Integrating Tomcat and Apache on Mac OS X
by Volker Weber
Simon Brown writes:
I've been looking at integrating Apache and Tomcat on my PowerBook so that my dev environment more closely matches the box hosting my domain. ... after a quick Google, I came across an article on the MacDevCenter entitled Integrating Tomcat with Apache Via the mod_jk Module. Admittedly it is slightly out of date with respect to the versions of Tomcat and mod_jk available, but the instructions do work and it has a link to download a prebuilt version of mod_jk for Mac OS X. Five minutes is all this took to get running and I didn't even have to recompile anything!
Comments
This is interesting, because Matt Raible was trying, and failing, to do the same thing ... what's weird is he went on to say this:
... I do not use OS X as my primary development environment because it *is* a pain in the ass... As an e-mail and blog-reading machine, it [his PowerBook] rocks, but it'll never be a good development environment until more developers use it... but I doubt that'll happen.
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I really can't comment since I don't do development on the Mac. I would not try Notes dev as stated before, but I don't see a problem with Web development or J2EE. It is going to be interesting to see what benefits Xcode will bring.
Well, I tried to code with my old Mac years ago, and for a newbie, it was a real uphill struggle: not nearly the variety of tools and languages that there are for Windoze.
But I fimrly believe things have changed now: if I could do my day-to-day coding on OS X, I would jump at it.
That said, I think Matt R's issue was partly due to who it is he's catering for. If you work in a Wintel shop, coding J2EE apps for a Wintel platform, then I guess it makes less sense to do that on a Mac (though of course there are plenty of tools which cover both platforms).
XCode does indeed look good: I'm already a fan of ProjectBuilder.
