The objective of this exercise is to clone, build and deploy a Restful Web API on a JBoss instance.

Configure your Linux instance on VirtualBox. For Debian/Ubuntu Install Maven to run from the command line.

sudo apt-get install maven 

Install JBoss v7.0.2.Final from TAR file.

wget http://download.jboss.org/jbossas/7.0/jboss-as-7.0.2.Final/jboss-as-web-7.0.2.Final.tar.gz

Extract JBoss

tar xvfz jboss-as-web-7.0.2.Final.tar.gz
cd jboss-as-web-7.0.2.Final.tar.gz/bin

Ensure nothing in running on port 8080 - e.g. Tomcat

fuser 8080/tcp

If so force kill where PID is gleaned frmo the above fuser

sudo kill -9 PID 

Start JBoss

./standalone.sh

Execute a git clone of this repository

git clone https://github.com/lynchd/rest-api.git

Navigate to the resulting rest-api directory

cd rest-api

Prepare the maven project for Eclipse

mvn eclipse:eclipse

Import the project into eclipse

Import > Existing Projects Into Workspace 

Deploy to JBoss

mvn install

Use Postman or CURL to explore the API - e.g to Login

david@ronaldo:~$ curl -d'{
    "email" : "[email protected]",
    "password" : "test"
}' -H "content-type:application/json" http://localhost:8080/users-1.0/login
>>> Response 
{ "userId":"1","authToken":"fa910e21-7e1e-3726-a9ed-70329b60668d"} 

Replace the fudged persistence layer with a database of your choice. That is, rewrite these. https://github.com/lynchd/rest-api/blob/master/src/main/java/ie/dit/users/data/repository/LoginRepository.java https://github.com/lynchd/rest-api/blob/master/src/main/java/ie/dit/users/data/repository/UserRepository.java