Getting the Binary Files

The most recent release of JBoss is available from the SourceForge JBoss project files page, http://sourceforge.net/projects/jboss. You will also find previous releases there, as well as beta and release candidate versions of upcoming releases.

Prerequisites

Before installing and running the server, you need to check your system to make sure you have a working JDK 1.4+ installation. The simplest way to do this is to execute the java -version command to ensure that the java executable is in your path and that you are using Version 1.4 or higher. For example, running the java -version command with a 1.4.1 JDK would produce a version number like the following:

 [ tmp] $ java -version java version "1.4.2_05" Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2_05-b04) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2_05-b04, mixed mode) 

It does not matter where on your system you install JBoss. Note, however, that installing JBoss into a directory that has a name that contains spaces causes problems in some situations with Sun-based VMs. This is caused by bugs with file URLs not correctly escaping the spaces in the resulting URL. There is no requirement for root access to run JBoss on Unix/Linux systems because none of the default ports are within the 01023 privileged port range.