Along similar lines: http://blogs.sun.com/ppetit/entry/software_served_on_silver_plate
"The Roller Server disk image is composed of Solaris Nevada, Glassfish, Derby DB, J2SE and Roller Weblogger components. The life-cycle management of the server and database is handled by SMF for which, I had to write the start and stop methods as well as the manifests that are not provided with the product." Cool stuff. - Dave On 11/10/06, Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 11/9/06, Matt Raible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe we should so something similar for Roller? > > http://www.spikesource.com/intellanding/intellanding.html Yes, that is a very interesting announcement. > Roller + Planet + VMWare image? > > I have an Ubuntu VMWare image I could pre-install on Roller on. Then > we could get it uploaded to the "Virtual Appliance Marketplace". > > http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/ > > Just a thought... That's a cool idea. I'm very interested in making it easier for people to try Roller and to install Roller for production use. So far, my approach has been to bundle Roller with an app server, database and wiki server -- that's what I call the Blogapps Server bundle in my book. It's good for folks trying Roller, but it's not good for production use because most folks want to install into their own app server, HSQLDB is not regarded as a production database and I don't provide any instructions or support for upgrading a Blogapps Server. I guess a VMWare image could be even easier, especially now that the player is free. But it seems like a "demo" idea and not something that works for production -- or am I missing something. - Dave
