JBoss

[netman4ttm]

Does anyone have any experience with this JAVA server/IDE whatever.
Although, free the docs aren't.

[mikmik]

You mean 'Tomcat'?

Is it on apache, or IIS, or both?

[netman4ttm]

Mik I think its a blended system. It is Apache not sure if 1 or 2 and also not sure who supplies the JAVA SDK, might even be JBoss. We have been thinking about this move for so long that its growing mold, ugly green mold. We have played with SUN IBM and Borland just can't seem to get in gear. PHP works well enough; and no one wants to try something new.

[mikmik]

Hey, netman4ttm.

I have an avid interest in java. Long story short - was just getting into it about 4 months ago, got sidetracked since then (computer hacked)

So, I have an eye open whenever I see java stuff.

I was installing apache on SuSE, and one of the modules was the Jakarta.Tomcat java server.

I remember from four months ago, and my XML excursions, that the main parsers for IBM and Sun run on Apache.

I am almost for sure that that is what you need. What follows is a list of URLs that are relevent, including and ftp site for old versions of Jakarta.Tomcat.

What I found interesting, is that it can run standalone, or integrated into Apache: Java Boutique (http://javaboutique.internet.com/tutorials/Tomcat/). Lots of tutorials, and applet downloads here.

Here is the main page at Apache:
http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/

How about this?
GNUJSP (http://klomp.org/gnujsp/) is a free implementation of Sun's Java Server Pages. It runs on Apache 1.3.6 and 1.3.9.

This is a mail Forum communication (http://www.mail-archive.com/servlet-interest@java.sun.com/msg22042.html) that asks a similar question to yours. It basically just leads to the apache homepage, then the Jakarta (http://jakarta.apache.org/) home page, which is forerunner to the second link given above.

Finally, here is the SunJava page that has resources( you can backtrack using the breadcrumbs ), which I learned to become comfortable with for anything Java:
http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/resources.html

Hope this is enough LOL, I may get my hands wet again this weekend. I have the JavaNetBeans S.D.K. waiting to go.

[mikmik]

Forgot one : http://www.jguru.com/faq/home.jsp?topic=Servlets

Looks like tutorials and stuff, more on the technical side.

[netman4ttm]

Mik,
Been there done that. First, Apache Tomcat install was 3 years ago on RedHat 7.2
This JBoss is supposed to be a server with IDE.
My experience has been that it is best to run Tomcat within Apache. Most of the pages served are static and don't need the JAVA part at all.
The JBoss link
http://www.jboss.org/index.html
And the docs - you might need to register to get there
http://docs.jboss.org/admin-devel/AdminDevelTOC.html
And IBM tools
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1640663,00.asp

[mikmik]

Okay, now I get it, although I cannot offer any help.

My only (momentary) experience is with NetBeans, and the docs are free and there are many tutorials.
I found this , which looks interesting: http://www.jcreator.com/

I guess it depends what you are going to be doing, like if you are writing applets, any server will do as they run client-side.

But servlets and server-side stuff, I see what you mean by 'blended' system, the Jboss ia s server/IDE.... you do mean independent development enterprise?

The netBeans is where I am trying to go, it is big: ~100 Mb, but it has excellent documentation and support:

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NetBeans IDE 4.0 Midnight Cookie Company Tutorial
Midnight Cookie Tutorial for NetBeans IDE 4.0 Beta
A guide to learning how to build a web application that uses a front controller servlet together with composite views that use JavaServer Pages technology. Also, a guide to learning how to use the HTTP Monitor to view and analyze HTTP requests. This tutorial can be completed in 2 hours.
for example, and I found that here: http://www.netbeans.org/

Are you developing Web Services? Man, I have e'mails stacking up from IBM Developerworks, and I can't remember now if they had anything to do with NetBeans, or what. I just remember java based development for XML and Web Development... all the SOAP and other API were based on Jakarta and Xerces if I recall.

I think vfaulkner might know something, but unless she see's this, it isn't much help.

And neither am I, unfortunately, just grasping at straws in the dark.
Seems you've taught me some stuff, though :O)