JBoss AS 4.2.3

To install JBossAS 4.2.3 is pretty straight forward with one little trick. Visit my fedora road map and add the JPackage repository for version 5.0. After that just execute the following:

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yum -y install \
jbossas
sun-jaxb-1.0-api \
sun-jaxb-1.0-impl \
sun-jaxb-2.1-api \
sun-jaxb-2.1-impl \
jbossweb-repolib
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The trick is not to install but to run it. For development you usually are on a desktop and you probably specified an invalid DNS computer name, I do. To find out which are yours:

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hostname
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To check if your name is right:

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ping `hostname`
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My returns: ping: unknown host note.tarja

So why am I telling you this. Because when running JBoss locally it will ignore your IP configurations and use the "name" returned by hostname. To avoid getting too much of a headache fix it right now with:

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echo "127.0.0.1 `hostname`" >> /etc/hosts
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And check it once again:

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ping `hostname`
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Now you can run your JBoss with this little bastard out of your way.