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JBoss Tools 3 Developers Guide

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JBoss Tools 3 Developers Guide

Overview of this book

JBoss Tools consist of the best Java frameworks and technologies placed together under the same "roof". Discovering JBoss Tools is like exploring a cave; at first everything seems unknown and complicated, but once you become familiar with the main features of the Tools, you will start to feel at home. This is the first book in the market on JBoss Tools, waiting to assist you to throw away all the tiny, dedicated tools you have used earlier, thus helping you to reduce the time you spend on developing a Java application. This book will explore the tools that will help you to build Hibernate, Seam, JSF, Struts, Web Services, jBPM, ESB, and so on and show you how to use them through screenshots, examples, and source code. JBoss Tools comes with a set of dedicated wizards, generators, editors, reverse engineering capabilities, configuration files, templates, syntax highlighting, and more for each of these technologies. Just choose the technologies, and JBoss Tools will glue them together in amazing Java web applications. This book will show you how to develop a set of Java projects using a variety of technologies and scenarios. Everything is described through JBoss Tools "eyes". After we settle the project (or scenario) that will be developed, we configure the proper environment for the current tool (the selected projects cover the main components of a web application, with regard to the backstage technology). We continue by exploring the tool to accomplish our tasks and develop the project's components. A cocktail of images, theoretical aspects, source code, and step-by-step examples will offer you a complete insight into every tool. At the end, we deploy and test the project. In addition, every chapter is rich with pure notions about the underlying technology, which will initiate into you or remind you of the basic aspects of it. It will also show you complete and functional applications, and get you familiar with the main aspects of every tool. By the end you will have enough information to successfully handle your own projects with JBoss Tools.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
JBoss Tools 3 Developer's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Downloading and installing the JBossESB Server


In principle, there are three ways of running JBossESB. They are as follows:

  • Deploy it on JBoss AS or JBossESB Server

  • Deploy it on Apache Tomcat

  • Run it standalone

Most commonly the JBossESB components are deployed on a JBossESB Server. "Why?", you may ask. Because, it offers the best support for JBossESB functionalities, it has a great boot time, no additional installations are required, and the deployment is straightforward. The biggest disadvantage of JBossESB Server is that it doesn't support EAR deployment (only WAR and SAR) and doesn't offer EJB3 support. If you want to use these kinds of facilities, then you need the JBoss AS with JBoss ESB 4.4 GA distribution. In conclusion, choosing between these two is subjective, related directly to and dependent on our projects needs. We suggest that you use the JBossESB Server in this chapter.

The JBossESB Server can be downloaded from http://www.jboss.org/jbossesb/downloads/. At this address, there...