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inter-app: Communicate Between Two Applications Using EJB and CDI

The inter-app quickstart shows you how to use a shared API JAR and an EJB to provide inter-application communication between two WAR deployments.

What is it?

The inter-app quickstart shows you how to easily communicate between two modular deployments to WildFly Application Server. Two WARs, with a shared API JAR, are deployed to the application server. EJB is used to provide inter-application communication, with EJB beans alised to CDI beans, making the inter-application communication transparent to clients of the bean.

CDI only provides intra-application injection within a top level deployment, for example, an EAR, WAR, or JAR. This improves performance of the application server, as to satisfy an injection point all possible candidates have to be scanned / analyzed. If inter-app injection was supported by CDI, performance would scale according to the number of deployments you have (the more deployments in the running system, the slower the deployment). Java EE injection uses unique JNDI names for the wiring, so each injection point is O(1). The approach shown here combines the two approaches such that you limit the name based wiring to one location in your code, and the main consumers of components can use CDI injection to reference these name wired components. For the name approach to work though, you still need to publish instances, and EJB singletons allow you to do that with just one extra annotation.

This example consists of the following Maven projects, each with a shared parent.

Project Description

shared

This project contains the interfaces which define the contract between the beans exposed by the WARs.

  • It generates the {artifactId}-app-shared.jar archive.

  • It is deployed as an EJB JAR module because Eclipse Web Tools Platform can not deploy simple JARs.

appA

This project contains the first WAR.

  • It generates the {artifactId}-app-appA.war archive.

  • It exposes an EJB singleton and a simple UI that allows you to read the value set on the bean in appB.

appB

This project contains the second WAR.

  • It generates the {artifactId}-app-appB.war archive.

  • It exposes an EJB singleton and a simple UI that allows you to read the value set on the bean in appA.

Build and Deploy the Quickstart

  1. Start the WildFly server with the standalone default profile as described above.

  2. Open a terminal and navigate to the root directory of this quickstart.

  3. Type this command to build and deploy the archive:

    $ mvn clean install wildfly:deploy

  4. This will deploy shared/target/{artifactId}-app-shared.jar, appA/target/{artifactId}-app-appA.war and appB/target/{artifactId}-app-appB.war to the running instance of the server.

Access the Application

Access the running application in a browser at the following URLs:

You are presented with a form that allows you to set the value on the bean in the other application, as well as display of the value on this application’s bean. Enter a new value and click Update and Send! to update the value on the other application. Do the same on the other application, and hit the button again on the first application. You should see the values shared between the applications.

Undeploy the Archive

This quickstart undeploys differently than some of the others because of the WAR and JAR interdependencies.

When you are finished testing, follow these steps to undeploy the archives:

  1. Start the WildFly server with the standalone default profile as described above.

  2. Open a terminal and navigate to the root directory of this quickstart.

  3. Type the following command to undeploy the inter-app-appA.war and inter-app-appB.war archives.

    $ mvn wildfly:undeploy -pl appA,appB

  4. Type the following command to undeploy the inter-app-shared.jar archive.

    $ mvn wildfly:undeploy -pl shared

This quickstart consists of multiple projects containing interdependencies on each other, so it deploys and runs differently in JBoss Developer Studio than the other quickstarts.

  1. In the Servers tab, right-click on the WildFly server and choose Start.

  2. Deploy the projects in one of the following ways.

    • Drag and Drop mode: Click to multi-select the {artifactId}-app-shared, {artifactId}-app-appA, and {artifactId}-app-appB projects, then drag and drop them on the running WildFly server. This deploys the projects to the server without opening the browser.

    • Batch mode: In the Servers tab, right-click on the server and choose Add and Remove. If the {artifactId}-app-shared, {artifactId}-app-appA, and {artifactId}-app-appB projects are the only projects in the list, click Add All. Otherwise, use multi-select to select them and click Add. Then click Finish.

  3. Right-click on the {artifactId}-app-appA project and choose Run As –>; Run on Server. A browser window appears that accesses the running appA application.

  4. Right-click on the {artifactId}-app-appB project and choose Run As –>; Run on Server. A browser window appears that accesses the running appB application.

  5. To undeploy the {artifactId}-app-appB project, right-click on it and choose Run As –>; Maven build. Enter wildfly:undeploy for the Goals and click Run.

  6. To undeploy the {artifactId}-app-appA project, right-click on it and choose Run As –>; Maven build. Enter wildfly:undeploy for the Goals and click Run.