Getting Started With JOnAS

This chapter will help you to understand the various JOnAS components as well as how to start and manage a JOnAS server.

Overview Of The Tools

JOnAS comes with a set of tools that are briefly described below:

• jonas check - checks the JOnAS configuration and reports environment setting errors.

• jonas start - starts the JOnAS server.

• newbean - a simple Bean generator to generate skeleton files when developing a new bean.

• registry - start the JNDI according to the OBJECTWEB_ORB value (usually RMI or JEREMIE). This command should only be used if you configured JOnAS to use a remote registry.

• GenIC - container classes generator.

• JmsServer - start the JMS server.

• jonas admin - command-line administration console for JOnAS.

• RAConfig - Resource Adapter deployment tool.

All these commands and their respective options are fully detailed in the JOnAS Commands Reference Guide.