Francesco Marchioni - JBoss AS 7 Configuration, Deployment and Administration

Francesco Marchioni is a Sun Certified Enterprise Architect employed by an Italian company based in Rome. He started learning Java in 1997, and since then he has followed the path to the newest Application Program Interfaces released by Sun. He joined the JBoss Community in 2000, when the application server was running the release 2.X.

He has spent many years as a software consultant, where he has overseen many successful software migrations from vendor platforms to open source products such as JBoss AS, fulfilling the tight budget requirements of current times.

Over the last five years, he started authoring technical articles for O'Reilly Media and running an IT portal focused on JBoss products (http://www.mastertheboss.com).

In December 2009, he published the title "JBoss AS 5 Development", which describes how to create and deploy Java Enterprise applications on JBoss AS: http://www.packtpub.com/jboss-as-5-development/book.

In December 2010, he published his second title, "JBoss AS 5 Performance Tuning", which describes how to deliver fast and efficient applications on JBoss AS: http://www.packtpub.com/jboss-5-performance-tuning/book

I need to thank a lot of people for this book. First, I owe my hearty thanks to the JBoss community which helped me through this journey in developing a completely new product. In particular, I'd like to thank Jaikiran for sharing his experience as a reviewer of the book, improving its quality substantially. I'd like also to express my gratitude to Packt Publishing team that shared with me the challenge to write a book which was already rewritten many times as application server changed its skin. Last but not least, I'd like to thanks my wife Linda, who has kept doing housework patiently while I was writing the book, just asking when that damned JBoss thing will end.

Jaikiran Pai works at Red Hat and is part of the JBoss AS and EJB3 development team. In his role as a software developer, Jaikiran has been mainly involved in Java language and Java EE technologies. He completed his graduation in 2004 and started working in a software company in Pune, India. During this period, he developed an interest in JBoss Application Server and has been active in the JBoss community ever since. Subsequently, he joined Red Hat to be part of the JBoss EJB3 team.

Jaikiran is one of the co-authors of JBoss AS Getting Started DZone RefCard (http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/getting-started-jboss). When he's not doing anything JBoss related, you'll find him at his other favorite and friendly place - JavaRanch (http://www.javaranch.com), where he has been a moderator since 2007.

Deepak Vohra is a consultant and a principal member of the NuBean.com software company. Deepak is a Sun Certified Java Programmer and Web Component Developer and has worked in the fields of XML and Java programming and J2EE for over five years. Deepak is the co-author of the Apress book Pro XML Development with Java Technology, and he was the technical reviewer for the O'Reilly book WebLogic: The Definitive Guide. Deepak was also the technical reviewer for the Course Technology PTR book Ruby Programming for the Absolute Beginner and the technical editor for the Manning Publications book Prototype and Scriptaculous in Action. Deepak is also the author of the Packt Publishing books JDBC 4.0 and Oracle JDeveloper for J2EE Development, Processing XML Documents with Oracle JDeveloper 11g, and EJB 3.0 Database Persistence with Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g.

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This book is dedicated to my family who have always been there for me and in particular to my child Alessandro who's only four but wants to be an actor in theater. Never doubt about your dreams Alessandro, no matter how crazy they might be .

Francesco Marchioni

Preface

As the Java EE standard has evolved and matured, the API has become increasingly rich and complex. The next generation of application servers needs to be modular and configurable to run only specific services or containers. JBoss AS 7 promises to meet those requirements but the configuration of a complex application server is composed of a mix of administrative and management tasks which often overlap, generating confusion.