Getting Started Guide

Your guide to starting out with the JBoss ESB

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Abstract

A guide to the initial installation and configuration of the JBoss Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).


The quickest way to get started using JBoss ESB is by running one of the quickstarts in the samples/quickstarts folder. This will also perform a basic validation of your system. Before doing this however, be sure to check that your system meets the following minimum requirements:

  1. JDK 6 (v1.6.0_21 recommended)

  2. Ant (v1.8.1 recommended)

  3. JBoss Application Server 4.2.x.GA or JBoss ESB Server 4.12

There are two ways to run JBossESB. You can deploy it to JBossAS / JBossESB Server, or run standalone. This guide will concentrate on the JBoss Application Server / JBoss ESB Server scenario because these scenarios are the most common and provide the largest range of functionality to users. We suggest using the JBoss ESB Server for this guide.

The ESB components can also be deployed directly to the JBoss Application Server. If you require .EAR deployment or if you require EJB3, then you will want to use the JBoss Application Server. Below are the steps needed to install JBoss ESB to the JBoss Application server. If you plan to use the JBoss ESB Server, no additional installation is required.

The JBoss ESB Server is an application server that serves as a convenient and lightweight container to deploy to. It is a stripped down version of the JBoss application server that will deploy all of your WAR, SAR, but does not contain EJB3 libraries or deployers. The main advantage of using the ESB Server over using the JBoss ESB 4.12 Server is that it has a much quicker boot time than the JBoss Application Server, which is helpful during development.

This document assumes you have Ant (1.6.5 or higher) and Java5 installed on your machine, and that you have a fresh copy of JBossAS. So now go and download the JBoss ESB 4.8 distribution from http://labs.jboss.com/portal/jbossesb/downloads. There are three corresponding distribution versions, jbossesb-server-{version}, jbossesb-{version} and jbossesb-{version}-src. The standalone JBossESB Server execution requires the jbossesb-server-{version} distribution while deployed execution requires the jbossesb-{version} distribution.

If you wish to use the JBoss Application Server, download the JBoss ESB 4.8 distribution from the above URL. Then download JBoss AS 4.2.3.GA from http://labs.jboss.com/portal/jbossesb/downloads. JBoss AS 5 is supported starting from version 5.1.0.GA and can be downloaded from the same location.

  1. Download JBoss AS 5.1.0.GA from http://www.jboss.org/jbossas/downloads/ and unzip it.

  2. Follow the same steps as listed above for “Installation to the JBoss Application Server (not required for ESB Server)”

    
    # application server root directory
    org.jboss.esb.server.home=/jboss-5.1.0.GA
    # the instance of jboss you are running(default)
    org.jboss.esb.server.config=default

    Note

    Depending on whether you access certain application (like the jopr console) you might need to increase the memory settings when starting the server (in run.conf):

    
    -Xms128m -Xmx512m -XX:PermSize=200m -XX:MaxPermSize=500m
  1. Download JBoss AS 6.0.0.Final from http://www.jboss.org/jbossas/downloads/ and unzip it.

  2. Follow the same steps as listed above for “Installation to the JBoss Application Server (not required for ESB Server)”

    
    # application server root directory
    org.jboss.esb.server.home=/jboss-6.0.0.Final
    # the instance of jboss you are running(default)
    org.jboss.esb.server.config=default

    Note

    Depending on whether you access certain application (like the jopr console) you might need to increase the memory settings when starting the server (in run.conf):

    
    -Xms128m -Xmx512m -XX:PermSize=200m -XX:MaxPermSize=500m

JBossESB is packaged and shipped with base services. A service should be deployed in an ESB archive consisting of an action code + configuration. The idea behind an ESB archive is that it is a deployable service unit. An ESB archive is simply a zip file with an .esb extension. You can deploy as many ESB archives as you please. You can influence the deployment order of archives using the deployment.xml, which specifies start-order dependencies.

Typically you would deploy an ESB archive to the 'deploy' directory. ESB archives should enable you to move services between servers simply by moving the corresponding ESB archive. An ESB archive file has the following structure:

├───META-INF
│   ├───jboss-esb.xml
│   ├───deployment.xml
│   └───MANIFEST.MF
├───<java classes>
├───<jars>
└───<queue-service.xml>

JBossESB ships with a number of standard service archives:

These services are deployed by default, but you should be able to remove them if you don't need these service deployments.

This QuickStart allows you get up and running with JBossESB, out of the box. It is located in the distribution under samples/quickstarts/helloworld/.

To run this QuickStart following Running the Helloworld QuickStart.

You can find more detailed directions on how to setup the quickstart examples by running "ant help-quickstarts" under any of the specific quickstart directories. To get information on how to run a particular quickstart under different deployment scenarios, change directory to the specific quickstart and type "ant help".

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B. Revision History

Revision History
Revision 1Fri Jul 16 2010David Le Sage, Darrin Mison
Initial conversion from OpenOffice ODT files.