Chapter 1. Installation and Configuration

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 ( JBoss EAP 7) is a middleware platform built on open standards and compliant with the Java EE 7 specification.

It is derived from the upstream project Wildfly 10 and provides ready-to-use features such as high-availability clustering, messaging, and distributed caching.

JBoss EAP 7 is designed with a modular structure that allows on-demand services, thus greatly improving startup speed. Thanks to its web based management console and its powerful Command Line Interface (CLI), editing XML configuration files is unnecessary (and is even discouraged!). The CLI also adds the ability to script and automate management tasks. Internally, JBoss EAP includes APIs and development frameworks for quickly developing fast, secure, and scalable Java EE applications compliant with the Java EE 7 specification.

The first part of this book will let you conquer the management instruments and the EAP 7 domain configuration. When you have completed all green bars, we will concentrate on advanced topics, showing the improvements from the earlier release of the server.

As far as this chapter is concerned, we will now have a quick tour of its technology covering these topics:

• What the installation options are and how to choose the one that works better for your context
• How to perform the basic administration steps
• The essentials of the server configuration