Hello All,
Here I will give a short overview over what you need to do to deploy and run a Tomcat or JBoss:
- To set-up a Tomcat or JBoss, first need to download the respective distribution from the homepage of either one:
- For Tomcat 7.0.2 that is (01.10.2010): http://tomcat.apache.org/
- For JBoss 5.1.0 that is (01.10.2010): http://www.jboss.org/
- Then you unpack the respective files to a directory of your choice. Please note that w.r.t. setting the PATH variables under Windows it might be of advantage to choose a directory with no whitespaces (e.g.: C:\JBoss or C:\MyApps\Tomcat on my Windows Vista), since there appears to exist a problem
with interpreting whitespaces - Now you have either one of the given applications on your computer. Congratulations!
– “What? As simple as that?”
– Yes! Well, I also encountered a small problem when trying to start the JBoss the first time,
i.e. it threw several errors stating that the problem was at different places. However, it
turned out to be a problem that an Oracle server was running in the background and JBoss
didn’t like that so much (probably since they used the same drivers/variables).
So generally the lessoned learned was:
– “Is there a problem running the server?”
+ “Yes”
– (ALWAYS:)
- “Look at the output of your server”
- “Find the Exceptions”
- “Get an overview over the Exceptions”
- “Identify the ‘root cause'”
+ “It doesn’t make sense and I can’t find the root cause”
– “What else is ‘happening’ on your computer, i.e. are different servers
running that might interfere?”
+ “Got it!”
Best Regards,
David