Deploying Web Applications in JBoss

[Virendra Rahatpuri]

Hi,
How do you deploy a web application in jboss-3.0.4_tomcat-4.0.6. Do you just copy the war file in the JBOSS_HOME/server/default/deploy directory or do you have to deploy web apps in the tomcat webapps directory??
Thanks
Virendra

[Jim Zhao]

Yeah, I have the same question. Please any experts give any guide.

[Darryl A. J. Staflund]

If you're running JBoss itself, deploy the WAR to the JBoss deploy directory. If you're running the Tomcat/Jetty instance included with JBoss, deploy to the Tomcat/Jetty deploy directory.
To try it out, download Struts from http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/ and deploy struts-example.war in either. They should load once they are processed by the server you're running (JBoss or Tomcat/Jetty).
If you're web-app makes use of JAAS or references a security domain, however, you'll have to include a jboss-web.xml deployment descriptor in your WAR file. The DTD for this document can be found in <jboss-home>/docs/dtds/jboss_web_3_0.dtd.
Darryl

[Jeffrey Manning]

Daryl -
Thanks for your reply to the previous poster. Sorry, I need a clarification in your answer.
What do you mean "if you are just running JBoss by itself, vs. if you are running TOmcat/Jetty"? Isn't JBoss by itself by default using Jetty? I didn't think it was possible to run JBoss all by itself for web application service.
To rephrase the question, if I use the integrated JBoss3.0/Tomcat4.0, do I deploy a web-app WAR to the Tomcat directory or the JBoss deploy directory?

[Andres Gonzalez]

Originally posted by Jeffrey Manning:
Daryl -
...To rephrase the question, if I use the integrated JBoss3.0/Tomcat4.0, do I deploy a web-app WAR to the Tomcat directory or the JBoss deploy directory?

No. you deploy the WAR file into the JBOSS deploy directoy...

[Jeffrey Manning]

Thank you for the reply Andres --
but can you comment on the apparent contradiction?
according to Daryl:
"If you're running the Tomcat/Jetty instance included with JBoss, deploy to the Tomcat/Jetty deploy directory."
This seems to directly contradict the suggestion to deploy to the $JBoss_server/deploy directory.
jeffrey

[Darryl A. J. Staflund]

Hi Jeff,
Even though Jetty and Tomcat is bundled in some JBoss distributions, you can still run them independently without starting up JBoss. You do this by executing the start-up scripts in their respective /bin directories.
For instance, if you have a JBoss / Tomcat bundle structured as follows:

/jboss
     /server
          /default
               /deploy
     /tomcat
          /bin
          /deploy

You can run your web app without starting JBoss by:
1. Running /jboss/tomcat/bin/<startup_app>
2. Deploying WAR to /jboss/tomcat/deploy
In this way, the WAR file is served up by Tomcat and not JBoss. Applications deployed to the JBoss deploy directory wouldn't work in this case.
Darryl