Re: Re: WO 5.3+ on Windows

On 9/13/06, Arthur Orange <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> How do you get a copy of WO 5.3 for windows? I think I miss EOModeler (a
> lot) (jsf and hibernate don't come close)...
>
> If I use WO 5.3 would I be able to deploy applications to any j2ee server ?

There is no WO 5.3 for Windows, only 5.2.4 and older.

Windows depends a lot on if you have a version of 5.2.x to start with.

With 5.2.x for Windows:
Development: You can probably update your frameworks from a Mac 5.3
install and continue to use the old 5.2.x tools. However, your best
bet is probably to use Eclipse/WOLips with the new Entity Modeler.
There is a very old version of EOModeler for Windows that comes with a
paid WO 5.2.x developer kit, but there are no more Windows tools in
the free 5.3+.
Deployment: same as above, you can probably just update the frameworks
with the new 5.3 versions, no idea if you need to rebuild the
apache/iis adaptor. That could be messy.

Without 5.2.x for Windows:
Deployment: You would basically have to duplicate the steps that the
5.2.x installer does for you except by hand, plus if you want to use
the IIS or Apache adaptors, you'd have to build those, and that could
get messy. The easiest here is to use a servlet deployment (probably
SSDD being the simplest).
Development: WOLips is your only solution here. You still need to get
all of the frameworks installed just like the old Windows installer
would. I doubt anyone has tried it yet. Those of use with working
5.2.x installations on Windows could give you some hints about
locations and stuff.

WO 5.3 apps should deploy to most J2EE servers using the servlet
deployments, though building them correctly without Xcode stills needs
some manual steps. Even using Xcode it may take a few tries to get it
right.

Logan