How To Install JBoss AS 7 in Ubuntu

This guide is aimed at developers wanting to set up their development environment.

First, you should have a JDK-7 installed on your machine. If you have a JDK-8, JBoss AS 7.x will not start.
Then, in your .profile file, set the JAVA_HOME environment variable pointing to java installation.

To download JBoss 7 application server issue the following command on terminal:

wget http://download.jboss.org/jbossas/7.1/jboss-as-7.1.1.Final/jboss-as-7.1.1.Final.tar.gz

Untar the archive:

tar -xvf jboss-as-7.1.1.Final.tar.gz 

Copy the directory to /opt/redhat-jboss-as-7:

sudo cp -r jboss-as-7.1.1.Final /opt/redhat-jboss-as-7

You don't want the jboss process to run as root on your machine, so you need to change the owner and owner group of jboss. Assume you are logged as the user max, to set the owner user and owner group on the jboss directory, issue the following command:

sudo chown -R max:max /opt/redhat-jboss-as-7

To start JBoss type on the shell:

max@ubuntu-host:/opt/redhat-jboss-as-7/bin$ ./standalone.sh

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Install Oracle's JDK

Install Java, see here

Set the JAVA_HOME, CATALINA_HOME and PATH environment variables

The JAVA_HOME variable is used by Java Servers such as Tomcat and JBoss.

The CATALINA_HOME variable is required by when running Tomcat from command line to locate the files stored in $CATALINA_HOME/conf and $CATALINA_HOME/logs directories.

To set user environment variables edit the ~/.profile:

max@ubuntu-host:~$ nano ~.profile

Append the following lines to the ~.profile file:

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle
export CATALINA_HOME=/opt/apache-tomcat-8.0.38
export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin:$CATALINA_HOME/bin

How to Install Java In Ubuntu

Which Version of Java to Use?

• JDK 7 supports:
• eclipse version 4.4 - 4.5
• JBoss AS 7 with Java EE 6 features
• Tomcat 7-8 with WebSockets
• JDK 8 (LTS) supports:
• eclipse from eclipse Neon (4.6) to eclipse 2020-06 (4.16)
• WildFly from 8 to 13 with Java EE 7 features
• WildFly from 14 to 25 with Jakarta EE 8 features
• Tomcat 9 with Java EE 8 features
• Eclipse GlassFish 5.1.0 with Java EE 8 and Jakarta EE 8
• Eclipse Glassfish 6.0.0 with Jakarta EE 9
• JDK 11 (LTS) supports:
• eclipse IDE from Eclipse 4.17 (2020-09) to Eclipse 4.24 (2022-06)
• Eclipse Glassfish 6.1 with Jakarta EE 9.1
• JDK 17 (LTS) supports:
• eclipse IDE from eclipse 4.25 (2022-09) to eclipse 4.28 (2023-06)
• Eclipse Glassfish 6.2.2 with Jakarta EE 9.1

By march 2019, Java SE 8 will go through the End of Public Updates process, because it is a legacy release.

The java programming language is an open source project. The OpenJDK community works for a free open-source implementation of the Java SE standard and Oracle contribute to the OpenJDK project. Beginning with Java SE 11 (September 2018, LTS), Oracle provide free releases and commercially supported releases for use with Oracle products: OpenJDK (free) and Oracle JDK (commercial) builds from Oracle. The OpenJDK project is the basis for both OpenJDK and Oracle JDK builds: applications will run interchangeably on Oracle JDK-11 and OpenJDK JDK-11.