[cosmo-dev] Re: IMPORTANT: new webapp packaging (SUCCESS)

[Brian Moseley]

On Dec 12, 2007 2:22 PM, Alan Lord <alanslists at gmail.com> wrote:

> O.K. I found a properties file that was better commented and conatined
> the hibernate.dialect line in the snarf tree.

i've just checked in the assembly for a war-only distribution. this
tarball contains sample properties and context config files as well as
the container provided jars (javamail, jaf, commons-logging). so the
process should be easier in the future.

> I've just rebuilt cosmo using SVN 6385, fixed my cosmo.properties file
> and I now have a running cosmo server! Thanks.

awesome! I think you're the first person besides me to do it on a
non-snarf Tomcat.

> Let me know how I can help (if you think I can).

you can QA my installation instructions at
<http://chandlerproject.org/Documentation/CosmoTomcat>. i've still got
a couple more sections to go.

> As I start to set up a couple of accounts and play with it I'll feedback
> what I think is relevant.

great.

> As an aside - it is running with the default derby db currently. I have
> MySQL and PostgreSQL running already on my small server. I have an
> emotional preference for Postgres. Are there any benefits or pitfalls to
> using postgres or MySQL as opposed to Derby?

Derby has known deadlocking issues at higher concurrency levels. we
run hub.chandlerproject.org with MySQL, and it is the most supported
of the options. I'm afraid we don't put a lot of effort into Postgres.
I don't think we even do migration scripts for it. if you're
interested, that would be an area where we could use some help.

> PS - Can I change the webapps/cosmo-0.12-SNAPSHOT, and the corresponding
> url, to something a bit nicer like "chandler" or "cosmo" or something?

yep - rename the webapps subdirectory to webapps/chandler and the
context config file to conf/Catalina/localhost/chandler.xml. this will
cause Tomcat to mount the webapp at /chandler.