The JBoss 4 Application Server Guide
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The JBoss 4 Application Server Guide

JBoss AS 4.0.1

Release 1

Table of Contents

What this Book Covers

About JBoss

About Open Source

About Professional Open Source

What's new in JBoss 4.0

1. J2EE Certification and Standards Compliance
2. Server Configuration and Services
3. JBoss AOP Support
4. Hibernate Integration
5. Clustering and Caching

1. Installing and Building the JBoss Server

1.1. Getting the Binary Files

1.1.1. Prerequisites

1.1.2. Installing the Binary Package

1.1.2.1. Directory Structure

1.1.3. The Default Server Configuration File Set

1.2. Basic Installation Testing

1.3. Booting from a Network Server

1.4. Building the Server from Source Code

1.4.1. Accessing the JBoss CVS Repositories at SourceForge
1.4.2. Understanding CVS
1.4.3. Anonymous CVS Access
1.4.4. Obtaining a CVS Client
1.4.5. Building the JBoss Distribution Using the Source Code
1.4.6. Building the JBoss Distribution Using the CVS Source Code
1.4.7. An Overview of the JBoss CVS Source Tree
1.4.8. Using the JBossTest unit testsuite

2. The JBoss JMX Microkernel

2.1. JMX

2.1.1. An Introduction to JMX

2.1.1.1. Instrumentation Level
2.1.1.2. Agent Level
2.1.1.3. Distributed Services Level
2.1.1.4. JMX Component Overview

2.2. JBoss JMX Implementation Architecture

2.2.1. The JBoss ClassLoader Architecture

2.2.2. Class Loading and Types in Java

2.2.2.1. ClassCastExceptions - I'm Not Your Type
2.2.2.2. IllegalAccessException - Doing what you should not
2.2.2.3. LinkageErrors - Making Sure You Are Who You Say You Are
2.2.2.4. Inside the JBoss Class Loading Architecture

2.2.3. JBoss XMBeans

2.2.3.1. Descriptors
2.2.3.2. The Management Class
2.2.3.3. The Constructors
2.2.3.4. The Attributes
2.2.3.5. The Operations
2.2.3.6. Notifications

2.3. Connecting to the JMX Server

2.3.1. Inspecting the Server - the JMX Console Web Application

2.3.1.1. Securing the JMX Console

2.3.2. Connecting to JMX Using RMI

2.3.3. Command Line Access to JMX

2.3.3.1. Connecting twiddle to a Remote Server
2.3.3.2. Sample twiddle Command Usage

2.3.4. Connecting to JMX Using Any Protocol

2.4. Using JMX as a Microkernel

2.4.1. The Startup Process

2.4.2. JBoss MBean Services

2.4.2.1. The SARDeployer MBean
2.4.2.2. The Service Life Cycle Interface
2.4.2.3. The ServiceController MBean
2.4.2.4. Specifying Service Dependencies
2.4.2.5. Identifying Unsatisfied Dependencies
2.4.2.6. Hot Deployment of Components, the URLDeploymentScanner

2.4.3. Writing JBoss MBean Services

2.4.3.1. A Standard MBean Example
2.4.3.2. XMBean Examples

2.4.4. Deployment Ordering and Dependencies

2.5. JBoss Deployer Architecture

2.5.1. Deployers and ClassLoaders

2.6. Exposing MBean Events via SNMP

2.6.1. The Event to Trap Service

2.7. Remote Access to Services, Detached Invokers

2.7.1. A Detached Invoker Example, the MBeanServer Invoker Adaptor Service

2.7.2. Detached Invoker Reference

2.7.2.1. The JRMPInvoker - RMI/JRMP Transport
2.7.2.2. The PooledInvoker - RMI/Socket Transport
2.7.2.3. The IIOPInvoker - RMI/IIOP Transport
2.7.2.4. The JRMPProxyFactory Service - Building Dynamic JRMP Proxies
2.7.2.5. The HttpInvoker - RMI/HTTP Transport
2.7.2.6. The HA JRMPInvoker - Clustered RMI/JRMP Transport
2.7.2.7. The HA HttpInvoker - Clustered RMI/HTTP Transport
2.7.2.8. HttpProxyFactory - Building Dynamic HTTP Proxies
2.7.2.9. Steps to Expose Any RMI Interface via HTTP

