JBoss Administration Guide

This page will be the starting point for the new JBoss administration Guide.

Getting Started with JBoss

• DownloadJBoss

• InstallJBoss

• Starting and Stopping JBoss

Working with JBoss

• JBoss Directory Structure

• Server Configurations

• Create your own configuration

• The basic configuration files

• Using JBoss Behind a Firewall

Deploying applications

• The deploy directory

• Deploying Applications

• Deploying EARs

• Deploying WARs

• Deploying SARs

• Deploying RARs

• DeployingService.xmlJBossDeployServerXML

• Deploying *-ds.xml files

• Understanding deployment order

• HotDeployment

• Configuring the deployment scanner

Basic configuration

• Datasources

• Creating JDBC Datasources

• JDBC Datasource Configuration options

• JBoss Messaging

• Creating message queues

• Creating message topics

• Configuring logging

• Application security

• Creating JAAS domains

• Creating custom JAAS domains

The admin console

• Using the JMX Console

• Using the Web Console

• JBossNagiosPlugin

Securing JBoss

• For JBoss 4.0.4 and before please read through section 8.9 "Configuring JBoss for use Behind a Firewall" and section 8.10 "How to Secure the JBoss Server" in the "JBoss Application Server Guide".

• From JBoss 4.0.5 on these two sections can be found as section 7.9 and section 7.10 in the "JBoss 4 J2EE Reference"

JBoss Logging

• locations

• format

• rotating logs

• log levels

Advanced

• JBoss as system service

• Configuring ports

• HTTP tunneling