On 15-May-2009, at 10:37, Michael A. Repucci wrote:
Also, tomcat does work "out of the box". Incorrect administration
of any
system will stop it
from working out of the box.
Honestly, what I'm most frustrated about isn't Tomcat, per say, but
the
stuff written by my colleagues that should work with Tomcat. I'm a bit
baffled how the über-cross-platform Java (and its disciples Ant and
Tomcat)
could be used to create code that is extraordinarily sensitive to the
version and platforms on which it is compiled and run. I suppose
that's just
because the code was poorly written, and you could probably write
platform-
and version-dependent code in any language, but it would have been
nice if I
could have installed whatever the latest packages were on my system,
and
compiled and run successfully the first time. Instead I'm spending
upwards
of a week learning all the internals. I guess that's useful in the
long run,
but I could just use some good and patient guidance. Sorry to have
stepped
on anybody's toes, and thank you all for your help.
I hate to say it, but the best way to make Java code have issues is
trying to
be too smart when doing something. This usually results in code that
works
in certain narrow situations, but not the rest. What I mean by being
'too
smart' is when someone try to make the best 'uber' code possible,
which ends
up being convoluted and only understandable to the author when it was
written. I am not saying it is the case here, but programming is like
hand writing, in that you do yourself a favour by making sure it is
written
well enough that someone else can read it and yourself in a month's
time.
On the other hand, there are different version of servlet specification,
of Java, of Tomcat and each has their incompatibilities. Learning how to
make your code work in the widest range of conditions will help make
you a better programmer, IMHO.
André-John
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