Hi i would like to know the way to detect if a mchine has a

[jamesdecosta555]

Hi,
i have a requirement wherein i need to detect if jboss exists on the end users machine .
But i need to know how can i detect if jboss exits on the end users system.
The way i can check if there is jdk installed on a machine can i check through some way if jboss exists on that machine.
Even if JBOSS_HOME is not set in that machine and it has jboss instance.

[peterj]

Considering that the way to install JBossAS is to download and unzip a zip file, there are only two ways to tell if someone has JBossAS in their machine:

1) if JBossAS is running, you can try connecting to one of the ports (such as JNDI) Of course, they can change the ports used, so this is not a goo solution.

2) Scan the hard drive. You could do a quick-scan to initially look for JBossAS in "typical" locations, and if that fails, scan the entire file system. (I actually wrote code like this once!)

[jamesdecosta555]

Hi ,
Is there any way of doing it by reading the system environment varaibles or so If so please inform

[peterj]

As I already stated, installation consist of unzipping a zip file. Therefore, no environment variables, registry entries, or anything else gets set as part of installation. I have already listed all of the ways that can be used to determine if a machine has JBossAS installed.

[jamesdecosta555]

hi,
can i detect through some scanning if the machine has jboss in it and if yes can i find the version of jboss being present in the machine.
Right now i want to know if the user has jboss-4.2.0.GA installed on his machine and even if he changes the name of the folder to some other name like application server i want to detect its full path and deploy some .war and .ear files like that how can i achieve this