On Saturday, Jun 14, 2003, at 19:24 US/Pacific, Doug White wrote: > The is the repeated argument on the installations. Why must anyone > drill down > to anywhere? Why cannot the install package provide the options and > then do the > job?
Each J2EE app server provides a different way to manage the applications it runs and JRun itself has an extremely good administrative UI. If the install package had to allow users to customize all of these myriad options it would (a) have to be a much more complicated installer (which people don't want) and (b) it would require a different installer for each app server (which might divert resources away from other, more important core features, as well as making it impossible to offer a pure Java version that installs on any J2EE server). The installer takes a middle course, providing many of the basic install options that most people need but leaving the more esoteric options to the individual. I've installed CFMX Server and J2EE edition on three different platforms (Mac, Solaris, Windows) in a variety of configurations and there are only a few 'tweaks' that I've needed to perform via the underlying J2EE application server - with the exception of the very specific shared document root setup used on a couple of our servers (documented on my blog - I was the first person to attempt to install it that way and the product team worked closely with me to make it work - and most of those contortions are no longer relevant since CFMX Updater 3 makes it easy to share a document root... I'll update the blog entry at some point!). Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
