Friday, June 04, 2004

A Trip to the Corner Shop .... An Expedition to Everest Maybe because it's a Friday afternoon, but I'm really struggling with getting the latest Sun Blueprint application -- Adventure Builder -- to build away from the Sun Reference Implementation environment. I was really hoping to be able to do a quick build of the application against our latest OC4J build, and then start to add some extensions in the JMX arena to it as a demonstration. What started out as a nice Friday afternoon task has ended up as bugger of a job. I thought it'd be a simple trip to the shop ... now it's looking like a full scale expedition up Mt Everest. For a start, I certainly don't claim to be an authority on best practices with Ant -- I got the older Petstore app building against OC4J really quickly -- but I can say that I'm finding it really hard to get this build environment to work against OC4J. It just looks and feels too complicated as I'm wading my way through all the build components trying to change the relevant targets to work against another J2EE implementation. There's lots of calls in the Ant scripts to specific functionality in the J2EE RI to create the required resources (can't these just get put into a completely separate script!), calls out to ws compilers for all the client code which relies on the scripts in the RI, and about a billion properties to keep track of and try and debug when the shit hits the fan during a build. If I was someone looking at J2EE and thinking I'd use this as a way to learn a bit about it on my preferred J2EE container, then I reckon I'd be jumping at the .NET wagon rolling past ... I guess I'll keep going -- perhaps the onus is actually on us as a J2EE vendor to provide a distribution of this so it'll build against our specific J2EE implementation. I know the Sun folks can't make it that generic so it'll build against every product, but it does look like it's very tightly coupled to the J2EE RI -- hmm, which I think is now actually used as the official Sun Application Server .... perhaps there is a method in their madness after all .... Maybe I really am being a dumb arse and should just go out for a ride. Hye, good idea. Seeya. 5:01:52 PM    your say []

© Copyright 2004 buttso.

Date	Title
5/21/2004	Mutlicast Checker
4/28/2004	OC4J as a Windows Service
4/23/2004	Using Form Based Authentication
4/20/2004	OC4J and MC4J
4/14/2004	OracleAS and getServerName
4/5/2004	Reset DMS Metrics
3/30/2004	Using the DOS for command to find a class
3/24/2004	A walk in the JCA park
3/19/2004	My spots have changed
3/16/2004	Ant deployment to OC4J
3/15/2004	Getting OC4J Admin Console to work in OC4J 9.0.4
2/27/2004	Simple JSR88 Java Client Example
2/27/2004	JSR88 Client Example
2/18/2004	An Adventure with Adventure Builder and getParameterMap
2/16/2004	Running OC4J with MX4J
2/12/2004	JMX Support in OC4J 10.0.3
2/12/2004	Configuring MBeans with OC4J