Installing the Java environment
JBoss is a pure Java application server, so as you might imagine it needs a virtual machine for the Java Platform to run on.
At the time of writing, JBoss AS 5 is distributed in two flavors, one that is suited for Java 1.5 and another version that has been specifically designed for Java 1.6.
The choice of Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is yours otherwise, but we do recommend considering the Java 1.6, that has just undergone the 16th update at the time of writing. Most benchmarks available on the Internet exhibit a roughly 40 percent performance improvement by upgrading from Java 1.5 to Java 1.6. Additionally, Java SE 5.0 reached its End of Service Life (EOSL) on November 3, 2009, which is the date of the final publicly ...
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