[CentOS] jboss application server rpm

[Tony Schreiner]

On Mar 13, 2009, at 3:51 PM, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 15:39 -0400, Jason Pyeron wrote:
>>> Download the tgz from the jboss website and unpack it inside
>>> the homedirectory of the user you want to run it as.
>>> Creating a user specifically for that purpose also hasn't
>>> hurt anybody...
>>>
>>> The only exception to this approach might be if part of your
>>> file- system are read-only because you booted the box via PXE.
>>>
>>
>> You could make a RPM pretty easy for it.
>
> I was kind of hoping not having to go down that route...you know,
> laziness and all. :)
>
> Regards,
>
> Ranbir
>

Have you checked at JPackage?
  http://www.jpackage.org/browser/browse.php?jppversion=5.0

I have no personal experience with JBoss from this site or any other,  
but I've had reasonable success with other Java bits from there.

Tony Schreiner