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Application Server Overview

JBoss is an open-source highly popular Java-based application server. Based on the Java 2, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) platform, JBoss provides an affordable delivery system for enterprise applications. Applications that follow the J2EE standard can be deployed on other application servers, such as WebLogic, WebSphere, and JRun, with little or no modification. JBoss provides many useful features in addition those defined in the J2EE standard, including support for clustering, session replication, mail, and security.

Mac OS X Server includes two easy-to-use, HTML-based tools that facilitate the configuration of J2EE applications for deployment: The deployment tool and the management tool. The deployment tool allows you to open application or component archives (EAR files, WAR files, JAR files, SAR files, and so on) without having to manually decompress the archives. The application lets you view or change the values of settings specified in the META-INF and WEB-INF directories of the archives. See “Configuring Applications” for more information.

The management tool allows you to manage application servers (JBoss instances) running on one or more computers. This application lets you start and stop services provided by individual application servers, configure services, and create data sources, queues, and topics. See “Administering Application Servers” for details.

This chapter provides an overview of JBoss for Mac OS X Server.

Contents:

JBoss in Mac OS X Server
Three Deployment Configurations

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