Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:47:37 -0400 From: "inonit@inonit.com" <inonit@inonit.com> To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Basic FreeBSD Java/Tomcat questions Message-ID: <380-220057428134737203@M2W039.mail2web.com>
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Hello, all. I'm an old hand with Java but relatively inexperienced with FreeBSD, and I've never run Java there until the last few days. I had a few things I was wondering about. I can't find these things in the archives, and don't know where else to look. Some of my questions might betray my lack of FreeBSD knowledge ... My preferences: 1. Avoid customization to the extent possible -- I don't really want to spend much energy being an admin -- even if my configuration is not optimally flexible, or whatever. This means I'd prefer to use packages from 5.4-RELEASE as opposed to ports, etc. 2. Not to have to build full JDK (with web start, plugins, etc.) -- building minimal took days as it was. 3. Simplest system possible, fewest installs possible, ease of administration/use. Here's what I've done so far: 1. Installed FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE (minimal distribution set only) 2. Built jdk-minimal-1.4.2p7 from source on test machine. Seemed to go fine. Created package using pkg_create -b ... 3. Installed jdk-minimal-1.4.2p7 as package. java -version works; haven't tried much else, except ... 4. jakarta-tomcat-5.0.30 as package WITHOUT its dependencies (i.e., pkg_add -r from my own server, which does not have the fonts stuff on it). Besides emitting the predicatable complaints about missing dependencies, the pkg_add command emits a warning saying the jdk package is required and I have jdk-minimal. 5. Tomcat post-install cp conf/server-minimal.xml.sample to conf/server.xml cp conf/web.xml.sample to conf/web.xml chown www conf/*.xml /usr/local/etc/rc.d/020* start What happens: It works, so far as I can tell. This means that I've gone to the home page, not tested extensively. The 'balancer' webapp doesn't initialize correctly (fails with NoClassDefFoundError on org.apache.commons.digester.Digester) but I'm not too worried about that since I don't know exactly what it's for and I haven't read any docs yet. Questions: 1. Why does Tomcat depend on all the font stuff? Can I safely run without it? 2. Same question with the jdk vs. jdk-minimal issue. 3. What are the limitations of tomcat50ctl? I've seen some messages in the archives saying I'll need to change my /usr/local/etc/rc.d script if I want to do things like command-line arguments to Tomcat, etc. Comments: I'm really pleased (as I've worked through these issues) about how smart the packaging system is (e.g., not deleting files if they've been changed). Not sure to what extent credit is due FreeBSD developers and to what extent credit is due to people on this list, but take whatever you're entitled to. :) Special praise for the jdk14 port -- for such a complex build, I'm shocked how well it worked for me, particularly since I know very little about make. Cheers, -- David. -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .
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