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Wednesday Nov 19, 2003

Roller and Jetty.

Comments[1] by Dave in Roller

I've always thought it would be cool to package Roller, Jetty, and Hsql-db together with a nice installer and make it really, really easy to download and try Roller. All you'd have to do to start Roller would be to run the installer and run a startup script. So, today I was very happy to see that somebody, by the name of Tarka, has documented the Roller installation process for Jetty. Thanks Tarka.

Jetty appears to be very flexible. The Jetty configuration files allow you to instantiate, configure, and call arbitrary Java objects. I wonder if there is a way to configure Jetty to start HSQL in-process, or if I need to write my own launcher to start/stop Jetty and HSQL? Later... hey, maybe that is what JettyPlus does...

Downage.

Comments[0] by Dave in General

This site was down for a couple of hours today. This is the first time that the site was down for a significant period and it was not my fault. The Kattare guys had to install a security patch on Apache HTTP and when they brought the system back up, everything looked OK. Tomcat was up. Apache HTTP was up. Unfortunately, Apache's mod_jk Tomcat connector was crashing and because it is not a monitored service, beepers were silent. After a quick call to Kattare (zero hold-time), service was restored. As I have said before: Kattare rocks!

Roller 1.0.

Comments[0] by Dave in Roller

The path to Roller 1.0 is coming into view.

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