Java Reference
In-Depth Information
Chapter 20
Open Source
Web Application Servers
Servlets and JSP need to be served up by something; that something is a Web
application server. What started as simple Web servers serving up little more
than HTML pages developed into Java application servers—the backbone of
the enterprise IT environment.
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In this chapter, we will describe the installation of both the JBoss and Geroni-
mo Java application servers on a Linux platform. These servers not only run
servlets and JSP, but they are also, as we shall see in later chapters, J2EE EJB
containers, so the installation part of this chapter is important for using the
technologies and examples covered in the remaining chapters. We will review
the System V init system and explain how to add JBoss to the regular system
of services on your Linux box. We will show you how to use groups and permis-
sions to enable a number of nonroot users to do the basic application server
administration.
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