Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 17:48:00 +0100 From: "Charles Mason" <charlie.mas@gmail.com> To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Jboss Web on FreeBSD Message-ID: <1960fb140705050948td9da58bxb5fddb8e6bd39c43@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi all, Recently I have been trying to get Jboss Web (not to be confused with Jboss's Application Server) to run under FreeBSD. For more info http://labs.jboss.com/jbossweb/ Jboss make binaries available for Linux, Windows, Solaris, HP-UX but not for FreeBSD. Most of the code is written in Java so no big cross platform issues. However it uses some native modules which are portable but need to be recompiled. I have successfully compiled these, it all works fairly well all though some of the build scripts don't work. Next I wanted a rc.d script to run it at start up. After a lot of fiddling I have hacked a modified version of the Jboss4 port together. This is able to download the source from my web server (the only public access to the source is via SVN) extract it, build the Java portion of the source and install it. There are still some big problems with my hacked port, it doesn't currently build the native source, and the install process needs some tweaking. I was thinking it might be useful to anyone else wanting to use Jboss Web on FreeBSD if I actually cleaned up my port and got it to a point where it could be submitted to the main ports tree. The only problem is I have never made a port before and I would be grateful if someone could give me a few pointers. I am currently reading the porters hand book. In the mean time if anyone else is interested in running Jboss Web on FreeBSD let me know and I can try and explain how I got it working. Is anyone else intrested in using Jboss Web? In theory it should apeal to anyone currently running Tomcat. Although it doesn't to get the covourage. Charlie
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