I don't understand how so much development effort can be put into making a product which seems (judging by the user guide) to be so great, and then they make it so no normal person can launch it...
very strange.
I wonder how many other people have wasted time on this aspect.
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Well, looking for an Apache Gui for configuration, I found NetLoony. After much trail and error, I got it running. I share everyone's frustration. I find it interesting that the opening "flash" screen says "VISION."
Also, having developed applications in JAVA, I cannot believe this is/was ever commercial software...but, then perhaps now I know why it isn't anymore. I had problems with the manifest and gave up and extracted the files from the ...bin...jar and simply went to the build directory and set the netloony file as executable, then typed: ./netloony and lo and behold it came up after I corrected the config file. Much work is needed on this app. It shouldn't throw exceptions when the config file is either missing or incorrect, it should catch those exceptions and build/re-build the file correctly. I haven't gotten into whether it actually performs any useful function yet...I hope it can follow the Apache2 config file chain and method of splitting config files into many pieces...BTW, I'm running this on Ubuntu Breezy after installing Java Blackdown.
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Sorry - guys, I haven't looked at this project in years; since I put it on sourceforge in fact.
It needs polishing, its not perfect, but its not a bad foundation for something else.
Project has been closed - anyone is welcome to the source code for any purpose. I won't be involved with this in the future, so I hope someone who is a better developer, and has more time, will this pick up and maybe something better will come out of it.
BTW: Thanks to Gadi Dor & Russell Simpkins for the support posts - something I should have been doing!
Lawrie
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I'm not a big java guy. How do I use the .jar file?
make sure you have the java runtime installed, or the java sdk. Then you can execute
java -jar /path/to/jar/netloony.jar
I do have the sdk installed and the error I get is: Failed to load Main-Class manifest attribute from NetLoony-full-20020716.jar
I found a nice soultion , work great
Step 1: Use WINRAR to exctract the JAR only netloony dir need (or other software then winrar)
Step 2: go to dir NetLoony\build
Step 3: from command line do:
c:\java\java org.netloony.NetLoony
don't forget to setup the file netloony.cfg
NetLoony\build\working\netloony.cfg
Work great.
I don't understand how so much development effort can be put into making a product which seems (judging by the user guide) to be so great, and then they make it so no normal person can launch it...
very strange.
I wonder how many other people have wasted time on this aspect.
Well, looking for an Apache Gui for configuration, I found NetLoony. After much trail and error, I got it running. I share everyone's frustration. I find it interesting that the opening "flash" screen says "VISION."
Also, having developed applications in JAVA, I cannot believe this is/was ever commercial software...but, then perhaps now I know why it isn't anymore. I had problems with the manifest and gave up and extracted the files from the ...bin...jar and simply went to the build directory and set the netloony file as executable, then typed: ./netloony and lo and behold it came up after I corrected the config file. Much work is needed on this app. It shouldn't throw exceptions when the config file is either missing or incorrect, it should catch those exceptions and build/re-build the file correctly. I haven't gotten into whether it actually performs any useful function yet...I hope it can follow the Apache2 config file chain and method of splitting config files into many pieces...BTW, I'm running this on Ubuntu Breezy after installing Java Blackdown.
Sorry - guys, I haven't looked at this project in years; since I put it on sourceforge in fact.
It needs polishing, its not perfect, but its not a bad foundation for something else.
Project has been closed - anyone is welcome to the source code for any purpose. I won't be involved with this in the future, so I hope someone who is a better developer, and has more time, will this pick up and maybe something better will come out of it.
BTW: Thanks to Gadi Dor & Russell Simpkins for the support posts - something I should have been doing!
Lawrie