Re: MacOS

[bido]

I dropped my PC for development work once I got on MacOSX (Nope I'm not aspiring to be in an Apple add) but it's worth exploring for those of you who are thinking about it. MacOSX is an excellent option for serving JSP and great Java platform in general. It gives Java a red carpet treatment for example it provides a decent class browser, tools to turn your Java apps into double-clickable apps, some Swing enhancements provide for the Aqua look and feel etc. The shipping JDK is 1.3.1 but 1.4.x is at it's final beta stages. I have used Tomcat 3.x and currently on 4.1.12,

I personally prefer it to any version of Windows since it adds a gazillion cool things on top of its Unix implementation. However, If your are the proud "vi" type of developer then you may not care about UI tricks etc. But the core Unix is is there as expected. Some differences exist but nothing too dramatic. If interested, there's an excellent book out there by O'Reilly, "MacOSX for Unix Geeks" which describes these:

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mosxgeeks/

As far as J2EE is concerned, all the Opensource J2EE apps that I come across so far
perform as well as they would in any other Unix i.e. JBoss, OpenEJB, Tomcat, Jetty, Apache -but this is just a gut feel
assessment, I have no formal metrics.


On Thursday, November 21, 2002, at 09:37 AM, Martin Redington wrote:

On Thursday, November 21, 2002, at 01:31 PM, Martin Jacobson wrote:

Felipe Schnack wrote:

Anyone have experience with Tomcat on MacOS X servers? Or with java in
general? I would like to know if these machines are good options for
serving jsp or I should stick with PCs...

I'm running Apache + mod_jk + Tomcat 4.1.12 + OpenSSL + MySQL on Mac OS 10.2 and it all runs just fine!

Check the archives - someone posted recently regarding probs with Mac OS X *Server* - IIRC, WebObjects is pre-installed, and generates some conflicts with Tomcat.

That was me. If you're running on OS X Server, there's a catalina.jar in /Library/Java/Extensions, or maybe in /Library/Java/Home/lib/ext/,
or at least somewhere in the system classpath (see the archives).

I'm not sure what this is used by ... not the default tomcat install, but *maybe* by WebObjects (although quite possibly not).

Anyway, you will need to disable this file somehow (I gzipp'ed it) to get a custom install of tomcat (> 4.0.6, but probably some lower versions as well) to run.


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