John,
Humm, you are quite correct I have just tried to extract the .sh archive
directly to Linux and it appears that the "packaging" of the app is platform
specific.
I will forward this issue to the Blueprints engineers. I would add that though
the RI and the example app are not yet released for Linux, there seems to be
no reason (at least to me) to have an installation dependency.
Please watch this space..
Regards
Tom Daly
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > John,
> >
> > The Java Pet Store demo is most definitely not Solaris only.
> >
> > It does require full J2EE support within the app server so which server are
> > you trying to deploy it into ?
>
> I have working copies of both J2EE RI and Weblogic 5.1 on this Linux box.
> That's not the problem. The problem is that your distribution only expands
> properly on Solaris, as far as I can tell. I tried running the Solaris .sh
> version on Linux, and it just says it's corrupted. Then I downloaded the
> .exe version, and tried running it on an NT4 SP3 box. That also failed,
> complaining of corruption. I tried downloading the .exe a second time in
> case there really was some kind of corruption, and still it wouldn't unpack.
> So, I went over to the University to pull it down and install on a Solaris
> machine. That worked. I then re-packaged it as a .tgz file, and downloaded
> that. The .tgz version works fine on my Linux system. It's also noticeably
> smaller than either the .sh or the .exe. The only possible trouble I can
> see with it is that it doesn't put the license in my face when I expand it.
> It's hard to see what that adds, since I had to get past the license in
> order to download it in the first place. Major overkill?
>
> The bottom line is, without access to the Solaris system, I would be dead in
> the water. Worse, I couldn't just log in with telnet and ftp your Solaris
> version, because I couldn't see how to get there with ftp. So, I had to use
> a browser on Solaris. Major inconvenience. You should see Netscape running
> in a remote X-window over an ISDN connection.
>
> Cheers -
>
> John Collins
> University of Minnesota
>
>
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