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Roller adventures in Websphere country

Jeff Chilton writes in Websphere Power about his adventures porting Roller to Websphere. He tried to take the standalone Roller demo release, which anybody can install in less than 30 seconds, over to Websphere and found - big surprise here - Websphere is a pain in the ass. Want to find out if Roller runs on Websphere? You'll have to wait for part II.

Dave Johnson in Roller • 🕒 07:05AM Oct 22, 2004

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Well, he does say "I downloaded it, followed the instructions, and literally within a few minutes was up and running Roller on Tomcat with the sample data. Kudos to Roller's Dave Johnson, who put a nice little package together with that one." on the first page so he doesn't appear to be blaming Roller per se. Does seem like he had to go through an awful lot of pain to get webfear to play nice though. If I were him I would've skipped changing the database (from hsql) until after I got the rest of it running in websphere: one change at a time.

Posted by 24.31.15.65 on October 22, 2004 at 02:39 PM EDT #

No he is not blaming Roller. I think he would have had the same problems installing just about any database-driven Java web application on Websphere.

Posted by Dave Johnson on October 22, 2004 at 02:46 PM EDT #

I have difficulty installing anything on WebSphere, regardless of whether it uses a database! ;-)

Posted by Simon Brown on October 25, 2004 at 09:51 AM EDT #