Yesterday and today I created a zip archive of the latest Tomcat 10 for Windows, created a 32- and 64-bit debug version of ooRexx 5.0 from trunk and a 32- and 64-bit debug version of BSF4ooRexx such that a simple unzip and running a simple script would be all that is necessary to get the crash. This way no one would need to learn anything about Tomcat in order to run ooRexx web based scripts that would cause that crash.
Well, the crash did not occur! Then in the next iteration I replaced the debug version of 32-bit BSF4ooRexx with the non-debug version and no crash. Next I replaced the 32-bit ooRexx debug version with the non-debug version and still no crash! Repeated the same tests with 64-bit ooRexx and BSF4ooRexx with and without debug versions, and lo and behold they did not crash! Rebooting the machine and testing the original Tomcat 9 setup with ooRexx r12352 and the installed BSF4ooRexx did not cause the crash to happen anymore as it did with the ooRexx version as of the beginning of last December! So whatever has changed since the beginning of December seems to have somehow fixed that crash! (There was no change in BSF4ooRexx.cc since August 2021.) As this has been really *very frustrating* (and also for the developers) I think this is really good news. It allows one to use ooRexx for creating and running web applications on Java based web servers like Apache Tomcat, which are quickly set up and run for any sized business and organization. [Also I feel safe again to assign ooRexx webapp-assignments to students! Here a nice Bachelor thesis from last year that explains everything needed together with the ooRexx code to create a cart-based web shop, with PostgreSQL, info-e-mails and remote uploading of product pictures: <https://wi.wu.ac.at/rgf/diplomarbeiten/#bakk_202102>. Any interested Rexx/ooRexx programmer can jump-start with this Bachelor thesis to set up and use a Tomcat web server for web applications.] ---rony P.S.: If anyone is interested in getting Tomcat up and running with ooRexx on Windows by just unzipping a zip archive then let me know and I finish the packaging and adjust it to the non-debug versions and make it available via the Internet for a short time. _______________________________________________ Oorexx-devel mailing list Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel
