Sam, The short answer to your question is, "No" (at least, not with Java).
A bunch of people at Sun and Apache came up with the idea of a "Web Application Architecture" a little over a year ago to standardize the deployment of web-based applications so that development and deployment tools, and application servers could be standardized. The end result is that you only need to learn how to do it once, and you can then development for and deploy on any standardized platform. Granted, it's still a PITA, but it only hurts once, and is better than having to relearn everything each time the environment changes. With a little more front-end effort, you can learn Struts as well, which will also save you time in the long run for developing web applications using JSP and servlets; and WebMacro or TEA for HTML templating Cheers! Mark -----Original Message----- From: will suto Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 2:58 PM Hi, I wrote a servlet-based application (http://freshmeat.net/projects/bugzero/) and found that, no matter how simple the application itself is, the deployment process is still somewhat complex, specifically, one needs: 1. Install servlet engine and probably need do some configuration. 2. Install database and probably need create some database accounts. 3. Add the application software. a. modifying properties/conf files. b. moving files around to fit the servlet container installed. c. modifying the servlet container's classpath d. ... 4. Probably need download the corresponding jdbc driver (or have to bundle them). 5. Probably need different instructions for each servlet container. 6. ... This might sound pretty simple for people on this list, but, for average people including even some java developers, this is certainly not a very straight forward process. I wonder how can this process be simpfied. (Make a war file seems to be not a solution in cases like above) Thanks, -Samuel. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
