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3. Sample Project 

How to write a JBoss Project 

Skeleton of a JBoss Project 

One of the bigger hurdles for a novice to JBoss application server is how to start a project: 

Which components are required and how to wrap them into a time saving project 

environment to reduce overhead at very beginning? 

Here we will discuss how a project should be structured. It is not the only way and most 

likely you will come up with a better solution for your needs but this chapter will help you 

jump start your project. Whenever you are familiar with the setup of a project please skip 

this chapter and jump to the next one. 

Note: we will not discuss a version control tool (like CVS) because this is out of scope of this 

book. More for information and help about this topic please have a look a 

www.cvs.org

. 

A J2EE project contains for different parts: 

Build system 

EJBs / Resources 

Clients (Web, Java, etc.) 

Tests 

You will find all these components in JBoss as well and if it is working for JBoss it will also 

work for you inclusive the testing. Now let us have a closer look at them. 

Build System 

A build system allows you to rebuild your system after you made changes in the code or 

added new components. In general we have 4 ways to do so: 

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