jboss on f11 -- is it this simple?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, arijit sarkar wrote:

> > > -------- Forwarded Message --------
> > > From: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>
> > > Reply-to: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using
> > > Fedora." <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> > > To: Fedora List <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> > > Subject: jboss on f11 -- is it this simple?
> > > Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:44:59 -0400 (EDT)
> > >
> > > as a followup to a post of mine yesterday, and after mining through
> > > ***way*** too verbose documentation all over the place, this seems to
> > > be the recipe for installing and running jboss app server 5.1.0 on my
> > > x86_64 f11 system -- perhaps someone who has a clue about this sort of
> > > thing can verify this:
> > >
> > > 1) get
> > > https://sourceforge.net/projects/jboss/files/JBoss/jboss-5.1.0.GA-jdk6.zip
> > > 2) unload it somewhere under my home directory
> > > 3) set env var JBOSS_HOME appropriately
> > > 4) "sh run.sh" in jboss' "bin/" directory
> > > 5) browse over to localhost:8080 and see the result
> > >
> > >   is that about right?  i'm not sure why the online docs seem to think
> > > something like that requires page after page of explanation.
>
> Yes, I run jboss this way. This will work fine.
>
> initial username / password is 'admin' / 'admin' (without quotes).

  one more question, if i might -- one of the online docs suggested
that i add the installed JBOSS "bin" directory to my search path PATH.
i'm not sure if that's essential for proper jboss operation, or
whether that was suggested only to make running the jboss startup
script "run.sh" easier to invoke no matter where you are, and for no
other reason.

  if it's the latter, i'd just as soon keep that entry out of my
search path since i prefer to have a minimalist search path.  i see no
reason to pollute it with another directory for the sake of a single
startup script whose absolute filename i'm willing to type when i need
it.

rday
--

========================================================================
Robert P. J. Day                               Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA

        Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry.

Web page:                                          http://crashcourse.ca
Twitter:                                       http://twitter.com/rpjday
"Kernel Newbie Corner" column @ linux.com:          http://cli.gs/WG6WYX
========================================================================