Grouper Developers Forum

[Steve Barrett <>]

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> Date: Wed Oct 05 05:11:24 EDT 2005
> From: "GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing" 
> <>
> Subject: Re: [grouper-dev] Re: [grouper-users] Grouper 0.6 released
> To: "RL 'Bob' Morgan" 
> <>,
>  "Grouper Dev" 
> <>
>
> Bob,
> 
> Comments below.
> 
> Gary
> 
> --On 04 October 2005 23:05 -0700 RL 'Bob' Morgan 
> <>
>  
> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Eh, is it not a problem that the grouper-qs ant scripts seem to expect
> > grouper/dist/lib/Grouper.jar and Grouper-lib.jar to exist, but the
> > contents of grouper/dist/lib as distributed with grouper-qs are as below?
> > The install failed for me for this reason as far as I can tell.
> The build scripts include the contents of grouper/dist/lib on the classpath 
> and should cope with Grouper-lib.jar or the individual jar files that are 
> used to make Grouper-lib.jar. Did the ant script actually fail? If so I'd 
> be interested to see the error output.
> >
> > I was able to build grouper from its distribution, and connect the -qs UI
> > stuff to it, but I guess the subjects didn't get loaded or the database
> > didn't get connected or something since I couldn't log in via the web UI.
> The Grouper API distribution expects to connect directly to a database file 
> in dist/run - configured in hibernate.properties and sources.xml. The 
> grouper-ui build script copies those files to the WEB-INF/classes directory 
> where the relative paths are no longer correct. You can make the paths 
> absolute and rebuild the UI and that should work.
> 
> When using the UI it is best to run HSQLDB as a server and connect via a 
> socket - this allows you to run the API against the same database, and 
> allows you to run the database manager app - only one connection to a file 
> is  possible at a time. grouper-qs is configured to connect to a server - 
> which can be run using the grouper-qs/build.xml:db target
> 
> The database that is built from the API distribution is not the QuickStart 
> database, so it has minimal content, though it will contain a GrouperSystem 
> subject.
> >
> > Anyway either the -qs distribution is askew or I'm missing something.
> As far as I am aware others have been able to run the QuickStart. It may be 
> that something isn't clear in the instructions. In any case, if you still 
> have problems you can send me your grouper-qs set up with your 
> configuration changes and I'll take a look at it.

Gary, I brought the QS down yesterday and discovered that quite a few of the 
filenames in 
"grouper-qs/grouper-ui/java/src/edu/internet2/middleware/grouper/ui/actions" 
are truncated and had to be repaired to do the build.


> >
> >   - RL "Bob"
> >
> > ---
> >
> > -rwxrwxrwx  1 544 root 307930 Sep 16 08:04 cglib-full.jar*
> > -rwxrwxrwx  1 544 root 118726 Sep 16 08:04 commons-beanutils.jar*
> > -rwxrwxrwx  1 544 root  30117 Sep 16 08:04 commons-cli.jar*
> > -rwxrwxrwx  1 544 root 165119 Sep 16 08:04 commons-collections.jar*
> > -rwxrwxrwx  1 544 root 107631 Sep 16 08:04 commons-dbcp.jar*
> > -rwxrwxrwx  1 544 root 168446 Sep 16 08:04 commons-digester.jar*
> > -rwxrwxrwx  1 544 root 169763 Sep 16 08:04 commons-lang.jar*
> > -rwxrwxrwx  1 544 root  31605 Sep 16 08:04 commons-logging.jar*
> > -rwxrwxrwx  1 544 root  42492 Sep 16 08:04 commons-pool.jar*
> > -rwxrwxrwx  1 544 root 486522 Sep 16 08:04 dom4j.jar*
> > -rwxrwxrwx  1 544 root  53232 Sep 16 08:04 ehcache.jar*
> > -rwxrwxrwx  1 544 root  64617 Sep 16 08:04 grouper.jar*
> > -rwxrwxrwx  1 544 root 967576 Sep 16 08:04 hibernate2.jar*
> > -rwxrwxrwx  1 544 root 575599 Sep 16 08:04 hsqldb.jar*
> > -rwxrwxrwx  1 544 root   8812 Sep 16 08:04 jta.jar*
> > -rwxrwxrwx  1 544 root  18535 Sep 16 08:04 jug.jar*
> > -rwxrwxrwx  1 544 root 121070 Sep 16 08:04 junit.jar*
> > -rwxrwxrwx  1 544 root 352668 Sep 16 08:04 log4j.jar*
> > -rwxrwxrwx  1 544 root  13091 Sep 16 08:04 odmg.jar*
> > -rwxrwxrwx  1 544 root 210371 Sep 16 08:04 postgresql.jar*
> > -rwxrwxrwx  1 544 root   4606 Sep 16 08:04 README*
> > -rwxrwxrwx  1 544 root  13217 Sep 16 08:04 subject.jar*
> >
> 
> 
> 
> ----------------------
> GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing
> 



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