Deploying Alfresco on JBoss

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This guide assumes you are knowledgeable enough with JBoss and MySQL to install them both and create a empty database schema.

Download JBoss 4.2.2.GA or JBoss 5.0.1.GA
- Note: Compatibility with JBoss 5.0.1.GA is currently experimental and only available in the Alfresco Labs nightly builds
Download the Alfresco Labs or Enterprise war bundle
Extract your JBoss package.
Create a new empty database schema instance called 'alfresco' in MySQL - use the example files in the Alfresco bundle in /extra/databases/mysql to perform this with the correct user permissions.
Download the MySQL JDBC driver file from MySQL
Extract the MySQL JDBC driver .jar file and copy to \jboss\server\default\lib
Extract alfresco.war from the alfresco bundle and copy to \jboss\server\default\deploy
[Alfresco v3.2 / Nightly builds only] Create a datasource that defines the connection details for your MySQL database by copying \jboss\docs\examples\jca\mysql-ds.xml to \jboss\server\default\deploy and editing with the parameters appropriate for your database. The jndi-name must be changed to alfresco-datasource to match up with alfresco.war. For example:

 <local-tx-datasource>
   <jndi-name>alfresco-datasource</jndi-name>
   <connection-url>jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/alfresco</connection-url>
   <driver-class>org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver</driver-class>
   <user-name>alfresco</user-name>
   <password>alfresco</password>
   <exception-sorter-class-name>org.jboss.resource.adapter.jdbc.vendor.MySQLExceptionSorter</exception-sorter-class-name>
   <metadata>
      <type-mapping>mySQL</type-mapping>
   </metadata>
 </local-tx-datasource>

Edit \jboss\server\default\conf\jboss-log4j.xml to reduce the huge debug log output thus:

  <root>
     <priority value="INFO" />
     <appender-ref ref="CONSOLE"/>
     <appender-ref ref="FILE"/>
  </root>

Note that if you are using Alfresco 2.1 the above step is required if you want to start the server on a X11 console without a graphical display (otherwise the Swing JavaScript debugger window will attempt to open on the server machine which will cause an error)
[Optional] - Even with the above configuration there will still be a lot of output sent to the console, if you wish you can reduce it further by adding the following to \jboss\server\default\conf\jboss-log4j.xml:

  <category name="org.jboss.logging.Log4jService$URLWatchTimerTask">
     <priority value="INFO"/>
  </category>
  <category name="org.jboss.system.server.Server">
     <priority value="INFO"/>
  </category>
  <category name="org.jboss">
     <priority value="WARN"/>
  </category>
  <category name="net">
     <priority value="WARN"/>
  </category>
  <category name="org.alfresco">
     <priority value="WARN"/>
  </category>
  <category name="org.alfresco.repo.policy">
     <priority value="WARN"/>
  </category>
  <category name="org.springframework">
     <priority value="WARN"/>
  </category>
  <category name="org.hibernate">
     <priority value="WARN"/>
  </category>
  <category name="org.hibernate.cache.ReadWriteCache">
     <priority value="ERROR"/>
  </category>
  <category name="org.hibernate.cache.EhCacheProvider">
     <priority value="ERROR"/>
  </category>
  <category name="org.hibernate.engine.StatefulPersistenceContext.ProxyWarnLog">
     <priority value="ERROR"/>
  </category>
  <category name="org.apache.myfaces">
     <priority value="ERROR"/>
  </category>
  <category name="org.jbpm.jpdl.xml.JpdlXmlReader">
     <priority value="ERROR"/>
  </category>

Edit \jboss\server\default\deploy\ejb3.deployer\META-INF\persistence.properties

and change the line:

hibernate.bytecode.provider=javassist

to:

hibernate.bytecode.provider=cglib

Ensure that \jboss\bin\run.sh[.bat] specifies appropriate JVM memory settings in JAVA_OPTS. For example, the following are minimums

-Xms128m -Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=128m

In JBoss 5.0.1 and above, edit the filteredPackages property of the WarClassLoaderDeployer bean in \jboss\server\default\deployers\jbossweb.deployer\META-INF\war-deployers-jboss-beans.xml as follows, to avoid collisions between JVM bootstrap classes and those embedded in the war

  <bean name="WarClassLoaderDeployer" class="org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.deployers.WarClassLoaderDeployer">
     <property name="relativeOrder">-1</property>
     <property name="filteredPackages">javax.servlet,org.apache.commons.logging,javax.xml,org.xml,org.w3c,org.apache.xmlcommons,org.apache.xerces,org.apache.xml</property>      
  </bean>

Execute \jboss\bin\run.sh[.bat]. Note that by default Jboss 4.2 and above will only listen on the localhost network adapter, rather than the adapter with a real IP address connected to the outside world. To override this, start Jboss with the -b addr option, specifying the IP address of the network adapter you want to listen on or 0.0.0.0 to listen on all adapters. E.g.

run.sh -b 0.0.0.0

Note that the following warning message will appear in the log but can be ignored, since Alfresco disables the faces RI with a special parameter in web.xml:

[STDOUT] 16:59:43,814 ERROR [shared_impl.config.MyfacesConfig] Both MyFaces and the RI are on your classpath. Please make sure to use only one of the two JSF-implementations.