Installing JBoss 4 on Mac OS X 10.4.* ?

[conradwt]

Hi, could someone tell me where I can find the exact setup instructions for installing JBoss on Mac OS X 10.4.4? At this time, I have downloaded the following file:

jboss-4.0.4RC1-installer.jnlp

I clicked on the above file and followed the prompts. Now, what should be the next step? Finally, does one have to download and install Ant because I haven't found a clear answer on this at this time from the documentation.

Thanks in advance,

-Conrad

[norman.richards]

If you have successfully gone through the installer, you are done. You can start JBoss by going to the bin directory and running the run script. ("sh run.sh" is the surest way) Once it is has started, go to http://localhost:8080/ to see what is there.

[conradwt]

Hi, thanks for getting into contact with me. Anyway, I performed the following on the command line and it was installed in the correct locations (i.e. Applications folder ):

java -jar jboss-4.0.4RC1-installer.jar

Now, I need to find a Hello World example to get my feet wet. Gotta go and thanks for responding to my post.

Peace,

-Conrad

[egillespie]

Thought I'd also add that if you want to be able to use the components of JBoss 4 that require Java 1.5 then you'll need to set JAVA_HOME to point to the home of Java 1.5. By default Mac OS X is configured to use 1.4.2.

Since I didn't want to make the switch to Java 1.5 globally on my computer I modified the aforementioned run.sh to have the following line:

JAVA_HOME=/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Home