On Apr 10, 2008, at 10:55 AM, Bill Michell wrote:
> I don’t have much I can add to the Wiki. In particular, as I
> upgraded to 5.4 from a fully working 5.2.4 (via 5.3) installation, I
> have no idea which steps I have taken over the years are still
> necessary. However:
>
> With a fully patched Leopard system, the WO 5.4.1 jars are just
> sitting there in the lib directory, and if you pop them in a
> Framework project, you can stop adding any locally installed System
> frameworks to the classpath. This means a simple WO 5.2 install for
> Windows is sufficient to get you developing. I’m not yet using
> Project WOnder, so there was no issue there.
So you install 5.2, then create a framework of the 5.4.1 .jars then
just add that framework to your projects?
> AutoOpenInBrowser is completely broken on Windows now, even with
> the Application._isSupportedDevelopmentPlatform hack – but
> everything else, being just java, simply works.
I'm guessing this is a WO IDE integration issue, and I believe that
Mike has done some substantial work on that side, but I don't know if
it is anything that either broke or will help with WOLips on Windows.
> I used to have a problem with flattened resources, and with locating
> WebServerResources in rapid turnaround mode – so I’ve written my own
> wrappers around the various WO resource manager methods that do the
> right thing. I don’t know whether this is still important with the
> latest WOLips, but I don’t thnk that this is Windows-specific anyway.
Probably the same as above.
Have you filed bugs in JIRA for these issues?
>
> Deploying WO5.4 applications to a Windows box is a completely
> different kettle of fish, of course. WO5.4 breaks Windows support,
> and particularly IIS adaptor support, in many wonderful ways. Web
> Server Resource location in direct connect mode also behaves
> differently. But that wiki page isn’t about WO on Windows, just
> WOLips on Windows, right?
Exactly. I develop on Mac but deploy to Tomcat on Windows and I've
easily gotten it to where the same WAR will run on either Mac or
Windows without problem, I haven't tried Linux but I don't see why it
wouldn't work there as well.
> The next steps are probably to migrate to Tomcat (or some other J2EE
> system) hosting, and to incorporate WOnder – at least when the 5.4.1
> support there settles down.
Come on in, the Tomcat water is fine!
Dave
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