Enterprise Application Servers CookBook - Part 2: JBoss EAP

This book is part of a series of books which are about the three core Java Enterprise application servers. Every part covers the aspects related to the administration and configuration of the application server, including some highlights about developing portable applications. All recipes are based on real world experiences and derived from proven solutions running in Enterprise environments.

Part I discusses about Oracle Weblogic Server, which is one of the core components of Oracle Fusion Middleware
Part II is about JBoss Enterprise Application Platform the commercial product from Red Hat derived from the popular open source application server (JBoss AS).
Part III discusses about IBM Websphere which is the IBM product for developing and running Java enterprise software.

This book covers JBoss EAP 6.1(Enterprise Application Platform) which is the commerical version of the popular opensource application server. The book aims to provide a quick reference to all aspects related to the configuration, administration and management of this application server. Here is the list of chapters which are included in this book:
Chapter 1, Application server installation: How to download and install JBoss EAP. Comparing the Opensource version and the EAP version.How to install it as a service.
Chapter 2, Application server Configuration: The application server file system and its core components. How to perform basic management operations.
Chapter 3, Configuring Database connectivity: How to configure a data source connection to a Database. How to define deployable Datasources.
Chapter 4, Application servers pool configuration: Configuring the core pool services including EJB pool and caches, Thread pools and Web server pool configuration.
Chapter 5, Configuring Logs: locating the application server€s logs. Customizing the logging type and format. Advanced JBoss EAP logging features.
Chapter 6, Setting up Java Messaging Service: Configuring JMS components and leveraging the JBoss EAP built-in provider JMS features.
Chapter 7, Developing applications: How to install a development environment for JBoss EAP. Common development best practices to increase applications€ portability.
Chapter 8, Deploying applications: How to deploy Java EE applications using different management instruments. Managing the Deployment scanner. How to create deployable resources.
Chapter 9, Clustering: how to configure multiple application nodes working together to provide increased scalability and reliability.
Chapter 10, Advanced Server Management: learning to use the CLI built-in command line tool in order to provide advanced management functionalities
Chapter 11, Security: introducing Security concepts. How to configure authentication and authorization services. Managing secure communication via the Secure Socket Layer protocol.
Appendix, The Appendix of the book contains some extra goodies for you, such as a reference for generating security keys for your application (referenced in Chapter 11) a quick set up guide for configuring OpenLdap (referenced as well in Chapter 11) and finally an Administration cheat sheet is included which contains the most common administration checkpoints for a quick reference.

Who is this book for:

This book is for application server administrators who want to learn quickly how to gain an in-depth understanding of the JBoss Enterprise Application server Platform. In addition, JEE developers and architects will find this book extremely useful as it introduces to the essentials of JBoss EAP administration, development best practices and detailed comparison across the other application servers.