Apple Posts Server Command-Line and JBoss Manuals

critterboy writes "Apple today posted copies of the Mac OS X Server version 10.3 Command-Line Administration and Java Application Server documentation for both JBoss, Tomcat and WebObjects."

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NSController

[Nutcase]

Apparently there are new classes in Panther called NSController that are funky and cool coding goodness... but they are all NDAd or something, so I can't find any info on them yet. Wonder when they will post that documentation. Hmm.

Re:NSController

[kwerle]

So, a few quotes: ...so I can't find any info on them yet...

Google first hit:
It seems to be an InterfaceBuilder-integration component; you can create various "controller" objects in IB and form various bindings/glue that would previously have had to be done programmatically. Apparently, this is resurrected functionality from EnterpriseObjectsFramework... ...NSController seems to be a bridge that plugs the M into the V of MVC. EG, its a C of MVC that automagically has tables filled from arrays, etc.

I'd say that's more than "no info".

Re:Good update

[gerardrj]

The switch to a different default shell in the terminal application has nothing to do with any shell commands that are included for administration of the computer.

Any shell program/script that is written by anyone who knows anything about writing shells programs/scripts will contain a shebang as the first line. The syntax look like this:
#!/bin/sh
This specially formatted line tells the OS what program (in that case the "sh" shell) will be able to interpret this file properly. No matter what the "default" shell is, no matter what shell you are actually running when you type the command name, the program will be run with the shell specified in that line.
Ex: most perl programs have #!/usr/bin/perl or #!/usr/local/bin/perl

For the Mac savvy this is really equivilant to the "creator" field in a file's meta information.

cool, good CLI centralization + GUI tools

[danigiri]

Geez, cheking out that CLI admin document. Pretty extensive and hands-on.

Starts up with basic commands (ssh and the like), giving way to more in-depth info, XML configuration files, etc.

There seems to be some sort of centralized group of commands. For instance, there is the 'systemsetup' command, that handles a plethora of tasks: energy saver, time, sleep-wakeup, languages, startup... That might be helpful and a cool deviation from the traditional make-changes-in-many-places syndrome that has plagued UNIX and the like for years.

OTOH, there's a nice review of Panther Server with cool screenshots on Maccentral.

Best line

[gerardrj]

For the time being, Apple will ship the Xserve with Jaguar Server and Panther Server for those organizations that need a bit more time before they upgrade.


Apple isn't asking them to make a choice, they're saying "If you use Jaguar server now, keep using it, but here's a copy of Panther server so yo can upgrade to it when you're ready."

Could you ever imagine Microsoft allowing Dell, HP or Compaq to ship 2000 and XP on the same order just in case the customer was using 2000 and didn't want to upgrade to XP yet?

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Re:What are these?

[tb3]

JBoss is an Open Source J2EE Application Server, that directly competes with the expensive offerings from BEA (WebLogic) and IBM (WebSphere) to name the top two.

JBoss has had a hard time getting Sun certification as J2EE compliant, but now that it has been certified, OS X Server 10.3 + JBoss + Apple's Server Tools should make the XServe rather attractive to J2EE shops.

Here is a complete hardware solution, for less than the cost of a Weblogic licence!

NSController docs at Apple

[hayne]

Have a look at Apple's Developer docs on NSController

It is fully explained there, complete with examples.