JBoss Internals

Directory structure

• bin - scripts, ie for running and shutting down the server
• client - JAR files needed by client applications or an external web container
• docs - DTDs, samples and examples of configurations files, and results of JBoss tests
• lib - JARs for the JBoss kernel
• server - directories of the different server configurations

A server configuration diretory has the following structure (before the server has been run at least once, only conf, deploy, and lib exist):

• conf - the central jboss-service.xml, and separate configuration files
• data - used by the Hypersonic database
• deploy - contains user deployed and JBoss systems archives (EAR, RAR, SAR, WAR), and configuration files of hot-deployable services. Changes in this directory are detected automatically, and incorporated at run time.
• lib - all JAR files needed for this configuration
• log - log files
• tmp - used by deployer
• work - used by Tomcat