package and git repository

Use the following snippet for your sources.list:

deb http://pkg-jboss.alioth.debian.org unstable/i386/
deb http://pkg-jboss.alioth.debian.org unstable/all/
deb-src http://pkg-jboss.alioth.debian.org unstable/source/

To install the JBoss application server run

apt-get install jbossas5

Please report bugs at the Tracker at http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-jboss/. There is a mailing list that can be subscribed at http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-jboss-maintainer.

If you are member of the group pkg-jboss you can upload with the following dput configuration:

[pkg-jboss]
method = scp
fqdn = alioth.debian.org
incoming = /home/groups/pkg-jboss/htdocs/mini-dinstall/incoming/
post_upload_command = ssh alioth.debian.org /home/groups/pkg-jboss/mini-dinstall.sh

The git repos can be found at http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-jboss/jbossas5.git;a=summary and http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-jboss/jbossas5-libs.git;a=summary .

Building the packages from vcs

Building the Debian Package (jbossas5) from GIT

• Clone the archives with git clone or better with gbp-clone

gbp-clone git://git.debian.org/pkg-jboss/jbossas5-libs.git
gbp-clone git://git.debian.org/pkg-jboss/jbossas5.git

• Build the jbossas5-libs package

gbp-sid

• Install the jbossas5-libs package in your buildsystem. With a local repository add the repo to /var/cache/pbuilder/case-sid.cow/etc/apt/sources.list. and do

sudo  cowbuilder --update --basepath=/var/cache/pbuilder/base-sid.cow

• The jbossas5 package is an evil beast a the moment. First install openjdk-6-jre and ant that the sanity check in debian/rules has it's peace.

 apt-get install openjdk-6-jre ant

• Build the package. If you use git-buildpackage and friends (as i do like described here) run

 gbp-sid 

otherwise install all Build-Depends and run

git-buildpackage

Building the Debian Package (jboss4) from Alioth SVN

 (1) mkdir jboss && cd jboss
 (2) svn co svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-jboss/jboss4/trunk jboss4
 (3) wget http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/jboss/jboss-4.0.4.GA-src.tar.gz
 (4) tar zvxf jboss-4.0.4.GA-src.tar.gz
 (5) cd jboss4 && cp -rl ../jboss-4.0.4.GA-src/* .
 (6) debuild -us -uc

1. Create a build dir
2. Checkout debian package source

3. Get JBoss 4.0.4 from http://labs.jboss.com/portal/jbossas/download

4. Unpack the upstream source
5. Copy (actually hardlink) the upstream source into the Debian package source
6. Build the package

Older (maybe obsolete) JBoss 5 TODOs/plan

jbossas5

• create a inofficial package jbossas5-libs with all jar files that are not packaged for Debian but needed for the app server - DONE
• create a transitional package jbossas5 that (Build-)Depends: jbossas5-libs - partially DONE
• build a minimal package that can be uploaded to main

joesnmp/opennms

• old upstream code shipped with jbossas5 is available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/joesnmp/

• but current upstream is http://sourceforge.net/projects/opennms/ but incompatible with jboss

• see http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4191158#4191158 for more info

• there is some packaging of opennms by the pkg-java project but this package has not been uploaded yet

Apache scout

• http://ws.apache.org/scout/source-repository.html

• http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/webservices/scout/branches/v1.0rc2/

• there is one file with no license information: etc/uddi_v2.xsd

The following packages might be needed for jbossas5 but the list must be checked again.

jacorb

• existing ITP: #349540

• http://www.jacorb.org/

istack-commons

• https://istack-commons.dev.java.net/

rngom

• https://rngom.dev.java.net/

• easy

txw

• https://txw.dev.java.net/

• easy

xsom

• https://xsom.dev.java.net/

• easy

jaxb

• the JAXB API is already in Debian: libjaxme-java

• https://jaxb.dev.java.net/

• blocked by codemodel, com.sun.xml.dtdparser?, istack-commons-runtime, istack-commons-tools, rngom, txw, xsom
• Build-Depends: glassfish-activation, xml-commons-resolver1.1

jpl

• http://sourceforge.net/projects/jpl/ and http://www.swi-prolog.org/

• part of swi-prolog

• requested jpl addition: #449437

Open bugs

We use BTS usertags with user pkg-jboss-maintainer@lists.alioth.debian.org to keep track of bugs.

• ITPs and bugs concerning the packaging effort.

Thirdparty JARs

The JBoss source tarball contains several thirdparty packages under common/lib/ which need to be compiled from source for Debian. This list tries to keep track of the current status:

Building with other free tools

TODO

• complete the above table
• use Debian versions of thirdparty packages, where available
• package missing thirdparty stuff from the above table, that isn't already in Debian

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