How do I slim down JBOSS?

We're using Jboss开发者_StackOverflow社区, but we are really only using its JMS stuff. So, is there a way that I can trim down what's loaded when Jboss starts?

You can go for a servlet container (Tomcat) + a JMS provider (ex. ActiveMQ), without using an application server at all.

From 6 years ago, here's a blog entry about configuring JBoss with "just the right stuff."

I haven't used JBoss in a few years, but in v4.0, you could just drop the desired jar files into the deployment directory, and JBoss would load... only those jars.

The correct way to do this, is making a separate profile on your JBoss server that contains only the things needed to use JMS. JBoss v5 comes standard with several profiles: minimal, default, standard, all and web. Each of those starts other services. If you do not specify any profile, you're using the "default" profile.

You can create your own profile starting from a copy of the minimal profile and adding services as needed for JMS support.

The JBoss documentation contains a bit of information on what the files in those profile directories are used for. See Jboss server configurations.

You didn't specify which version of JBoss that you are using. Keep in mind that there are some changes in the configuration between JBoss v4 and JBoss v5/6. The referenced documentation in the answer from Cheeso points to JBoss v4.