What is Jboss ?
JBoss is an open source project, sponsored by Red Hat, aimed at building a Java-based middleware application server.
Middleware is a piece of software that connects two or more software applications so that they can exchange data.
In short " jboss is nothing but multiple instances of tomcat "
so let c how we can install jboss on centos 5.4
First of all you need to check the java version installed
to check the java version on the terminal just type java -version
now corresponding to the version of jboss to be installed the exact version of java need to be installed
for example jboss-5.1.0.GA-jdk6.zip version of jboss required jdk6
The verison for java can be obtained from this website
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html
JAVA Installation
In this post i am using jdk version jdk-6u16-linux-x64-rpm.bin
first give executable right to the file this can be done by the following command
chmod u+x jdk-6u16-linux-x64-rpm.bin
next begin the installation by ./chmod u+x jdk-6u16-linux-x64-rpm.bin
remove the previous version of java by issuing the following command
rm -rf /usr/bin/java
create a link to the java executable by doing the following
cd /usr/bin
ln -s /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_16/bin/java java
set the enviroment variable
JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_16
export JAVA_HOME
command make entries in profile so the the enviroment variable are set on reboot
add the above two lines to /etc/profile
check the version of java again .
Jboss Installation
Download JBoss AS from http://jboss.org/jbossas/downloads
Here i have installed jboss JBoss AS 5.1.0.GA.zip
copy the file to /usr/local/
unzip the file issuing the command unzip JBoss AS 5.1.0.GA.zip
jboss must not be started as root ao adda user jboss or any other user
no add a user jboss using useradd jboss
change the ownership of jboss by chown jboss.jboss JBoss AS 5.1.0.GA
Switch user using su - jboss
jboss/bin/run.sh
next start jboss by the command
jboss AS 5.1.0.GA/bin/run.sh
by issuing this jboss is started on the localhost this is the same as issuing this command
jboss AS 5.1.0.GA/bin/run.sh -b 127.0.0.1 -c default
to start jboss on all interfaces use the following command
jbossAS 5.1.0.GA/bin/run.sh -b 0.0.0.0 -c default
to access jboss open a browser and enter th following url
http://your_ip_server:8080
