Friday, July 31, 2009

Myna - ServerSide JavaScript New Web Site

I am pleased to announce the launch of a new website for the Myna open source project. I have been heavily involved in working on and the production of the site. It is just a starting point as many updates are still planned. Myna is being updated at a fairly rapid pace and the web site will be as well. Please post comments with any feedback or contact us on the mailing list at Google.

Check out the website at http://www.mynajs.org/, and try using Myna today!

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Sun Web Server Webdav

Sun Web Server has WebDav built in. This is great from the standpoint that you do not need an ftp server to allow users to access their files. It is easy to setup, but sometimes the interface may be confusing to a beginner. Here are a few pointers to keep in mind when using the web interface.

1. When you first create the WebDav share, create the read as "/" and your source URL like "/src". Leave the permissions set to allow anyone all access rights.

2. After creation, select the dav share, and edit the acl rights for the source only. Allow only users to access the source.

You must have two shares similar to the listing above for your website to work correctly. Now you may not want the directories listed for public users. Under the default Sun install, directories are not listed, but now that we have a webdav share at "/", they will be. You can solve this by editing the rights for the acl share for "/". The public only really needs read access for most webapps. With read access, JSP pages and other scripts will still execute.

Happy Serving!

Myna - ServerSide JavaScript Server

While I haven't posted in a great while, I have been working with a ServerSide JavaScript application server called Myna. It is located at www.mynajs.org. It is nearing beta stage, but it is quite advanced feature wise already. We have been working on a new web site which should be completed soon. The Google mailing list is at http://groups.google.com/group/mynajs-general. Changes and releases are being done quite rapidly. I have tested deployment to Sun Java Web Server 7 update 5. It installs and runs smoothly with no problems. I have had one server with it running an application for over six months now. It comes with an MIT license so you can use it however you wish. It also is going to follow the ServerSide JavaScript standard as it evolves. Check it out and give us your feedback.

I will be posting regular updates again, especially about Myna.