configuration of all listening ports

[gingerking]

hi,

I have used the binding manager and the ports-01 server configuration in sample-bindings.xml as a template in order to specify the ports that JBoss 4.2.3 default server listens on.

I think I am missing something though as there are always three ports reported (using netstat, active ports or process explorer) as listening on ports which appear to be assigned randomly on start up of the server. All the other listening ports reliably use the ports that I configured. There are always three listening threads on dynamically assigned ports though.

Firstly, what are they? Secondly, can I configure them to fit neatly into the range of ports that has been assigned to the system on the server?

[peterj]

See http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/RandomPorts

[gingerking]

Can you confirm that it is possible to run the default server configuration in 4.2.3 with all the listening threads configured to be on fixed port numbers? I'm still not clear on whether this is possible or not.

[peterj]

I have never tried to do that so I don't know. All I can tell you is that for the apps I have used, opening ports 8080, 8083, 1099, 1098, 4444 and 4445 was sufficient.