View source for JBoss 5.1 - Chapter 01 - Installing Core Components

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;Title: Installing Core Components
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== Finding Help ⌘==
* https://community.jboss.org/wiki/JBossApplicationServerOfficialDocumentationPage
== Installing the Java environment ⌘==
=== Oracle JKD ⌘===
There are following methods of intallling JDK on the machine:
* Subscribe to Supplementary Server channel + yum install java-1.6.0-sun-devel
* Manual download (rpm)
* Manual download (sh)

==== Manual Download (rpm) ⌘====
1. Step 1: Download  '''jdk-6u45-linux-i586-rpm.bin''' and save it in /opt

2. Step 2
 cd /opt
 ./jdk-6u45-linux-i586-rpm.bin
3. Step 3
 rpm -i jdk-6u45-linux-i586.rpm
 echo JAVA_HOME

=== OpenJDK ⌘===
 ''yum install java-1.6.0-openjdk''
 ''/usr/sbin/alternatives --config java''
 ''java -version''
 java version "1.6.0_24"
 OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.11.11) (rhel-1.40.1.11.11.el5_9-i386)
 OpenJDK Client VM (build 20.0-b12, mixed mode)

=== Swiching between alternatives ⌘===
 /usr/sbin/alternatives --config java

== Installing JBoss AS ⌘==
Ways of installing Jboss 5 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
* zip installation
* part of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5
** zip
** rpm
* shipped with multiple products (e.g. jBPM)
=== Installing from zip ⌘===
==== Open Source ⌘====
* http://sourceforge.net/projects/jboss/files/JBoss/JBoss-5.1.0.GA/
 unzip jboss-5.1.0.GA-jdk6.zip
 cd jboss-5.1.0.GA/bin
==== Jboss EAP 5.1.2 ⌘====
* Download it from your RHN
* Unpack it into /opt
* https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/JBoss_Enterprise_Application_Platform/5/pdf/Installation_Guide/JBoss_Enterprise_Application_Platform-5-Installation_Guide-en-US.pdf

== Setting up Variables ==
You can add it either to '''/etc/profile''' or '''.bashrc'''
 export JBOSS_HOME=/opt/jboss-5.1.0.GA
 export PATH=$PATH:$JBOSS_HOME/bin

=== Uninstalling JBoss ⌘===
# Remove the folder
# Remove the JBOSS_HOME variable

== Testing Server ⌘==
 ./run.sh -b 0.0.0.0
 lynx localhost:8080

You may want to disable firewalls as well
 /etc/init.d/iptables stop

=== Enabled Authentication for EAP ⌘===
In conf/props/jmx-console-users.properties 
add appropriate user.

== Application server features ⌘==

=== JBoss Microcontainer ⌘===
* http://www.jboss.org/jbossmc
* next generation POJO based kernel
* supports an extensible deployment model and advanced dependency relationships.

=== JBoss EJB3 ⌘===
* implementation of EJB 3.0 spec
* is a deep overhaul and simplification of the

=== JBoss Messaging ⌘===
* Default JMS provider in JBoss AS

=== JBossCache ⌘===
Comes in two flavors:
* A traditional tree-structured node-based cache 
* a PojoCache, an in-memory, transactional, and replicated cache system that allows users to operate on simple POJOs transparently without active user management of either replication or persistency aspects.

=== JBossWS ⌘===
* web services stack providing Java EE compatible web services,
JAX-WS-2.0

=== JBoss Transactions ⌘===
* default transaction manager JBoss Transactions

=== JBoss Web ⌘===
* Web container
* based on Tomcat
* includes the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) and Tomcat native technologies to achieve scalability and performance characteristics that match and exceed the Apache Http server.

=== JBoss Security ⌘===
* pluggable authorization models including SAML, XACML and federation.

== Creating a custom server configuration ⌘==
=== Existing Configurations ⌘===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Module !! minimal !! web !! default !! standard !! all
|-
| Microcontainer || Y  || Y  || Y || Y || Y
|-
| Naming service || Y  || Y  || Y || Y || Y
|-
| Log4j || Y  || Y  || Y || Y || Y
|-
| Deployment scanner  || Y  || Y  || Y || Y || Y
|-
| JPA                 ||  || Y  || Y || Y || Y
|-
| EJB container      ||  ||   || Y || Y || Y
|-
| JCA support        ||  || Y || Y || Y || Y
|-
| JMS                ||  ||   || Y || Y || Y
|-
| Mail service       ||  ||   || Y || Y || Y
|-
| HSQL DB            ||  || Y || Y || Y || Y
|-
| JBossWS            ||  ||   || Y || Y || Y
|-
| XA transactions    ||  || Y || Y || Y || Y
|-
| Monitoring services||  ||   || Y || Y || Y
|-
| Quartz service     ||  ||   || Y || Y || Y
|-
| Clustering support ||  ||   ||   ||   || Y
|-
| RMI-IIOP and jUDDI ||  ||   ||   || Y || Y

|}
=== Creating own configuration ⌘===
# Copy configuration closest to your needs
# Rename the folder to match your configuration name (e.g. ''prod'')
# Remove or add components, change the configuration
# Run server with -c paramter
 run.sh -c prod

https://community.jboss.org/wiki/JBoss5xTuningSlimming
==== Exercise ⌘====
Add JMS to your '''custom''' configuration based on the '''web''

hint:
* deployers/messaging-definitions-jboss-beans.xml
* deploy/messaging
* deploy/jms-ra.rar