Re: WO 5.3...confusion
Re: WO 5.3...confusion
- Subject: Re: WO 5.3...confusion
- From: David E <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 12:51:42 +1000
They also stated that Apple will continue to allow builds as
stand alone wars and as long as Sun lives up to there motto of
"write once, run any where" .war files should work.
But if they don't then your on your own ;)
Cheers
Dave
---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 17:08:22 -0700
>From: Chuck Hill <email@hidden>
>Subject: Re: WO 5.3...confusion
>To: email@hidden
>Cc: Jeremy Matthews <email@hidden>, WebObjects
Developer <email@hidden>, WebObjects
Deployment <email@hidden>
>
>I will echo Robert's comments. There was no ambiguity in the
>statements made. Your choice for supported deployment is
OSX. Period.
> I'm trying to recall if the license key is platform
specific. It was
>at one time, but I don't think it is any more.
>
>
>Chuck
>
>On Jun 7, 2005, at 4:20 PM, Robert Snyder wrote:
>
>> Jeremy,
>>
>> Apple was VERY clear. From WO 5.3 forward, WO is only
supported on OS X
>> for development AND deployment. If you want to deploy on
another
>> platform,
>> you need to do so using WO 5.2.4 or earlier. This is what
Apple is
>> supporting.
>>
>> One might consider using 5.3 to create a .war file, buying
a copy of
>> OS X
>> Server, then locate the WO deployment license key file, use
it in your
>> .war deployment and then deploy on any compliant 1.4.2 or
1.5 JRE. If
>> you
>> do this, however, Apple will not support you. Doing this
would seem to
>> be
>> "legal," but it is clearly not supported.
>>
>> This is a problem for us because we have WO applications
that run
>> executables on our Solaris boxes that require DCE/DFS.
Since there is
>> no
>> native DCE/DFS client for OS X, we cannot run these on our
>> Xserves--and we
>> have lots of them and love them--but we still need Solaris
boxes to
>> meet
>> some of our requirements.
>>
>> Robert
>>
>>
>> Jeremy Matthews said:
>>> Let's see...some good news
>>>
>>> 5.3 Dev is "free" (with 10.4 client)
>>> 5.3 Dep is "free" (with 10.4 server)
>>>
>>> No news on 5.3 deps for non 10.4-systems (Windows,
>>> especially)....BAD!
>>>
>>> I hope we get a clear signal that WO is not dead for
deployment
>>> on
>>> other platforms...especially since we just submitted
a budget for
>>> over $150k to deploy an enterprise system on Windows.....
>>>
>>> Did I say....ack?
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