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
