RE: [JBoss-dev] Jetty NIO SL in JBoss 3.0.4 no worky

2002-11-21 Thread James Higginbotham
Jules, Um... I hate to say this, but I think Weblogic works around this - it defaults to nio and backs off to its older non-nio.. They used to call it their performance pack before 1.4, and have since just swapped theirs for nio I think.. You said it was a static config, but I don't see why you

RE: [JBoss-dev] Dynamic Loading/Unloading of Plugins (was: RE: [eclipse-dev] Eclipse Project 2.2 Draft Plan posted)

2002-12-22 Thread James Higginbotham
Funny, I was thinking about this concept the other day, as I still have delusions of grandjeur to build a rich client application on top of the Jboss kernel. My thoughts on this were along the lines of the following, based on a scenario of an upgraded component version (discovered via some

RE: [JBoss-dev] Dynamic Loading/Unloading of Plugins (was: RE: [eclipse-dev] Eclipse Project 2.2 Draft Plan posted)

2002-12-22 Thread James Higginbotham
How much of what you are thinking of would be handled by: jmx Most if not all of it - the JMX timer would be responsible for the async work of taking down and upgrading the module and its dependencies. In addition, the rich client platform would benefit from JMX itself. The only problem is

[JBoss-dev] Jboss + Junit?

2003-01-02 Thread James Higginbotham
Title: Jboss + Junit? Hi, I wanted to drop this note on the dev list since this question is in regards to a previous posting on the dev list. I had heard that the jboss team had made some extensions to Junit, is that right? If so, what were they in a nutshell? Can someone point me to the

RE: [JBoss-dev] Jboss + Junit?

2003-01-02 Thread James Higginbotham
Title: Message Bill, Thanks for the tip, this is some interesting stuff.. I was thinking of taking it one step further and constructing a TestRunner that is really an mbean. So, you could in fact deploy your ear, a jar with the unit tests, then through the console run a single class's

RE: [JBoss-dev] ANNOUNCE: BeanShell JBoss sub-deployer in HEAD

2003-01-07 Thread James Higginbotham
Sounds very interesting.. I wonder how it might help to integrate Jboss and Emacs/JDEE, since they use the bsh to perform Lisp-Java integration.. James -Original Message- From: Sacha Labourey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 3:57 AM To: Jboss-Dev Cc:

RE: [JBoss-dev] ANNOUNCE: BeanShell JBoss sub-deployer in HEAD

2003-01-08 Thread James Higginbotham
I wonder if it would be possible to put the .bsh in a .sar in your .ear? Not sure, haven't tried it.. And agreed, this bsh support really is interesting.. -Original Message- From: Adam Heath [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 11:52 AM To: Jboss-Dev Cc:

RE: [JBoss-dev] PHP

2003-01-09 Thread James Higginbotham
Funny, I was just doing research for a CMS that offers webdav access, versioning, workflow, etc. as you find in most real CMSs (not those incessent fake ones).. I was about this close {index fingers almost touching} to going with Post-Nuke.. My reasons not to? Well, most of the people that would

RE: Re[6]: [JBoss-dev] PHP

2003-01-09 Thread James Higginbotham
What about just writing a shell script to walk the tree of jboss.org via the PHP every x min or hours, spit out static HTML, and only offer paths to the PHP-based pages for POSTing of new forum stuff? Would that be a bit faster and reduce your server load at the PHP end for read-only stuff, before

RE: [JBoss-dev] My fuck up

2003-01-13 Thread James Higginbotham
You guys thought of doing: wget --recursive http://www.jboss.org, publish the static files every 15 min, and only use the PHP for processing submission forms? Just a thought to quickly reduce your PHP dependence except for new forum posts.. Dunno if you would have to pipe each file to a sed

RE: [JBoss-dev] My fuck up

2003-01-13 Thread James Higginbotham
Do we need to start a counseling fund for Julien after all the written by a 12-year-old PHP that will have to be seen, reversed, and cried over? -Original Message- From: Hunter Hillegas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 8:25 PM To: JBoss Dev; marc fleury

RE: [JBoss-dev] JNuke dev

2003-01-14 Thread James Higginbotham
Julien, snip Makes sense so far 3.PostNuke is all about invoking module functions. Url like index.php?module=Userop=register means that the PN must call the method register on module User. For me that means that the servlet retrieves the mbean under the name

RE: [JBoss-dev] JNuke dev

2003-01-14 Thread James Higginbotham
I remember a few months ago that some people were talking about writing a killer jboss app to prove what could be done with the server. Let Julien write it the way he prefers, using all Jboss capabilities first. The nice thing is that open source allows someone to take it and make it fully j2ee

RE: [JBoss-dev] [OT] Eclipse is so amazing...

