Configuring JBoss Web Server

Apache Tomcat provides the core functionality of JBoss Web Server. Its embedded engine allows seamless integration with JBoss components, by using the underlying Microkernel system. JBoss Web Server currently uses the Apache Tomcat 6.0 release and it is ships as service archive (SAR) application in the deploy folder. The location of the embedded web server has changed at almost every new release of JBoss. The following table could be a useful reference if you are using different versions of JBoss:

JBoss release

Location of Tomcat

5.0.0 GA

deploy/jbossweb.sar

4.2.2 GA

deploy/jboss-web.deployer

4.0.5 GA

deploy/jbossweb-tomcat55.sar

3.2.X

deploy/jbossweb-tomcat50.sar

The main configuration file is server.xml ...

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