JBoss Training

This section discusses the concepts and configuration requirements to set up the JBoss EAP in a managed domain mode. 

Topics: 

• Overview of a domain 
• Starting a domain 
• Domain controller assignment
• Configuring a Host controller
• Comparison between domain.xml vs. host.xml 
• Configuring a domain controller 

Learning Outcome: After completion of this section you will gain hands-on expertise in configuring the JBoss in domain mode. 

This chapter deals with basic concepts of server settings on JBoss EAP, you will learn the complete process of server configuration. 

Topics: 

• Introduction to hosts and servers 
• Server configuration
• Groups configuring servers 
• Defining servers
• Defining server groups 
• Join a remote domain 

Learning Outcome: After completion of this chapter you will gain hands-on expertise in server settings on JBoss EAP and knowledge of host servers.

The Command Line Interface (CLI) is a tool used for a managed domain or standalone server. Here you are going to learn the functioning of the CLI tool and the process to connect it to the controller or server domain to execute management operations. 

Topics:

• Introduction to CLI tool 
• Overview of  DMR syntax 
• Understanding the CLI 
• Using the CLI

Learning Outcome: After completion of this chapter you will be able to learn all the concepts associated with the command line interface and its functionality in Jboss.

This section has been designed to teach you the data source types, Process to design & configure data sources in JBoss EAP, Implementing a JDBC driver and many other topics. 

• Overview of database connection pools
• Deploying a JDBC driver 
• Datasources 
• Datasource examples 
• Defining data sources 
• Configuring an XA data source 
• Datasource examples  

Learning Outcome: After completion of this section you will gain complete knowledge of the data source subsystem and various concepts associated with it such as database connection pools, JDBC driver, XA data sources.  

This section will teach you what a logging subsystem is and its functions.

Topics: 

• Introduction to the logging subsystem 
• The Built-in handlers 
• Default Log file locations 
• Periodic rotating file handlers 
• Asynchronous logging 
• Size rotating file handlers 
• Defining loggers 
• Configuring the root logger 
• Overview of the logger hierarchy 
• Logging configuration 

Learning Outcome: Upon the completion of this section you will be able to perform the logging configuration process step by step. 

JMS Server the messaging subsystem is used for configuring the JMS server. This section is designed to teach you messaging subsystem and all other systems associated with it. 

Topics: 

• Introduced Java Message Service (JMS) 
• Overview of HornetQ
• Defining destinations 
• Connection factories  
• Other Messaging settings  
• Configuring the Hornet() Journals  
• Defining topics & queues

Learning Outcome: Upon the completion of this section you will have gained complete knowledge of concepts such as Java Message Service (JMS), connection factories, HornetQ, JMS Queues,  and others with hands-on expertise.

This section will introduce the Configure JVM settings for standalone servers. You will also learn to configure JVM settings at multiple levels which include server group, host controller, and server.  

Topics: 

• Procedure to JVM memory settings 
• JVM configuration in standalone mode 
• JVM configuration in domain mode
• Defining JVMs 
• JVM Settings in servers & groups  
• Configuring JVMs 

Learning Outcome: By the end of this section you will gain hands-on expertise in JVM configuration process and steps to be followed.

In this section, you will be learning the process to follow while migrating applications to JBoss EAP 6. 

Topics: 

• Overview of Migrating to EAP 6 
• JPA Issues 
• Module dependencies and classpath 
• Updating security settings 
• A Sample migration 
• Updating JNDI lookups 
• The web subsystem 
• A sample migration  
• Migrating to EAP 6 
• Overview of the web subsystem 
• Configuring connectors 
• JSP configuration
• Virtual servers
• Configuring an HTTPS connector 
• SSL connections

Learning Outcome: After completion of this section you will gain the complete procedure followed in Migrating an application from Jboss to EAP 6 and various other concepts involved in it.

In this section, you will be learning JBoss clustering concepts. You will learn how clustering goes in both the process which includes standalone mode and domain mode. 

Topics: 

• Overview of clustering 
• Configuring a cluster 
• The infinispan subsystem 
• Start a cluster in Standalone Mode 
• Clustering architecture 
• JGroups subsystem 
• Mod_cluster subsystem 
• Start a cluster in domain mode 

Learning Outcome: Upon the completion of this section you will learn Clustering in JBoss, configuring the cluster, it’s architecture, configuring cluster in standalone and domain modes, etc. 

This section is designed to provide you with the complete knowledge of collecting JVM tunings and thread dumps. 

Topics: 

• JVM memory tunings
• Collecting thread dumps
• Best practices to be followed