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Hi xplanner-team,
Would it be possible to also offer an out-of-the-box-installation for xplanner, so there is no need to download a separate tomcat and configure it? Please note, not everybody is experienced with web-stuff and doesn't has the time to set it up manually to just take a look at it.
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Thanks in advance and happy new year,
Tom
Hi Tom,
Happy new year.
First are you the same Tom from TJB?
This idea has been discussed for some time. I may be wrong but I believe there are 2 types of users that are in need of a better installation steps:
1. The evaluator: wants to get things up and running to see how it looks and works. Not ready yet to start using the tool for production
2. The non-java/non-web admin: wants to use xplanner in production so wants to install it the robust way (transactional db, enterprise integration maybe...)
For 1. I am proposing a pre-build war with embedded db with a nice little how-to-install guide that goes through a simple java, tomcat and xplanner install
For 2. I am proposing first a pre-build war and a more advanced how-to-install guide that would cover the installation of java, tomcat, mysql, xplanner and how to customize xplanner (misc settings, security settings...). Next I would like to eventually add a first launch setup wizard like jira/confluence that the first time you hit the webapp, would go through a set of screen to select db, security, misc settings.
To summarize, I am proposing in order of priority:
1. A pre-built war + instruction on how to deploy it and customize it
2. A pre-built war w/ embedded db + quick how-to-install guide for the evaluator
3. A full how-to-install guide for a non-java/non-web developer for production use
4. A pre-built war w/ embedded db + first time setup wizard.
Jacques
> First are you the same Tom from TJB?
Yes, I am.
Please rate me as a (non-web) evaluator. It should be possible to get Xplanner (or any other application) running is at most 5 (!) minutes. When I'm evaluating an application to just see, what it can, I don't want to mess around with deploying an web-application or customize it. I just want to download a out-of-the-box bundle and start it. For Xplanner I expect a small-as-possible tomcat (or whatever is required) with the deployed jar and an integrated database. Unzip it, start bin\startup.bat and point your browser to http://127.0.0.1 . Nothing else.
Please note, that the first barrier must be as low as possible, so you get something to see. When you see something (good looking) in a very short time, the evaluator takes the time to play with it one or a few hours. If it still is satisfied, it might try to integrate it into his/her infrastructur (e.g. own tomcat).
If you want to see a perfect example, please take a look at SnipSnap, you even can start it via JavaWebStart!
Tom
From past 5 days I m trying to run xplanner but it is throughing servelate exception... can anyone tell me in detail how to integrate it.
Ant, Tomacat, Mysql all r running even after deploying xplanner.war in tomcat when I m trying to run it its throughing exception.....
message
description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.
exception
javax.servlet.ServletException: java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.handlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:495)
at org.apache.jsp.index_jsp._jspService(index_jsp.java:139)
at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:92)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:809)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:162)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:240)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:187)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:809)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:200)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain
............................
U can rate me as non-java/non-web admin.
please help me.
I'm also a (non-web) evaluator who has been struggling un-successfully to get XPlanner up and running to evaluate. I would be happy to act as a tester. Is there an ETA for when these might be available? Option 2 looks most helpful for my situation as I suspect that there are imcompatibilities with my tomcat installations and the xplanner.war file. However, that's another thread.
While we're at it, could someone please post on the xplanner site that you can't use Java 1.5 with xplanner 0.6.2. It says in the installation guide that JDK 1.4+ is required. I took 1.4+ as meaning 1.4 and above, but when building with 1.5 I get an error message regarding xplanner's 'enum' identifier which is a reserved word in Java 1.5.
It shouldn't be necessary to have to go through all this hazzle just to get the product installed.
Regards,
Eirik M
I adjusted the build.xml file to use the source="1.4" attribute in the javac tasks, as an interim solution....
Hope it helps,
Thanks for pointing this out. We will rectify it.
Jacques