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Documentation

For more informations about JOnAS, please read the documentation which comes with the JOnAS distribution. You will also find online other documentations about JOnAS that are not included in the distribution.

Note

Note that the absolute latest release JOnAS documentation can always be found online.

Release documentation

Here is the content of the release documentation:

  • The Getting Started Guide explains for the impatients how to install JOnAS and guide the user until running a first example of EJB.

  • The Configuration Guide explains how to configure JOnAS. The reader will learn how to deal with the JOnAS configuration files in order to set up the JOnAS and JNDI environment, the registry launch and the JOnAS services (transaction, database, security, JMS, JCA resources and JMX).

  • The Bean Programmer's Guide shows in great details how to develop Session, Entity or Message-Driven Beans with JOnAS. It shows in particular how to manage the security and transactional behaviour, how to configure JDBC datasources, how to define the EJB deployment descriptors and hosw to package the written beans.

  • The Application Deployer's Guide explains how to deploy the Enterprise Beans and their containers in the EJB server.

  • The Administration Guide presents the tools providing by JOnAS to perform administration tasks on a running server, that is to say the JonasAdmin command line tool and the powerful Jadmin graphic tool.

  • The JOnAS Commands Guide is a reference guide to the JOnAS commands: newbean, registry, CheckEnv, EJBServer, GenIC, JmsServer, JonasAdmin, RAXml2Prop.

  • The Advanced topics Guide introduces on some advanced topics (how to write a new JOnAS service, etc.).

Other documentation

You will find also online at the JOnAS documentation home page the following documents:

  • The JOnAS v2.4 tutorial: this is the document that you are reading!

  • The JOnAS white paper gives you also an overview of JOnAS.

    Warning

    Be careful, this document may be outdated.

  • Set of How To's on following particular subjects:

    • How to migrate from JOnAS 2.3 to JOnAS 2.4,

    • How to compile JOnAS,

    • How to use of Tomcat with JOnAS,

    • How to use of security in JOnAS with Tomcat,

    • How to run of JOnAS as a NT service,

    • How to write a new driver wrapper for JOnAS,

    • How to migrate from JBoss 2.4 to JOnAS 2.4.

  • Third party documentation: other documentations written by external contributors.

Don't forget to read also the JOnAS section of the ObjectWeb Faq-O-Matic.

Note

Please note that the entire Faq-O-Matic site is open for you to edit and contribute to. Feel free to contribute to the FAQ.