[Opensource] CVS Expresso Framework Build fails

[Michael Rimov]

At 03:57 PM 8/20/2002 -0400, you wrote:


>This is a concern I had left over from my expresso/eforum build experience
>over the weekend.  As I said in the other email, I managed a successful
>build that turned into a working setup on my home computer.
>
>However ...
>
>This requirement here requires that you have Tomcat installed on your
>build machine.  The build is relying on Tomcat-supplied versions of
>whatever .jar's it's relying on (I haven't dug into what it's actually
>trying to access).
>
>The issue/concern is that I'm deploying to Resin.  Resin provides much the
>same .jar's and API support, but in a different directory structure.  You
>couldn't set CATALINA_HOME to point to Resin because of this.  This means
>you compile against Tomcat but deploy to Resin.
>
>Is there an incompatibility issue here?

Hi David,

You hit the crux of the situation I had at the time.... Time vs. Container 
compatibility.  Honestly all we REALLY need is a pointer to servlet.jar to 
get things going.  [Which is what Brian S. DID do in his original 
submission] But that meant I had to dig into Expresso's build system 
another layer to get it working that way... so given time constraints and 
the fact that Tomcat 4 IS required for expresso-complete, I did an initial 
compromise to be able to get SOMETHING working.

You can add properties so we can deal with the appropriate differences for 
those that require other containers, and I'll be happy to support that... 
as long as we don't axe catalina support alltogether since, as I said 
earlier, it's needed for the expresso-complete bundle.

Does this make sense?

                                                 -Mike