Re: APOLOGY: Has anyone successfully installed and run Java, J2EE , Tomcat, and Servlets?

Rick,

Actually, Java/Tomcat hasn't been smooth sailing for me either, but I've gotten it to work in our development environment, and haven't pored through all of the documentation sufficiently to warrant asking a well-formed question.

The biggest gotcha I ran into installing Tomcat from ports was the lack of the /var/tomcat/temp file creation, which made our JDBC crash and burn. Hint: look at the output, it tells you what's going wrong ;-) I posted this issue to ports@/cmgruber already, he's very helpful. Then there's the (probably typical) current Java problem of eating memory and threads until the servlet locks up; but I can't tell if that's from code, Tomcat configuration, wrong HotSpot settings, etc.

If I could run against JDK 1.2.2 I'd consider using the native JVM, although I think there's progress being made for a native 1.3.0 version. (The openbsd-java@codemonkey.net resources says the current native 1.4 JVM immediately consumes all CPU resources). And of course, another part of the problem seems to be Sun's JVM license.

If I got Java solidly nailed on OpenBSD, I could probably migrate all of our applications servers. And then tackle heimdal kerberos V and AFS and slowly replace our infrastructure (especially looking at buying Hammer's wrt Theo's development).

OpenBSD seems to be the right tool for a large number of jobs ...

Anyways,

--Adam

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Barter [mailto:rvb@houston.rr.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 6:51 AM
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Received on Fri Mar 7 19:32:17 2003