# Wildfly Reviews **Vendor:** Wildfly **Category:** [Application Server Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/application-server) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 21 ## About Wildfly WildFly is a flexible, lightweight application server. ## Wildfly Reviews ### 1. Wildfly Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 16, 2021 **What do you like best about Wildfly?** Because of my familiarity with JBOSS, I found Wildfly easy to get started with and very stable in use. Very simple to download and install and not very taxing to deploy in an enterprise environment. Many that are familiar with JBOSS or Redhat platforms will have very little issues implementing. **What do you dislike about Wildfly?** The only issue we have expereinced in the past was related to memory consumption while in use. We have since upgraded the servers so that reosurce allocation is not an issue. **What problems is Wildfly solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our company and developers required a robust and stable application server to host multiple web applications in a multi-tenant environment. Our engineers have deployed this application/service in multiple environments, with several customers, and we have experienced very few challenges. ### 2. Wildfly - One of the best application servers I have come across **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Robin P. | Co-Founder, CEO, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 25, 2020 **What do you like best about Wildfly?** The easiness with which we can get started and the stability of the product. Right from downloading and installing to deploying an enterprise grade web app - The easiness that Wildfly provides, is absolutely worth a mention. I have also evaluated multiple paid / commercial app servers as well as open source servers. I would rate Wildfly as one among the best. **What do you dislike about Wildfly?** So far, I could not find any reason why I should dislike Wildfly. If there is one minor thing then it might be the amount of memory it consumes while running. But then when you are dealing with an enterprise grade application server, you cannot complain much about this. **Recommendations to others considering Wildfly:** If you need something quick and stable, you can just blindly trust this server. There is no way it is going to let you down. I have personally used and recommended Wildfly in multiple applications and projects and the reason why I keep recommending Wildfly again is the amazing amount of productivity you can achieve by opting for this. You would not be wasting time on unnecessary issues and you can focus on your technical needs. **What problems is Wildfly solving and how is that benefiting you?** I need a stable and robust application server to host my web applications. I have evaluated multiple servers and found it easy to deal with Wildfly ### 3. Wildfly - Excellant light weight application server **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jaimaya K. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 30, 2020 **What do you like best about Wildfly?** One main feature of wildfly is that it supports Heavy use of Java EE applications and allows REST based data access with pluggable subsystems that helps in memory management. The configuration is simple and it s purely open source **What do you dislike about Wildfly?** Upgrading the application which s running on jboss to wildfly is quite difficult as it needs huge amount of code changes. **Recommendations to others considering Wildfly:** You can happily go for wildfly application server if you are going to deploy more than 1 heavy java EE applications. Worth trying it from scratch **What problems is Wildfly solving and how is that benefiting you?** My project has two to three business applications running on wildfly. It s very effective in handling real time load of broad band applications that s nearly millions of subscribers a day ### 4. Very user friendly and easy to understand **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Market Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2020 **What do you like best about Wildfly?** The main admin console is very user friendly. Especially after wildfly 18, the server restart process is also very very fast. Previously in wildfly 10, it will take lot of time on server restart. **What do you dislike about Wildfly?** Not dislike actually, may be my less knowledge of wildfly In Apache, there is a server directory, where we can just put a html file, and we can access that path directly from url. In wildfly, I need to add that path from standalone file. And also wildfly upgradation task may can improved. If possible by simple a path file or something, instead of the reconfigured the whole server! **Recommendations to others considering Wildfly:** Stablity. In my experience with wildfly, I have never faced any issue on the server due to AS or blocked while changing the configuration. **What problems is Wildfly solving and how is that benefiting you?** There was a time when we faced a JDBC connection issue after a few hours of server start on our production server. By observing wildfly's admin console, we came to know what is the main reason behind the issue and resolved it within a few hours. ### 5. I had almost 250+ web applications, and we had to select application server. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rahul K. | Solutions Consultant - DevOps, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2020 **What do you like best about Wildfly?** It is feature rich and have everything application server should have. Its command line interface is very easy to learn and handle. I personally feel it has more feature comparing to paid software e.g. weblogic and websphere. **What do you dislike about Wildfly?