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How to load APR Connector (Native) in JBoss 7

I want to use Atmosphere XMPP but i need to load native connector APR. I am not very familiar as of yet with JBoss 7 so i was wondering if anyone knows how to do this? WIndows x64 or Linux x64 environment. Doesn't matter. Thanks

Solution

  • Assuming Linux x64 here. I am using Ubuntu 11.04 x64.

    1. Download JBoss7 distribution and unzip it to a suitable directory ( from here I am assuming that you have it in your '/home/myname/tools/jboss701/' folder.

    2. Start it using /jboss701/bin/standalone.sh and verify that it started properly ( check localhost:8080 url). Close the jboss for now.

    3. Download the native libraries from here http://www.jboss.org/jbossweb/downloads/jboss-native-2-0-9.html . I have downloaded this one jboss-native-2.0.9-linux2-x64-ssl.tar.gz

    4. Unpack it to the '/home/myname/tools/jboss701/' folder. You should see the contents of the archive in '/home/myname/tools/jboss701/bin' folder. Also, verify that you have 'native' folder under the '/home/myname/tools/jboss701/bin'

    5. IMPORTANT: unfortunately, it doesn't work out of the box. You must make the following change: add the

    JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Djava.library.path=/home/myname/tools/jboss701/bin/native:$PATH"

    string to your 'standalone.conf' file.

    Start JBoss with the 'standalone.sh' script. Verify that you have the following line in the console during the JBoss startup: 'org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProtocol'. If you see 'org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProtocol' instead of 'org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol' then everything is working as expected.