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Mastering JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7

You're reading from   Mastering JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 Core details of the Enteprise server supported by clear directions and advanced tips.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786463630
Length 390 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Luigi Fugaro Luigi Fugaro
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Francesco Marchioni Francesco Marchioni
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Preface 1. Installation and Configuration FREE CHAPTER 2. The CLI Management Tool 3. Managing EAP in Domain Mode 4. Deploying Applications 5. Load Balancing 6. Clustering EAP 7 7. Logging 8. Configuring Database Connectivity 9. Configuring EAP 7 for Java EE Applications 10. Messaging Administration 11. Securing the Application Server 12. New Security Features of EAP 7 13. Using EAP 7 with Docker 14. Running EAP 7 on the Cloud Using OpenShift

Datasource overview


A datasource is a component used to connect to a database. Through the datasource, an application can persist its state (generally speaking) to reuse it later on.

A datasource can connect to any database, as long as the application server provides a connector for it, which is the driver.

JBoss EAP 7 requires that all drivers must be compliant with the JDBC 4 specification. We will see this in detail in the following sections.

Prerequisites

Before we begin, we should have MySQL 5 installed on the system. In case you don't have it set up, it's time to take a dive into the operational world and install what is needed, and it's not just MySQL.

Let's now give a warm welcome to Docker, as our enabling technology to better understand the book. We have a chapter dedicated to Docker and will learn more about it in detail in Chapter 13, Using EAP 7 with Docker.

Regardless of your operating system, whether, Windows, Linux, or OS X, you should be able to install Docker in a few steps....

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