** I find it hard to handle the url redirection and work as proxy server. For that we used other solution. **What problems is Wildfly solving and how is that benefiting you?** We had 250+ web applications and we had to decide to use an application server, which would be feature rich and is free to use. And we found wildfly meets our requirements. ### 6. Wildfly is the right tool for your every day development **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pedro d. | Software Engineer at European Comission, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2020 **What do you like best about Wildfly?** Easy to use, easy to tweek, integrates with widely used IDEs **What do you dislike about Wildfly?** The startup is slow and the logs could be improved in order to help debugging **What problems is Wildfly solving and how is that benefiting you?** On the company I've worked until recently, we used Wildfly at different stages of product development. On implementation, we used wildlfy docker images that intend to mimick all the other environments' architecture. Then in the testing and production environments, we used Wildfly to host our web applications. It was always very reliable and it rarely caused errors. ### 7. Good Application Server **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nachiket K. | Senior Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 18, 2020 **What do you like best about Wildfly?** Very good for Java web applications. Quick installation, fast deployment, and great UI. **What do you dislike about Wildfly?** No UI for configuring subsystems. Some inbuild frameworks are involved due to which it becomes difficult to load the application's framework (especially when the framework version is different). **What problems is Wildfly solving and how is that benefiting you?** Framework loading issues. The benefit is deployment-structure.xml file. ### 8. Easy to adapt **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pradesh K. | Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2020 **What do you like best about Wildfly?** The server startup time is less and could be used by people of various background. **What do you dislike about Wildfly?** I do not have anything that I dislike. Keep up the good work. **Recommendations to others considering Wildfly:** I highly recommend wildly for anyone. It is an easy tool for beginners to start with. **What problems is Wildfly solving and how is that benefiting you?** I had been using Wildfly as a deployment solution for my Spring boot applications. ### 9. The best Java AS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nicola S. | Sviluppatore senior full stack in ambito GIS, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2020 **What do you like best about Wildfly?** Wildfly is extremely fast and lightwegith. Optimal for DevOps environments. **What do you dislike about Wildfly?** Is there anything that you can dislike in Wildfly **Recommendations to others considering Wildfly:** Initial lerning curve is worth the value. **What problems is Wildfly solving and how is that benefiting you?** Wildfly is the environment for my enterprise java components and it gave me all services to make them fast, robust and reliable in my cloud infrastructure. ### 10. Very powerful application server **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 24, 2020 **What do you like best about Wildfly?** - User friendly administration console - Java EE support - powerful tool with a lot of features - all configuration saved in one place **What do you dislike about Wildfly?** - might become slowly with a lot of deploying and require restart - some minor bugs **Recommendations to others considering Wildfly:** Use the latest available version, as it is sometimes annoying so search for a problem and then figure out that it is already solved in the newer version. **What problems is Wildfly solving and how is that benefiting you?** Wildfly used locally as the application server for large scale java based apps. Java EE support is really a benefit. ### 11. I have 11+ experience in DevOps and Middleware. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 03, 2020 **What do you like best about Wildfly?** I like the Domain mode feature in wildfly for heavy application. **What do you dislike about Wildfly?** Not much to dislike, the only thing that can be challenging is to upgrade from lower version to upper version because that also required to update the JDK also. **What problems is Wildfly solving and how is that benefiting you?** i was facing configuration of JMX on the older version for the monitoring purpose and after resolving this i get benefited it to present in the organisation level ### 12. My eralier company used for Widfly application server, it's very good performance for Widlfly server **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ramakrishna K. | Lead Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 06, 2020 **What do you like best about Wildfly?** upgrading the configuration, checking the logs, restarting the server **What do you dislike about Wildfly?** I like very much this application server, I didn't see any dis advantages this middle ware server **What problems is Wildfly solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used to application configuration changes, deployments, logs checking... lot of benefits like easy way to restart the server/service, checking the logs and modifying the configuration ### 13. Have used Wildfly for 3 years with multiple enterprise Java applications **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pratik J. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 30, 2020 **What do you like best about Wildfly?** Easy configuration. Easy ans simple deployment. **What do you dislike about Wildfly?