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