2003-02-26 Thread James Higginbotham
Jason, I'm in the same boat.. Been using Emacs + JDE for years, but Eclipse is starting to supercede.. I actually posted a message to the JDE user list regarding this. But, alas, eclipse is so stupid, it can't open a file outside of a project and can't talk SSH2 natively, so it has to shell out

RE: [JBoss-dev] NUKES on JBoss

2003-03-28 Thread James Higginbotham
-Original Message- From: Hunter Hillegas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 1:16 PM To: JBoss Dev Subject: Re: [JBoss-dev] NUKES on JBoss I'm sure they did do some testing... I'm sure they did, and it's a great improvement over the PHP version. But, I'd

RE: [JBoss-dev] Re: Re[11]: php5 is coming

2003-04-01 Thread James Higginbotham
Hmm.. Just throwing out my 2 coppers, but doesn't the beanshell mbean support allow this to happen easier? You could define the module methods needed and push it out to the deploy dir in a .bsh, jboss hot deploys it, and now its available. James -Original Message- From: julien viet

[JBoss-dev] Resend: EJB statistics?

2002-06-12 Thread James Higginbotham
Title: Message Is there a way to determine what the current size of the cache,requests, other performance indicatorsfor an EJB via the JMX 8082 viewer? Or, is there anything else out there that acts similiar to the weblogic console for seeing what thestats are for an EJBto better tune

RE: [JBoss-dev] Castor XML users; can you drop some knowledge

2002-08-09 Thread James Higginbotham
It just so happens that I was doing some of this work yesterday. I will send an email to you directly with a zip archive (as not to spam the general jboss group) of a generated XSD from your sample, and simple .bat to kick off Castor's src generator, and the resulting classes. James

RE: [JBoss-dev] Continuous Integration

2002-09-18 Thread James Higginbotham
I have just recently started down the cruise control path on a personal project, and my company has since dumped it in favor of an Austin-based startup (Buildforge) which offers better support and feature set. Basically, I have found that if you don't use the exact version of Ant and scripts that

RE: [JBoss-dev] Continuous Integration

2002-09-18 Thread James Higginbotham
The new 2.0 version that will be out soon is significantly better. Even so, I never had much trouble with the old version. Glad to hear you had better success, and I'm eager for a new version to give it another shot. Besides CruiseControl is Open Source. If there are problems, get the

RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-09-20 Thread James Higginbotham
Not sure what you may want to do with XSL, but we use it for our product's build system and I use it for a personal project as well. Its quite powerful, since you have define a modules.xml that has all the dependencies and let XSL generate the right build targets. It would offer primary targets

RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-09-20 Thread James Higginbotham
... any ideas I've seen similar explanations on the ant list sometimes, but they all go way over my head. Is there any chance of showing us one of these projects build system to look at in detail? thanks david jencks On 2002.09.20 15:49:51 -0400 James Higginbotham wrote: Not sure

RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-10-03 Thread James Higginbotham
chance of showing us one of these projects build system to look at in detail? thanks david jencks On 2002.09.20 15:49:51 -0400 James Higginbotham wrote: Not sure what you may want to do with XSL, but we use it for our product's build system and I use it for a personal

RE: [JBoss-dev] Design: Plans to decouple JBoss from log4j

2002-10-04 Thread James Higginbotham
Do you know how you switch the LogFactory impl? I am guessing there is a system property, but I did not see anything obvious by looking at the javadocs. I've been using commons logging for a few months now - not bad at all.. You drive the impl from a properties file called

RE: [JBoss-dev] Over zealous deployers

2002-10-05 Thread James Higginbotham
However, I did modify the ear deployer to only deploy those archives mentioned in application.xml. Unless this has been modified since, ear files are not searched for deployable entities (although jar, sar, rar, ... archives are). Actually, this brings up a question I've meant to ask for

RE: [JBoss-dev] Over zealous deployers

2002-10-05 Thread James Higginbotham
OK, thanks for the info. I hope to at least implement a soltuon using a deploy order implementation (a solution from Sacha, thanks!) that simply adds the war filter after the ear, and see if I have another solution in the foe servers. Sounds like the apache commons digester or Castor *might* help

RE: [JBoss-dev] Design: Plans to decouple JBoss from log4j

2002-10-09 Thread James Higginbotham
? --jason -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:jboss- [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of James Higginbotham Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 6:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [JBoss-dev] Design: Plans to decouple JBoss from log4j Do you know how

