The JBoss AS Administration Console is a SEAM-based web application for managing and monitoring a single JBoss AS instance. Known in the community as the open source project Embedded Jopr (pronounced "jopper"): Embedded because it runs inside a JBoss Application Server and Jopr because it uses the same infrastructure the Jopr project which is the open source enterprise management solution for JBoss middleware projects. The JBoss AS Administration Console (also referred to as Console in this guide) has been included in JBoss Application Server distributions since release 5.1.0. Successive releases continue to improve the server management capabilities eventually replacing the jmx- and web consoles.
This release of the Administration Console provides the following administrative features:
Deploy, Undeploy, and Update Enterprise Applications including:
Enterprise Applications (EARs)
Web Applications (WARs)
Resource Adapters(RARs)
EJB JARs (EJB2 and EJB3)
Persistent configuration changes for the following resources:
Datasources
Connection Factories
Service Binding Manager
JMS Queues and Topics based on JBoss Messaging
View statistics and carry out operations on many other components:
JBoss Application Server examples: version, memory usage, thread count and stop operation
Hibernate Session factories
JBoss Web vhosts: supported aliases
JBoss Web connectors: for example, Maximum Request Time
EARs and WARs: for example, Average Response Time and lifecycle operations (start, stop and reload)
Monitor all standard JVM metrics and execute operations. For example, garbage collection.
Let's take a closer look at how easy it is to manage your JBoss AS instance from a single administration point.