JES Installation on Linux (OpenSuSE / SuSE / and others)
JES should/could install cleanly on non Linux RedHat distributions. I happen to have installed (and executed) JES 2005Q4 and Sun Java System Portal 7 on OpenSuSE even not being supported by Sun.
Why not provide and idenpendent linux installation for JES? There is no Sun specific Java Runtime distribution for a specific Linux distribution, why one for JES?
There are things that are simple to solve, one is for example that the installer will loook for the fuser tool in /bin and /usr/bin, on SuSE this is found in /sbin; We can easaly solve this creating a symbolic link; but why the instalattion does not try to find the fuser tool from $PATH environment? (the fuser is normaly found in the PATH of the root user in any linux distribution)
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Bruno Antunes,
Java Software Engineer
# 1
Hi Bruno,
The simple answer is that since we do not qualify the broad set of Java ES components on all of the primary Linux distributions, we don't claim support for Java ES as a whole across these Linux platforms. Since some portion of the Java ES runtimes are comprised of native code, we do uncover issues when testing against even the versions of the Linux distros that we support today.
As for the mechanics of the install application, yes, we can and should make improvements such that by default, the install application is more flexible in dealing with subtle differences across the Linux distributions. (Since we have chosen to package the Java ES components using RPM, the availability of RPM on the target system is a factor as well).If you can install on a Linux distribution of interest doesn't mean that we will support that OS for production use, but it would at least let you experiment with the deployment.
We will take the examples you've provided as input as we enhance the install application for upcoming releases of Java ES. Please keep those requests coming...
Thanks,
Chris Kampmeier
Sun Microsystems
# 3
docs.sun.com is your best source for Sun documentation.
The Sun Java Enterprise System 2005Q4 Installation Guide for UNIX
covers both Solaris and Linux:
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2328
The latest docs for all of Java ES can be found here:
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/prod/entsys.05q4#hic
Chris Kasso
Sun Microsystems
kasso at 2007-7-6 15:42:43 >
