Hi:
On Sat May 02,2009 05:49 am, imoleswo...@gmail.com wrote: > Totally frustrated! > > Using Jetspeed2 ( Or at least trying to ) the documentation is extremely poor > for the uninitiated and there seems to be a dearth of any hardcopy support. > We understand the documentaion is not very extensive, and there's a lot of work is being put toward rectifying this. The jetspeed team have very limited resources, your contribution is very welcome. > Just getting installed and running on Ubuntu was enough to grey the little > hair I have left! Now that we have overcome that obstacle I cannot connect to > my Mysql database because the app is not aware of my mysql connector file and > there is no documentation to tell me how to tell the app to use a certain > connector. > > Sure there is a little insert on updating the build.properties file but I am > not even close to the stage of doing builds, just trying to use the demo apps > to get the blasted thing going. > There's a section for other databases (other than derby): http://portals.apache.org/jetspeed-2/guides/guide-database.html In the past, I used jetspeed with mysql. I was deploying the war file to an exsiting tomcat, so I imported the whole jetspeed directory "jetspeed-demo/webapp/jetspeed" into eclipse as a webapp project, and created META-INF/context.xml where I configured the connection to mysql through the container. I haven't tried it with mysql during the build yet. In this case you will need to put the mysql connector in tomcat/lib "assuming you are using tomcat". You can try to do it during the build, just insure tomcat connector in a directory where jetspeed can sees it. "jdk/lib" is another location where mysql-connector can reside. > Its not surprising that big business runs a mile when faced with open source > stuff. The learning curve is simply made too expensive by poor low level > documentation. No description of the tree structure, poor prerequisites > requirements, interdependencies and too much to mention. Jetspeed is open source and simple. The biggest reason I use jetspeed is because of it transparency. I feel it's the most flexible portal availble. Sure, there are other ortal servers that are easier to start and get them running, but they are harder to customize and not as flexible as jetspeed. After all, there's always commercial support, and IMO it's still cost effective compared to using any properiatory portal. > > -- > This message was sent on behalf of imoleswo...@gmail.com at openSubscriber.com > http://www.opensubscriber.com/messages/jetspeed-user@portals.apache.org/topic.html > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: jetspeed-user-unsubscr...@portals.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: jetspeed-user-h...@portals.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: jetspeed-user-unsubscr...@portals.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: jetspeed-user-h...@portals.apache.org
