Hi Nicolas, your efforts would be most appreciated. Showing that Roller
can run on at least a couple of other servers demonstrates that Roller
isn't being coded in a way that makes it overly dependent on Tomcat.
However, in my view, we only need to document at most two servers in
addition to Tomcat within our guide to make that point, more than that
and it becomes too much to maintain, falls out of date and ends up
becoming dispiriting to the team and the project. Beyond two, I think
it is best for people to document what they do on our Wiki or within
blog entries (with links added to our Wiki.) Documenting five servers
doesn't help if Roller doesn't get updated and gets lousy as a result;
OTOH, if we focus on Roller development and keep it a solid product
*other* people, such as yourself, highly knowledgable about specific app
servers will happily supply blog articles and Wiki updates explaining
how to port Roller to their preferred J2EE server.
That all said, personally speaking, I don't care too much which of the
two servers we use, amongst GlassFish, JBoss, WebLogic, WebSphere and
Geronimo. GlassFish is already done, probably simplest, is fully open
source, and GlassFish's owner Oracle uses Roller for their company's
blogs, so I think it would be nice to include them. JBoss is
considerably different today from the 6.0 version Dave earlier
documented, and there's no guarantee I can get it to work today
(especially the mailing function). I'm also getting irritated with
JBoss which is increasingly becoming open source in name only (only
their Alpha versions today you can download without registering and
needing to agree to use the software for development purposes only:
http://www.jboss.org/jbossas/downloads/); WebSphere is proprietary but
at least they're honest about it. So instead of GlassFish and JBoss we
may just want to do GlassFish and WebSphere and refer JBoss to the older
guides, I just first need a little bit more checking to do about the
feasibility of updating JBoss.
BTW, again, please send an ICLA to the ASF so that all writing you can
submit will be Apache-licensed, you only need to do it once for all
Apache projects and it's also a requirement for later becoming a
committer on this or other projects. I can't grant you write access to
the Wiki until that happens. Once Dave or another ASF member can
confirm you're on the ICLA list (I don't have read access to it) we'll
be able to benefit from your contributions.
Thanks,
Glen
On 05/26/2013 05:42 AM, nicolas muller wrote:
Hello,
If need I can help with Websphere. I could write a thesis about it...
We only use Roller with Webpshere 7. I have a good experience with OSS
product (mule, liferay and Roller :)) with Websphere 7.
I will read the guide and complete it about configuration for SQLServer,
Postgre and Mysql with Websphere. Our usecases.
If needed i can install Websphere 8 too. I send you all text to supplemen
it.
Best regards
2013/5/26 Dave <[email protected]>
I'm not a fan of Websphere and only did the Websphere work because I was
getting familiar with it at work.
I'm +1 for ditching it in any new install guide.
- Dave
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Glen Mazza <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Team, presently we document four servers in our Install guide: Tomcat,
GlassFish, JBoss/WildFly, and IBM WebSphere. The first two I've updated
and I plan on doing WildFly next, but I'd like to get rid of the last
one,
I have no intention of personally downloading & running WebSphere and I
don't think anyone else will as well. I think three servers are more than
enough for our limited team, and we'll always have the documentation in
the
5.0.1 guide if somebody needs it. WDYT?
Glen
