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JBoss EAP6 High Availability
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Table of Contents
JBoss EAP6 High Availability
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the example code
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. JBoss EAP6 Overview
Understanding high availability
JBoss EAP6 high availability
JBoss Web, Apache httpd, mod_jk, and mod_cluster
EJB session bean
JBossWS and RESTEasy
HornetQ
Hibernate and Narayana
JGroups and JBoss Remoting
Domain management
Installing JBoss EAP6
The JBoss EAP6 startup mode
The domain mode
The standalone mode
Starting JBoss EAP6 in the standalone mode
Understanding the startup process
The standalone.xml file
Alternative configuration files
The --help option
Configuration files
Starting JBoss EAP6 in the domain mode
The domain mode
Configuration files
The domain.xml file
The host.xml file
The domain-controller section
The servers section
XSD documents
Summary
2. Using JBoss EAP6
Configuring the JBoss EAP6 management console
Security realms
Setting up an admin account
Using the web-based management console
Deploying a project in the standalone mode
Testing
Deployment scanner
Introducing JBoss DMR
Deploying a project in the domain mode
The main-server-group
Testing
CLI Usages
Connecting to CLI
ls
cd
Basic commands
echo-dmr
read-operation
The GUI
Deploying a project
Summary
3. Setting Up a JBoss EAP6 Cluster
Designing a cluster
Setting up a server group
The main-server-group versus other-server-group
Server configuration
Setting up master
Configuring host.xml
Adding a user account for slave server
Setting up HornetQ
Setting up slave
Configuring host.xml
Configuring domain.xml on slave
Testing the server group
Running master
Running slave
Checking the server status
Project deployment
Deploying a project to other-server-group
Clustering with the standalone mode
Summary
4. Load Balancing with mod_jk
Preparing a machine to install Apache httpd
Compiling and installing Apache httpd
Downloading httpd
Compiling httpd
Installing httpd
Starting httpd
Stopping httpd
Configuring httpd
Compiling and installing mod_jk
Installing JK
Configuring JK
Configuring httpd-jk.conf
The workers.properties configuration
Testing the cluster
The jk-status module
Summary
5. Load Balancing with mod_cluster
The design of mod_cluster
Installing mod_cluster
Downloading mod_cluster
Compiling and installing mod_cluster
Configuring mod_cluster
Configuring httpd.conf
Configuring mod_cluster
Configuring EAP6
Testing the cluster
Starting up httpd
The protocol analysis
The advertising channel
The management channel
The connector channel analysis
Accessing the cluster
Failover
Stress testing
Summary
6. Clustering with SSL
Using SSL in JBoss EAP6
Enabling SSL in EAP6
Using SSL in the JBoss EAP6 cluster
Configuring JK with SSL
Generating a certificate for httpd
Configuring httpd to use certificates
Summary
7. Configuring mod_cluster with SSL
The design of mod_cluster
Enabling SSL for the mod_cluster management channel
An introduction to SSL mutual authentication
Configuring SSL mutual authentication
Creating a CA certificate
Creating a certificate for httpd
Setting up OpenSSL
Signing the httpd.csr file
Creating a certificate for EAP6
Configuring httpd
Configuring EAP6
Testing the configuration
Enabling SSL in the proxy channel
Summary
8. Developing Distributed Applications
Web session replication
CDI-session-scoped bean replication
Configuring sticky sessions with JK
Configuring sticky sessions with mod_cluster
Summary
Index
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JBoss EAP6 High Availability
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