Starting from JBoss Application Server 7, HornetQ has been integrated into the distribution as the JBoss default messaging provider. Armed with the HornetQ standalone application server concepts, we can move on to see how to configure HornetQ in JBoss AS 7. First you need to download the application server from http://www.jboss.org/jbossas/downloads/, and then you need to download the file release for 7.0.1 Thunder. If you downloaded a previous version, do not forget to download the full version, because the web version does not contain HornetQ as a module.
Once you download the ZIP file on Windows or Linux, you need to unzip it to have a JBOSS_ROOT
folder. In our Linux environment, we have our JBOSS_ROOT
folder under /jboss-as-7.1.0.Final
.
JBoss uses XML files for configuring the optional module that should be launched with the application server when it is started. They are placed in the JBOSS_ROOT\standalone\configuration\
folder. Unfortunately, running JBoss without...