3. Naming on JBoss

3.1. An Overview of JNDI

3.1.1. The JNDI API

3.1.1.1. Names
3.1.1.2. Contexts

3.1.2. J2EE and JNDI - The Application Component Environment

3.1.2.1. ENC Usage Conventions

3.2. The JBossNS Architecture

3.2.1. The Naming InitialContext Factories

3.2.1.1. Naming Discovery in Clustered Environments
3.2.1.2. The HTTP InitialContext Factory Implementation
3.2.1.3. The Login InitialContext Factory Implementation

3.2.2. Accessing JNDI over HTTP

3.2.3. Accessing JNDI over HTTPS

3.2.4. Securing Access to JNDI over HTTP

3.2.5. Securing Access to JNDI with a Read-Only Unsecured Context

3.2.6. Additional Naming MBeans

3.2.6.1. org.jboss.naming.ExternalContext MBean
3.2.6.2. The org.jboss.naming.NamingAlias MBean
3.2.6.3. The org.jboss.naming.JNDIView MBean

4. Transactions on JBoss

4.1. Transaction/JTA Overview

4.1.1. Pessimistic and optimistic locking
4.1.2. The components of a distributed transaction
4.1.3. The two-phase XA protocol
4.1.4. Heuristic exceptions
4.1.5. Transaction IDs and branches

4.2. JBoss Transaction Internals

4.2.1. Adapting a Transaction Manager to JBoss

4.2.2. The Default Transaction Manager

4.2.2.1. org.jboss.tm.XidFactory

4.2.3. UserTransaction Support

5. EJBs on JBoss

5.1. The EJB Client Side View

5.1.1. Specifying the EJB Proxy Configuration

5.2. The EJB Server Side View

5.2.1. Detached Invokers - The Transport Middlemen
5.2.2. The HA JRMPInvoker - Clustered RMI/JRMP Transport
5.2.3. The HA HttpInvoker - Clustered RMI/HTTP Transport

5.3. The EJB Container

5.3.1. EJBDeployer MBean

5.3.1.1. Verifying EJB deployments
5.3.1.2. Deploying EJBs Into Containers
5.3.1.3. Container configuration information

5.3.2. Container Plug-in Framework

5.3.2.1. org.jboss.ejb.ContainerPlugin
5.3.2.2. org.jboss.ejb.Interceptor
5.3.2.3. org.jboss.ejb.InstancePool
5.3.2.4. org.jboss.ebj.InstanceCache
5.3.2.5. org.jboss.ejb.EntityPersistenceManager
5.3.2.6. The org.jboss.ejb.EntityPersistenceStore interface
5.3.2.7. org.jboss.ejb.StatefulSessionPersistenceManager

5.4. Entity Bean Locking and Deadlock Detection

5.4.1. Why JBoss Needs Locking

5.4.2. Entity Bean Lifecycle

5.4.3. Default Locking Behavior

5.4.4. Pluggable Interceptors and Locking Policy

5.4.5. Deadlock

5.4.5.1. Deadlock Detection
5.4.5.2. Catching ApplicationDeadlockException
5.4.5.3. Viewing Lock Information

5.4.6. Advanced Configurations and Optimizations

5.4.6.1. Short-lived Transactions
5.4.6.2. Ordered Access
5.4.6.3. Read-Only Beans
5.4.6.4. Explicitly Defining Read-Only Methods
5.4.6.5. Instance Per Transaction Policy

5.4.7. Running Within a Cluster

5.4.8. Troubleshooting

5.4.8.1. Locking Behavior Not Working
5.4.8.2. IllegalStateException
5.4.8.3. Hangs and Transaction Timeouts

6. Messaging on JBoss

6.1. JMS Examples

6.1.1. A Point-To-Point Example
6.1.2. A Pub-Sub Example
6.1.3. A Pub-Sub With Durable Topic Example
6.1.4. A Point-To-Point With MDB Example

