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    JBoss EAP6 High Availability
    JBoss EAP6 High Availability
    JBoss EAP6 High Availability
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    JBoss EAP6 High Availability

    By Weinan Li

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    An easy-to-follow guide full of hands-on examples of real-world administration tasks.JBoss EAP6 High Availability is ideal for those who want to learn how to use JBoss EAP6 to set up a cluster. Basic knowledge of Linux/Unix is required.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateDec 24, 2013
    ISBN9781783282449
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      JBoss EAP6 High Availability - Weinan Li

      Table of Contents

      JBoss EAP6 High Availability

      Credits

      About the Author

      About the Reviewers

      www.PacktPub.com

      Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more

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      Free Access for Packt account holders

      Preface

      What this book covers

      What you need for this book

      Who this book is for

      Conventions

      Reader feedback

      Customer support

      Downloading the example code

      Errata

      Piracy

      Questions

      1. JBoss EAP6 Overview

      Understanding high availability

      JBoss EAP6 high availability

      JBoss Web, Apache httpd, mod_jk, and mod_cluster

      EJB session bean

      JBossWS and RESTEasy

      HornetQ

      Hibernate and Narayana

      JGroups and JBoss Remoting

      Domain management

      Installing JBoss EAP6

      The JBoss EAP6 startup mode

      The domain mode

      The standalone mode

      Starting JBoss EAP6 in the standalone mode

      Understanding the startup process

      The standalone.xml file

      Alternative configuration files

      The --help option

      Configuration files

      Starting JBoss EAP6 in the domain mode

      The domain mode

      Configuration files

      The domain.xml file

      The host.xml file

      The domain-controller section

      The servers section

      XSD documents

      Summary

      2. Using JBoss EAP6

      Configuring the JBoss EAP6 management console

      Security realms

      Setting up an admin account

      Using the web-based management console

      Deploying a project in the standalone mode

      Testing

      Deployment scanner

      Introducing JBoss DMR

      Deploying a project in the domain mode

      The main-server-group

      Testing

      CLI Usages

      Connecting to CLI

      ls

      cd

      Basic commands

      echo-dmr

      read-operation

      The GUI

      Deploying a project

      Summary

      3. Setting Up a JBoss EAP6 Cluster

      Designing a cluster

      Setting up a server group

      The main-server-group versus other-server-group

      Server configuration

      Setting up master

      Configuring host.xml

      Adding a user account for slave server

      Setting up HornetQ

      Setting up slave

      Configuring host.xml

      Configuring domain.xml on slave

      Testing the server group

      Running master

      Running slave

      Checking the server status

      Project deployment

      Deploying a project to other-server-group

      Clustering with the standalone mode

      Summary

      4. Load Balancing with mod_jk

      Preparing a machine to install Apache httpd

      Compiling and installing Apache httpd

      Downloading httpd

      Compiling httpd

      Installing httpd

      Starting httpd

      Stopping httpd

      Configuring httpd

      Compiling and installing mod_jk

      Installing JK

      Configuring JK

      Configuring httpd-jk.conf

      The workers.properties configuration

      Testing the cluster

      The jk-status module

      Summary

      5. Load Balancing with mod_cluster

      The design of mod_cluster

      Installing mod_cluster

      Downloading mod_cluster

      Compiling and installing mod_cluster

      Configuring mod_cluster

      Configuring httpd.conf

      Configuring mod_cluster

      Configuring EAP6

      Testing the cluster

      Starting up httpd

      The protocol analysis

      The advertising channel

      The management channel

      The connector channel analysis

      Accessing the cluster

      Failover

      Stress testing

      Summary

      6. Clustering with SSL

      Using SSL in JBoss EAP6

      Enabling SSL in EAP6

      Using SSL in the JBoss EAP6 cluster

      Configuring JK with SSL

      Generating a certificate for httpd

      Configuring httpd to use certificates

      Summary

      7. Configuring mod_cluster with SSL

      The design of mod_cluster

      Enabling SSL for the mod_cluster management channel

      An introduction to SSL mutual authentication

      Configuring SSL mutual authentication

