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From: David Avendasora [mailto:webobject..vendasora.com]
Sent: 10 April 2008 16:12
To: woproject-de..bjectstyle.org
Subject: Re: WOLips on Windows [was RE: Eclipse update sites]
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?
[Bill Michell] Exactly.
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.
[Bill Michell] I've covered this in a separate response
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?
[Bill Michell] I can't remember. I found them so long ago. It certainly
has been discussed many times on the mailing list.
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!
[Bill Michell] Do you have a write up you can point me to?
Dave
-- Bill Michell Development Team Leader, Broadcast Platforms, BBC FM&T (Journalism).
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