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A complete ready to use development environment for JBoss AS and Portal using Eclipse 3.1.2 and JBoss 4.0.4

Features

Collegiate:
No

One-line Description:
A complete ready to use development environment for JBoss AS and Portal using Eclipse 3.1.2 and JBoss 4.0.4

Filename:
Client First Technologies JBoss Development VM.zip

Size Compressed:
2,022,627 KB

Allocated Memory:
384

Username:
student

Password:
student

VMware Tools Installed?:
Yes

Operating System:
Debian Linux

Applications:
JBoss 4.0.4
JBoss Portal 2.2
Eclipse 3.1.2
JBoss IDE1.5.0
MySQL
Apache
Java SE 1.5
Java J2EE 1.4

Description:
1. What does the appliance do, and what are its uses and benefits to the intended audience in the VMware community. The judging panel is interested to know what is unique about this appliance, why users will want to download and run it, and how they will use it.
The virtual appliance is a fully integrated Java development environment which include JBoss J2EE application server, JBoss Portal, Eclipse IDE, and MySQL. This appliance can be used as a “out of the box” standalone development environment, Java training environment, and J2EE testing environment. The benefits of using this appliance is that no time is wasted building a complex environment. All work created in this environment can be easily deployed to other development environments. This appliance is capable of creating transportable Java workspaces on USB storage devices.
2. How was the appliance built, summarizing the steps involved. Describe what optimizations were made, for example any changes you made to the underlying operating system to optimize it for size or functionality, or any special application configurations you made that increase the usefulness of the appliance.
The appliance was built to solve the problem of developers having to struggle with the complex task of building a Unix development environment on their PC. It was built using limited memory (384meg) and 10 gig disk storage. The base operating system is Debian Linux, the IDE is Eclipse, the data server is MySQL, the application server is JBoss, the Java environment is SE 1.5 and J2EE 1.4. USB capability was incorporated to allow for the importing and exporting code from and to the PC’s USB port. Including JBoss portal into the appliance gives the user a true commercial development environment.
3. Detailed instructions to start using the Appliance and the location of any other documentation.
Step 1 Extraction and loading of appliance
Extract the zip file to a directory on PC. Once extracted a directory called “JBoss Development” will be created with the following files
Other Linux-000003-cl2
Otherlinux
otherlinux.nvram
otherlinux.vmsd
otherlinux.vmx.lck
vmware
Step 2 Start the virtual machine
Once extracted start the virtual machine located in the “JBoss Development” directory. (Other Linux-000003-cl2)
Step 3 Login into Unix environment
Use the following ID to access the system in normal mode (non root)
Userid: student
Password: student
To login as root use telnet and the following ID
Userid: root
Password: jboss
Step 4 Starting the JBoss application server
Once logged onto the system using the student ID in Step 3 above
start a system command prompt window (Xterm)
issue the “su” command to log in as “root”
enter the password “jboss”
once logged in as root enter the following commands
cd /user/jboss-4.0.4.GA/bin
./run.sh
At the completion of the “./run.sh” command a message should be displayed that is similar to “Started in 20s:543ms”. It will take a few minutes to see this message depending on machine. The log of the activity going on will scroll past the window. This window needs to remain open. Closing the window will shutdown the JBoss application server.
Step 5 Test the JBoss application server and portal
Open a Mozilla window and type the following URL
http://localhost:8080/portal to see the portal
http://localhost:8080 to see the application server main screen
to login to the portal as a user
User ID: user
Password: user
To login to the portal as administrator
User ID: admin
Password: admin
Step 6 Start Eclipse IDE and begin development of J2EE applications.
A complete 50 page tutorial in PDF form is located on the desktop of the virtual appliance.
4. The names of any licensed operating systems, applications, or other components in your appliance, and the licenses (names or URLs) under which you are using them.
From the sun site:
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2006-05/sunflash.20060516.4.xml
for Debain Linux:
http://s2.selwerd.nl/~erik/debian/debian-faq-15.html
From JBoss:
http://www.jboss.org
From Ecplise:
http://www.eclipse.org/legal/eplfaq.php

Technical Specifications

Operating System:

Debian Linux

VMware Tools installed: No

Size: 2MB

Allocated Memory (RAM): 384MB

Applications Installed:

JBoss 4.0.4JBoss Portal 2.2Eclipse 3.1.2JBoss IDE1.5.0MySQL ApacheJava SE 1.5 Java J2EE 1.4

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