My advice is to ignore all the GUI tools that come with Orion and stick
to Ant as a build-and-deploy tool.
It is my strong suspicion that nobody is using, testing, or actively
developing the GUI tools. It is my personal opinion (probably shared by
many on this list) that this is a good thing. I would rather see the
Orion team's limited resources focused on the server core.
Not that I think pretty GUI tools don't have a place, but there really
is no limit to the amount of time one can sink into getting a GUI app
working properly. Ant works just fine.
Jeff
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Chaya Ramanujam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 12:10 PM
>To: Orion-Interest
>Subject: Usage of the Service console...
>
>
>I've been playing with the Service console. It took me way longer to
>create, install and deploy a J2ee app using the console than
>it did when I
>did everything myself on the command line (creating the directory
>structures, creating very simple deployment descriptors,
>creating the jar
>and war files and finally editing the server.xml and
>default-web-site.xml
>files).
>
>I know the console is said to be "alpha" quality - but was
>just curious - is
>any one out there using the console on a regular basis? Do
>you find it
>really useful? In what scenarios do you find this more useful - while
>creating and deploying apps or for monitoring or for redeploying apps?
>
>There seems to be a great deal of functionality in the
>console, however the
>lack of documentation/help is a big drawback.
>
>--Chaya.
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