Using Pebble (an open source blog system, which is also used by this blog ;-)) with the JBoss application server is basically just a matter of dropping the pebble.war in your deploy directory. But how to enable pebbles mail functionality?


1. deploy the pebble.war in expanded form

2. create a new file called pebble-mail-service.xml in your deploy directory <!DOCTYPE server> <server> <mbean code="org.jboss.mail.MailService" name="jboss:service=mail/PebbleMail"> <attribute name="JNDIName">java:/mail/PebbleMail</attribute> <attribute name="User">username</attribute> <attribute name="Password">secret</attribute> <attribute name="Configuration"> <configuration> <property name="mail.transport.protocol" value="smtp"/> <property name="mail.smtp.host" value="smtpservername.server.com"/> <property name="mail.from" value="yourmail@server.com"/> <!-- set this to true if your smtp server requires authentication --> <property name="mail.smtp.auth" value="true"/> <property name="mail.debug" value="false"/> </configuration> </attribute> </mbean> </server> 3. create a new file called jboss-web.xml in your pebble.war/WEB-INF directory <!DOCTYPE jboss-web PUBLIC "-//JBoss//DTD Web Application 2.4//EN" "http://www.jboss.org/j2ee/dtd/jboss-web_4_0.dtd"> <jboss-web> <resource-ref> <res-ref-name>mail/Session</res-ref-name> <!-- this comes from our mbean/attribute[@name=JNDIName] --> <jndi-name>java:/mail/PebbleMail</jndi-name> </resource-ref> </jboss-web> 4. uncomment the javamail part in your pebble.war/WEB-INF/web.xml (as described in the pebble installation steps)

5. do not forget to uncomment the EmailAuthorNotificationListener plugin in the plugin settings of your blog

that was easy, right?