Re: JSP Newbie seeking guidance
Justin Jaynes wrote: I would HIGHLY recommend using SuSE Linux 10 which can be purchased or download from Novell directly at suse.com. Also, see the openSuSE project (essentially the open source community effort half of the SuSE/novell team). I used to run RedHat but was disappointed in the drop to Fedora. I tried SuSE a few years ago and have never looked back. So easy to install and configure. The YaST systems management tool is amazing. You can still do everything the manual way (and I do sometimes). But the firewall is easy and strong, the package management is simple, the install resizes partitions (even NTFS). Just so many highly polished surfaces there. Try SuSE and see if you ever go back. I have run tomcat and SuSE in production for over a year and not had a problem and am now in the process of upgrading my production server to SuSE 10 and tomcat 5.5.12. So far so good. It's all working in my development area. The improvements in 5.5.12 are EXCELLENT. But there are significant changes in how you set up the server.xml file, so read up on the 5.5 doc page. I had previously only been using 5.0.x. ALso, I had some glitchy problems with 5.5.9. No reason to download it now anyhow, since 5.5.12 is stable release. I also recommend PostgreSQL 8.0 from postgresql.org if you need database (as i imagine you must) (open source and fully ansiSQL standard and RDBMS compliant, unlike mySQL --don't yell at me for saying so, please-- i know how much many people love mySQL. You have to build Postgresql from source on SuSE 10 since no rpms are out in the combination of those versions of SuSE and PGSQL. I tired to use older RPMS--not a good idea. But the build and install went perfectly. Be sure you have the proper dev packages installed before you try. If not, the documentation tells all you need to know. PostgreSQL 8.0, Tomcat 5.5.12, and SuSE 10 are real winners. I have had --no-- problems with the past versions, and these new versions seem up to par or better. I LOVE SuSE 10.0 for my desktop environment/school computing/web surfing/DVD watching(i use KDE) and run everything just described on my Dell Inspiron 6000 notebook. That's my developemnt envrionment. Obviously the combination of KDE and the servers on a notebook are no match for my production environment. but I must say, my notebook and the software on it do all I ever ask them to--school work, web surfing, large SQL routines, JVM, Tomcat--and a fair bit of graphics design. All on open source software. What a wonderful world we live in. (The DVD's I run on XINE, which I had to build, since XINE is stripped down for leagal reasons in SuSE 10, but the build installed great and runs with no problem just by typing xine in KDE). Justin --with more to say than you probably wanted to here By no means--useful to me as well. Thanks for sharing. Glen - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: JSP Newbie seeking guidance
Not at all, Justin. Thank you, thank you! Also, thank you, Mark Eggers. As I am so new to this, I run the risk of veering off-topic, which I realize is inappropriate. That said, I will get my newbie noggin back into the woodshed so that I may be true to this list. Best wishes, John G. on 10/10/05 10:11 PM, Justin Jaynes at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Justin --with more to say than you probably wanted to here *** John Geiger Fox Parlor Design Pho 415-821-7100 Fax 415-821-7102 Cell 415-307-2554 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: JSP Newbie seeking guidance
John, If you need help with setting up the environment I described (and BOY could I have used help my first time--mostly I tutored myself and failed and failed before succeeding) you can ask me and I will know at least where to point you for relevant information. I assume you have done your own building of software packages from source like PostgreSQL, but if you haven't, that alone can feel like a daunting task--really, its quite simple. Just email me directly and I'll fill you in as much as I can. Justin --- John Geiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not at all, Justin. Thank you, thank you! Also, thank you, Mark Eggers. As I am so new to this, I run the risk of veering off-topic, which I realize is inappropriate. That said, I will get my newbie noggin back into the woodshed so that I may be true to this list. Best wishes, John G. on 10/10/05 10:11 PM, Justin Jaynes at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Justin --with more to say than you probably wanted to here *** John Geiger Fox Parlor Design Pho 415-821-7100 Fax 415-821-7102 Cell 415-307-2554 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
JSP Newbie seeking guidance
Hello: This is a little intimidating, but I am eager. I hope I am in the right place. I am a DHTML developerintermediate level. I¹ve been exposed to JSP on an iPlanet server, Sun OS 5.8 (but it is my client¹s production server, and I¹m reluctant to mess around there!) I now have my own Tomcat install kind-of-working on a Fedora Core 2 box. It is Tomcat 5.0.x with Apache 1.3. I am studying an APress book called ³JSP 2.0 Novice to Professional,² but get errors with some of the exercises. (The book is great! Makes it sound so easy ;-) My main question is: Can someone recommend a proven Linux, Apache 2 Tomcat 5.5 combinationcould be unix, too. I figure I should set up a stable development rig firstone that I could eventually rely on in a light production environment. Also: I am interested in finding a tutor/mentor in the San Francisco Bay Area. Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks, John G. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: JSP Newbie seeking guidance
John Geiger escribió: Hello: This is a little intimidating, but I am eager. I hope I am in the right place. I am a DHTML developer‹intermediate level. I¹ve been exposed to JSP on an iPlanet server, Sun OS 5.8 (but it is my client¹s production server, and I¹m reluctant to mess around there!) I now have my own Tomcat install kind-of-working on a Fedora Core 2 box. It is Tomcat 5.0.x with Apache 1.3. Besides the other answers you will get, I would think you would want to run Tomcat standalone (i.e., have it process HTML pages as well), and not bother with connecting it to the Apache web server. You are just learning about JSP right now; not hosting web applications, so Apache is probably an unnecessary distraction at this time. Glen - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: JSP Newbie seeking guidance
