Hi All,
A couple of things. Firstly, I have been working with Turbine over the
last few days in the hopes that it would solve some problems for an
upcoming project. It looks like I might be able to 'kill two birds with
one stone'. In addition to an app framework, I'm also looking for a
object-relational/persistance framework. The app framework seems like a
'no-brainer' (it looks GREAT!) to me but I had some questions about the
persistance stuff. There seems to be a couple of approaches within
Turbine. What is the status of OPAL? As near as I can tell, its an
implementation of Scott Ambler's paper "The Design of a Robust
Persistence Layer for Relational Databases" (Paper is actually mentioned
in the comments). This struck me immediately, as one option for us
was/is to implement based on this paper as well. I notice that OPAL is
listed in the TODO list with no takers as of yet!?! Is anyone currently
working with it or are there plans to continue work on it or will one of
the other methods move ahead in this area? How are people currently
managing the persistance layer?
Secondly, is there a JDK level requirement for Turbine? I didnt notice
any such requirment in the docs (could have missed it though) yet I've
not been able to successfully build it under JDK117/8. I'm using IBM's
JDK for both NT and Linux. Seems to be purrfectly happy under Suns
JDK1.2.2 on either platform. Any hints?
In 'payment' for some answers to my queries, I'd like to offer a
documentation patch for install.txt. (Not much I know ;o) ). It seems
to be written based on an early version of Tomcat. This patch should
bring the instructions up to speed with the current release (v3.1).
Turbine seems to be running happily on both NT and Linux under Tomcat.
Thanks!
Mark
-------------------------------------------PATCH-------------------------------------------------
--- install.txt Mon Apr 10 15:48:11 2000
+++ install.txt.new Wed Apr 19 13:37:40 2000
@@ -129,12 +129,12 @@
JNDI) into $TOMCAT_HOME/lib.
#2. Add the path to the jars to the existing Tomcat CLASSPATH found in
-$TOMCAT_HOME/tomcat.sh.
+$TOMCAT_HOME/bin/tomcat.sh.
#3. Make necessary adjustments to TurbineResources.properties and copy
into
-$TOMCAT_HOME/etc.
+$TOMCAT_HOME/conf
-#4. Add the following xml to $TOMCAT_HOME/webpages/WEB-INF/web.xml. It
+#4. Add the following xml to $TOMCAT_HOME/conf/web.xml. It
will be a child of the <web-app> element.
<servlet>
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@
<servlet-class>Turbine</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>properties</param-name>
-
<param-value>/path/to/$TOMCAT_HOME/etc/TurbineResources.properties</param-value>
+
<param-value>/path/to/$TOMCAT_HOME/conf/TurbineResources.properties</param-value>
</init-param>
</servlet>
--
Mark D. Porter BSc.,
Software Developer
CanLink Interactive Technologies
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.canlink.com
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