Jpackage stuff, was: Re: [MKSearch-dev] Week 15 round up

[Chris Croome]

Hi Phil

I guess you intended to send this to the list? I have copied this
there.

I have made a start:

  http://www.mksearch.mkdoc.org/howto/jpackage-fc3/

It turns out that jta depends on java-devel so I think I'm going to
have to go the whole hog and install java-1.5.0...

Chris

On Mon 24-Jan-2005 at 12:29:50PM -0000, Phil Shaw wrote:
> On 24 Jan 2005, at 11:35, Chris Croome wrote:
> 
> > If it would help I could install the required Jpackage stuff on my FC3
> > desktop and document it with step-by-step instructions on the web
> > site? 
> > 
> > What is needed exactly? Ant, Tomcat and anything else? 
> 
> Excellent, thanks Chris. If you have the time, it would likely save 
> me a fair amount of reading and head scratching to follow your lead!
> 
> JPackage has Tomcat 5.x, which implements Java servlets version 2.4. 
> This matches the current state of the GNU Servlet API, so should be 
> compatible. I am unlikely to use the latest features (partly for 
> backwards compatibility), but Tomcat 5 should avoid the need for 
> subsequent upgrade. Just the basic server installation should be 
> enough.
> 
> http://www.jpackage.org/rpm.php?id=1498
> 
> The latest version of Ant will be fine, with the optional JUnit tasks 
> please.
> 
> http://www.jpackage.org/rpm.php?id=912
> 
> We will also need JUnit itself, just the basic package will be enough.
> 
> http://www.jpackage.org/rpm.php?id=1141
> 
> That should be enough to get us started. Tomcat can be assigned any 
> port number, the default is 8082. One approach to hosting is to use 
> Apache HTTPd as a proxy (mod_proxy), e.g.:
> 
> <VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>
>   ServerName tomcat.mksearch.mkdoc.org
>   ServerPath /virtual/tomcat.mksearch.mkdoc.org
>   ProxyPass / http://tomcat.mksearch.mkdoc.org:8082/
>   ProxyPassReverse / http://tomcat.mksearch.mkdoc.org:8082/
> </VirtualHost>

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