Automating JBoss EAP: Update and upgrade for versions 7 & 8

The release of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP) 8 brought an important change on how the server is kept up to date. In essence, in the previous major version of the Java application server, updates were provided as a series of modifications that were applied by a capability embedded into the server itself. Now, in JBoss EAP version 8, updates are performed  by a separate dedicated tool: the JBoss Installation Manager. Of course, this has an impact on how to manage the au...