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20.2
D OWNLOADING JB OSS
JBoss 1 is a complete application server . It provides a full, production-ready, J2EE
environment. Be aware that as of this writing JBoss 4.0 has just passed the Sun
J2EE certification tests, but even prior to the certification JBoss has been one
of the most widely used J2EE application servers.
A great deal of JBoss information can be found on the JBoss Web site. 2
Visit the site's download page 3 to download the product.
NOTE
Version 4.0 of JBoss has only just become available, so you will see us using
the prior production stable version, 3.2.3. By the time you read this, however,
version 4.0 will be the better choice. What we describe should apply equally
well to both.
First off, you must choose what form of the product to download. The
choice is really between a binary and source distribution. Within that choice,
you can choose between a number of compression methods. We will download
and install a binary. Just click on jboss-3.2.3.tgz and save the file. Before
we install, we need to consider some issues of management.
20.3
B EAN E NABLER , OR “L ET ' S B E C ODEPENDENT !”
People often give inadequate consideration to the issues of management of
software systems. This is especially true of Java systems, which are, by their na-
ture, cross-platform. We have the luxury of dealing only with Linux systems
here, so we can make some practical suggestions most topics ignore.
1. JBoss is actually a combination of two distinct projects: JBoss, the EJB container and JMS
server, and Tomcat, the servlet and JSP server. You can install and use Tomcat alone. We won't
bother to do that in this topic. We'll install JBoss and use JBoss for everything. We are also
lazy typists who do not like to keep typing JBoss/Tomcat, so we'll refer to it merely as JBoss
from now on. If you are deploying only servlets and JSP, then, by all means, download and
install Tomcat only. It is part of the Apache Jakarta project.
2. http://www.jboss.org/index.html
3. http://www.jboss.org/downloads/
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