WildFly tools

A set of useful tools come with the WildFly distribution. Although they are not dedicated performance-tuning tools, they do have some related value, especially for monitoring. We will go through a few of them here. We will start out with the administrative tools that somewhat overlap. They are as follows:

  • The Command Line Interface
  • The WildFly Management Console
  • The JBoss DMR API

We will then finish off with the special version of JConsole that comes bundled with WildFly.

The Command-line Interface

The Command-line Interface (CLI) is exactly what it says it is, a command-line interface tool to administer WildFly from a terminal. It is started with the jboss-cli.sh command (for UNIX-based environments) or jboss-cli.bat (for Windows) and ...

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