6.2. JBoss Messaging Overview

6.2.1. Invocation Layer

6.2.2. Security Manager

6.2.3. Destination Manager

6.2.4. Message Cache

6.2.5. State Manager

6.2.6. Persistence Manager

6.2.7. Destinations

6.2.7.1. Queues
6.2.7.2. Topics

6.3. JBoss Messaging Configuration and MBeans

6.3.1. org.jboss.mq.il.jvm.JVMServerILService

6.3.2. org.jboss.mq.il.uil2.UILServerILService

6.3.2.1. Configuring UIL2 for SSL
6.3.2.2. JMS client properties for the UIL2 transport

6.3.3. org.jboss.mq.il.http.HTTPServerILService

6.3.4. org.jboss.mq.server.jmx.Invoker

6.3.5. org.jboss.mq.server.jmx.InterceptorLoader

6.3.6. org.jboss.mq.sm.jdbc.JDBCStateManager

6.3.7. org.jboss.mq.security.SecurityManager

6.3.8. org.jboss.mq.server.jmx.DestinationManager

6.3.9. org.jboss.mq.server.MessageCache

6.3.10. org.jboss.mq.pm.jdbc2.PersistenceManager

6.3.11. Destination MBeans

6.3.11.1. org.jboss.mq.server.jmx.Queue
6.3.11.2. org.jboss.mq.server.jmx.Topic

6.4. Specifying the MDB JMS Provider

6.4.1. org.jboss.jms.jndi.JMSProviderLoader MBean
6.4.2. org.jboss.jms.asf.ServerSessionPoolLoader MBean
6.4.3. Integrating non-JBoss JMS Providers

7. Connectors on JBoss

7.1. JCA Overview

7.2. An Overview of the JBossCX Architecture

7.2.1. BaseConnectionManager2 MBean
7.2.2. RARDeployment MBean
7.2.3. JBossManagedConnectionPool MBean
7.2.4. CachedConnectionManager MBean
7.2.5. A Sample Skeleton JCA Resource Adaptor

7.3. Configuring JDBC DataSources

7.4. Configuring Generic JCA Adaptors

8. Security on JBoss

8.1. J2EE Declarative Security Overview

8.1.1. Security References
8.1.2. Security Identity
8.1.3. Security roles
8.1.4. EJB method permissions
8.1.5. Web Content Security Constraints
8.1.6. Enabling Declarative Security in JBoss

8.2. An Introduction to JAAS

8.2.1. What is JAAS?

8.2.1.1. The JAAS Core Classes

8.3. The JBoss Security Model

8.3.1. Enabling Declarative Security in JBoss Revisited

8.4. The JBoss Security Extension Architecture

8.4.1. How the JaasSecurityManager Uses JAAS

8.4.2. The JaasSecurityManagerService MBean

8.4.3. The JaasSecurityDomain MBean

8.4.4. An XML JAAS Login Configuration MBean

8.4.5. The JAAS Login Configuration Management MBean

8.4.6. Using and Writing JBossSX Login Modules

8.4.6.1. org.jboss.security.auth.spi.IdentityLoginModule
8.4.6.2. org.jboss.security.auth.spi.UsersRolesLoginModule
8.4.6.3. org.jboss.security.auth.spi.LdapLoginModule
8.4.6.4. org.jboss.security.auth.spi.DatabaseServerLoginModule
8.4.6.5. BaseCertLoginModule
8.4.6.6. org.jboss.security.auth.spi.RunAsLoginModule
8.4.6.7. org.jboss.security.ClientLoginModule

8.4.7. Writing Custom Login Modules

8.4.7.1. Support for the Subject Usage Pattern
8.4.7.2. A Custom LoginModule Example

8.4.8. The DynamicLoginConfig service

8.5. The Secure Remote Password (SRP) Protocol

8.5.1. Providing Password Information for SRP

8.5.2. Inside of the SRP algorithm

8.5.2.1. An SRP example

8.6. Running JBoss with a Java 2 security manager

8.7. Using SSL with JBoss using JSSE

8.8. Configuring JBoss for use Behind a Firewall

8.9. How to Secure the JBoss Server

8.9.1. The jmx-console.war
8.9.2. The web-console.war
8.9.3. The http-invoker.sar
8.9.4. The jmx-invoker-adaptor-server.sar

