AppFuse is a horrendous pile of poo!
I’ve spent the last three hours wrestling with this unbelievably horrid pile of poo trying to get a spring-mvc & iBATIS webapp skeleton set up.
There’s classpaths missing in the ant scripts, there’s hard-named .jar’s (which don’t work with the jpackage tomcat install) referenced, database scripts are not being executed properly. It’s a WRECK.
I haven’t felt this strongly about a rotten pile of crap tool since the Sun Java Application Server 8 deploytool of which I distinctly remember claiming a sulfuric acid bath would be more pleasurable.
AppFuse is a steaming pile of pig-feces, ranking right up there with McDonalds “hamburgers” (har har har) in my book. I highly suggest you don’t use it. Gah!
June 7th, 2006 at 11:57 am
It’s possible the issues are with your operating system – maybe it has issues playing nicely with the jpackage installer. Sorry things aren’t as easy as they should be. As far as comparing it to Sun’s App Server – that’s pretty harsh as I’ve worked with that server and know the pain you speak of.
I’ve created a Spring MVC + iBATIS version of AppFuse using the following steps:
cd extras/ibatis
ant install uninstall-hibernate
cd ../spring
ant install
cd ../..
ant test-all
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 1 minute 20 seconds
You can download this application at https://appfuse.dev.java.net/files/documents/1397/35847/appfuse-springmvc-ibatis-1.9.2-src.zip.
I tested it on OS X, using JDK 5, MySQL 5.0.20a-standard and Tomcat 5.5.16.
June 7th, 2006 at 12:45 pm
hmm I have no clue what you are talking about here but your site was unaccessible last night.