Introduction

About This Book

This book is for the JBoss content developer and administrator. The topics covered are those necessary to install, configure, and use version 2.4.x of the JBoss Open Source application server.

About Open Source

“The basic idea behind open source is very simple: When programmers can read, redistribute, and modify the source code for a piece of software, the software evolves. People improve it, people adapt it, people fix bugs; this can happen at a speed that, if one is used to the slow pace of conventional software development, seems astonishing.

We in the open source community have learned that this rapid evolutionary process produces better software than the traditional closed model, in which only a very few programmers ...

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