P R E F A C E  

JBoss Group LLC, headed by Marc Fleury, is composed of over 100 developers worldwide 

who are working to deliver a full range of J2EE tools, making JBoss the premier Enterprise 

Java application server for the Java 2 Enterprise Edition platform. 

JBoss is an Open Source, standards compliant, J2EE application server implemented in 

100% Pure Java.  The JBoss/Server and complement of products are delivered under a 

public license. With 50,000+ downloads per month, JBoss is the most downloaded J2EE 

based server in the industry. 

Dedication 

I dedicate this book to my son Andreas Carl jr. filling my heart with joy and my wife 

Manuela giving me the support to work for JBoss. 

We dedicate this book to the users who submit good bug reports. 

Acknowledgments 

I want to thank all contributors of this documentation for their hard work and time they 

spent to make ease the usage of JBoss 3 for all users. 

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