Managing the application server

JBoss AS 7 provides three different approaches to configure and manage servers: a web interface, a command-line client, and a set of XML configuration files. No matter what approach you choose, the configuration is always synchronized across the different views and finally persisted to the XML files.

Managing JBoss AS 7 with the web interface

The web interface is a Google Web Toolkit (GWT) application, which can be used to manage a standalone or domain JBoss AS distribution. By default, it is deployed on a local host on the 9990 port; the property that controls the port socket binding is jboss.management.http.port, as contained in the server configuration (standalone.xml/domain.xml):

<socket-binding-group name="standard-sockets" ...

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