This directory contains the Java libraries (JARs) required for clients that run outside the JBoss AS containers, such as:
Web Service clients
EJB clients
JMX clients
Used by external applications that need to access JNDI resources
On Unix, to get the client CLASSPATH, run: ${jboss.home.dir}/bin/classpath.sh -c
As of JBoss 5, the file client/jbossall-client.jar contains references to other JARs via Class-Path setting in its META-INF/MANIFEST.MF file. This makes it possible for external JBoss clients to just reference this one JAR file as opposed to many of them.
JBoss Application Server Directory Structure
JBossORG-EULA.txt copyright.txt lib/
bin/ docs/ readme.html
client/ jar-versions.xml server/
common/ lgpl.html
Root dir known as jboss.home.dir or $JBOSS_HOME
Understanding the layout is important to
- Locating libraries
- Updating configuration
- Deploying apps and services
When JBoss Server is installed (uncompressed), the following directories are created:
- ${jboss.home.dir}/bin
- ${jboss.home.dir}/client
- ${jboss.home.dir}/common
- ${jboss.home.dir}/docs
- ${jboss.home.dir}/lib
- ${jboss.home.dir}/server
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