JBoss AS 5 Development -- Table of Contents -- JBoss AS 5 Development -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- Preface -- What this book covers -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Installing Core Components -- Prologue -- What you will get in this book -- JBoss big bang -- Introduction -- Installing the Java environment -- Installing JBoss AS 5 -- Starting up JBoss AS -- Stopping JBoss -- Stopping JBoss on a remote machine -- Installing Eclipse -- Plugins: The heart of Eclipse -- Installing JBoss Tools plugins -- Installing JBoss Tools plugins manually -- Connecting Eclipse with JBoss -- Summary -- 2. What's New in JBoss AS 5? -- Application server features -- The core modules of JBoss AS 5 -- Cutting edge EJB container -- The new messaging provider -- Rock solid transaction manager -- Enhanced web container -- JBoss Web Services 3.0 -- Improved clustering support -- The application server structure -- The next generation application server -- From JMX to the Microcontainer -- The new library configuration -- JBoss AS 5 server configurations -- The "standard" configuration -- The "web" configuration -- The former server configurations -- Creating a custom server configuration -- The starting point: JBoss AS service map -- Custom configuration sample: Adding JMS to the web configuration -- JBoss virtual file system -- Summary -- 3. Customizing JBoss AS Services -- How to monitor JBoss AS services -- The JMX console -- An example: Using the JMX console to display the JNDI tree -- The admin console -- The twiddle utility -- JBoss AS thread pool -- Application server thread pool anatomy -- How many threads for your applications? -- Analyze what your threads are doing -- Configuring logging services -- Appenders -- Console file appender.

Changing the configuration at runtime -- File appenders -- Rolling the file by size -- Other appenders -- Layout of logs -- Logging categories -- Configuring your own logger -- Managing logs through JMX agents -- Configuring the connection to the database -- Configuring a datasource in JBoss AS -- Additional datasource properties -- Setting up a new datasource -- Gathering connection pool statistics -- Managing datasources from the admin console -- Using statistics to tune the connection pool -- Deploying datasources at application level -- High availability datasources -- Clustered RDBMS -- Connecting from a remote client -- Configuring the transaction service -- Preserving data integrity -- Global and local transactions -- Configuring JBoss transactions -- Monitoring transactions -- Summary -- 4. Developing EJB 3 Session Beans -- Java EE made easier -- Developing Enterprise JavaBeans -- Developing Session Beans -- Stateless Session Beans -- Life cycle of a Stateless Session Bean -- Setting up a simple example -- Deploying your application -- Creating a test client -- Adding interceptors to your Bean -- Stateful Session Beans -- Stateful Bean life cycle -- Developing a simple Stateful Session Bean -- Configuring the EJB container -- Configuring Stateless Session Bean pool size -- Specializing the configuration -- Configuring the Stateful Session Bean cache -- How to disable Stateful Bean passivation -- Summary -- 5. Developing JPA Entities -- Data persistence meets a standard -- Working with JPA -- Creating a sample application -- Setting up the database -- Rolling the EJB project -- Configuring the database connection -- Generating entities -- Reverse engineering aftermath -- Configuring persistence -- Creating a Session Bean client -- Creating a test client for our AppStore -- Summary -- 6. Creating a Web Application -- Developing web layout.

Installing JSF on JBoss AS -- Setting up navigation rules -- Adding a JSF managed bean -- Setting up the view -- Assembling and deploying the application -- Running the store -- Configuring JBoss Web Server -- Customizing connectors -- The new Apache Portable Runtime connector -- Installing the APR connector -- Configuring contexts -- Configuring virtual hosts -- Configuring HTTP logs -- Tuning advice -- Disable DNS lookup -- Choose the right HTTP connector -- Set the correct size for your thread pool -- Monitoring your thread pool -- Summary -- 7. Developing Applications with JBoss Messaging Service -- Short introduction to JMS -- The building blocks of JMS -- The new JBoss Messaging system -- Configuring connection factories -- Configuring JMS destinations -- Inspecting destination attributes -- Advanced message configuration -- Scheduled delivery -- Developing JMS applications -- Message-driven beans -- Configuring message-driven beans -- Creating a sample application -- Creating MDB singletons -- Message-driven POJOs -- Advanced JBoss Messaging -- JBoss Messaging bridge -- Adding a remote JMS provider -- Configuring the persistence service -- Securing destinations -- MDB access control -- Summary -- 8. Developing Applications with JBoss and Hibernate -- Introducing Hibernate -- Creating a Hibernate application -- Setting up the database schema -- A new Eclipse project -- Reversing your schema into Java classes -- Adding Hibernate configuration to your project -- Adding a web client to your project -- Packaging and deploying the application -- Using the wizard to generate EJB 3 -- Hibernate and EJB: Friends or opponents? -- Using Hibernate with EJB -- Injecting key Hibernate objects -- Summary -- 9. Managing JBoss AS -- Introducing Java Management Extension -- Developing MBeans -- A simple MBean -- Testing your MBean from the JMX console.

