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Install JBoss

CA Identity Manager 12.6.4 works with JBoss 5.0 and 5.1 Enterprise Application Platform (EAP), 5.1 Open Source and JBoss 6.1 (EAP). Therefore, install a new version of JBoss if your version is before 5.0. You can install new version on the same system as the previous version, but in a different file location from the previous version. Also, install the JDK identified in the support matrix as supporting your version of JBoss.

Note: For a complete list of supported platforms and versions, see the CA Identity Manager support matrix on CA Support.

When using JBoss as the application server, note the following points:

• The CA Identity Manager Server is a J2EE application that is deployed on a supported application server.

  For JBoss 5, the iam_im.ear is deployed in the jboss_home/server/default/deploy folder. For a clustered installation, iam_im.ear is under jboss_home/server/all/deploy.

• Policy XPress is enhanced to support Web Services SOAP (with basic authentication method) and REST (with basic authentication, proxy authentication, and OAuth authentication methods) such that it can be integrated with external applications that provide a web service interface. To use the Policy XPress web services (SOAP and REST) with JBoss 5.1 community edition, copy the following jars into your JBoss 5.1 community edition "\lib\endorsed" directory from the "client" directory, and then restart the application server:
  • jbossws-native-jaxrpc.jar
  • jbossws-native-jaxws.jar
  • jbossws-native-jaxws-ext.jar
  • jbossws-native-saaj.jar

Note: You do not need to consider copying these files for the EAP versions.

For JBoss 6.1, the iam_im.ear is deployed in the jboss_home/standalone/deployments folder.

Important! If any datastore file in the deploy directory is modified, JBoss loses the connection to that datastore and should be restarted.

• Install the required version of the JDK before installing the CA Identity Manager Server. You can download the JDK from the following Oracle URL:

  http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/index.html