Installation of JBoss Application Server v7.1

Hello everyone,

Happy New year to all. Hope you all are doing well. Today We are installing JBoss application Server community edition v7.1 on a LINUX box. Community edition is an open source and free to use and if you want to support from RedHat you need to install JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) which we were already discussed before in  link.

Procedure:

Installing JBoss is an easy process and administration is same as other Middleware technologies and as an open source it is a mostly used application server.

Installing JBoss Application Server

As JBoss doesn’t install it's own java environment like weblogic jRocket and Websphere SDK, you need to install the compatible version of java as a prerequisites of JBoss installation.

You can down compatible .zip/.tar file or .rpm file from the oracle side and install it. In our case I have downloaded below file which is compatible JBoss 7.1

jdk-7u21-linux-i586.tar

Next step is to download the JBoss application server. You can download latest version of JBoss Application Server from http://jbossas.jboss.org/downloads/

We have downloaded the below  file

jboss-as-7.1.1.Final.zip

Install the java, to install the java you need to extract the jdk-7u21-linux-i586.tar file

tar -xvf  jdk-7u21-linux-i586.tar

Install JBoss, to install the JBoss you need to extract the jboss-as-7.1.1.Final.zip

unzip jboss-as-7.1.1.Final.zip

And here you have completed the installation of JBoss application server. This is the most simplest application server to install. Now lets see how to start the JBoss Application Server services in LINUX.

Starting  JBoss Services

To start the JBoss service goto the JBOSS_HOME/bin and execute the command ./standalone.sh. When I first time executed this command  I got a below error.

./standalone.sh: line 178: java: command not found

As I don’t have java installed as a rpm my JAVA_HOME is not set. And we have already discussed that JBoss required external java to run, so we need to set the JAVA_HOME before executing the start command. 

We can do that in multiple ways.

We can set it foe specific putty session by command

Export JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk1.7.0_21

Or you can set it in standalone.conf as JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk1.7.0_21. Here I have set it in standalone.conf so I don’t need to set it every time for every new putty session.

Now execute the command ./standalone.sh 

Access the admin console from below link

http://localhost:19990/console [port may change according to your configuration]

Hope this will help you. Kindly comment for your suggestion and quires.   

"Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.”

 Regards,

 Akhilesh B. Humbe

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