Tomcat5 on Tiger (intel iMac)

I'm trying to set up jemboss on my Mac for the lab. Has anyone got a succesful install of tomcat?

I get as far as

distfiles/tomcat5/apache-tomcat-5.5.15-src] rpg% sudo ant

[time passes]


[style] at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:67)

BUILD FAILED
/opt/local/var/db/dports/distfiles/tomcat5/apache-tomcat-5.5.15-src/build.xml:49: The following error occurred while executing this line:
/opt/local/var/db/dports/distfiles/tomcat5/apache-tomcat-5.5.15-src/build/build.xml:788: The following error occurred while executing this line:
/opt/local/var/db/dports/distfiles/tomcat5/apache-tomcat-5.5.15-src/container/webapps/docs/build.xml:88: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.TraXLiaison

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fink and darwinports keep failing to find files, so this is horrible mash of distributions. I'd be grateful for any help.

r

eventually. . .

Well, I finally managed to get Tomcat5 and Axis working. I'm not sure exactly how, but a combination of Darwinports and Fink, and manually downloading, unpacking and repackaging certain tarballs, and manually copying various .jars into the right place, and it's working.

Now I can think about Jemboss. Phew.
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Richard P. Grant http://www.rg-d.com/BioLOG/

Post source code

Any chance you could provide a link to your working version?

What, to the website itself?

What, to the website itself? "I'm afraid I can't do that Dave", without asking the Comp Support guys to open a hole in the DMZ. The reason for installing it was to provide a service to my department, not to the entire world ;) It's possible, but seeing as Jemboss won't install it's a little bit pointless.

I believe anyone within .usyd.edu.au can see my machine, but outside that, not at the moment.

I can try and bundle up /opt/local/share/java/tomcat5 and distribute *that* if you like? Although I haven't quite figured out where all the config files are, so it'd take some work to make it portable.