Re: Staying with WebObjects

2008-04-11 Thread Jeff Smith
Simon, I think you're right on it. It's just java now: install the Xcode tools (WO Frameworks--which you could put on any platform if you liked), download Eclipse (free/Java), download WOLips/WOnder (free/ Java) and then you can deploy on Linux/Tomcat/etc. (free/Java). I'm on OSX so the m

Re: Leaving WebObjects

2008-04-09 Thread Jeff Smith
I think there are a few technology director types that would have an issue with #1 and #2, although I feel like they're easy to get through. Proprietary usually means expensive to get into and either unsupported or supported with significant costs (think back to the multi-processor deploym

Re: Leaving WebObjects

2008-04-08 Thread Jeff Smith
IMO, there's no excuse for somebody saying there aren't any good WO developers to hire these days. I know of several who are working on J2EE stuff that would gladly jump to a WO project if one came up. I'm more than happy to be working in WO now, I actually think it's much better now than

Re: WO 5.4 Linux Deployment

2008-04-02 Thread Jeff Smith
FWIW, I'm getting the "java name not found in context" as well and I haven't figure out a way around getting the messages either including specifying my data source in the web.xml. Doesn't seem to hurt anything but it does clog up the log file. On Apr 2, 2008, at 10:34 AM, Aleksey Novicov

Re: WO 5.4 Linux Deployment

2008-03-26 Thread Jeff Smith
We've just started deploying on Linux (ubuntu in this case) using a hosting provider and have found that the Tomcat/WAR file deployment works very well. Nothing special being used here, mainly the standard dev tools/WO install from Apple (5.4) and then Eclipse+WOLips (latest stable) to bui

Strange servlet behaviour with WOSession subclass

2008-03-13 Thread Jeff Smith
Hi All, Just a quick question for anyone out there deploying with Tomcat & WAR files. I have an existing application that runs fine under the standard WO deployment on Xserve (10.4/WO5.3) and I've spend the last week or so getting it into 10.5/Eclipse/WOLips so that I can deploy to Tomcat