Replace Apache Tomcat with JBoss Web Server in JBoss AS

[pmlb]

Hi all,

I was looking for informations about replacing Apache Tomcat bundled in JBoss Application Server with the new JBoss Web Server, but couldn't find any.

So I tried this:

- download and unzip appropriate JBoss Web Server file (in my case jbossweb-windows-i586-1.0.0.GA.zip)

- copy jbossweb-1.0.0.GA\bin\native directory to JBOSS_HOME\bin\

- edit JBOSS_HOME\bin\run.bat to add this line:
set PATH=%DIRNAME%\native;%PATH%

- remove JBOSS_HOME\server\default\deploy\jbossweb-tomcat55.sar directory

- copy jbossweb-1.0.0.GA\server\default\deploy\jbossweb.sar directory to JBOSS_HOME\server\default\deploy\

- launch JBoss AS

It seems to work fine, I got the AprProtocol messages in the log file and my applications run OK.

Could someone from JBoss team confirm that I did not miss anything?

Thanks

Pierre-Marie Le Biot

[orpheusx]

Hi Pierre-Marie,

I tried your recipe under Linux and found I had to also comment out the tag that referred to jboss.cache:service=TomcatClusteringCache from server/default/deploy/jbossweb.sar/META-INF/jboss-service.xml since I didn't need clustering (which itself needs the jboss-aop deployer and possible other stuff.)

I would also like to know what the official word here is.

Thanks for posting the instructions!
::mark

[mladen.turk]

You can not replace the embedded Tomcat with
Jboss Web Server.
However JBoss Web Server will be part of
JBoss AS 5.

[orpheusx]

You can not replace the embedded Tomcat with
Jboss Web Server.
However JBoss Web Server will be part of
JBoss AS 5.

Hmm. Does this mean JBoss Web Server will go away as a separate product? Will there be a server config (a la minimal, default, all) for running the equivalent subset of functionality that JBoss Web Server offers? This would be ideal.