In the vain of its creator (Red Hat): “… we gain the most when we share. It is core to our business and our development models.” As a result, we are bringing you a free course on JBoss AS 7 (EAP 6). In the course you will learn the following:

• Introduction
  • JBoss Application Server architecture (standalone, process controller, host controller, domain)
  • JBoss Application Server internal architecture (listen threads, threads pools, containers)
  • Standalone configuration
  • Command-line utility
  • Admin console
• JVM Tuning
  • Code generation
  • Memory management
  • Garbage collection performance
  • JConsole and JVisualVM
• Deployment
  • Packaging applications recommendations
  • Deployment descriptors
  • Server logging
  • Front-end configuration using the Apache HTTP Server and mod_jk
• Class Loading
  • Modules
• Security
  • JAAS introduction
  • Role-based security
  • Secure communications (SSL and TLS)
• Configure Resources
  • Domain configuration
  • Configure data sources
  • Monitoring resources
  • Configure JMS environment
• Clustering
  • Unicast or multicast?
  • Denial of service configuration
  • Vertical and horizontal scaling
  • Caching
  • Apache HTTP Server and mod_cluster
  • Load balancing
  • Load testing

Note that this is a course you can do at your own pace. The exercises lead you step-by-step through the process of installing, configuring, deploying etcetera. The material consists of the following:

• installation, the necessary software to set-up the environment:
  • JBoss Application Server
  • Java SE Development Kit
  • Apache HTTP Server
  • mod_jk
  • mod_cluster
  • The Grinder
• software, contains the deployments (.ear and .war files) that are used in the exercises.
• voorbeelden.zip (means examples.zip in Dutch), contains the code that is used to build the applications and an example configuration that you are going to set-up in the exercises.
• jboss-opgaven.pdf, the exercises.
• jboss-sheets.pdf, the sheets.

Have fun!