Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 20:37:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Rick Noelle <rick@jdictionary.com> To: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: ATG Dynamo on FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108132019360.27789-100000@localhost>
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Hi Everyone, Just wanted to send a note and say that I've successfully run ATG Dynamo 5.1 on FreeBSD 4.1 with JDK version 1.2.2. We are using ATG at work and I wanted to be able to mess around with it at home. According to the ATG web site, they unofficially support RedHat Linux 6.1 but they don't mention FreeBSD. Since ATG is 100% Java, I gave it a try and after some messing around with config files, got it to work. A couple things I had to do was 'trick' the startup files to think I was running Linux. It does some checks like OS_VERSION=`uname -a` so I just hardcoded 'Linux' in there. It has an 'os-specific-files' directory which has the jikes compiler. So I overwrote the Linux version of Jikes with FreeBSD jikes. I didn't use any type of Linux emulation by the way. The only issue I ran into was the database it ships with 'Solid'. They have a version for Linux and Solaris but not FreeBSD of course. In order to run the full ATG package, you must launch this database and then start up Dynamo. There were two ways around this, one was to run the db on another machine like Linux and point your ATG instance to it. The second way around it is to use PostgreSQL. Although I couldn't get all of the tables created under Postgres (it ships with the .sql scripts required to build all the tables), I was able to get the DAS 'Dynamo Application Server' tables built. This is enough to to start the basic module of ATG, the application server. If you need to run the other modules like Dynamo Personalization Server of Dyanmo Commerce Server, you would have to tweak the .sql scripts enough to run them on postgres or MySQL or what have you. If you were running Oracle on FreeBSD you'd be set since they have all the .sql scripts for Oracle. So if anyone is interested, it definitely is possible to run Dynamo on FreeBSD. It performs great too. I was really impressed. My Celeron 566 was running just as fast or faster than a dual Xeon 350 Linux box at work. I also think it is more stable on FreeBSD. I don't know why ATG doesn't look into officially supporting FreeBSD.. You can read about ATG at http://www.atg.com if you are interested. Rick Noelle To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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