This document provides an overview of installing and administering the JBoss Application Server. It discusses topics such as installing JBoss AS, understanding its directory structure, deploying applications, configuring web and enterprise services, database integration, security, performance tuning, and clustering for high availability and scalability. The document is intended as a guide for working with the popular open source JBoss Application Server.

1. Contents
1. Overview of Java Enterprise Edition ................................................................................................. 1
2. Overview of JBoss Application Server ............................................................................................... 2
3. Installing JBoss AS ............................................................................................................................. 2
4. JBoss Directory Structure .................................................................................................................. 2
5. Controlling the Life-Cycle of JBoss AS ............................................................................................... 3
6. Deployments on JBoss ...................................................................................................................... 3
7. Web Application Administration....................................................................................................... 3
8. JNDI Administration .......................................................................................................................... 4
9. Javamail Administration .................................................................................................................... 4
11. Enterprise Java Beans Administration ............................................................................................ 5
12. Web Services and JBoss .................................................................................................................. 5
13. JMX Administration ......................................................................................................................... 6
14. Class Loading on JBoss .................................................................................................................... 6
15. Database Integration on JBoss ........................................................................................................ 7
16. Security on JBoss ............................................................................................................................. 7
17. Tuning JBoss .................................................................................................................................... 8
18. High Availability and Scalability on JBoss ........................................................................................ 8
1. Overview of Java Enterprise Edition
1.1. What is Java EE?
1.2. Open and Standard-based
1.3. Multi-tier
1.4. Web-Enabled
1.5. Server Centric
1.6. Component-Based Distributed Architecture
1.7. Enterprise Applications
1.8. Java EE Contents

2. 1.9. Java EE Services
2. Overview of JBoss Application Server
2.1. JBoss Organization
2.2. JBoss AS Background
2.3. Highlights of JBoss AS
2.4. What is new in JBoss AS 5?
2.5. JBoss AS Architecture
2.6. JBoss Microcontainer Layer
2.7. Services Layer
2.8. Aspect Layer
2.9. Application Layer
2.10. JBoss AS Services
2.11. JBoss AS Requirements
3. Installing JBoss AS
3.1. Getting and Installing Java
3.2. Configuring Java
3.3. Getting JBoss AS
3.4. Installing JBoss AS 5
4. JBoss Directory Structure
4.1. JBoss AS Directory Structure
4.2. The bin Directory
4.3. The client Directory
4.4. The common directory
4.5. The docs Directory
4.6. The lib Directory
4.7. The server Directory
4.8. The server Configuration Sets

3. 4.9. The default/confDirectory
4.10. The default/dataDirectory
4.11. The default/deployDirectory
4.12. The default/deployersDirectory
4.13. The default/libDirectory
4.14. The default/logDirectory
4.15. The default/tmpDirectory
4.16. The default/workDirectory
5. Controlling the Life-Cycle of JBoss AS
5.1. Starting JBoss AS
5.2. Verifying JBoss AS Startup
5.3. Stopping JBoss AS
5.4. Starting From a Remote Server
6. Deployments on JBoss
6.1. Java EE Deployment Lifecycle
6.2. Deployment Descriptors
6.3. Deployment on JBoss AS
6.4. Deployers on JBoss AS
6.5. Deployment Dependencies
6.6. Hot vs. Cold Deployment
6.7. Bootstrapping JBoss
6.8. Lab: Deployment
7. Web Application Administration
7.1. Web Technologies
7.2. CGI vs. Servlets/JSPs
7.3. Tomcat Web Container
7.4. Tomcat’s server.xml

4. 7.5. Tomcat’s web.xml
7.6. Defining and Mapping Servlets
7.7. Defining and Mapping Filters
7.8. Session Configuration
7.9. Welcome File List
7.10. Error Documents
7.11. Serving Static Content
7.12. Virtual Hosting with Tomcat
7.13. Web Access Logging
7.14. Lab: Tomcat
8. JNDI Administration
8.1. Java Naming and Directory Interface
8.2. JNDI in Java EE
8.3. JNDI on JBoss
8.4. Lab: JNDI View
9. Javamail Administration
9.1. What is JavaMail?
9.2. Configuring JavaMail Service
9.3. Lab: Mail
10. JMS Administration
10.1. JMS Overview
10.2. JMS in Java EE
10.3. When is JMS Used
10.4. JMS Architecture
10.5. JMS Messaging Domains
10.6. JMS Message Consumption

