Michael A. Repucci wrote:
Seems like a bit of animosity toward Tomcat has finally helped me make
progress, mostly because it got all you gurus to actually explain a bit of
how it works, and how it's packaged, all concepts I didn't understand. I'm a
scientist, not a programmer. I'm new to Ubuntu and Tomcat. My colleagues
have been completely unhelpful in this process. It works on their systems,
so they've just left me to struggle on my own.
No wonder, if you're always grouchy like that.
My frustration is further fueled by the fact that the web site that our
application will soon handle (http://neuroanalysis.org/toolkit/) is working
just fine as static html; it doesn't change much, and most of the pages (not
viewable externally) are generated automatically from code, using m2html or
doxygen. But now they want me to integrate this site into the JSP format
seen at the root (http://neuroanalysis.org/), despite the fact that I have
zero experience with Tomcat, Java, or JSP, and nearly no web application
development experience.
Life is tough sometimes. We empathise.
It would have been nice if Tomcat just worked, out of the box, but it took
me a couple days just to get it up and running.
I hesitate to tell you this, considering the possible nefarious
additional effect on your mood, but for most people it takes only a few
minutes.
(I'm talking mostly of programmers though, don't really know about
scientists).
Now Tomcat works, at least
the default page and the example webapps, but the application that my
colleagues built won't work. This is their fault, as far as I'm concerned,
yet there's nothing I can do to force them to improve what is probably
sloppy code on their part.
You could try your recipe of being rude to them also, it may work too.
So I'm just looking for some help. Sorry to insult Tomcat, but thanks for
the useful feedback. I'll work on the suggestions and let you know if I
can't make any progress.
:) Michael
:) André
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