JBoss Messaging requires the following services to run

-JNDI

-JCA

-Transaction Service, required for JCA

-Security, Required for JCA

JBoss Application Server is based around an elegant service architecture where individual services can be removed if not necessary.

To create a "standalone" server, you can simply remove all those services not necessary for JBoss Messaging to run. Here are the steps to do that :

NOTE

The following procedure has been tested against JBoss-EAP-4.3.x, this may be slightly different for different versions of JBoss AS and JBM.

-Make a copy of your default server configuration and named it as slim

 cp -r $JBOSS_HOME/server/default $JBOSS_HOME/server/slim 

-Remove the conetnts inside your deployment directory inside the slim server configuration

 rm -rf $JBOSS_HOME/server/slim/deploy/

-Copy the following files from your $JBOSS_HOME/server/default/deploy/ to $JBOSS_HOME/server/slim/deploy/

hsqldb-ds.xml
jboss-aop-jdk50.deployer
jboss-ha-local-jdbc.rar
jbossjca-service.xml
jboss-local-jdbc.rar
jboss-messaging.sar
sqlexception-service.xml

-Remove all the existing libraries in your lib directory, inside the slim server configuration

rm -rf $JBOSS_HOME/server/slim/lib/

-Copy the following files from your $JBOSS_HOME/server/default/lib/ to $JBOSS_HOME/server/slim/lib/

hsqldb.jar
jboss-remoting.jar
jboss.jar
javassist.jar
jboss-common-jdbc-wrapper.jar
jboss-j2ee.jar
jboss-jca.jar
jbossjta.jar
jboss-transaction.jar
jbossts-common.jar
commons-logging.jar
jboss-messaging-client.jar
jboss-messaging.jar
jbosssx.jar
hsqldb-plugin.jar
jbossjta-integration.jar
jboss-serialization.jar
jboss-management.jar
jboss-minimal.jar
jnpserver.jar
log4j.jar

-Open your jboss-service.xml file, located at $JBOSS_HOME/server/slim/conf

Remove the following :

<mbean code="org.jboss.management.j2ee.LocalJBossServerDomain"        name="jboss.management.local:j2eeType=J2EEDomain,name=Manager">        
<attribute name="MainDeployer">jboss.system:service=MainDeployer</attribute>        
<attribute name="SARDeployer">jboss.system:service=ServiceDeployer</attribute>        
<attribute name="EARDeployer">jboss.j2ee:service=EARDeployer</attribute>        
<attribute name="EJBDeployer">jboss.ejb:service=EJBDeployer</attribute>        
<attribute name="RARDeployer">jboss.jca:service=RARDeployer</attribute>        
<attribute name="CMDeployer">jboss.jca:service=ConnectionFactoryDeployer</attribute>        
<attribute name="WARDeployer">jboss.web:service=WebServer</attribute>        
<attribute name="CARDeployer">jboss.j2ee:service=ClientDeployer</attribute>        
<attribute name="MailService">jboss:service=Mail</attribute>        
<attribute name="JMSService">jboss.messaging:service=ServerPeer</attribute>        
<attribute name="JNDIService">jboss:service=Naming</attribute>        
<attribute name="JTAService">jboss:service=TransactionManager</attribute>        
<attribute name="UserTransactionService">jboss:service=ClientUserTransaction</attribute>        
<attribute name="RMI_IIOPService">jboss:service=CorbaORB</attribute>    
</mbean>

-[Hypersonic|http://wiki.jboss.org/auth/wiki/HypersonicProduction] is NOT a production ready database. Move on to a production ready database such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.

-Remove following libraries from your $JBOSS_HOME/server/slim/lib directory

hsqldb.jar
hsqldb-plugin.jar

-Start the server ./run.sh -cslim