F I R S T   S T E P S :   B R I N G   J B O S S   T O   L I F E  

a file (in CVS the file is marked with C at the beginning of the line and a warning is printed 

out). 

Compile and Test JBoss 

After you downloaded JBoss from CVS or downloaded JBoss source archive you can now 

start to compile and test the compilation afterwards  

Change to the project root directory.  

Then change to the build directory.  

Start the build file without a parameter. When you want to clean it beforehand then 

add the following parameters  clean most . 

After a successful compilation you can test the implementation by running against 

the test suites available in JBoss 3.0.  

First change to the project root directory.  

Then change to the build/output/jboss 3.XXX/bin directory. 

Note: XXX in the directory above means that here comes in the current version like 

"0.0beta2".  

Start JBoss 3.0 by using the startup file. Wait until JBoss server is up and running.  

Open a new window (or shell) and change to the project root directory.  

Then change to the test suite directory (/testsuite) 

Now you can start the test suite by entering at the prompt  build.bat run basic 

testsuite Note: There are more test suites, to see what is available enter the follwing 

parameter to the build script:  help . 

Open the file  testsuite/output/reports/html/index.html  in your browsers to see the 

reports of the test suite. 

Start JBoss 

When you want to start JBoss you have to go to the  bin  directory either of your distribution 

or when you compiled it from scratch in the  build/output/jboss 3.XXX  directory. Now you 

just start the appropriate batch file (run.bat or run.sh) and the window will list the output of 

the application server according to the logging settings. When you see the line  JBoss kernel 

started  JBoss is successfully started. Please note that because no custom application is 

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