RE: [JBoss-dev] [JBoss-user] capacity planning to use jboss

2002-10-16 Thread James Higginbotham
Bill, This is interesting about not using clustering.. Are you guys using CMP at all? If so, how do you suggest synching the entity beans without using clustering? On a site without CMP, you can usually get away from clustering, but wondering if you have used the equiv of Javelin to do

RE: [JBoss-dev] Upcoming releases

2002-10-18 Thread James Higginbotham
I am reading this right, 2 comes after 4?: 2002-10-25jboss-2.4.10 2002-10-27jboss-3.0.4 2002-11-03jboss-3.0.2beta2 ^ 2002-12-22jboss-4.0alpha --- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Access Your PC

RE: [JBoss-dev] Upcoming releases

2002-11-06 Thread James Higginbotham
Scott, Can you or someone on the team tell me which version I should upgrade our product to - 3.0.x or 3.2? I'm about to move from 3.0.0 and want to make sure I'm on the right branch to make migration to 4.0 easier in the future while remaining stable for our product release that will occur by

RE: [JBoss-dev] JMX on the client side?

2002-11-08 Thread James Higginbotham
Interesting.. Are you guys talking about a small JMX container on the client invoker side? Or something else? -Original Message- From: David Jencks [mailto:davidjencks;directvinternet.com] Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 10:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [JBoss-dev] JMX

RE: [JBoss-dev] JMX on the client side?

2002-11-08 Thread James Higginbotham
), but that is a discussion for another day. -dain James Higginbotham wrote: Interesting.. Are you guys talking about a small JMX container on the client invoker side? Or something else? -Original Message- From: David Jencks [mailto:davidjencks;directvinternet.com] Sent: Thursday, November 07

RE: [JBoss-dev] JMX on the client side?

2002-11-08 Thread James Higginbotham
I think James had more esoteric plans... -danch Right.. I'm not talking about Jboss proper, I'm speaking of a rich client platform that uses jboss as its service arch kernel. Imagine a world where jboss is installed everywhere - client and server. ;) James

RE: [JBoss-dev] [OT] JMX on the client side?

2002-11-08 Thread James Higginbotham
spellchecker.sar, and any server modules that it depends on. What makes this worse than client-server is that it doesn't exist yet, AFAIK :) ... - Matt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:jboss-development-admin;lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of James Higginbotham

RE: [JBoss-dev] JMX on the client side?

2002-11-08 Thread James Higginbotham
JBoss Unlimited. JBoss Unleashed. Infinite JBoss. This is the kind of thing that makes suits giddy with joy. Right! Or: JBoss Web Service Platform JBoss: Web Service Edition JBossXML In fact, if you change the tagline from WebOS to WebServiceOS, you can charge more consulting bucks on

RE: [JBoss-dev] JMX on the client side?

2002-11-09 Thread James Higginbotham
Scott, Interesting.. Do you have this scoped in your mind yet? I mean, Jboss (I hate how outlook fixes the b in jboss) currently uses JavaGroups, which assumes a multicast-enabled network. When you get to true peer-to-peer, you may have a double firewall situation where multicast doesn't work

RE: [JBoss-dev] Metadata Service

2002-11-13 Thread James Higginbotham
Is this ala the Weblogic central config file, or just a secondary file created as the kernel accepts new components and started from scratch on each startup (I hope)? -Original Message- From: Bill Burke [mailto:bill;jboss.org] Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 11:08 AM To: Jboss-Dev

[JBoss-dev] RE: [JBoss-user] Porting from Weblogic to Jboss

2002-05-09 Thread James Higginbotham
Having just taken on this task, I can say with certainty that you may have no problems or plenty :). Most of our issues revolved around understanding custom configuration differences for EJBs between the servers. Jboss.xml, cmp configuration, and JMS configuration isn't hard under Jboss, but it

[JBoss-dev] RE: [JBoss-user] Porting from Weblogic to Jboss

2002-05-10 Thread James Higginbotham
to Jboss We too have just finished this task. We used xdoclet to handle much of the configuration issues through the generation of the deployment desciptors, etc. Might be worth looking into. Laine - Original Message - From: James Higginbotham [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mahesh

RE: [JBoss-dev] XDoclet and C# style metadata

2002-05-17 Thread James Higginbotham
Not sure if this helps, but JDK 1.5 is planning to put this in and make the meta data accessible from the runtime as well as tools like Javadoc. James -Original Message- From: Hiram Chirino [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 4:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [JBoss-dev] Where should the Jasper jar live ?

2002-06-01 Thread James Higginbotham
David, You can add any extension to the archive mode with the following code in your .emacs: (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '(\\.sar$ . archive-mode) auto-mode-alist)) (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '(\\.war$ . archive-mode) auto-mode-alist)) (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '(\\.ear$ . archive-mode)