Thanks Dale,
Which J2EE server are you using? JBoss, Geronimo, TomCat (doesn't appear to be a full j2ee server - can it be used) . ? Are you using ODBC or JDBC for database connectivity? -S Shane Pearlman 831.345.7033 S <http://www.shaneandpeter.com> &P, Inc. _____ From: Dale Graham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 5:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Compiling for J2EE We're running an enterprise-wide application for data collection and a public access website about this data for a US Federal organization. Main glitches: quirks of various J2EE server; variables are *not* retained if you have to restart the server (unlike the WitangoServer, which does save user sessions); J2EE needs to be restarted for changes to take effect. If your code will run on the 5.5 WitangoServer, then it's close to being ready to compile. We develop, test on WitangoServer before ever moving to compilation. The syntax checker helps, but you will have occasional instances where the compiler fails anyway (due to bad coding). You have to really go crazy on quoting if you want reliable apps. E.g., <@ifequal this that> is not good. To make array filters work, you pretty much have to do this <@assign name="request$this" value="<@filter array='request$thatarray' expr='#2 = "whatever" '>"> or it's very likely to fail. You cannot go wrong, quoting everything (properly nested, of course). If you use lots of include files you can change these on the fly without having to restart the J2EE server. (Advantage!) If you use lots of include files you increase your chances of putting in code that will cause errors on the J2EE server, and these of course are not checked by either the syntax checker or compiler (Disadvantage!) It's a learning process, getting from older code to J2EE-successful code, but we have found that (with debugged code) it is a remarkably robust, well-performing solution. Initially it was a bit painful, but now we do it so routinely, it's hard to recall lots of our "learning curve" issues. Haven't experimented with v6 yet. On May 14, 2007, at 2:32 PM, Shane Pearlman wrote: Hi folks, We have been poking at the compile to J2EE option under projects in the 5.5 studio. Has anyone deployed a solution using this? What was your experience? Tips, thoughts, bugs, quirks & issues we should know about? Has this changed much with 6.0 beta? Shane Pearlman 831.345.7033 <http://www.shaneandpeter.com> S&P, Inc. ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf
