[OT] wanting to play with full suite of Java EE under ubuntu

[Ric Moore]

On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 04:14 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Dec 2010, Ric Moore wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 03:44 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > >   if there are any good online pointers to get me started, that would
> > > be great.  in the meantime, i'm just going to start poking around that
> > > book and see what ubuntu packages correspond to the different
> > > technologies, then try to set up and run simple examples of
> > > everything.  thanks.
> >
> > If you want to really get a java workout, check out Open Wonderland.
> > It's a 3D environment, complete with telephony, avatars and every
> > other java toolkit laden feature. Shoot, it's way past me and the
> > email list is plagued with top-posting. But, I have it running and
> > the people doing the devel stuff stay on the list at all times. It's
> > fun and 100% nothing but java. Me, I just watch all of the rolling
> > commentary on the code development. http://www.openwonderland.org
> 
>   looks interesting, i'll check it out.  i just want to make sure it
> doesn't hide all the details from me.  i guess what i'm after for the
> time being is a tutorial on "how to set up a java EE development
> environment from scratch on ubuntu" sort of writeup.  a lot of it is
> fairly self-evident but not all of it.
> 
>   as a trivial example, the book i mentioned earlier is set up to demo
> all of its tutorials using glassfish.  but when one searches for
> ubuntu glassfish packages, one sees:
> 
> $ apt-cache search glassfish
> glassfish-activation - Open source Java EE 5 Application Server
> glassfish-appserv - Open source Java EE 5 Application Server
> glassfish-javaee - Open source Java EE 5 Application Server
> glassfish-jmac-api - Open source Java EE 5 Application Server
> glassfish-mail - Open source Java EE 5 Application Server
> glassfish-toplink-essentials - Open source Java EE 5 Application Server
> libgeronimo-activation-1.1-spec-java - Java Activation Framework implementation from Apache Geronimo
> $
> 
>   in other words, if you knew *nothing* about glassfish (which i
> don't), you wouldn't be sure which package(s) to install.  it's just
> little things like that that can be massively frustrating.  anyway,
> i'll puzzle it all out eventually.

Glassfish is already embedded into Wonderland, and yes, the source is
100% there if you chose the nightly build via svn instead of the binary.
You'll need ant installed. Ric

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