss EAP server, as previously described.
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Make sure you build and deploy the quickstart, as previously described.
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Type the following command to run the
verify
goal with thearq-remote
profile activated.$ mvn verify -Parq-remote
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You may also use the environment variable |
When you are finished testing the quickstart, follow these steps to undeploy the archive.
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Make sure you start the JBoss EAP server as described above.
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Open a terminal and navigate to the root directory of this quickstart.
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Type this command to undeploy the archive:
$ mvn wildfly:undeploy
On OpenShift, the S2I build with Apache Maven will use an openshift
profile used to provision a JBoss EAP server to deploy and run the quickstart in OpenShift environment.
You can activate the Maven profile named openshift
when building the quickstart:
$ mvn clean package -Popenshift
The provisioned JBoss EAP server for OpenShift, with the quickstart deployed, can then be found in the target/server
directory, and its usage is similar to a standard server distribution.
You may note that it uses the cloud feature pack which enables a configuration tuned for OpenShift environment.
The server provisioning functionality is provided by the EAP Maven Plugin, and you may find its configuration in the quickstart pom.xml
:
<profile>
<id>openshift</id>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.jboss.eap.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>eap-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${version.eap.maven.plugin}</version>
<configuration>
<feature-packs>
<feature-pack>
<location>org.jboss.eap:wildfly-ee-galleon-pack</location>
</feature-pack>
<feature-pack>
<location>org.jboss.eap.cloud:eap-cloud-galleon-pack</location>
</feature-pack>
</feature-packs>
<layers>
<layer>cloud-server</layer>
</layers>
<filename>ROOT.war</filename>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>package</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</profile>
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Since the plugin configuration above deploys quickstart on root web context of the provisioned server, the URL to access the application should not have the |
This section contains the basic instructions to build and deploy this quickstart to JBoss EAP for OpenShift or JBoss EAP for OpenShift Online using Helm Charts.
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You must be logged in OpenShift and have an
oc
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Helm must be installed to deploy the backend on OpenShift.
Once you have installed Helm, you need to add the repository that provides Helm Charts for JBoss EAP.
$ helm repo add jboss-eap https://jbossas.github.io/eap-charts/
"jboss-eap" has been added to your repositories
$ helm search repo jboss-eap
NAME CHART VERSION APP VERSION DESCRIPTION
jboss-eap/eap8 ... ... A Helm chart to build and deploy EAP 8.0 applications
Log in to your OpenShift instance using the oc login
command.
The backend will be built and deployed on OpenShift with a Helm Chart for JBoss EAP.
Navigate to the root directory of this quickstart and run the following command:
$ helm install thread-racing -f charts/helm.yaml jboss-eap/eap8
NAME: thread-racing
...
STATUS: deployed
REVISION: 1
The Helm Chart for this quickstart contains all the information to build an image from the source code using S2I on Java 17:
build:
uri: https://github.com/jboss-developer/jboss-eap-quickstarts.git
ref: 8.0.x
contextDir: thread-racing
deploy:
replicas: 1
This will create a new deployment on OpenShift and deploy the application.
If you want to see all the configuration elements to customize your deployment you can use the following command:
$ helm show readme jboss-eap/eap8
Let’s wait for the application to be built and deployed:
$ oc get deployment thread-racing -w
NAME DESIRED CURRENT UP-TO-DATE AVAILABLE AGE
thread-racing 1 1 1 0 12s
...
thread-racing 1 1 1 1 2m
Get the URL of the route to the deployment.
$ oc get route thread-racing -o jsonpath="{.spec.host}"
Access the application in your web browser using the displayed URL.
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The Maven profile named |
This quickstart includes Arquillian integration tests. They are located under the src/test/
directory. The integration tests verify that the quickstart runs correctly when deployed on the server.
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The Arquillian integration tests expect a deployed application, so make sure you have deployed the quickstart on OpenShift before you begin. |
Run the integration tests using the following command to run the verify
goal with the arq-remote
profile activated and the proper URL:
$ mvn clean verify -Parq-remote -Dserver.host=https://$(oc get route thread-racing --template='{{ .spec.host }}')
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The tests are using SSL to connect to the quickstart running on OpenShift. So you need the certificates to be trusted by the machine the tests are run from. |