Mike,
What's up?
I really want to get started on this stuff.
Jason
On Thursday, July 26, 2001, at 11:37 PM, S. Mike Dierken wrote:
Observation...
It's interesting trying to make a personal comeback to a unix world
from
the MS world. For some reason I thought that
in the past 10 years something like InstallShield would have been
adopted
as the defacto standard for installations on
unix. You know, download the Xang bits and run the setup that then
goes
out and downloads and installs everything
else it needs.
There are two approaches I know of - but am unfamiliar with - RPM
(redhat
package management) and InstallAnywhere (java based installer)
The toughest part isn't getting files on disk - it's configuring the
host
for the app/component. In this case, Xang is a servlet and there are
many
servlet engines. There was no standard way to install servlets - but now
with J2EE there is. A "Web Application aRchive" - war file. This is a
.zip
with a folder structure inside (also called a .jar). In one folder
called
WEB-INF there is a web.xml file with the description of how to deploy
the
component(s) in the .zip - the 'deployment descriptor'.
I haven't had time recently to build one, but I'll work on it Real Soon
Now.
This will make install instructions easier
- install modern servlet engine - Tomcat prefered
- add xang.war to Tomcat webapps directory
- restart Tomcat
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