Updated look&feel for CR1 I've update the landing pages to reflect the new console look&feel that ships with CR1. In order to reach some level of consistency for the web based views. Here's what the console and the landing pages loo... Modular Service Container - optimal threadpool size AS7 boots with MSC configured to use a threadpool size of double the number of available processors. Boot time results after the 2nd run (so the filesystem cache is initalized) on my machine (Win7, Intel i7 Q7... AS 7.1.0 Beta1 - Security Enabled By Default AS 7.1.0 Beta1 - Security Enabled By Default Starting from the 7.1.0.Beta1 release we now have security enabled by default on the AS 7.1 distribution, the objective that we have been trying to achieve is to del... HTTP (JSON-like) API This is a digest of http://lists.jboss.org/pipermail/jboss-as7-dev/2011-February/000491.html for easier finding. In a nutshell this is another view on the management API available over the http connector insta... Profiling AS 7 using OProfile on Fedora Several times over the last year I have experimented with various tools for profiling AS. One of the frustrating things with that, is that the overhead of all the traditional Java profiling solutions is so high,... Generic type CLI commands A type generic command is a command that is assigned to a specific node type and which allows to perform any operation and/or modify any of the properties exposed by the type on any existing instance of that type. ... Subsystem Development Conventions There are a number of common problems that a subsystem developer will run into. This document is an attempt to convey the best recommended practices and common conventions that other subsystems follow. Following these... Logging in Core JBoss Application Server 7 General Rules:All exceptions and messages require a translation method in the @MessageBundle. All info and higher messages being logged require a translation method in the @MessageLogger. Messages in both the @Message... Format of a Detyped Operation Request The basic method a user of the AS 7 programmatic managment API would use it very simple: ModelNode execute(ModelNode operation) throws CancellationException, IOException; where... List of APIs Exposed Through AS7 Project Leads: This is a listing of all APIs that are to be exposed to users via JBoss AS7. Please note the Maven coordinates (ie. GAVs - groupId, artifactId, version not necessary) that users can expect... JBossAS7: Secure my Web App : How Do I? This is an article for people seeking ways by which they can secure their Java EE Web Apps. I am assuming that your web app contains servlets, jsps, html etc. If you have a Seam based app, then Seam ... Adding a new Extension/Subsystem via the CLI A common configuration change to the AS7 server is the addition of a subsystem. This requires adding the subsystem extension and the subsystem. This can be done with two CLI commands. Consider the JMX subsystem elemen... JBoss AS7 System Properties This article will talk about setting the system properties in JBoss AS7+ To understand the potential files where the system properties can be configured, please refer to AS7 Admin Guide. https://docs.jb... Format of a Detyped Operation Response The basic method a user of the AS 7 programmatic managment API would use is very simple: ModelNode execute(ModelNode operation) throws CancellationException, IOException; where... Management API Security Authorization Responsibility Authorization Responsibility An ACL scheme for the authorization checks is still to be defined as it is not a priority at this stage, this document however is to capture the optimum locations that the authoriza... Management API Security Transport Authentication Transport Authentication At the transport level we will support the following mechanisms for establishing and verifying the identity of the client connecting to the server. Native (SASL) HTTP Plain *1 (DONE) B... Management API Security Key Decisions Key Decisions This article tracks the key decisions to be made regarding the security of the management APIs. Traditional Authentication or Security Tokens This problem was introduced closely related to ... Modular Serialization Understanding Class-loading Issues When an object is serialized using Java serialization, the format consists of a "class reference" and the field data of every field in all inherited classes. The class reference is s... AS7 XML Parser Validation [Proposed Idea] Within JBoss AS7 all of the configuration that can be written for standalone and domain server is described by making use of XML schemas, the XML is then parsed using parsers making StAX calls. This approach h... stopping jboss7 apolgies if this is the wrong forum for this query - if you steer me to a more apropriate place then that's fine. starting a jboss7 instance is easy enough - cd bin; ./standalone.sh and away you go. St...