This installation procedure worked on a Redhat 6.2 Linux server which did
not have the X Window System installed.
Server Requirements:
Hardware: This procedure worked on a 100 MHz Pentium with 96 MB RAM and a 2
GB hard disk. The final jBoss installation required about 5 MB hard disk
space. Xvfb required about 4 MB.
JDK: This procedure worked with JDK 1.2.2, with only one small problem (a
missing shutdown hook).
1) Login as root and create a new directory, /usr/local/jboss. (You could
use another directory; you'll need to adjust the paths given in this
procedure.)
# mkdir /usr/local/jboss
# cd /usr/local/jboss
2) Download the binary distribution (zip file) from
<http://www.jboss.org/binary.htm>. Because you're probably not browsing the
Web from the Linux box, you could either download the file to your
workstation then upload it to your server, or you could use this command:
# lynx -source http://www.dreambean.com/download/rickard/jBoss-2.0.zip >
jBoss-2.0.zip
3) Unzip the binary distribution:
# unzip jBoss-2.0.zip
# rm -f jBoss-2.0.zip
4) jBoss must be able to write to three directories at run time: tmp/, log/
and possibly deploy/. A simple (but possibly dangerous) way to set this up
is to run the jBoss container as user root. You might also need to change
the permissions so that other users (like user nobody) can write to these
directories.
# chmod -R a+rwx deploy log tmp
5) Because the EJX classes use AWT, jBoss currently requires an X server to
run (even though the container itself doesn't display anything in X), so
you'll need to install Xvfb (or a full installation of XFree86). (See jBoss
Bugzilla, bug #42.) This worked for me:
# rpm --install
ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/redhat-6.2/i386/RedHat/RPMS/XFree86-Xvfb-3.3.
6-20.i386.rpm
# Xvfb :0 -fp
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/l
ib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/ &
# setenv DISPLAY 0:0
(To set up your server so that Xvfb will run every time you reboot, use
chkconfig. See the man page.)
OPTIONAL: You may also need to install some X fonts:
# rpm --install
ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/conectiva/4.0/i386/conectiva/RPMS//XFree86-75dpi-fon
ts-3.3.3.1-55cl.i386.rpm
6) At this point, you should have everything ready to run the jBoss container.
# java -classic -jar /usr/local/jboss/bin/run.jar &
(Again, if you want this to run every time your server reboots, use chkconfig.)
7) Now you should be able to run a test client:
java -cp
/usr/local/jboss/lib/ext/jndi.jar:/usr/local/jboss/lib/ext/jboss-client.jar:
/usr/local/jdk1.2.2/lib:/usr/local/jboss/bin/run.jar:/usr/local/jboss/bin/ej
x.jar:/usr/local/jboss/lib/jmxri.jar:/usr/local/jboss/lib/ext/ejb.jar:/usr/l
ocal/jboss/lib/ext/jnpserver.jar:/usr/local/jboss/deploy/classes
org.ejboss.test.hello.client.Main
Please report errors to Ken Jenks, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eventually, I'll
work with the rest of the jBoss team to put these procedures on the Web site.
-- Ken Jenks, http://abiblion.com/
Tools for reading.
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