Thursday May 14, 2009

Installing MySQL on Open Solaris

I've been having a play around with MySQL on windows, and I thought why not try to get it up and running on OpenSolaris.  This tutorial is the result.


MySQL Communitity edition is freely downloadable and can be used for any purpose.


I'm not going to write a tutorial on how to use MySQL with Java CAPS, a colleage of mine, Michael Czapski has already written an excellent one which can be found here.

Wednesday May 06, 2009

Configuring the Alert Agent

I've been playing around with the Alert Agent in Java CAPS trying to get it working. Had all sorts of trouble, and it turned out that all I had done wrong was enter the host name of the Glassfish server wrong. The Alert Agent requires a fully qualified host name in correct case (Thanks to Health IQ for the tip).
This is probably mentioned in the manual for the Alert Agent, but who reads manuals :-P


 I've put together this tutorial so that others will not run into the same problems that I have.