Re: J2EE on Mac

2009-02-23 Thread Alan Chaney
Caldarale, Charles R wrote: That was already specified: the OP wants to compile servlets; nothing beyond a JDK is needed. - Chuck Everything said about J2EE, classpaths etc is perfectly correct. However, the other thing the OP said was that they want to use Eclipse on a Mac. To build we

RE: J2EE on Mac

2009-02-23 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: NBW [mailto:email...@gmail.com] > Subject: Re: J2EE on Mac > > The statement "installing JEE usually causes problems" > implies JEE is something apart from Tomcat that doesn't > play well with it. There's no such implication; unfortunately, new users

Re: J2EE on Mac

2009-02-23 Thread NBW
A system wide CLASSPATH is a bad idea to begin with. Keep you classpath scoped to you application/application server and you will never have this issue. On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Martin Gainty wrote: > > as chuck mentioned you have 2 different environments that deploy web > archives > If

Re: J2EE on Mac

2009-02-23 Thread NBW
Tomcat is not J2EE, and Glassfish is not J2EE. J2EE is a set of specs. Tomcat contains implementations of some of them. Glassfish happens to bundle implementation of all of them. Tomcat provides a piece of the EE stack, installing the Glassfish application server bundle will you get one implementat

RE: J2EE on Mac

2009-02-23 Thread Martin Gainty
as chuck mentioned you have 2 different environments that deploy web archives If you absolutely positively need GF (which I do) then keep it on a separate drive and do NOT place common servlet*.jar on system classpath you want to avoid GF and TC contending for the same resource(servlet<-api>.jar

RE: J2EE on Mac

2009-02-23 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: Mighty Tornado [mailto:mighty.torn...@gmail.com] > Subject: Fwd: J2EE on Mac > > Can somebody please tell me where I can download the latest > J2EE for Mac? You do not need or want J2EE in order to compile servlets (and JSPs); the regular JDK is enough. Since you state Tomcat is already