Testing your application programmatically -- MBeans dependency -- Sending MBeans notifications -- Receiving heartbeat notifications -- Sending your own notifications -- Service POJOs -- Creating a web test client -- Exposing your service as an EJB -- Service POJO dependency -- JBoss AS Administration Console -- Managing applications -- Deploying/undeploying applications -- Updating an application -- Starting/stopping/restarting an application -- Administering resources -- Adding a new resource -- Managing resources -- Metrics -- Summary -- 10. Developing Applications with JBoss Web Services -- Web Service concepts -- Strategies for building up Web Services -- JBoss Web Services stack -- A brief look at the JAX WS architecture -- Coding Web Services with JBossWS -- Developing a POJO Web Service -- Inspecting the Web Service from the console -- Using JBossWS tools -- External Web Service clients -- Exposing EJB as Web Services -- Handling exceptions in Web Services -- Generating a test client -- Injecting Web Services -- Web Service Handler chains -- Summary -- 11. Clustering JBoss AS -- Cluster basics -- Introducing JBoss AS cluster -- JBoss AS clustering architecture -- Smart proxies -- External load balancer -- JBoss AS 5 cluster configuration -- Starting JBoss AS in cluster mode -- Running cluster nodes on separate machines -- Running cluster nodes on the same machine -- Running multiple clusters on the same network -- JBoss AS clustered services -- JBoss Cache (JBC) -- Cache modes -- Cache configuration -- Configuring HTTP cache management -- Configuring EJB 3.0 Stateful Session Bean cache -- Configuring entity caching -- JBoss cache and concurrency -- The HAPartition service -- Exploring HA singletons -- The HA-JNDI service -- Accessing HA-JNDI -- HA-JNDI configuration -- Clustering web applications -- Configuring HTTP replication.

HttpSession passivation/activation -- Configuring load balancing -- JMS clustering -- Summary -- 12. Developing a Clustered Application -- Clustering Stateless Session Beans -- Clustering Stateful Session Beans -- Deploying a clustered SFSB -- Testing the clustered SFSB -- Programmatic replication of the session -- Clustering entities -- Revisiting the AppStore example -- Inside the second-level cache -- Evicting entities from the cache -- General guidelines for a good cache -- Clustering web applications -- Testing HTTP session replication -- Summary -- 13. JBoss AS Security -- Approaching Java Security API -- The JAAS security model -- Introducing JBossSX -- Securing the JMX console -- Dynamic login configuration -- Stacked login configuration -- Logging and auditing -- Securing the transport layer -- Enabling the Secure Socket Layer on JBoss AS -- Certificate management tools -- Securing the HTTP communication with a self-signed certificate -- Securing the HTTP communication with a certificate signed by a CA -- Securing the RMI transport -- Adding a client truststore -- Summary -- 14. Securing JBoss AS Applications -- Securing the AppStore application -- HTTP role authentication -- Encrypting passwords -- EJB role authorization -- Java EE programmatic security -- Writing secure Java SE clients -- Securing applications at transport level -- Running the AppStore with HTTPS -- Securing the RMI-IIOP transport: SSL BlackJack -- Securing Web Services -- Web Services authorization -- Web Services encryption -- Client and server configuration files -- Encrypting the POJOWebService -- Securing the Web Service -- Securing the client -- Running the example -- Signing SOAP messages -- Debugging SOAP messages -- Summary -- Index.