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The JBoss Server - A Quick Tour"</span><span class="p">></span> </code></pre></div> <p>Unknown end tag for </head></p> <div class="codehilite"><pre><span></span><code><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"> </code></pre></div> <p>Chapter 1. Getting Started</p> <p>Prev <br> <br> Next</p> <hr> <p>Unknown end tag for </div></p> <h2 id="h-chapternbsp1nbspgetting-started">Chapter 1. Getting Started</h2> <h2 id="h-11nbspdownloading-and-installing-jboss">1.1. Downloading and Installing JBoss</h2> <p>The JBoss application server is available as a free download from the JBoss </p> <blockquote> <p>website. (<a href="http://www.jboss.org/downloads/index">http://www.jboss.org/downloads/index</a>) We provide both a binary and source distribution, but if you are just getting started with JBoss, stick to the binary distribution, which can be run straight out of the box.</p> </blockquote> <p>The binary versions are available as either <code>.zip</code>, </p> <blockquote> <p><code>.tar.gz</code>, <code>.bz2</code> files. The contents are the </p> </blockquote> <p>same so grab whichever flavor is most convenient for the platform you’re running on. Once it's downloaded, unpack the archive to a suitable location on your machine. It should all unpack into a single directory named <code>jboss-4.0.2</code>. Of course the version number suffix will be different if you are running a later release. Make sure you don't use a directory which has any spaces in the path (such as the <code>Program Files</code> directory on Windows) as this may cause problems. </p> <p>The only additional requirement to run JBoss is to have an up-to-date version of Java on your machine. JBoss 4.0 requires at least a Java 1.4 or Java 1.5 JVM. (the JDK is no longer required to run JBoss) You should also make sure the </p> <blockquote> <p><code>JAVA_HOME</code> environment variable is set to point to your JDK </p> </blockquote> <p>installation.</p> <h2 id="h-12nbspstarting-the-server">1.2. Starting the Server</h2> <p>Our first step is to try running the server. You'll find a <code>bin</code> directory inside the main JBoss directory which contains various scripts. Execute the <code>run</code> script (<code>run.bat</code> if you're on Windows, </p> <blockquote> <p><code>run.sh</code> if you're on Linux, OS X, or another UNIX-like </p> </blockquote> <p>system). You should then see the log messages from all the JBoss components as they are deployed and started up. The last message (obviously with different values for the time and start-up speed) should look like the following.</p> <div class="codehilite"><pre><span></span><code><span class="mi">12</span><span class="err">:</span><span class="mi">31</span><span class="err">:</span><span class="mi">23</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">996</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">INFO</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">[</span><span class="n">Server</span><span class="o">]</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">JBoss</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">MX</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">MicroKernel</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">[</span><span class="n">4.0.2 (build: CVSTag=JBoss_4_0_2 date=</span> <span class="n">200504191712)</span><span class="o">]</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">Started</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="ow">in</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="mi">47</span><span class="nl">s</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="mi">608</span><span class="n">ms</span> </code></pre></div> <p>You can verify that the server is running by going the JBoss web server, which is running on port 8080. (Make sure you don't have anything else already on your machine using that port) The default page has links to a few useful JBoss resources. </p> </blockquote></title>