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Here’s what I have running well at the moment (likely to change over time as needs change):

• JDK 1.6 update 7
• mysql-connector-java (I’m using version 5.1.6)
• JBoss Application Server 4.2.3.GA
  • To make deployment to this application server possible/easier from my non-privileged user account:
    • chown -R jerry:jerry $JBOSS_HOME
  • I am controlling this only from the command line after observing that launching it from within Eclipse causes the load on my workstation to get very high for no apparent reason.
    • cd $JBOSS_HOME/bin
    • ./run.sh
  • Since I’m also using MySQL, I have copied the mysql-connector-java-5.1.6-bin.jar file into my $JBOSS_HOME/server/default/lib
• Seam 2.1.0.GA
  • this Seam Getting Started guide will be helpful – and there’s plenty more good info in the Reference Guide.
  • If you’re serious about Seam development, get “Seam in Action” – it’s available as a PDF file too!
  • I do all the seam-gen stuff from the command line – it’s really easy once you get into the “flow” of doing it this way (and eliminates any issues of doing it from within your IDE). This mostly amounts to only a few commands once you start working in your code:
    • seam explode (to get things started)
    • seam restart (to compile and deploy your latest code changes)
    • As the project grows and evolves, it is likely you’ll end up with customized build and deployment command-line scripts anyway.
• Eclipse 3.4.1 (in my case, eclipse-jee-ganymede-SR1-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz)
  • Nightly build of the JBoss IDE Tools. I am using JBossTools-200810010752-nightly-ALL-linux-gtk-x86_64.zip – however a more recent build should work just as well.
    • Using a recent nightly build solved my problem with the JBoss Tools Palette not working with Eclipse 3.4 as described here
  • Debugging seems to work well (as long as the server is started in “debug” mode from inside Eclipse)
  • JBoss Tools Palette works well.
  • Looks like everything is working for now.

Here’s an important chunk of my .bashrc file:

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/java/latest
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH

export ANT_HOME=/usr/local/apache-ant-1.7.1
export PATH=$ANT_HOME/bin:$PATH

export JBOSS_HOME=/usr/local/jboss/jboss_as/latest
export PATH=$JBOSS_HOME/bin:$PATH

export SEAM_HOME=/usr/local/jboss/seam/latest
export PATH=$SEAM_HOME:$PATH

The “latest” directory in the paths above is the result of my use of symlinks like this:

jerry@localhost
/usr/local/jboss/seam >ll
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 2008-10-23 23:03 jboss-seam-2.1.0.CR1
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 2008-10-24 15:03 jboss-seam-2.1.0.GA
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   20 2008-10-24 15:12 latest -> jboss-seam-2.1.0.GA/

This entry was posted on Thursday, September 25th, 2008 at 9:07 am and is filed under Java, Linux.