Java and Tomcat updates

[Earl Wertheimer]

The current version of Java is now 6 (instead of 5) and Tomcat is at 6 (instead of 5.5)
These changes break the Oscar installation guidelines ;-(

What is recommended?
Find and install the older versions?  or update the guides for the newer versions?

Tomcat6 does not have a /usr/share/tomcat6/common/lib folder, so the build.xml fails.


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[Aart de Vries-2]

Earl,

As you know I'm fairly new to the OSCAR-game myself, and the first time
I installed on Tomcat 6.0.20. A
bit of caution there: Tomcat 6.0.20 is rather well backwards compatible
with Tomcat 5.5.X, however not
quite. I ran into a screen that didn't work in 6.0.20, and reported that
to Jay. Jay knew about the cause,
and fixed that screen (it had something to do with the fact that Tomcat
6.0.20 is more strict on requiring
quotes in some places). I don't know whether meanwhile a developer
searched all the jsp's for this issue,
or whether the software has been validated to run on Tomcat 6.0.X, but
if not, it might be safer to run
on a 5.5.x version.
As for Java 6: I'm running OSCAR on Java 6 no problem. However my doctor
is not yet using all the modules,
so my opinion on this might not so reliable
My doctor doesn't use at the moment the:
- measurements/lab-data
- messaging
- ticklers
- virtually no reporting.

Hope this helps.

Aart


Earl Wertheimer wrote:

> The current version of Java is now 6 (instead of 5) and Tomcat is at 6
> (instead of 5.5)
> These changes break the Oscar installation guidelines ;-(
>
> What is recommended?
> Find and install the older versions?  or update the guides for the
> newer versions?
>
> Tomcat6 does not have a /usr/share/tomcat6/common/lib folder, so the
> build.xml fails.
>
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[Andrzej Jan Taramina]

Earl mentions:

> Tomcat6 does not have a /usr/share/tomcat6/common/lib folder, so the
> build.xml fails.

Edit build.xml and change the following strings:

        ${catalina}/common/lib ==> ${catalina}/lib
        ${catalina}/server/lib ==> ${catalina}/lib

Only two lines are affected.

If you do this, it will build fine for Tomcat6.

When the install instructions tell you to copy the oscar*properties files to $CATALINA_HOME, that doesn't work for
Tomcat6. I put put the files in /root and edited the oscar_mcmaster.properties file there per the install instructions,
and all seemed to run fine...

I found no issues with use of Java 6.

Hope this helps, Earl.

--
Andrzej Taramina
Chaeron Corporation: Enterprise System Solutions
http://www.chaeron.com

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