Where to start?!

[newromancer]

ibwjb. (I'm beginning with jboss ;-)
And I have no plan where to start. I know java, JDBC/SQL RMI and all that. I own a book on EJBs from O'Reilly, I've read it once so I've got a basic idea. I installed jboss with tomcat on my linux box. This is where I am. Completly overwhelmed by all those deplyment descriptors, ant build files etc. but with a real project in my head.

Is there
a) A good point to start
b) A well documented project I can look at to understand what's going on
c) A book I should read to get into jboss and EJBs?!

Thousands of people went through this, so there must be a way to manage this easily...

Thanks for your advice..

-michel

[joelvogt]

There is free and not free documentation from the documentation link. There is also a website or too with beginner guides. I can't remember the link but some guy has put one up (link in forums somewhere). If you want more general stuff look at Sun's petstore reference app and also the books at www.theserverside.com

[ehenne]

Hi Michel,

for a quick start use the sample application from "JBOSS 3.0 GETTING STARTED" in the documentation section. For a more complex application the sun PetStore demo is a good starting point, I am just documenting my experiences under the topic "Running PetStore 1.3 on JBoss 3.0" in the beginners corner.

Have fun,
Elmar

[ehenne]

Hi,

one more thing, I have just found a good beginners tutorial on http://sammaher.com/jboss/.

Elmar

[prabhakar]

You can also try this site:
http://www.yorku.ca/dkha/jboss/index.htm

-prabhakar