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/
Remove painful examples of foo="", with particular prejudice against
constructions that parse out to [ -z "$foo" ] && foo=""
These are bad examples that get copied and pasted into new code, so the
hope is that with less bad examples there will be less need for me to
bring this up in review.
In a few of these files all that were changed were comments so that next
time I search for these patterns I won't trip on the file for no reason.
In a few places, add $FreeBSD$
No functional changes, so no PORTREVISION bumps
RC_SUBR_SUFFIX has not been needed for a long time now, all supported
versions of FreeBSD now use /etc/rc.subr and rc.d scripts without .sh
appended to the script name.
- Update to 3.2.6
- Update to bsd.java.mk 2.0
- rcNGify startup
- Fix table creation for autoincrement feature in Postgresql
- Add new "-config" option to jboss3ctl for JBoss3 startup config
- Dynamic plist
- Many other improvements (similar to recent changes in java/jboss4)
PR: 76125
Submitted by: maintainer
Add "ant" build dependancy; correct ${PKGINSTALL} usage (picked up by
Andreas Kasparz <andy at interface-business.de>)
PR: ports/67282
Submitted by: Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz> (maintainer)
. Set LATEST_LINK to avoid conflict with other JBoss ports.
. Restrict usage of the port to JDK1.4.
PR: 62458
Submitted by: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> (maintainer)
Update to 3.2.3 and enable building from source. It remains to be
determined whether or not this fixes the problem with attempting
to use JDK1.3 to run the binary (see ports/57854).
PR: ports/60996
Submitted by: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> (maintainer)
. Update to 3.2.2
. Fix an owner/permission problem that stops JBoss starting up correctly.
. Change maintainer to jonc@chen.org.nz
PR: 58743
Approved by: des (previous maintainer)
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>
