How To Install jaf on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install jaf on CentOS 8.
What is jaf
The JavaBeans Activation Framework (JAF) is a standard extension to the Java platform that lets you take advantage of standard services to determine the type of an arbitrary piece of data; encapsulate access to it; discover the operations available on it; and instantiate the appropriate bean to perform the operation(s).
We can use yum or dnf to install jaf on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install jaf.
Install jaf on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install jaf using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install jaf
Install jaf on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install jaf using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install jaf
How To Uninstall jaf on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the jaf package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove jaf
jaf Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/doc/jaf
/usr/share/doc/jaf/README.md
/usr/share/java/jaf
/usr/share/java/jaf/jakarta.activation-api.jar
/usr/share/java/jaf/jakarta.activation.jar
/usr/share/licenses/jaf
/usr/share/licenses/jaf/LICENSE.md
/usr/share/licenses/jaf/NOTICE.md
/usr/share/maven-metadata/jaf.xml
/usr/share/maven-poms/jaf
/usr/share/maven-poms/jaf/all.pom
/usr/share/maven-poms/jaf/jakarta.activation-api.pom
/usr/share/maven-poms/jaf/jakarta.activation.pom
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install jaf on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.