JB336 JBoss for Administrators
Revision: TE1519_20071129
Course Length:
5 Days
Course Description:
JBoss for Administrators is targeted toward application support individuals, such as system administrators, configuration management and quality assurance personnel who wish to become proficient in configuring and administrating the JBoss application server (3.2.x and 4.x series) and the applications deployed on the application server.
Who Should Attend:
This course is targeted at systems administrators who wish to become proficient in administering JBoss Application Server instances.
Benefits of Attendance:
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
- understand why are application servers used as part of the enterprise infrastructure
- define J2EE, Servlets and EJBs, JCA, and JBoss Microkernel
- perform a basic JBoss installation scenario
- get up and running with a new JBoss installation quickly
- understand how JBoss ON enables administration and monitoring of several JEMS deployments across an enterprise
- monitor specific server products via JBoss Operations Network
- monitor and manage JBoss AS instances, stand-alone Tomcat server instances and Apache HTTPD server instances
- change or disable unused service access points
- run your JBoss application server behind a firewall and Apache web servers
- order JBoss service deployments
- deploy applications in a JBoss cluster
- configure multiple instance of JBoss application server to run on a single physical machine
- understand JBoss and J2EE Security Concepts
- enable HTTPS access to the web tier
- authenticate access to data sources from within the application server
- encrypt, authenticate and authorize messaging and EJB communication across public networks
Prerequisites:
Students must have basic working knowledge of the Windows or Linux (Unix-based) operating system. The student must also have experience with creating directories, files and modifying access rights to the file store; installing a JDK; configuring environment variables, such as JAVA_HOME, for an Operating system; launching Java applications and executing an OS-dependent script that launches a Java application; and creating and expanding a Java archive file (the jar utility).
Course Outline:
- State of the Union
- JBoss Application Server Architecture
- Installing JBoss Application Server
- JBoss Basic Deployments
- Installation of JBoss ON
- JBoss ON User Interface
- JBoss Production Installation
- JBoss Production Deployments
- Introduction to JBoss and J2EE Security Concepts
- Securing JBoss Services
- Middleware Clustering