Quoting Michael S Daines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I did download the files from Sun for the j2ee (j2sdkee-1_3_1-linux.tar.gz). > I looked around for some insight on the net and really didn't find any. What > would be the Debian way to get this in there? To be honest: The only thing that you use from this tarball is the j2ee.jar, for compiling your EJB sources. I don't recommend using Sun's reference implementation of the application server at all, because it's simply unuseable...
> > Also, what are my alternatives for the application server anyway? For class, > we are just going to use what comes with the j2ee, but I'd be curious what > else is available. I'm using JBoss (http://www.jboss.org) excessively and am really happy with it, it's a very advanced technique and implements each technology that makes Java so strong, especially JMX. I didn't install it according to the "Debian way" but simply extracted the compiled zip file into /usr/local/share and soft-linked the the bin/run.sh into /usr/local/bin. Nothing else (except a JVM, of course, mine is Blackdown 1.3), and it works perfectly! To test your installation, I've attached a few files (a.jar/b.jar (two session beans), client.war (to access the beans through the browser) and src.jar (the whole source)). Simply copy the them (without the source, of course) into the server/default/deploy folder of the extracted JBoss and access the web-app through http://<yourhost>:<yourport>/client/ClientServlet. You should then see the communication output of the two session beans. (I found this example in the web but I can't tell you anymore who posted it except that it was one of the main developers of JBoss itself.) Btw.: The default port used by the embedded Jetty is 8080. Another test is to call http://<yourhost>:<yourport>/jmx-console which shows you the list of all the deployed MBeans (managed beans) hosted by the JMX kernel. Another nice application server is Orion (http://www.orionserver.com), but it's not free for commercial purposes. Good luck Florian -- Florian Steinsiepe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
