Installing and configuring JBoss

As you may have noticed if you installed Netbeans (the full version) as IDE, you have also installed the latest version of tomcat and the latest version of glassfish.
For many of you thoose servers may be enought to start writing code, and testing the available technologies.

With this post we will explain you how to install a new server: JBoss AS 7, that for many of you may be already a know resource, but for other may be a new one.

This server that will be installed is Java EE compliant, as glassfish is (remember that Tomcat is not), and is provided by JBoss (http://www.jboss.org/).

So let's start.


1) Install latest version of JBoss AS (7 currently, at the time of the post writing).

Instruction for doing so can be found here for those who use Windows OS
https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/AS7/Installing+and+starting+JBoss+AS+on+Windows

for the others who use Linux based systems or MacOS

https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/AS7/Installing+and+starting+JBoss+AS+on+Linux,+Unix+or+Mac+OS+X


We installed JBoss on windows 7, Mac Os 10.6 and Ubuntu 10.10 and the lastest Linux Mint (at writing time), it is working perfectly without any problem.

RECAP OF INSTALLING: unzip and choose a folder where to place it. That place will be - inside the jboss 7.1.x - the home for the server.

At this point you have JBoss AS 7 installed.

2) Configure IDE

For the sake of semplicity we'll use Eclipse for which there are the latest updates available coming directly from the jboss comunity (i have to say that personally i like more NetBeans - that atm does not support JBAS7).
Once you have eclipse installed follow the steps described here

https://www.jboss.org/tools/download/installation/update_4_0
(Section is "Installation from update site")

that said, continue with this steps to set up and use Jboss with eclipse

https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/AS7/Starting+JBoss+AS+from+Eclipse+with+JBoss+Tools

once you have finished this step your job is done.
You have successfully configured eclipse to use your jboss server.

Enjoy your server!

Ps: Note that the server provided in this way is suitable only for testing and building application to run on your localhost, for configuring your server in order to accept connection not only from localhost please check out this post http://javafortheweb.blogspot.it/2012/12/accessing-remote-ejb-on-jboss-as-71.html

EDIT: update on 10th april 2013. Tested on Mac OS 10.8.3. Working successfully!

Integrated Development Environment

There are very many tools that you may want to use for programming in your favourite language.
I will suggest some, that i found really very much helpful.

Since we're going to program with Java, the main IDEs available on line are in my opinion:

Icon di netbeans

• Netbeans
  current version (at the date of writing) 7.2 with a 7.3 beta version available
  You can find Netbeans here:
  http://netbeans.org/

Icon di Eclipse

• Eclipse
  current version: Juno.
  that can be found here:
  http://www.eclipse.org/

Both runs on Mac OS systems, Windows and linux based OS (mostly Debian distro derived like Ubuntu, Kubuntu etc etc)

Personally i like more Netbeans, don't ask me why because it would take too long to be explained.
For the purpose of programming for the web, testing or learning a new technology i suggest Netbeans in its full version (which supports also other programming languages like c/c++..).
Furthermore Netbeans come along with:

• Glassfish server version 3.1.2 (may vary)
• Apache Tomcat 7.0.27 (may vary)

Anyhow there will be some things that, for the sake of semplicity, we will do using Eclipse!
For the purpose of showing how does some technology works we will explain in another post how to install and configure JBoss which is another server Java EE compliant as Glassfish is.

Theese are the tools we're going to use. You will choose the Environment that you like more.
I think that an IDE helps a lot for programming, and simplify the life of programmers but you can still write code using:

• gedit
• notepad++

for example and feel to compile a part and run programs through the shell as well.