The JBOSS server is invoked by launching this file.

c:\starthis_demo\jboss-3.2.7\bin\run.bat

You should see a command prompt window and it might be accompanied by a Windows Security Alert as shown in Figure 4.4, “Windows Security Alert (Java 2(TM) Platform Standard Edition Binary)”. If you do not encounter this alert, please ignore this image.

Figure 4.4. Windows Security Alert (Java 2(TM) Platform Standard Edition Binary)

The command prompt is an instance of the JBoss Application Server and after printing out various messages on the command prompt, it should look similar to the screen shown in Figure 4.5, “An instance of the JBoss Application Server”.

Figure 4.5. An instance of the JBoss Application Server

All Enterprise Archive (EAR) file deployments should be copied into the following folder.

c:\starthis_demo\jboss-3.2.7\server\default\deploy

When an instance of the JBoss Application Server is running (the run.bat command prompt window), the management console may be used. It is accessed using this URL: http://localhost:8080/jmx-console/

You will see a screen similar to the one shown below.

Figure 4.6. JMX Console

To access the console from another computer, replace localhost in the URL mentioned above with the domain name or numeric IP address of the computer running the JBOSS Application Server.