Hey all,
I just thought I'd post some news from the mac world... I just discovered JBoss Web and I must say the idea is great! No more fiddling around with Apache or IIS and Tomcat and JBoss AS! Finally, a single solution to unify them all...

Anyway, I was disappointed to discover only HP UNIX, SuSE Linux, RedHat Linux and Windows scripts in the bin directory (I've used JBoss AS on my mac for a while)... Good news is: I finally got the thing purring by modifying the SuSE script slightly!

For all the other mac-heads out there who wish to play with JBoss Web on their machines, just create a log directory under the JBoss Web directory and use the following script to start, stop and restart JBoss Web from the Terminal (replace the JBOSS_HOME variable with your own of course!, the Java one should be the same):

#!/bin/sh
#
# JBoss Control Script
#
# To use this script
# run it as root - it will switch to the specified user
# It loses all console output - use the log.
#
# Here is a little (and extremely primitive)
# startup/shutdown script for SuSE systems. It assumes
# that JBoss lives in /usr/local/jboss, it's run by user
# 'jboss' and JDK binaries are in /usr/local/jdk/bin. All
# this can be changed in the script itself.
#
# Either amend this script for your requirements
# or just ensure that the following variables are set correctly
# before calling the script.
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: jboss
# Default-Start: 3 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 2 6
# Description: Start the JBoss application server.
### END INIT INFO

#define where jboss is - this is the directory containing directories log, bin, conf etc
JBOSS_HOME=${JBOSS_HOME:-"/Users/John/Documents/Downloads/Safari/jbossweb-1.0.1.GA"}

#make java is on your path
JAVAPTH=${JAVAPTH:-"/Library/Java/Home/bin"}

#define the classpath for the shutdown class
JBOSSCP=${JBOSSCP:-"$JBOSS_HOME/bin/shutdown.jar:$JBOSS_HOME/client/jnet.jar"}

#define the script to use to start jboss
JBOSSSH=${JBOSSSH:-"$JBOSS_HOME/bin/run.sh -c default"}

# Shell functions sourced from /etc/rc.status:
# rc_check check and set local and overall rc status
# rc_status check and set local and overall rc status
# rc_status -v ditto but be verbose in local rc status
# rc_status -v -r ditto and clear the local rc status
# rc_failed set local and overall rc status to failed
# rc_reset clear local rc status (overall remains)
# rc_exit exit appropriate to overall rc status
#. /etc/rc.status

# First reset status of this service
#rc_reset

# Return values acc. to LSB for all commands but status:
# 0 - success
# 1 - misc error
# 2 - invalid or excess args
# 3 - unimplemented feature (e.g. reload)
# 4 - insufficient privilege
# 5 - program not installed
# 6 - program not configured
#
# Note that starting an already running service, stopping
# or restarting a not-running service as well as the restart
# with force-reload (in case signalling is not supported) are
# considered a success.

if [ -n "$JBOSS_CONSOLE" -a ! -d "$JBOSS_CONSOLE" ]; then
# ensure the file exists
touch $JBOSS_CONSOLE
fi

if [ -n "$JBOSS_CONSOLE" -a ! -f "$JBOSS_CONSOLE" ]; then
echo "WARNING: location for saving console log invalid: $JBOSS_CONSOLE"
echo "WARNING: ignoring it and using /dev/null"
JBOSS_CONSOLE="/dev/null"
fi

#define what will be done with the console log
JBOSS_CONSOLE=${JBOSS_CONSOLE:-"$JBOSS_HOME/log/jboss.log"}

#define the user under which jboss will run, or use RUNASIS to run as the current user
JBOSSUS=${JBOSSUS:-"RUNASIS"}

CMD_START="cd $JBOSS_HOME/bin; $JBOSSSH"
CMD_STOP="java -classpath $JBOSSCP org.jboss.Shutdown --shutdown"

if [ "$JBOSSUS" = "RUNASIS" ]; then
SUBIT=""
else
SUBIT="su - $JBOSSUS -c "
fi

if [ -z "`echo $PATH | grep $JAVAPTH`" ]; then
export PATH=$PATH:$JAVAPTH
fi

if [ ! -d "$JBOSS_HOME" ]; then
echo JBOSS_HOME does not exist as a valid directory : $JBOSS_HOME
exit 1
fi

case "$1" in
start)
echo -n "Starting JBoss application server: "
cd $JBOSS_HOME/bin
if [ -z "$SUBIT" ]; then
eval $CMD_START >${JBOSS_CONSOLE} 2>&1 &
else
$SUBIT "$CMD_START >${JBOSS_CONSOLE} 2>&1 &"
fi

# Remember status and be verbose
#rc_status -v
;;
stop)
echo -n "Shutting down JBoss application server: "
if [ -z "$SUBIT" ]; then
$CMD_STOP
else
$SUBIT "$CMD_STOP"
fi

# Remember status and be verbose
#rc_status -v
;;
restart)
$0 stop
$0 start

# Remember status and be quiet
#rc_status
;;
*)
echo "usage: $0 (start|stop|restart|help)"
esac