Building Glassfish on Mac OS X


I easily managed to build Glassfish on my Powerbook G4 !

This was really a piece of cake, I just followed the build instructions… and a couple of minutes later I had my own App Server 9 up and running, ready to discover Java Enterprise Edition 5.

BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 71 minutes 28 seconds
Finished at: Mon Jul 18 16:14:39 CEST 2005

That’s just the compilation, the source checkout took some time too… 🙂

Most modules are shipped as Netbeans project, making it easy to modify them and recompile within Netbeans. Very detailed instructions are available on Netbeans web site

When you build Glassfish on Mac OS X, be sure of the following :

  • Install Apple’s provided Java 5 (available only for Tiger)
  • Install Maven 1.0.2 (version 1.1 beta does not work, sigh 🙁 )
  • use “Darwin” as a value for glassfish.os.name in project.properties

I will continue to test drive some Java EE 5 features… and will post any relevant info to this blog.

Enjoy !

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