      Creating a CA certificate

      Creating a certificate for httpd

      Setting up OpenSSL

      Signing the httpd.csr file

      Creating a certificate for EAP6

      Configuring httpd

      Configuring EAP6

      Testing the configuration

      Enabling SSL in the proxy channel

      Summary

      8. Developing Distributed Applications

      Web session replication

      CDI-session-scoped bean replication

      Configuring sticky sessions with JK

      Configuring sticky sessions with mod_cluster

      Summary

      Index

      JBoss EAP6 High Availability

      JBoss EAP6 High Availability

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      Credits

      Author

      Weinan Li

      Reviewers

      Dustin Kut Moy Cheung

      Jean-Frederic Clere

      Ty Lim

      Martin Večeřa

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      About the Author

      Weinan Li started off as a Metro Railway Engineer and has worked at Alcatel since 2004 playing with hardware and assembly language.

      He entered Red Hat in 2011 and is currently working as a Senior Software Engineer in the JBoss EAP team. He is also the productization leader of JBoss EWS and an active contributor to RESTEasy.

      He currently lives in Beijing with his wife and their three-year-old son.

      I would like to thank Veena Manjrekar from Packt Publishing who recommended me to write this book. I also give my gratitude to the editors from Packt Publishing, Sruthi Kutty and Ankita Goenka, 
who have given me great support during the writing process of 
this book.

      I would like to thank my colleagues from Red Hat who have patiently answered my questions and helped me to review this book. They are Dustin Kut Moy Cheung, Fernando Nasser, Jean-Frederic Clere, Michal Babacek, Mladen Turk, Paul Ferraro, and Radoslav Husar. I would like to thank Martin Večeřa and Ty Lim who have given me a lot of advice.

      I would like to especially thank Jean-Frederic Clere who has given me a lot of guidance during the writing process of this book. I would also like to thank all the people from the JBoss community who have inspired me to write this book.

      Finally, thank you to my parents, my wife, and my son. I love you.

      About the Reviewers

      Dustin Kut Moy Cheung was born and raised in the island of Mauritius. Dustin's interest in computers was sparked when he obtained his first computer at the age of nine. Since then, he became determined to head into a career in the software world. He values spending time with his close friends, and looks at pictures of puppies and kittens in his spare time.

      I'd like to thank Weinan for giving me the opportunity to review this book. I'd also like to thank the awesome people at Red Hat, Toronto; you guys rock! To my friends scattered around the world, I miss you! And of course, I wouldn't be here without the unconditional love and dedication of my parents. Thank you Papi and Mami!

      Jean-Frederic Clere was born in France, where he studied. After a few years of consulting work there, he started to write servers for applications and moved to Barcelona, Spain. In 2000, he started contributing to Apache Software Foundation projects. Since 2006 he has been working for Red Hat in the JBoss division where he takes care of the web layer and the Apache httpd as a proxy for the Application Server. Actually, he lives in Neuchatel, Switzerland.

      I would like to thank my wife Adelina for her patience with my geek behavior and all the colleagues and friends from Open Source communities who make my contributions possible.

      Ty Lim is an experienced IT professional with more than 15 years' experience working on various operating system and middleware platforms. He has professional experience with IBM WebSphere Application Server, Apache Tomcat, Apache httpd server, and various other middleware and operating system platforms. He has experience working in various industries that include healthcare, telecommunications, financial, and software development. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of the Pacific, and a Master of Science degree in Computer Information Systems from Boston University.

      I would like to thank my friends and family for their 
continued support.

      To my HH friends, let's always keep the party going.

      Martin Večeřa is a JBoss Quality Assurance Manager within a division of Red Hat. He has a passion for bleeding-edge projects and technologies. His main area of interest is Java middleware and performance testing in which he has almost 10 years' experience. Previously, he has developed information systems for power plants and medical companies. He publishes articles on Java middleware to various international and local web magazines and is a co-author of a blog on the PerfCake Performance Testing Framework.

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