** Missing or incomplete documentation in some places. **What problems is Wildfly solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it in my current company to deploy a JavaEE application ### 14. Compatible version with Java 8 and above **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2020 **What do you like best about Wildfly?** Easier Deployment. Better logging support **What do you dislike about Wildfly?** In local Development found issues in maintaining caches **Recommendations to others considering Wildfly:** As my total experience of using WildFly is 10 months and Jboss 7 (2+ years). Using Wildfly I find it quite efficient in developing Java EE application and deploying applications. I would recommend to upgrade Java applications to wildfly **What problems is Wildfly solving and how is that benefiting you?** Wildfly gives better performance in deploying large scale Java EE project ### 15. Good application server **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Claudio F. | JAVA developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2020 **What do you like best about Wildfly?** Good overall flexibility and full JavaEE stack support. **What do you dislike about Wildfly?** Deployment complexity and resource overhead. **What problems is Wildfly solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is helping me creating java web applications with clustering support. ### 16. A Great App Server **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 25, 2019 **What do you like best about Wildfly?** I have been using Jboss application servers for almost 6 years (AS and EAP servers). I used to deploy my java applications in Jboss and tomcat servers. When wildfly (8) was released I did not hesitate to move to it. According to my experience the features and performance are greatly enhanced in the wildfly server Also as per my experience the server is very robust and stable. **What do you dislike about Wildfly?** I did not come across any critical issues while using Wildfly. However I wish if the management console could be enhanced. I used oracle 12c server and I felt its UI is richer. Its better of Wildfly developers can enhance the UI some more. **What problems is Wildfly solving and how is that benefiting you?** Wildfly solved a lot of my problems. I will mention couple of them. 6 years back we wanted a robust app server with enterprise container to deploy our EJB applications. We did a re search and proposed Wildfly. Because it was so easy for us to deploy, maintain our heavy weight EJB applications. The app server (Glassfish) which we were using was not very stable and we faced a lot of down times. Hence our clients were pushing us to get the issue fixed. With minimum of application level changes we could re deploy our applications on Wildfly server and then system outages did not happen. Our server admins informed that the management of this new app server is very convenient. Also recently I was looking for a front end load balancing mechanism and i ended up using the new load balancing profile of wildfly and it solved my problem completely. ### 17. Wildfly help to my business **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Richard A. L. | Full-Stack Software Developer - Freelance, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 03, 2019 **What do you like best about Wildfly?** Wildfly it's amazing. In a couple of minutes, you can have a server running with your application. **What do you dislike about Wildfly?** Standalone is so big it's very verbose and the jboss-cli it's not intuitive. **Recommendations to others considering Wildfly:** Wildfly it's fast and amazing. **What problems is Wildfly solving and how is that benefiting you?** Use wildfly with CI/CD and pipelines but I use with openshift and the result was great! ### 18. Great application server **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2019 **What do you like best about Wildfly?** Easy of use The performance is great Is great to a developer environment and production environment **What do you dislike about Wildfly?** The hot deploy, is hard to use The module system, it need a web interface **Recommendations to others considering Wildfly:** If you want a easy to use and fast application server , this is the best **What problems is Wildfly solving and how is that benefiting you?** Financial application of the government sector. The security features are very good ### 19. Easy to use app server **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2019 **What do you like best about Wildfly?** The administration console is easy to use, simple and friendly **What do you dislike about Wildfly?** Sometimes it was difficult to find solution from internet for some problems. **What problems is Wildfly solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was using it to host my web services ### 20. Eco friendly Application **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 25, 2019 **What do you like best about Wildfly?** Drag and Drop option for file upload, multi factor authentication, eco friendly GUI application **What do you dislike about Wildfly?** Nothing to tell much. **What problems is Wildfly solving and how is that benefiting you?** Accessing two ports and binding with management port ### 21. Found this through JBOSS. Some benefits. **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Melissa C. | Center Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2019 **What do you like best about Wildfly?** I like that there are some free features that allow you to try out some of the applications before purchasing. **What do you dislike about Wildfly?** They keep changing the platform and names so you aren't sure who you are actually dealing with. **What problems is Wildfly solving and how is that benefiting you?** Created a application to use for sales information. 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