Hi Dale,
I agree with you. Also my experience with Orion was unpleasant.
Some jsp custom tag that I developed don't work with
Orion and work fine with Tomcat and in other Jsp
Container, the EJB demo crash the JVM, the documentation
is very poor.
Also I have sent one month ago, 2 commercial mails in order
to know some aspect of the Orion license concerning
the SSL support. Any answer
Best Regards
Paolo Sommaruga
Garda Access
Garda (Vr), Italy
>I have been monitoring this list for a while and have not had time to try
>out Orion yet. Well I found that I had a half hour so I jumped in and tried
>to set up the ejb demo that comes with it. I noticed many posts about how
>it doesn't work. Well I am having problems also. I followed the
>instructions and get the following error:
>Error initializing server: ConnectionDataSource driver
>'connect.microsoft.MicrosoftDriver' not found
>
>Well I placed my jar file in orion/lib just like the install.txt said to
>do... What now.
>
>Also, here is possibly a stupid question... I could not find in the
>install.txt what the database should look like (tables and columns). Does
>this not hit a db? If not, why do we need a datasource?
>
>There was a post earlier by Karl Avedal who I assume is part of the Orion
>team that said to expect the GUI tools very soon with BIG enhancements.
>When is very soon and what will the GUI tools help with? Will the tools
>help me with this? From the other posts that I see, the GUI tools should
>not be a replacement from real documentation. The GUI tools should help us
>out a bunch, but we still need to know about the configuration. So far, I
>see a lot of answers to posts from (I assume) the Orion team with answers
>that I do not see in the sorry excuse for documentation text files.
>
>Why should you expect us to pay, even though very inexpensive compared to
>others, when we do not get good documentation. There should not be a single
>configuration/feature/whatever that is not documented.
>
>I know I am not the first to ask for this and will not be the last, but why
>aren't you (Orion) listening? I will be glad to fork over $1500 to you even
>without GUI tools if I could get some decent documentation.
>
>What do I mean:
>1. A getting started that holds my hand and walks through every step (and
>make sure each step works) of your examples leaving nothing for assumption.
>2. Documentation on what each element means and why we would use it and what
>it will do. Your xml.html files start, but expand on them.
>3. A full reference of what your server can do and how to do them (not hand
>holding here, more advanced). Example is the earlier post if isModified().
>I found that my EJB container provider has the same thing, but a different
>method name (actually they let us name the method). I could not find this
>in your docs anywhere, but could in my container docs and it is free.
>
>I know I am not the only one who feels this way by the post I see and I
>don't have the time to devote to this if the simple demo does not even work.
>I am sure the demo works fine, but the instructions are obviously not clear
>enough or I wouldn't be the only one having problems.
>
>Thanks,
>Dale
>
>
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