Thanks for your email.
Assuming this is all with GlassFish v2.x, I would suggest you look at
GlassFish v3 :
zip install, less dependency on system environment (if any), silent
installer, etc...
One issue you may find is the IPS part (bin/pkg, updatetool) since
this is native (python-based) code.
In your testing, how did asadmin fail? Any error message?
thanks,
-Alexis
On Sep 23, 2009, at 11:19, glassfish_at_javadesktop.org wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a small suggestion for the team building Glassfish releases.
>
> A small description of what I do:
> As part of my work I use VMWare on a Mac. This has some drawbacks
> and some advantages. One advantage is that I can set up a new
> environment whenever I get to work in a different company -- all you
> need is a preliminary setup (with Java, databases, servers, etc) and
> then you start installing the typical company stuff. It's most
> useful with Windows (ahem), personally for home use I run Gentoo on
> VMWare.
>
> The suggestion:
> The setup described above allows me to put most of the popular
> servers (Tomcat, JBoss, etc) on a Mac disk, and share this directory
> to any VMWare environment I set up. This way, I can use the same
> server, libraries, database on Windows, Linux etc, etc, regardless
> of the OS I run. I do not have to install the same stuff each time I
> go working to a new company.
>
> This works, except for Glassfish. I think something could be done
> about it, and I believe it is not much work when you assemble a new
> Glassfish release.
>
> The problem in more detail:
> Installing Glassfish is AFAIK impossible on a Mac. But I installed a
> Linux Glassfish on a Gentoo OS in VMWare. If I install it locally,
> everything works. But as I mentioned above, I migrate databases,
> servers to a Mac disk (e.g. a directory outside of the given OS I
> run, but visible to it (= shared from the hosting Mac system)) so
> that any OS installation might see it.
> So ...if I am not forced to installing locally, I try to avoid it.
>
> So.. I try to install Glassfish on a shareable directory. Things get
> ugly. First of all - it is partly a Mac problem -- when you install
> things on a Shared Mac directory from within an OS (like Gentoo or
> Windows) you get into problems pretty quick if the installation
> creates new directories (they get "File.IOException: permission
> denied" messages). You can avoid this problem by installing locally,
> packaging the file and unpackaging the whole file in the Mac
> directory (Mac creators believe that if you have "rwx" access to a
> directory you don't automatically have "rwx" access to
> subdirectories, ahem). I did this with Glassfish, and had a look at
> asenv.conf and asadmin itself. Both of these files contain entries
> related to the installation (e.g. the paths to a Java JDK). I
> swtiched those to point to new directories, crossed my fingers and
> ran asadmin. All directories/files within the new Glassfish
> directory had the maximum "777" permissions. And the execution of
> asadmin failed.!
>
>
> What would I suggest:
> Editing of asadmin, asenv.conf should allow the migration of a
> Glassfish installation to a new directory. If you change the
> location of a Glassfish installation and edit the paths in asadmin,
> asenv.conf -- then you should be able to run Glassfish with no
> problems. Otherwise a Glassfish installation is not really scalable.
>
> Final words:
> I am not a very big expert in Glassfish. I do not believe that a
> developer should know all the arcane data an administrator should.
> So I hope there isn't some simple mistake I made here. If I did,
> please point me in the right direction.
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>
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