On Aug 27, 2012, at 5:11 PM, Brian Lavender wrote: > I was able to successfully build the jboss war file from > the source. It runs on JBoss 6.1.0.Final with the Mysql > mysql-connector-java-5.1.16-bin.jar jdbc driver. Funny thing is that > when I create a datasource, it doesn't put the user-name and password > in the config file. I have to go open the RollerDS-ds.xml manually and > add those attributes. Maybe that is why jboss ditched that user interface? > > I was able to create a blog. But, I can't upload an image to it. > Do you have to enable something to upload an image to the blog > entry? > > I think if you are going to reference the jboss war file in the > installation guide, that you ought to put it on the download site. I am > sure there will be +1 other interested users. > > I am not too entheused about the Spring and Struts dependencies. I have > no knowledge of struts and it just doesn't seem to be the thing to > invest time into these days. As for dependency injection, I am sure > Spring was well suited at the time it was chosen. It just seems that > Java EE now provides what Spring did. But, I am not that seasoned of > a developer.
The good news is we're using Struts 2, rather than Struts 1. You may believe there's a better web framework, but most people do. In my experience, web frameworks are like religions. As for Spring vs. Java EE, you might want to read my blog post from a couple years ago. I believe it's still relevant. http://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/re_moving_from_spring_to > > brian > > On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 12:10:44AM -0400, David Johnson wrote: >> We never got *any* feedback at all on the Roller 5 release for JBoss, so we >> never made the JBoss release file available and the same goes for 5.0.1. If >> you want, you can build the JBoss release from the Roller source using the >> .sh script. >> >> - Dave >> >> >> On Aug 26, 2012, at 11:15 PM, Brian Lavender <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Where is the jboss download war file for roller 5.0.1? >>> >>> brian >>> -- >>> Brian Lavender >>> http://www.brie.com/brian/ >>> >>> "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to >>> make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other >>> way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." >>> >>> Professor C. A. R. Hoare >>> The 1980 Turing award lecture > > -- > Brian Lavender > http://www.brie.com/brian/ > > "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to > make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other > way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." > > Professor C. A. R. Hoare > The 1980 Turing award lecture
