JBoss is an implementation of the EJB 1.1 (and parts of 2.0) specification,
that is, it is a server and container for Enterprise JavaBeans. In this it
is similar to Sun's 'J2SDK Enterprise Edition' (J2EE), but the JBoss core
server provides only an EJB server. The JBoss core does not include a web
container for servlets/JSP pages, although there are bundles available that
include either Tomcat or Jetty. The minimal core offering means that JBoss
has minimal memory and disk space requirements. JBoss will run very
effectively on a machine with 64 megabytes of RAM, and requires only a few
megabytes of disk (including source code!). Sun's J2EE requires a minimum of
128 megabytes of RAM, and 31 megabytes of disk space. Because of its small
memory footprint, JBoss starts up about 10 times faster than J2EE. There is
a built-in SQL database server for handling persistent beans, and this
starts up automatically with the server (J2EE ships with the CloudScape SQL
server, which has to be started separately).
One of the nicest features of JBoss is its support for `hot' deployment. What
this means is that deploying a Bean is a simple as copying its JAR file into
the deployment directory. If this is done while the Bean is already loaded,
JBoss automatically unloads it, then loads the new version. Contrast this
with the rigmarole that other J2EE server makes us go through... JBoss is
distributed under the LGPL, which means that it's free, even for commercial
work, and the LGPL ensures that it remains that way.
WWW: http://www.jboss.org/
Now that the Java 1.3 and Java 1.4 ports are deprecated and will expire soon,
remove support for them from bsd.java.mk. As Jikes is not available in Java 1.5
or higher, remove it from bsd.java.mk too (suggested by hq@) and from the ports
which used it (only occurences were USE_JIKES=no). Support for the Blackdown VM
is also removed, as it is not available in Java 1.5 and higher.
Also remove the mapping from Java 1.1-1.4 to Java 1.5+ in bsd.java.mk to detect
old, broken ports; therefore bump the minimal value of JAVA_VERSION to 1.5.
While here, replace static values of JAVA_VERSION in files/*.in by
%%JAVA_VERSION%% .
PR: ports/158969
Submitted by: rene
Tested on: pointyhat-west -exp
- s/NOPORTDOCS/NO_INSTALL_MANPAGES/ where needed
- use MAN1 for man page anr remove it from plist
- fix plist for -DNOPORTDOCS
- bump PORTREVISION
Prompted by: QA Tindy run
Bump portrevision due to upgrade of devel/gettext.
The affected ports are the ones with gettext as a run-dependency
according to ports/INDEX-7 (5007 of them) and the ones with USE_GETTEXT
in Makefile (29 of them).
PR: ports/124340
Submitted by: edwin@
Approved by: portmgr (pav)
Fixed daemonctl control program to work with the FreeBSD JDK 1.3.1.
The fix consists of 2 lines at the beginning of the program:
setuid(geteuid());
setgid(getegid());
Bumped PORTREVISION of Orion, Tomcat and JBoss ports.
PR: 40470, 43679
Submitted by: Ari Suutari <ari.suutari@syncrontech.com>
Reviewed by: audit
Approved by: Silence on -audit (since Sept 13, 2002)
Changed target installation directory so it does not include
the minor version number anymore.
Bumped PORTREVISION.
PR: 43565
Requested by: Andrew Gerweck <andy@gerweck.dyndns.org>
Changed the name of the control script from jbossctl to
jboss2ctl. Changed the name of the startup script from
020.jboss.sh to 020.jboss2.sh. Changed the description of this
port to include the major version number to distinguish this port
from the JBoss 3 port.
Bumped the PORTREVISION.
Changed daemonctl program to check if the JAR file exists before
trying to start the JVM. This is a serious usability improvement.
Bumped PORTREVISION.
New port jboss2.
The jboss2ctl program does not work at this stage. I chose
to commit this port anyway because it has been lying around
for too long. Once it is in the ports tree, the improved
interest may trigger somebody else to fix the problem.
JBoss can be started using the supplied shell script anyway,
so it is still useful.
This is not the JBoss port submitted by Jesse Gallup in PR
35853, but one based on the www/orion port.
PR: 35853
