Current Events with Phobos

Recently my day job has been extremely busy and therefore I have not had much time to post or work on my favorite projects. I have been working on doing a test run of setting up a system from scratch, a Java application server with Phobos. My main problems have not been with Phobos, but with system details.

Setting up a Windows system was quite easy. Once the basic install was done, I installed Glassfish and deployed my shell Phobos application. No hitches there. I then set up a Centos 5 system and had some problems. Glassfish installed fine, but I could not get it to bind to the ports it needed. I disabled ipv6, the firewall etc, but still could not get it to go. I then tried Resin and had the same issue. When I tried running Jetty, it started up and ran just fine. After setting up a context in Jetty, I was able to deploy a Phobos app with no problem.

I also set up a new laptop for work. It came with Vista preloaded. Since I am looking to try using all open source products, I tried loading Centos 5, but it was missing the video driver for this particular laptop. I then tried loading Linux Mint, which is based on Ubuntu, using the live CD. It loaded up so I partitioned the hard drive using QT Parted, and installed Linux on half of the hard drive so that I have a dual boot system. I loaded Netbeans from the software repository, but could not get it to start until I also loaded the Java 6 JDK. I guess the JRE is installed by default. I also installed my favorite all around editor from jedit.org. I have been using that for almost eight years now.

I have been very happy with the Linux Mint distro so far. I hope to spend more time posting and working with Phobos in the next few months. I hope to see the beta of Netbeans 6 soon.