I spent some time building a .war for Tomcat. Pretty easy, but there is a bug I haven't tracked down.
The problem I ran into is that Tomcat has a newer XML parser than Xang.
What Servlet engine do you have?
Do you have Tomcat installed?
How comfortabl w/ Java are you?
Mike
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Prescott Wohlford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 12:39 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: How can I help!
>
>
> Mike,
>
> What's up?
>
> I really want to get started on this stuff.
>
> Jason
>
> On Thursday, July 26, 2001, at 11:37 PM, S. Mike Dierken wrote:
>
> >
> >> Observation...
> >> It's interesting trying to make a personal comeback to a
> unix world
> >> from
> > the MS world. For some reason I thought that
> >> in the past 10 years something like InstallShield would have been
> >> adopted
> > as the defacto standard for installations on
> >> unix. You know, download the Xang bits and run the setup
> that then
> >> goes
> > out and downloads and installs everything
> >> else it needs.
> > There are two approaches I know of - but am unfamiliar with - RPM
> > (redhat
> > package management) and InstallAnywhere (java based installer)
> >
> > The toughest part isn't getting files on disk - it's
> configuring the
> > host
> > for the app/component. In this case, Xang is a servlet and
> there are
> > many
> > servlet engines. There was no standard way to install
> servlets - but now
> > with J2EE there is. A "Web Application aRchive" - war file.
> This is a
> > .zip
> > with a folder structure inside (also called a .jar). In one folder
> > called
> > WEB-INF there is a web.xml file with the description of how
> to deploy
> > the
> > component(s) in the .zip - the 'deployment descriptor'.
> >
> > I haven't had time recently to build one, but I'll work on
> it Real Soon
> > Now.
> > This will make install instructions easier
> > - install modern servlet engine - Tomcat prefered
> > - add xang.war to Tomcat webapps directory
> > - restart Tomcat
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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