Just a minor clarification below... On 11/14/2012 10:37 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > Nick recently had some experience with this: > > > http://dspace.2283337.n4.nabble.com/Extreme-frustration-installing-dspace-on-amazon-ec2-td4659036.html > > He may be able to give you some guidance and share what his > difficulties were and how he overcame them. > > Nick, could you also document this on the wiki? > > > I will do that. I have now installed DSpace (1.8.2) three times on > ec2 Linux instances. Part of the problem, which might have been > unnecessary, was that I have been installing Oracle's JDK (6_37) and > using the Linux "alternatives" to use Oracle's instead of the > OpenJDK implementation that Amazon puts on AWS (for licensing > reasons). I haven't exhaustively researched it, but I have seen > suggestions that some things (and I thought that DSpace was one of > them) don't play well with OpenJDK in some circumstances.
This Oracle JDK (Java) issue that Nick has encountered is actually not an Amazon EC2 issue. It's an issue with what the Linux Operating System (I suspect this is Ubuntu) has installed by default. The reason I suspect this is Ubuntu, is that recent versions of Ubuntu only provide OpenJDK (because of licensing issues with Oracle JDK). So, it is a bit more complex to install Oracle JDK on a recent Ubuntu in general (whether that Ubuntu server is a physical server or in Amazon EC2). In the upcoming DSpace 3.0 release, DSpace will also now support OpenJDK, so you need not worry about installing Oracle JDK. Past versions of DSpace were only supported with Oracle/Sun JDK (however we do have developers who have reported that DSpace 1.8 worked fine on OpenJDK) - Tim ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-general
