I’m continuing on with my quest for installing Tomcat and Java on my Ubuntu machine. Next thing I need: Java.

At first look, I found it hard to believe that you need to go through so many steps in order to install the java runtime on Ubuntu (probably since it’s part of a Debian Linux distribution, so somehow installation should occur differently? that’s what I somehow “got” from my readings).  After looking here and here I finally got it to install Java.

But then, I noticed (as is the case many times) that I’m doing things in a much more manual way than I needed to. I cam upon this in the wiki which explains that using the terminal mode (took me some time to find the terminal on ubuntu..) all i had to do was:

  sudo apt-get install sun-java6-bin

  sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk

I really love the fact that the “windows update” idea is built into the OS. It’s very easy to get updates, assuming you have the “repositories” installed. Still, I’d love for there to be a visual way to select these updates for the user who does not want to use the terminal. I would have expected it to be searchable here:

Next stop: Tomcat

We’ve just uploaded a new video to the portal (watch the movie directly by clicking here):

“This 10 minutes demo starts with an introduction to the Mainsoft for Java EE Portal edition benefits and a high-level description of the of solution architecture. It continues with a practical product tour that demonstrates how you can use Mainsoft for Java EE Portal Edition to develop, debug and deploy ASP.NET applications from Visual Studio 2005 into WebSphere Portal as JSR 168 portlets”

Note that this video is completely new and is more up to date than the older WebSphere related video we have up.

Update: A more up to date intro video can be found here. 

Here’s a video demoing using the Mainsoft technology to cross compile an ASP.NET site for use with the WebSphere Portal. The video is actually using Visual Studio 2003, but the same holds for VS 2005 and .NET 2.0.

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In this video I’ll show developers who’ve never used Grasshopper, what it’s like to convert a very simple web application to use a Java server:

• Converting a web application project to a Grasshopper Java EE Project in VS
• Deploying and running easily on a TomCat server from VS 2005
• Debugging Java Code using VS 2005

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