Installation

In order to use AS7 (JBossWeb) for developing web applications, you must first install it (and the software it depends on). The required steps are outlined in the following subsections.

JDK

AS7 was designed to run on J2SE 6.0.

Compatible JDKs for many platforms (or links to where they can be found) are available at http://java.sun.com/j2se/.

AS7

Binary downloads of the AS7 server are available from JBoss Application Server downloads. This manual assumes you are using the most recent release of AS7. Detailed instructions for downloading and installing AS7 are available here.

Ant

Binary downloads of the Ant build tool are available from http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi. This manual assumes you are using Ant 1.4 or later. The instructions should also be compatible with later versions, but this has not been tested.

Download and install Ant from the distribution directory mentioned above. Then, add the bin directory of the Ant distribution to your PATH environment variable, following the standard practices for your operating system platform. Once you have done this, you will be able to execute the ant shell command directly.

CVS

Besides the required tools described above, you are strongly encouraged to download and install a source code control system, such as the Concurrent Version System (CVS), to maintain historical versions of the source files that make up your web application. Besides the server, you will also need appropriate client tools to check out source code files, and check in modified versions.

Detailed instructions for installing and using source code control applications is beyond the scope of this manual. However, CVS server and client tools for many platforms (along with documentation) can be downloaded from http://www.cvshome.org.