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Wrote up a little page on how to get Firefox 2.0 to work on FC6.

Found out why Facelets in JBoss AS gives an 'ERROR' message. … continue reading

Yellow Dog has officially announced Linux for the PS3. Cool!

Found this page with some tips about how to upgrade from FC5 to FC6 using yum. My own experience is logged here Linux.FC5toFC6WithYum.

http://www.realbasic.com

Running the latest SEAM demos with the latest version of JBoss AS can result in some strange looking "No application in context" exceptions. It turns out that this is because the version of MyFaces included doesn't have the lifecycle bug, and the build.properties file that comes with SEAM has jbossHasMyFacesLifecycleBug = true. Setting it to false seems to resolve … continue reading

For some reason my yum updates on FC5 started failing with a strange error message: no valid baseurl for: core. After looking around a bit I found the problem. It looks like the following files in /etc/yum.repos.d had a commented out 'baseurl' line:

• fedora-core.repos
• fedora-updates.repos
• fedora-extras.repos

I removed the comments on those lines (they are … continue reading

Figured out some subtle tricks for using the shared JBoss installation directory idea on WinDoze. Basically, the server base URL should have only one slash at the beginning.

Apparently the easiest way to make a base configuration of JBoss AS with EJB3 support is now to use the Jems installer. Unfortunately, they seem to only have a JNLP link available on the JBoss AS download page, and no longer have a link to the jar file download. I was stuck for a little while trying to figure out how to get firefox on Linux to work, but it turns out that this is quite … continue reading