Wildfly 24 Eclipse javaee add/remove resources

[Ron Ford]

Whenever I launch a Maven project, several old projects also start up (at least the console reports their errors).
I only have one resource (project) in the configured area of the Wildfly 'Add and Remove' dialog.
Why are old projects being launched, or how can I get rid of them?
Is it possible for Wildfly to ignore old projects without deleting the project code from the hard drive.
The current project still launches but the log is cluttered with old errors and warnings and difficult to read.
Thanks in advance.

[Jeremy Whiting]

How about approaching this from another angle.
Move the old Wildfly to a directory you create for archiving stuff. It lives here for posterity.
Then start with a fresh install of Wildfly 24. Bring across configuration and the applications you want to keep from the archive.
Does that work for you ?

[Tim Holloway]

I'm going to make a wild guess here and assume you're using Maven to launch Wildfly for your project, after having done the same for other projects.

What's probably happening is that Maven is simply launching a master copy of Wildfly and whatever WARs/EARS have been deployed to that Wildfly are launched.

In other words, Wildfly is, like any other JEE webapp server NOT a place you simply dump files, it's a service for running webapps (WARs and EARs). And Maven is simply deploying your latest build and launching Wildfly. Unless Maven also undeploys webapps, they're there until some external force removes them. That includes any situations where Maven intended to undeploy but something terminated the Maven process before it could.

To get rid of the old crud, try launching Wildfly without Maven and see if its "control panel" isn't listing all those apps. If so, undeploy/remove them from Wildfly.

There may also be an undeploy Maven goal, but since I don't launch webapp servers from Maven (I usually launch stand-alone or from an IDE) I don't know for certain.

[Stephan van Hulst]

I usually just keep the deployments folder of my standalone Wildfly instance open in my file explorer, and manually remove deployments whenever I'm not debugging my applications.