5. 10.7. JMS on JBoss Configuration
10.8. Configure JMS connection factories
10.9. Configure JMS destinations
10.10. Advanded JBoss Messaging
10.11. JBoss Messaging bridge
10.12. Persistence service configuration
10.13. Lab: JMS
11. Enterprise Java Beans Administration
11.1. Introduction to EJB 3.0
11.2. EJB 3.0 Components
11.3. EJB Container
11.4. Benefits of EJB Technology
11.5. Drawbacks of EJBs
11.6. Session Beans
11.7. Interceptors
11.8. Entity Beans
11.9. Message-Driven Bean
11.10. Session Beans Client Interfaces
11.11. Stateless Session Beans Life Cycle
11.12. Stateful Session Beans Life Cycle
11.13. Message-Driven Beans Life Cycle
11.14. Configuring the EJB container
11.15. Stateful Session Bean Configuration
11.16. Lab: Stateless Session Bean
12. Web Services and JBoss
12.1. Web Services Overview

6. 12.2. Service Oriented Architecture
12.3. Web Services With JAX-WS
12.4. Web Services on JBoss
12.5. JBoss Web Services Tools
12.6. Lab: Web Services
13. JMX Administration
13.1. What is JMX?
13.2. Why JMX?
13.3. JMX Architecture
13.4. JMX on JBoss AS
13.5. JMX Console
13.6. Web Console
13.7. Twiddle Tool
13.8. JBoss AS Administration Console
13.9. Lab: JMX Print Service
13.10. JBoss Monitoring
13.11. Snapshot and Web Console
13.12. Monitoring with JConsole
13.13. Scheduling on JBoss
13.14. Lab: Monitoring
14. Class Loading on JBoss
14.1. Class Namespace Isolation
14.2. Java Class Runtime Identity
14.3. Class Loading in Java EE
14.4. Class Loading On JBoss
14.5. The Class Loader

7. 14.6. Default Class Search Order
14.7. Scoping Classes
14.8. Scoped Class Search Order
14.9. App-specific Log4J Config
14.10. Problems With Class Loading
14.11. Lab: Class Loading
15. Database Integration on JBoss
15.1. Steps Involved
15.2. Resource Requirement
15.3. Install JDBC Drivers
15.4. Define a RDBMS DBCP Resource
15.5. Map our Resource
15.6. Using our DataSource(RDBMS DBCP)
15.7. Hypersonic Database
15.8. Detecting Connection Leaks
15.9. Lab: Database Connectivity
16. Security on JBoss
16.1. Securing Applications
16.2. Filtering Clients by Source
16.3. Authentication & Authorization
16.4. Requiring A&A
16.5. Plain-Text Login Module
16.6. Database Login Module
16.7. FORM-based Login
16.8. Configuring JBoss AS for SSL
16.9. Creating SSL Certificates

8. 16.10. Configure SSL Connector
16.11. Testing SSL Configuration
16.12. Requiring SSL in Apps
16.13. Lab: Application Security
16.14. Securing JMS destinations
16.15. Securing JBoss AS
16.16. JBoss AS System User
16.17. File System Security
16.18. Securing JMX Invoker
16.19. Securing JBoss Applications
16.20. Securing Hypersonic DB
16.21. Java Security Manager
16.22. Running Behind a Firewall
16.23. Lab: JBoss Security
17. Tuning JBoss
17.1. JVM Tuning
17.2. Tomcat Tuning
17.3. RMI Tuning
17.4. Log4J Tuning
17.5. Tuning Other Services
17.6. JMS Tuning
17.7. Slimming JBoss
18. High Availability and Scalability on JBoss
18.1. Requirements
18.2. Clustering: General understanding
18.3. Clustering and JBoss

9. 18.4. Simple Web Architecture
18.5. External Load Balancer Architecture
18.6. Smart Proxy Architecture
18.7. General configuration for the following examples
18.8. Fronting with a Web Server
18.9. Fronting with Apache HTTPD
18.10. Installing mod_jk
18.11. Configuring mod_jk
18.12. Simple Load Balancing
18.13. Enabling Sticky Sessions
18.14. Clustered Session Replication
18.15. Clustering Single Sign-On
18.16. Clustering with HA-JNDI
18.17. HA-JNDI Client Configuration
18.18. Clustering with HA-JMS
18.19. Clustering with Stateless Session Beans
18.20. Clustering with Stateful Session Beans
18.21. Lab: Clustering