----- Original Message -----
From: Kevin A. Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: JetSpeed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 9:50 PM
Subject: Re: Debugging Jetspeed
> Julian Coombes wrote:
> >
> > I'm relatively new to jetspeed, and one of my goals is to understand how
> > everything hangs together, so that I can learn and eventually help build
the
> > thing. The problem is that when I understand something I have to
understand
> > every minute detail, and with Jetspeed
>
> Cool!
>
> > that's quite difficult for a
> > number of reasons, primarily because its still fairly embryonic, there
aren't
> > stacks of documentation, and getting it working correctly is still
something of
> > a balancing act.
>
> Well. I keep hearing that. I tried to fix things with Jetspeed 1.1
> but haven't received any feedback since then. Point out any areas that
> need to be improved so that we can fix them :)
<snip>
I've bee following Jetspeed since it was a web-based email system. I would
like to point out that with the latest release, the installation docs are
the best they have ever been. But you asked (and I got a big mouth) so here
are some documents I thought would be useful:
In my experience - i've managed to help a few Windows people (like myself)
who were too embarased to post on the list - the most difficult piece is
setting up the .properties files. The documents say "follow the directions
in the .properties files" (or something like that), but these are hard to
understand if you do not know what they do, and are intimidating. I was
quickly overwhelmed by the number of options in these files; I got lost
among terms like portlet, portletControl, PortletController... But it turns
out that I only had to change about 3 lines in each property file to get the
system running! A little summary on setting up these files would sure help.
(I've seen most answers are in the FAQ-O-MATIC, but when there is a
different FAQ link on the Jetspeed web pages, who realizes there is a better
one available?)
So, which 3 lines do I need to change to get the feed daemon to run
and to initialize a DB2 database for user login?
I've seen comments like "prepend N slashes on path names" - is that
necessary?
I built Jetspeed with Java 1.2 - do I need to rebuild tomcat, etc.,
with 1.2?
...
...
Thanks for tollerating this ranting. Keep up the great work!
Steve B.
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