The Pluto 1.1 installation instructions given on the web site [1] are
not working for me. I suspect there's some information missing
concerning specification of the Tomcat installation directory.
The first step (mvn install) runs OK, but the second step has two
problems: (1) the "cd ../pluto-util" doesn't work in the sequence
given; I suspect it should be "cd pluto-util", and (2) using this cd
command, running "mvn pluto:install" fails with a non-existemnt
directory error. A copy of my installation log is below [3].
I think the instructions at [1] should explain how to specify the Tomcat
installation directory (by editing pluto-util/pom.xml? see below).
Also, the issue tracking link at [2] is broken.
That's the bare desription, more details follow...
Initially, I was wondering how Maven would know about my tomcat
installation directory. I did a little poking about in the pom.xml
files and came up with:
[[
<configuration>
<installationDirectory>../../pluto-tomcat</installationDirectory>
</configuration>
]]
in pluto-util/pom.xml. Further searching shows references to
${pluto.installation.dir} in file
maven-pluto-plugin/target/classes/META-INF/maven/plugin.xml, which I
take to be where the directory specified above is actually used. (There
are layers of things going on here that I find hard to follow; pointers
to relevant documentation would be helpful.)
So I tried editing the pluto-util/pom.xml to reference my Tomcat
installation directory tree C:/DEV/Apache Software Foundation/Tomcat
5.5/webapps/pluto-tomcat instead of the relative path used previously.
Same error ("Installation Directory C:\DEV\Apache Software
Foundation\Tomcat 5.5\webapps\pluto-tomcat does not exist").
So I create the target directory, and try again. This appears to
succeed. But examination of the files suggeststhat they should have
been installed relative to tomcat root. I delete the files just
installed, change the installation directory to "C:/DEV/Apache Software
Foundation/Tomcat 5.5" and try again. This works, and this time the new
Pluto servlets appear in the tomcat management page.
Browsing to http://localhost:8080/pluto-testsuite/ gets me a "Hello
world" display. (Now how did I run those test cases previously...?)
#g
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[1] http://portals.apache.org/pluto/1.1/getting-started.html
[2] http://portals.apache.org/pluto/1.1/issue-tracking.html
...
[3] Log of attempted installation per [1]
[[
D:\Work\OxfordCS\Pluto-1.1>cd ..\pluto-util
The system cannot find the path specified.
D:\Work\OxfordCS\Pluto-1.1>cd pluto-util
D:\Work\OxfordCS\Pluto-1.1\pluto-util>mvn pluto:install
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] Searching repository for plugin with prefix: 'pluto'.
[INFO] org.apache.maven.plugins: checking for updates from central
[INFO] org.codehaus.mojo: checking for updates from central
[INFO]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building Pluto
[INFO] task-segment: [pluto:install]
[INFO]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] [pluto:install]
[INFO]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
[INFO]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Installation Directory
D:\Work\OxfordCS\Pluto-1.1\pluto-util\..\..\pluto-tomcat does not exist.
[INFO]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] For more information, run Maven with the -e switch
[INFO]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 12 seconds
[INFO] Finished at: Tue Oct 25 11:22:11 BST 2005
[INFO] Final Memory: 3M/7M
[INFO]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
]]
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Graham Klyne
Research Technology Service
Oxford University Computing Services
