Filed as: http://jira.openlaszlo.org/jira/browse/LPP-9521
Feel free to add any additional comments you might have. On 2010-11-10, at 09:28, P T Withington wrote: > Thank you for your feedback, and I will file your comments as a bug against > the documentation. > > Your surmise is correct, that the documentation is just slightly out of sync > with the software as it has evolved. Other users on the list may be able to > contribute their experience. > > The Tomcat installation is provided as a way to rapidly edit/compile/debug > programs by automatically recompiling your application each time you edit it > and reload it into your web browser. To create an application to be > deployed, you will want to read up on the "SOLO" deployment option, which can > be used to create a standalone application that can be deployed as web > application on any server, or as a widget to the various widget containers > (e.g., the OS X Dashboard, Opera, and a growing number of mobile platforms). > > On 2010-11-10, at 08:42, Patrick Leevers wrote: > >> I'm a VERY new user of OpenLaszlo, and a very enthusiastic one... but I've >> hit problems relating documentation to reality. I'm using Firefox 3.5 under >> Mac OS 10.6; I've tried installing by both Mac and Unix routes. >> >> 1. First item in the Deployer's Guide: "When you installed Laszlo, it >> placed an icon on your desktop: LPS Start Tomcat.term". It didn't. Tomcat >> started anyway, I think : I get "Welcome to OpenLaszlo 4.9.0" etc.. >> >> 2. There's conflicting advice around about how to set JAVA_HOME. I've ended >> up using a belt and braces, setting /usr/libexec/java_home (which is just a >> symlink) both via login script and by editing all three .command scripts. >> That stopped the complaints, but is it wise? >> >> 3. Developers' Guide 1.4 tells me "In order to be compiled by the >> OpenLaszlo Server, files must be placed in subdirectories of the following >> path: >> Macintosh HD:/Applications/Laszlo Presentation Server >> 4.9.0/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.24/webapps/lps-4.9.0:". >> This filepath doesn't exist. After a lot of frustration (and no help from >> documentation) I realised that >> Macintosh HD:/Applications/OpenLaszlo Server 4.9.0/Server/lps-4.9.0/my-apps >> is already provided. Am I still on track? >> >> 4. I've now compiled an application and it seems to work, but where are the >> compiled js/html executables? >> >> I think issues 1-3 are either just misunderstandings or rough edges in the >> documentation, but to a newbie with little Unix experience they're >> discouraging ones. >> >> Thanks.... >> >> -- >> Eur Ing Dr Patrick Leevers >> Director of Courses >> Reader in Polymer Engineering >> ------------------------------------ >> Department of Mechanical Engineering >> Imperial College London >> South Kensington Campus >> London SW7 2AZ >> ------------------------------------ >> Tel: +44 (0)20 75 94 70 88 >> Fax: +44 (0)20 75 94 70 17 >> Email: [email protected] >> http://www.imperial.ac.uk/mepolymers >> >> >> >> >> >> >
