[ale] Has anybody used dspace

[Jeff Hubbs]

On 6/7/11 6:21 AM, Wolf Halton wrote:
> I am looking at a web app server called dspace http://dspace.org
> it is requiring all sorts of interesting stuff like tomcat (which has
> never done well for me in the past)
It *can* do well.  The heavies on the Tomcat mailing list recommend not 
using a Linux distribution's package but working straight from the 
download from Apache (having said that, I'll add that under Gentoo's 
Portage I get fairly new versions that work just fine).  If you ask for 
help on the mailing list about your distro's current Tomcat version, you 
might get chided if that version is, say, a year old.

One thing that's a little different about Tomcat is that there is more 
than one major version that is "current" at a time.  They differ in 
which version of the Servlet spec they implement.  Last I looked (a 
handful of months ago), the 5.5 tree was being closed down, the 6.0 tree 
was mature, and the 7.0 tree was just coming out of beta.  The 5.0 tree 
was basically poison, so if you're still using it today, you pretty much 
deserve what you get.  So you'll need to look at the requirements of 
Dspace and judge accordingly which tree you'll need to use.
> and postgre (which I have never
> needed in a project before).
I assume you meant Postgres, by which I assume you *really* meant 
PostgreSQL (calling PostgreSQL "Postgres" is analogous to referring to 
Microsoft SQL Server as "Sybase").  Aside from Linux and Apache, one of 
the most killer apps of the whole Open Source movement.  Serious, 
serious stuff.
> I can't use my shared hosting to do it, so I am working off my testing
> server.
> so far, I have made my testing server visible on the interwebs (another
> 1st for me), and I am setting up tomcat next.
> The server is Ubuntu 11.04
> Hints and considerations?
I'd point out that in the course of trying to run this one app (Dspace), 
you're having to build a dependency stack out of two other heavy apps 
about which you don't seem to have a lot of expertise.  So in this 
"project" I hope someone has included what it takes to develop or bring 
in that expertise before building the house of cards as high as the Java 
app that you're actually interested in.
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