Automatically reconnect to a database after a failure in JBoss EAP 7

My JBoss EAP 7 server couldn’t cope with a failing database. After a database restart or failure, e.g. due to maintenance, it simply would not connect to the database again automatically. The application simply stopped working as soon as the database was unavailable for a short period of time. JBoss’s server.log was full of (not … Read more

How to test JBoss EAP 7 with Arquillian

It took me quite some time to get my Arquillian tests running against a remote JBoss EAP 7.0.0.Beta1 application server, so I thought I’d share my configuration. At the time of this writing, there was no Arquillian container adapter for JBoss EAP 7 available. So I had to use the Arquillian Chameleon Container. However, it … Read more