Slimming JBoss EAP 5.0.x

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Environment

  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 5.0.x

Issue

  • How can I slim JBoss EAP 5.0.x?

Resolution

If you are using JBoss EAP 5.1.0 or later, see Slimming JBoss EAP 5.1 and 5.2

If you do not want your JBoss instances to form a cluster, please refer to How do I disable clustering in JBoss EAP 5's "production" configuration?.

NOTE HypersonicSQL should not be used in a production environment. Please refer to This content is not included.Is Hypersonic (HSQLDB) supported in JBoss production environment ? about this; If you have not yet removed HypersonicSQL refer to How do I remove Hypersonic SQL database from JBoss EAP?

If you do not need JMS functionality (provided via JBoss Messaging), remove

  • $CONFIG/deploy/messaging/

  • $CONFIG/deploy/jms-ra.rar

  • $CONFIG/deployers/messaging-definitions-jboss-beans.xml

  • the following "XAResourceRecovery.JBMESSAGING1" definition if it exists in $CONFIG/conf/jbossts-properties.xml:

              <property name="com.arjuna.ats.jta.recovery.XAResourceRecovery.JBMESSAGING1"
             value="org.jboss.jms.server.recovery.MessagingXAResourceRecovery;java:/DefaultJMSProvider"/>

If you do not need to send email, remove

  • $CONFIG/deploy/mail-service.xml
  • $CONFIG/deploy/mail-ra.rar

If you do not want to use BeanShell scripts, remove

  • $CONFIG/deployers/bsh.deployer

If you do not use EJB3, remove

  • $CONFIG/deploy/ejb3-connectors-jboss-beans.xml
  • $CONFIG/deploy/ejb3-container-jboss-beans.xml
  • $CONFIG/deploy/ejb3-interceptors-aop.xml
  • $CONFIG/deploy/ejb3-timerservice-jboss-beans.xml
  • $CONFIG/deployers/ejb3.deployer
  • $CONFIG/deployers/jboss-ejb3-endpoint-deployer.jar
  • $CONFIG/deployers/jboss-ejb3-metrics-deployer.jar

If you do not use EJB2, remove

  • $CONFIG/deploy/ejb2-container-jboss-beans.xml
    In addition, if you have removed the EJB3 timer service (ejb3-timerservice-jboss-beans.xml), you can remove

  • $CONFIG/deploy/ejb2-timer-service.xml

If you do not need to use UDDI for web services, remove

  • $CONFIG/deploy/juddi-service.sar

If you do not need scheduled jobs or timer EJBs, remove

  • $CONFIG/deploy/schedule-manager-service.xml
  • $CONFIG/deploy/scheduler-service.xml
  • $CONFIG/deploy/quartz-ra.rar
  • $CONFIG/deploy/ejb3-timerservice-jboss-beans.xml
  • $CONFIG/deploy/ejb2-timer-service.xml

If you do not need web services, in server/<node>/deploy/ remove

  • $CONFIG/deploy/jbossws.sar
  • $CONFIG/deployers/jbossws.deployer
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