I am available for the help with the UI . Trying it out right now On 9/12/07, Dain Sundstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I added a basic installer servlet for Tomcat, and am looking for some > people to try it out and help with the UI (see below). > > Installation: > 1. copy openejb-tomcat-3.0.0-SNAPSHOT-bin.zip to your Tomcat webapps > directory > 2. make sure Tomcat is running > 3. visit http://localhost:8080/openejb/installer and click the > install button > 4. Assuming you don't get any errors, reboot tomcat > > Once complete, simply include EJBs in your war WEB-INF/classes or WEB- > INF/lib/*.jar using either annotated classes or via a META-INF/ejb- > jar.xml file. > > Restrictions: > o The installer only runs on Unix. Windows support will require a > tweaked catalina.bat and a work around for Windows file locking. > Cygwin won't work either and will require even more work arounds in > the Unix code to deal with pathing problems. > o There is no uninstaller. Currently, the installer deletes the non- > compliant Tomcat annotations-api.jar so in addition to backing out > the changes, you need to restore this file. > o Annotations in servlets to OpenEJB resources (EJBs, > PersistenceUnits, Topics, Queues, DataSources, etc) don't resolve. > You will have to use global JNDI for the time being. > o There is no security integration. I suggest you don't even try > using secured EJB in Tomcat embedded mode yet. > o Only works with Tomcat 6. > > As you will see, the UI is what I like to call stone and chisel, and > would appreciate any help making it look like the rest of OpenEJB. > The UI is rendered in the > org.apache.openejb.tomcat.installer.InstallerServlet class and the > real work is done in the Paths and Installer helper classes. The > page has form that lets the user change the location of the Tomcat > home dir, base dir and server.xml file, but I think we should hide > this items for normal users since the defaults almost always work. > For advanced users we could have a button that reveal those text boxes. > > I appreciate any help on this. > > Thanks, > > -dain >
-- Karan Singh Malhi