9. Web Applications

9.1. The Tomcat Service

9.2. The Tomcat server.xml file

9.2.1. Connector
9.2.2. Engine
9.2.3. Host
9.2.4. DefaultContext
9.2.5. Logger
9.2.6. Valve

9.3. Using SSL with the JBoss/Tomcat bundle

9.4. Setting the context root of a web application

9.5. Setting up Virtual Hosts

9.6. Serving Static Content

9.7. Using Apache with the Tomcat

9.8. Using Clustering

9.9. Integrating Third Party Servlet Containers

9.9.1. The AbstractWebContainer Class

9.9.1.1. The AbstractWebContainer Contract
9.9.1.2. Creating an AbstractWebContainer Subclass

10. MBean Services Miscellany

10.1. System Properties Management

10.2. Property Editor Management

10.3. Services Binding Management

10.4. Scheduling Tasks

10.4.1. org.jboss.varia.scheduler.Scheduler

10.5. The Log4j Service

10.6. RMI Dynamic Class Loading

11. The CMP Engine

11.1. Example Code

11.1.1. Enabling CMP Debug Logging
11.1.2. Running the examples

11.2. The jbosscmp-jdbc Structure

11.3. Entity Beans

11.3.1. Entity Mapping

11.4. CMP Fields

11.4.1. CMP Field Declaration
11.4.2. CMP Field Column Mapping
11.4.3. Read-only Fields
11.4.4. Auditing Entity Access
11.4.5. Dependent Value Classes (DVCs)

11.5. Container Managed Relationships

11.5.1. CMR-Field Abstract Accessors

11.5.2. Relationship Declaration

11.5.3. Relationship Mapping

11.5.3.1. Relationship Role Mapping
11.5.3.2. Foreign Key Mapping
11.5.3.3. Relation table Mapping

11.6. Queries

11.6.1. Finder and select Declaration

11.6.2. EJB-QL Declaration

11.6.3. Overriding the EJB-QL to SQL Mapping

11.6.4. JBossQL

11.6.5. DynamicQL

11.6.6. DeclaredSQL

11.6.6.1. Parameters

11.6.7. EJBQL 2.1 and SQL92 queries

11.6.8. BMP Custom Finders

11.7. Optimized Loading

11.7.1. Loading Scenario

11.7.2. Load Groups

11.7.3. Read-ahead

11.7.3.1. on-find
11.7.3.2. on-load
11.7.3.3. none

11.8. Loading Process

11.8.1. Commit Options

11.8.2. Eager-loading Process

11.8.3. Lazy loading Process

11.8.3.1. Relationships

11.8.4. Lazy loading result sets

11.9. Transactions

11.10. Optimistic Locking

11.11. Entity Commands and Primary Key Generation

11.11.1. Existing Entity Commands

11.12. Defaults

11.12.1. A sample jbosscmp-jdbc.xml defaults declaration

11.13. Datasource Customization

11.13.1. Type Mapping
11.13.2. Function Mapping
11.13.3. Mapping
11.13.4. User Type Mappings

12. Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) Support

12.1. Why AOP

12.2. AOP Basic Concepts

12.2.1. Joinpoint and Invocation

12.2.2. Advice and Aspect

12.2.3. Pointcut

12.2.3.1. Use XML configuration file
12.2.3.2. Use annotations
12.2.3.3. Use Annotation in Application Classes

12.2.4. Introduction and Mixin

12.3. Build JBoss AOP Applications

12.3.1. Compile to bytecode
12.3.2. Compile annotation
12.3.3. AOP Intrumentation

12.4. JBoss AOP Deployer

12.4.1. Install the latest jboss-aop.deployer
12.4.2. Configure the AOP service
12.4.3. Pre-packaged aspects library

12.5. Package and deploy AOP applications to JBoss

12.5.1. Use pre-packaged aspects
12.5.2. Develop your own aspects
12.5.3. Package and deploy custom aspects

A. The GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

B. Book Example Installation