Installation Guide

[milind]

Ok .. I have used open source before. I have used JONAS as my ejb server. The documentation at the JONAS site is much better (at least I can RTFM).

The documentation on jboss leaves MUCH to be desired. I will take it upon myself to provide an installation guide. But right now, I need help.

I installed JBoss 3.0.0 with Catalina 4.0.3 as a pre-bundled package. This thing DOES NOT work with JVM of 1.3 vinatage on w2k. Install JVM 1.4 and it works... well it does a lot of things that makes me think that it worked.

I know that tomcat is listening on port 8080. I know this because I get a No Context is configured on localhost:8080/jboss and localhost:8080.

Now what? If someone responds back with the correct answer, I will be on the way to writing a superb guide. But right now, I have a bootstrapping problem.

-- Milind

[davidjencks]

Did you read the quickstart guide from the sourceforge download page? What about it is difficult to read?

[dsosnoski]

The quickstart guide looks very nice - thanks, Andreas! However it doesn't appear to be linked from the download page on jboss.org. I'm glad I investigated far enough to find this discussion in the forums, otherwise I would have ended up just deleting JBoss 3.0.

You should either link the quickstart directly from the JBoss download page, include the quickstart in the download, or send everyone to the Sourceforge page. As it is now you can download the program and figure out how to start it but not have a clue where to go from there.

[ropeter321]

http://telia.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/jboss/JBoss.3.0QuickStart.pdf

[katazan]

I've read the quick start guide from top to bottom. What sparked my interest the most was the mention of templated projects. I would like to start using this functionality (I'm very familiar with ant, and relatively familiar with the templating concept), but couldn't find reference to any kind of download for a sample templated project.

Do you gents know where I can download this?

I would like to port my projects to the jboss 3.0/jetty release, but don't really know where to start in terms of deployment. Until I get the templated project working, I'll have to do it the good ol' fashioned way...deploying my existing ears, jars, and wars. I have no idea where these are to be placed, however. I've noticed that with the installation of jboss 3.0, there are all, default, and minimal deployment directories, but no mention of how to deploy to these or configure jboss.

Please help.

Sincerely,

John C. Dale
Principle
Down in the Desert

[davidjencks]

Stay away from minimal unless you know what you are doing: you need to add the jars for the specific services you need if you want it to do anything. If you don't need clustering, jboss.net, or iiop, use default; if you do need one of these use all.

[spazmosity]

You can get the template from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jboss (filename JBoss.3.0Template.And.Examples.zip). You can get the quick start guide from the same place.

[spazmosity]

You can get the template from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jboss (file name: JBoss.3.0Template.And.Examples.zip). You can get the quick start guide from the same place.

[matt1966]

Thanks for asking the question on JBoss 3.0 installation. Here's a newer link:

http://telia.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/jboss/JBoss.3.0QuickStart.Draft3.pdf