Grown on the ObjectFarm:
farmersWO4taskd v0.5 for WebObjects 4.0  (4.5.2000)


With the release of WebObjects 4.5 we faced the question of migrating the deployment system of some of our clients to the new world of monitoring application. This mechanism changed completely and made it necessary to bridge between the two world while the transition was in progress. We have published an article which outlines the situation in more detail.

The farmersWO4taskd brings some of the features from the new wotaskd to the old WebObjects 4.0 servers. It thereby simplifies the integration of a mixed server cluster.

In the current release it only handles the conversion of the WebObjects.conf file to the new XML format and its dynamic distribution.

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BEWARE: This tool has not yet been heavily tested in deployment setups. No warranty for nothing!

Detailed project information is available at:

  http://www.objectfarm.org/Activities/Software/farmersWO4taskd
	

Configuration

We currently can not provide a very detailed documentation so we encourage you to read Apples deployment documentation so that you understand how 4.5 and 4.5 handle their configuration. We also encourage you to take a look at the farmersWO4taskds sources.

Most configuration is done via user defaults. In addition the the regular ways they can also be coded into the farmersWO4taskd.defaults file inside the woa-wrapper. Currently they give you control over: config file location, hostname mappings and adaptor / instance parameters according to the new 4.5 XML features (like buffer size and failure redirection URL)

A more detailed description will be provided in the future.


Future development

There are a number of things which could be added to make it even fully compatible with WebObjects 4.5. The farmersWO4taskd could be extended to fully replace the 4.0 Monitor application and take over all the communication that Monitor provides. But since the Monitoring protocol is not documented it would take a lot of reverse engineering to become fully compatible and that effort is hard to justify ... so we do not know what will be implemented in the near future.


Share and enjoy,

Aloha
	Tomi Engel
	(tomi@objectfarm.org)



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NO WARRANTY

This software is provided 'as is' and the programmer is not
responsible for any harm this program may cause. You - the user - are
responsible for everything that may happen to your business,
hardware, software, car, CD collection or what ever may be worth your
attention or money. Using this product is at your own risk and your
private fun.

There should be no serious bugs inside but remember that a
carbon-based unit did the coding.

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