Install & run (Wildfly) JBoss AS 7.1.1 on Windows

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Introduction: From Wikipedia Source.

The renaming to WildFly was done to reduce confusion. The renaming only affects the JBoss Application Server project. The JBoss Community or the Red Hat JBoss product line (with JBoss Enterprise Application Platform) all retain their names.

Download and Installation

You can download JBoss Application Server version 7.1.1 Final From JBoss Official Website.

http://www.jboss.org/jbossas/downloads/

Download zip file of JBoss 7.1.1 Final. Extract the downloaded zip file to some where on your machine i.e, C:\ or D:\

Now installation got completed. Navigate to jboss-as-7.1.1.Final\bin directory and then double click on standalone.bat file. JBoss AS will be started automatically.

The default port number of JBoss Application Server is 8080, and admin console port number is 9990

Now we can see the welcome page of JBoss Application Server just by typing http://localhost:8080 at address bar of browser window.

This is the welcome page of JBoss AS server.

How to change default port number of JBoss AS Server ?

we can change the default port number of JBoss Server. All we have to do is,

Go to Jboss-as-7.1.1.Final\standalone\configuration directory and edit standalone.xml file

Find <socket-binding name=”http” port=”8080″/> under <socket-binding-group>

Replace ‘8080’ with desired port number i.e, 7070 or 9090 and then restart the server.

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