Chapter 5. ZIP Installation from the Red Hat Customer Portal

Procedure 5.1. Installation via ZIP file

Follow this procedure to install JBoss Enterprise Web Platform via ZIP file.
  1. Download software

    Refer to Appendix B, The Red Hat Customer Portal for file download instructions.
    Choose the Application Platform <release> Binary download. If you want to use WS CXF as the Web Services Stack for the Platform, download the jboss-ep-ws-cxf-5.1.0-installer.zip. file.
  2. Unzip jboss-ewp-<release>.zip to extract the archive contents into the location of your choice.
    Result:
    This creates the jboss-ewp-<release> directory, with an installation of JBoss Enterprise Web Platform using JBoss WS Native as the Web Services Stack.
  3. Optional: Use JBoss WS CXF as the Web Service stack

    You need Apache Ant installed and configured on your machine to perform this task.
    1. Extract jboss-ep-ws-cxf-5.1.0.GA-installer.zip and move the jbossws-cxf-installer into the jboss-as-web directory of the Enterprise Platform.
    2. At the command line go to the directory jboss-as-web/jbossws-cxf-installer and run the command ant.
      Result:
      An installer script replaces WS Native with WS CXF.
  4. Optional: Install Native Components

    Refer to Chapter 8, Install Native Components for Native Component installation instructions.
  5. Perform post-installation configuration

    Refer to Chapter 9, Post Installation Configuration for post-installation configuration instructions.

5.1. HornetQ

HornetQ is included as an alternative JMS provider to JBoss Messaging. See the HornetQ User Guide for this release for further information about HornetQ functionality.

Procedure 5.2. Install HornetQ

Apache Ant must be installed and configured on your machine to perform this task. Refer to Appendix E, Installing Apache Ant for installation instructions.
You must have the correct access.redhat.com entitlements to download and install HornetQ.
  1. Download the HornetQ ZIP (jboss-eap-hornetq-5.1.0.GA-installer.zip) from the Customer Support Portal.
  2. Extract the files from jboss-eap-hornetq-5.1.0.GA-installer.zip into your Enterprise Application Platform installation.
  3. From the command line, run the HornetQ switching script (sh jboss-as/extras/hornetq/switch.sh)
    ./switch.sh