Glassfish on Mac OS X
I finally got to spend a bit of time on the Mac OS X build of the glassfish project. Truth is that nightly builds for Darwin had been posted to the glassfish Web Site for quite some time now, however, there was never a posted promoted build. This was due to the 3 security tests of the Quicklook suite failing on the Mac.
I looked into it and the issue was deceptively simple, the domain.xml is setting the java.ext.dirs property (known as the extension directories). Sadly, the JDK ext/lib was not set correctly on the Mac since there is no jre directory under JAVA_HOME.
On most platforms the directory layout is JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/ext but not on the Mac where Apple has decided that the jre directory was superfluous, so the path is JAVA_HOME/lib/ext...Anyway, the SunJCE.jar is located in the JDK lib/ext and provide the DESede algorithm, and guess what, the 3 tests failing were using this algorigthm...
Quick survival instructions on how to use glassfish on mac ?
Et Voila !
