I don't know about everyone else, but I had a real difficult time getting
started with Orion (coming from WebLogic). It seemed like I was stumped at
every turn. I know there are a few tutorials, but I found them difficult to
follow. Plus, I would rather use standard utilities like Sun's deploytool,
rather than something like Ant.
I really like Orion and I would hate to see people turned off from it just
because they can't get it to work right away. For newbies, it's really more
of a problem with the complexity of J2EE than anything Orion-specific, or at
least it seems that way to me. For us WebLogic users, it is because we are
used to the very non-standard way WebLogic does things. ;) That is why I
decided to write up my own little Orion tutorial. For now, it can be found
at the following URL:
http://www.4degreez.com/intro.html
I wanted to write a tutorial that even a J2EE newbie could follow. It shows
how to use Sun's deploytool to assemble the application, followed by the
ultra-simple instructions for deploying it on Orion.
I just typed it up now, and tested the code. But it's definately a little
sloppy in some places, and I hope I got all the terminology right. I was
hoping some of you could take a look and comment, and then eventually maybe
it could be posted on orionsupport. I tried to copy their style a bit. I
intend to write a Part 2 to this tutorial, explaining helper classes and how
to connect to Oracle...which is another common question here, and one that
I've asked about myself!
Well, what do you think?
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