You can download the zip source file from http://labs.jboss.com/jbossas/downloads/.
- Uncompress
jboss-<release>-src.tar.gz
to extract the archive contents into the location of your choice. You can do this using thetar
archiving utility in Linux (or any other compatible extraction tool). In this example we are assuming your source files were copied in the/jboss
folder.[user@localhost]$ cd /jboss
[user@localhost]$ tar -xvfjboss-<release>-src.tar.gz
- You should now have a directory called
jboss-<release>-src.tar.gz
. The next step is to build your source files. In this example we are using Apache ANT. This is discussed in the following section.
Installing and configuring ANT
Apache Ant is a Java-based build tool. Instead of using an extended model using shell-based commands, Ant is extended using Java classes that use XML-based configuration files. The configuration files call out a target tree that executes various tasks. Each task is run by an object that implements a particular Task interface. This gives you the ability to perform cross platform builds. Please also note that if needed, Ant provides an <exec> task that allows commands to be executed based on the Operating System it is executing on. For more information on Apache ANT please click here.
You will need to build your JBoss Application Server source files before you can run the application server. Apache Ant is shipped with the JBoss Application Server source files and can be executed from the <source_directory>/tools/bin
directory.
The source files can also be built using Apache Maven which is also shipped with the JBoss Application Server source files under <source_directory>/tools/maven
directory. For more information about Apache Maven, please refer to http://maven.apache.org/.
Like Java, you also need to set the environment variables for Apache ANT and/or Apache Maven. The following example illustrates a desirable configuration for the .bashrc
file. In the example the file is edited using the gnome text editor (gedit
).
[user@localhost ~]$ gedit .bashrc
# Source global definitions
if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
/etc/bashrc
fi
......
# User specific aliases and functions
# The following are the environment variables for Java , ANT and Maven
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_07/
export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin
export ANT_HOME=/home/downloads/jboss-<source_directory>/tools/
export PATH=$PATH:$ANT_HOME/bin
export MAVEN_HOME=/home/downloads/jboss-<source_directory>/tools/maven
export PATH=$PATH:$MAVEN_HOME/bin
To implement the changes you've made to the .bashrc
file, type the following on a terminal.
[user@localhost ~]$ source .bashrc
[user@localhost ~]$
If any errors are displayed, please check your .bashrc
file for errors and ensure that all directory paths are correct.
Building with Apache ANT
To build the JBoss Application Server source files with Apache ANT, from a terminal change directory to where the unzipped source files are. In the following example we are assuming that the source files were copied and unzipped in the logged in user's downloads
folder.
[user@localhost]$ cd /home/user/downloads/jboss-<release>-src
/build
[user@localhost build]$ ls
aspects component-matrix docbook-support iiop jmx mbeans security system-jmx tools
bootstrap connector ejb3 j2se jmx-remoting messaging server testsuite varia
build console embedded jbossas main pom.xml spring-int thirdparty webservices
cluster deployment hibernate-int jbossmq management profileservice system tomcat
From the contents of the build
directory above, you can see the build.xml
file which is used by Apache ANT as a configuration file when building your source files. The next step is to perform the build using Apache ANT as illustrated below.
[user@localhost build]$ ant
compile-classes:
[mkdir] Created dir: /jboss/jboss-<release>-src/tomcat/output/classes
[javac] Compiling 89 source files to /jboss/jboss-<release>-src/tomcat/output/classes
....
....content truncated
.....
.....
_buildmagic:build-bypass-check:
jars:
most:
main:
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 2 seconds
A successful build will have the above message. If your build fails, please check the error log and ensure that your configuration files and environment variables are correctly set. The JBoss Application Server files are built under the build/output/jboss-<release>
directory as indicated below.
Note
At this point the JBoss Application Server source files build is a hybrid one (builds in both Ant and Maven) because it declares all JBoss dependencies as maven2 artifacts, however after the dependencies are resolved/imported the legacy ant based build is used to compile and build the distribution. The JBoss Application Server source files will change to a full maven build soon.
[user@localhost build]$ ls
build.bat build-old.xml build-thirdparty-old.xml eclipse.psf output
build-distr.xml build-release.xml build.xml etc pom.xml
build.log build.sh docs local.properties VersionRelease.java
[user@localhost build]$ cd output/jboss-<release>
[user@localhost build]$ ls
bin client docs lib server
The jboss-<release>
directory contains your successful JBoss Application Server files. You can copy this folder to a different location or run the server from this folder after setting the JBOSS_HOME environment variable in your .bashrc
file. Next you need to set your JBOSS_HOME environment variables. This is discussed in Setting the JBOSS_HOME variable.
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