I am avoiding the real issue--OK, I am ready to face it: javax.servlet.ServletException: javax.servlet.jsp.JspTagException: In lt;drivergt;, invalid driver class name: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver This is the error I get running an exercise from the Apress book. I can not seem to find my way using Google. I think maybe MySQL is not installed--or I am missing an important file...somewhere! Eeek. Thanks. on 10/10/05 8:45 PM, Glen Mazza at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Geiger escribió: Hello: This is a little intimidating, but I am eager. I hope I am in the right place. I am a DHTML developer‹intermediate level. I¹ve been exposed to JSP on an iPlanet server, Sun OS 5.8 (but it is my client¹s production server, and I¹m reluctant to mess around there!) I now have my own Tomcat install kind-of-working on a Fedora Core 2 box. It is Tomcat 5.0.x with Apache 1.3. Besides the other answers you will get, I would think you would want to run Tomcat standalone (i.e., have it process HTML pages as well), and not bother with connecting it to the Apache web server. You are just learning about JSP right now; not hosting web applications, so Apache is probably an unnecessary distraction at this time. Glen - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** John Geiger Fox Parlor Design Pho 415-821-7100 Fax 415-821-7102 Cell 415-307-2554 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: JSP Newbie seeking guidance
I am not familiar with the book. If they are recommending using Tomcat's connection pools and JNDI, then you will need to add the jar file that contains the MySQL driver to $CATALINA_HOME/common/lib. If you are connecting to the database directly from your web application then you probably need to place the jar file containing the MySQL driver in $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/app-name/WEB-INF/lib, where app-name is the name of your application. You can pick up the MySQL jdbc driver from: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/3.1.html If you are just starting out on jsp/servlet programming, then running Tomcat standalone is probably a good first choice. The later versions of Tomcat (5.5.x) perform pretty much the same as Apache 2.0.x for static pages. Coupling Apache and Tomcat together makes sense when you start using some of the features that Apache supports but that Tomcat may not be optimal for. HTH /mde/ --- John Geiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am avoiding the real issue--OK, I am ready to face it: javax.servlet.ServletException: javax.servlet.jsp.JspTagException: In lt;drivergt;, invalid driver class name: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver This is the error I get running an exercise from the Apress book. I can not seem to find my way using Google. I think maybe MySQL is not installed--or I am missing an important file...somewhere! Eeek. Thanks. __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: JSP Newbie seeking guidance
I would HIGHLY recommend using SuSE Linux 10 which can be purchased or download from Novell directly at suse.com. Also, see the openSuSE project (essentially the open source community effort half of the SuSE/novell team). I used to run RedHat but was disappointed in the drop to Fedora. I tried SuSE a few years ago and have never looked back. So easy to install and configure. The YaST systems management tool is amazing. You can still do everything the manual way (and I do sometimes). But the firewall is easy and strong, the package management is simple, the install resizes partitions (even NTFS). Just so many highly polished surfaces there. Try SuSE and see if you ever go back. I have run tomcat and SuSE in production for over a year and not had a problem and am now in the process of upgrading my production server to SuSE 10 and tomcat 5.5.12. So far so good. It's all working in my development area. The improvements in 5.5.12 are EXCELLENT. But there are significant changes in how you set up the server.xml file, so read up on the 5.5 doc page. I had previously only been using 5.0.x. ALso, I had some glitchy problems with 5.5.9. No reason to download it now anyhow, since 5.5.12 is stable release. I also recommend PostgreSQL 8.0 from postgresql.org if you need database (as i imagine you must) (open source and fully ansiSQL standard and RDBMS compliant, unlike mySQL --don't yell at me for saying so, please-- i know how much many people love mySQL. You have to build Postgresql from source on SuSE 10 since no rpms are out in the combination of those versions of SuSE and PGSQL. I tired to use older RPMS--not a good idea. But the build and install went perfectly. Be sure you have the proper dev packages installed before you try. If not, the documentation tells all you need to know. PostgreSQL 8.0, Tomcat 5.5.12, and SuSE 10 are real winners. I have had --no-- problems with the past versions, and these new versions seem up to par or better. I LOVE SuSE 10.0 for my desktop environment/school computing/web surfing/DVD watching(i use KDE) and run everything just described on my Dell Inspiron 6000 notebook. That's my developemnt envrionment. Obviously the combination of KDE and the servers on a notebook are no match for my production environment. but I must say, my notebook and the software on it do all I ever ask them to--school work, web surfing, large SQL routines, JVM, Tomcat--and a fair bit of graphics design. All on open source software. What a wonderful world we live in. (The DVD's I run on XINE, which I had to build, since XINE is stripped down for leagal reasons in SuSE 10, but the build installed great and runs with no problem just by typing xine in KDE). Justin --with more to say than you probably wanted to here --- John Geiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: This is a little intimidating, but I am eager. I hope I am in the right place. I am a DHTML developerintermediate level. I¹ve been exposed to JSP on an iPlanet server, Sun OS 5.8 (but it is my client¹s production server, and I¹m reluctant to mess around there!) I now have my own Tomcat install kind-of-working on a Fedora Core 2 box. It is Tomcat 5.0.x with Apache 1.3. I am studying an APress book called ³JSP 2.0 Novice to Professional,² but get errors with some of the exercises. (The book is great! Makes it sound so easy ;-) My main question is: Can someone recommend a proven Linux, Apache 2 Tomcat 5.5 combinationcould be unix, too. I figure I should set up a stable development rig firstone that I could eventually rely on in a light production environment. Also: I am interested in finding a tutor/mentor in the San Francisco Bay Area. Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks, John G. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
