F I R S T   S T E P S :   B R I N G   J B O S S   T O   L I F E  

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2. First Steps: Bring JBoss to Life 

Download, compile, start and test your JBoss 3.0 

Application Server 

Before you can start deploying your J2EE applications you need to download, compile or 

install and test your JBoss 3.0 application server. This chapter shows how to do this with 

the source and binary distribution. At the end you will have a complete and tested 

application server. 

Binary Download 

You can download JBoss ready to run. Because JBoss comes with a simple embedded 

Database (Hypersonic) and a web server  (JBossWEB or Tomcat) you can use it out of the 

box without any initial configuration. 

You can find the binary downloads either on from the  

JBoss Project Page on Source Forge: here you will always find the most and up to 

date downloads, the bug and patch databases and much more. 

http://sourceforge.net/projects/jboss 

JBoss Home Page: here you will find much useful information about JBoss, the 

official, free forums, project information etc. and also the download page. 

http://www.jboss.org/downloads.jsp 

All downloads are binary downloads except the one listed with " src" at the end of the file 

(before the extension). Therefore this file "JBoss 2.4.4 src.tgz" contains the source code.  

To download JBoss, click on the version you want and save it to your disk.  This manual 

covers JBoss 3.0 specifically but a lot of it still applies to 2.4.  For some files (on windows box 

files with extension "tgz") must be forced to be downloaded because the browsers tries to 

download and present it as regular page. On Windows make a right click on the link and 

select "Save As" (Netscape) or "Save Target As" (IE). 

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