How to change the HTTP port number of JBoss 7 dynamically

I have grouped my Jboss 7 server, Postgres database and test.bat into a demo.exe file using Advanced Installer. When file i.e demo.exe file double clicked on the client side then test.bat file runs and it deploys JBoss and postgres at the predefined location and the service starts and my application runs at the port number 8080 .All the script has been written to test.bat file .This demo.exe file has to used by different users . It may be possible that 8080 might be used or engaged by different application on client side.

So how can i change port number of jboss dynamically on the client side as per port usage? Do i have to use any Jboss installer or write scipt on batch file i.e test.bat ? Not able to click things or right approach :(

Any help will be highly appreciated and will be thankful .

Solution

You can do this using CLI. This example changes the port from 8081 to 8080:

Start CLI (in .../bin/):

$ ./jboss-cli.sh   
You are disconnected at the moment. Type 'connect' to connect to the server or 'help' for the list of supported commands.

Connect

[disconnected /] connect

Change into the target area

[standalone@localhost:9999 /] cd /socket-binding-group=standard-sockets/socket-binding=http

Show the current state:

[standalone@localhost:9999 socket-binding=http] ls -l  
ATTRIBUTE         VALUE     TYPE      
bound             true      BOOLEAN   
bound-address     127.0.0.1 STRING    
bound-port        8081      INT       
client-mappings   undefined LIST      
fixed-port        false     BOOLEAN   
interface         undefined STRING    
multicast-address undefined STRING    
multicast-port    undefined INT       
name              http      STRING    
port              8081      INT

Change the port attribute:

[standalone@localhost:9999 socket-binding=http] :write-attribute(name="port", value="8080")  
{  
    "outcome" => "success",  
    "response-headers" => {  
        "operation-requires-reload" => true,  
        "process-state" => "reload-required"  
    }  
}

Note that the process-state is "reload-required"

Look again:

[standalone@localhost:9999 socket-binding=http] ls -l                                        
ATTRIBUTE         VALUE     TYPE      
bound             true      BOOLEAN   
bound-address     127.0.0.1 STRING    
bound-port        8081      INT       
client-mappings   undefined LIST      
fixed-port        false     BOOLEAN   
interface         undefined STRING    
multicast-address undefined STRING    
multicast-port    undefined INT       
name              http      STRING    
port              8080      INT

Note that here as well the bound-port is still at the old value.

So go back to the root directory

[standalone@localhost:9999 subsystem=web] cd /

Reload

[standalone@localhost:9999 /] :reload  
{  
    "outcome" => "success",  
    "response-headers" => {"process-state" => "reload-required"}  
}

That means that the reload is still in progress, again

[standalone@localhost:9999 /] :reload  
{"outcome" => "success"}

Now the HTTP connector should listen on the new port.

Update

The question asks for changing the port dynamically (JBoss is up and running). The other option is to write the port into the configuration file (standalone.xml). This is statically, but it will probably work as well as for installation purposes.