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  

default: is what is started when no server environment is specified on the command 

line.  Right, it's the default. It contains all J2EE except clustering and RMI/IIOP 

service. 

all: contains all available services in JBoss. 

JBoss as Unix / Windows Startup Service 

Install JBoss as Windows NT / W2K Service 

There are several NT Service wrappers on the web to start a Java program as NT / W2K 

Service.  For all practical services we will look at a program available from Alexandria s 

JavaService. First check if a newer version is available but if you don t find it take version 

1.2.0. After downloading, extract it do your desired location with the restriction that it must 

be available when the service is started (I would discourage network paths, removable hard 

disks etc. and strongly recommend local hard disks).  

Now we are going to install the W2K service. In order to do that you need your JBoss 3.0 

distribution available also to the local system, ensure that you have administrator rights to 

do so and the local system has permission to start JBoss or that you know the 

username/password of a registered user having the permission to start JBoss.  

Take this code and save it as a  .BAT  file where your JavaService.exe is located  

Listing 2 1, JBoss30.bat script file 

@echo off 

if "%1" == "uninstall" goto uninstall 

if "%1" == " uninstall" goto uninstall 

if "%1" == "" goto usage 

if "%2" == "" goto usage 

if "%3" == "" goto usage 

if "%1" == " help" goto usage 

if "%1" == " ?" goto usage 

if "%1" == "/?" goto usage 

:install 

JavaService.exe  install JBoss30 %1\jre\bin\%3\jvm.dll  

Djava.class.path=%1\lib\tools.jar;%2\bin\run.jar  start org.jboss.Main  stop org.jboss.Main 

 method systemExit  out %2\bin\out.txt  current %2\bin 

goto eof 

:uninstall 

JavaService.exe  uninstall JBoss30 

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