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To build the JBoss Application Server source files with Apache ANT, from a terminal change directory to where the unzipped source files are. In the following example we are assuming that the source files were copied and unzipped in the logged in user's downloads folder.
[user@localhost]$ cd /home/user/downloads/jboss-<release>-src/build
[user@localhost build]$ ls
aspects component-matrix docbook-support iiop jmx mbeans security system-jmx tools
bootstrap connector ejb3 j2se jmx-remoting messaging server testsuite varia
build console embedded jbossas main pom.xml spring-int thirdparty webservices
cluster deployment hibernate-int jbossmq management profileservice system tomcat
From the contents of the build directory above, you can see the build.xml file which is used by Apache ANT as a configuration file when building your source files.
The next step is to perform the build using Apache ANT as illustrated below.
[user@localhost build]$ ant compile-classes: [mkdir] Created dir: /jboss/jboss-<release>-src/tomcat/output/classes [javac] Compiling 89 source files to /jboss/jboss-<release>-src/tomcat/output/classes .... ....content truncated ..... ..... _buildmagic:build-bypass-check: jars: most: main: BUILD SUCCESSFUL Total time: 2 seconds
A successful build will have the above message. If your build fails, please check the error log and ensure that your configuration files and environment variables are correctly set. The JBoss Application Server files are built under the build/output/jboss-<release> directory as indicated below.
At this point the JBoss Application Server source files build is a hybrid one (builds in both Ant and Maven) because it declares all JBoss dependencies as maven2 artifacts, however after the dependencies are resolved/imported the legacy ant based build is used to compile and build the distribution. The JBoss Application Server source files will change to a full maven build soon.
[user@localhost build]$ ls build.bat build-old.xml build-thirdparty-old.xml eclipse.psf output build-distr.xml build-release.xml build.xml etc pom.xml build.log build.sh docs local.properties VersionRelease.java [user@localhost build]$ cd output/jboss-<release> [user@localhost build]$ ls bin client docs lib server
The jboss-<release> directory contains your successful JBoss Application Server files. You can copy this folder to a different location or run the server from this folder after setting the JBOSS_HOME environment variable in your .bashrc file. Next you need to set your JBOSS_HOME environment variables. This is discussed in Chapter 5, Setting the JBOSS_HOME variable
.