[Lift] Re: Deployment questions and little Java web dev experience

2009-06-24 Thread Derek Chen-Becker
The line is blurring. With EJB 3.1 (Java EE 6) there is talk of using various profiles so that you can essentially deploy a WAR file that bootstraps a subset of an application server feature set within a servlet container. OpenEJB already does something like this: http://openejb.apache.org/

[Lift] Re: Deployment questions and little Java web dev experience

2009-06-24 Thread Kris Nuttycombe
I hadn't seen openejb before, thanks for the reference! Kris On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Derek Chen-Beckerdchenbec...@gmail.com wrote: The line is blurring. With EJB 3.1 (Java EE 6) there is talk of using various profiles so that you can essentially deploy a WAR file that bootstraps a

[Lift] Re: Deployment questions and little Java web dev experience

2009-06-23 Thread Timothy Perrett
Yes thats pretty much right - examples of context are: / /something/ /yet/another/ Cheers, Tim On Jun 23, 4:59 am, Naftoli Gugenheim naftoli...@gmail.com wrote: When you deploy a web app I think you specify a context path (at least in jetty) which I think is what you're looking for -- the

[Lift] Re: Deployment questions and little Java web dev experience

2009-06-23 Thread David Pollak
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Naftoli Gugenhem naftoli...@gmail.comwrote: What's the difference between an application server and a servlet container? App servers do everything that servlet containers do and more (LDAP, JNDI, blah blah blah). If you're running a big enterprise system,

[Lift] Re: Deployment questions and little Java web dev experience

2009-06-22 Thread David Pollak
There are some good suggestions for using Lift on this thread. Please try the following: git clone git://github.com/dpp/lift-samples.git tar -xzvf lift-samples/jetty_instance.tgz cd jetty_instance cp *your_war_file_from_mvn_install* webapp/root.war ./start_prod.sh Open a browser to

[Lift] Re: Deployment questions and little Java web dev experience

2009-06-22 Thread g-man
I came from a similar background, but with some detours after Rails through Erlang, GAE w/ Django, and web2py. It took me about 2 months to finally start having fun with Lift and Scala, but I can tell you now it's really nice to just sit down, write something, and watch it work! I'm no expert

[Lift] Re: Deployment questions and little Java web dev experience

2009-06-22 Thread Naftoli Gugenheim
When you deploy a web app I think you specify a context path (at least in jetty) which I think is what you're looking for -- the first part of the path after the domain name. On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:39 PM, g-man gregor...@gmail.com wrote: I came from a similar background, but with some