Chapter 1. Vote for JBoss
Figure 1.1. The left side shows an application that runs outside of an application server. The right side shows an application that plugs into the application server.
Figure 1.2. You can use the Environment Variables dialog under Windows XP’s System Properties to configure the JAVA_HOME environment variable.
Figure 1.3. Prepared configurations available through the installer
Figure 1.4. The top-level directories in the JBoss AS directory structure
Figure 1.5. Services running on top of the microcontainer
Figure 1.6. The directory structure of a server configuration before starting the server for the first time. After you start the server for the first time, several temporary directories are additionally created.
Figure 1.7. To create a custom configuration, start by copying one of the prepackaged configurations under the server directory.
Figure 1.8. You can see the Welcome page from a web browser after the server starts.
Figure 1.9. You can deploy an application to the server by copying it into the deploy directory, and you can remove an application by deleting it from the deploy directory.
Figure 1.10. The contents of the directory structure you’ll use to build the Hello World! application.
Figure 1.11. You can deploy the sample application by moving the helloapp.war directory into the deploy directory under the default server configuration in JBoss AS.