Using Run.sh (Development) - Red Hat APPLICATION STACK 2.4 - RELEASE NOTES Release Note

Chapter 4. Using JBoss Application Server
http://localhost:8080/web-console
You can use the Web Console to administer JBoss Application Server.
The entire JBoss Application Server suite runs under a new jboss system user. It may be necessary
to use the 'su -s /bin/bash jboss' system command to deposit .ear / .war / .jar files
under the JBoss Application Server deployment directory, due to file system permissions. Alternatively,
a developer can be listed in the jboss user group by the system administrator. The best approach is
to use the Web Console (URL above) to deploy the application.
Note
Depositing files for which the user jboss has no read access in the deployment directory
will cause the server to fail to deploy.
To create additional JBoss Application Server configurations besides the provided 'default', 'minimal',
'all' and 'production', you must create a new directory for your configuration as follows (note the
switches given to the cp command):
export JBOSS_BASE=/var/lib/jbossas
cd $JBOSS_HOME
cp -pL -R server/default server/myownconfig
You can then change the configuration and request it to be used by setting the JBOSSCONF variable in
the file:
/etc/sysconfig/jbossas
Optionally, you can just set the JBOSSCONF variable in /etc/sysconfig/jbossas to a non-existent
subdirectory (existing parent with write access by the jboss user) or an empty directory (with write
access by jboss) and the init script will create a new configuration directory tree for you based on
the current "production" configuration when the service is first started. You can then stop the service,
adjust the configuration as desired, and start it again.
Note
Please note that automated updating of configurations created using method above is
not supported. If you create custom configurations, you will manually have to port files /
changes from a new update to that configuration.

4.2. Using run.sh (development)

For development, you can activate the JBoss Application Server with the familiar run.sh command
as usual. The jbossas RPM installs the JBOSS_HOME in
/var/lib/jbossas
So, you can cd to /var/lib/jbossas/bin and use run.sh from there.
If you wish to use a different JVM than the one that alternatives points to, you will need to set
JAVA_HOME first.
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