For reference, I thought I'd upload my experience getting the pluto container running, which was extremely easy.
- I had to install Maven. It's an easy install -- on Unix, just unpack the maven distribution to the directory of your choice, set $MAVEN_HOME to where you just unpacked maven, and run the included install script: $MAVEN_HOME/bin/install_repo.sh $HOME/.maven/repository. Then add $MAVEN_HOME/bin to your $PATH.
- Then I downloaded the latest Tomcat 5 (even though the pluto docs all say use tomcat 4.1.x), and unpacked it.
- Choose a location to download the pluto sources. Then grab the sources from cvs with these two commands:
cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.apache.org:/home/cvspublic login (hit enter at the password prompt -- there is no password)
cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.apache.org:/home/cvspublic co jakarta-pluto
- copy the jakarta-pluto/build.properties.sample to jakarta-pluto/build.properties and edit the maven.tomcat.home variable to point to whereever you unpacked tomcat 5. If you are behind a proxy server, add the variables maven.proxy.host and maven.proxy.port to the properties file.
- from the jakarta-pluto directory, type: maven fullDeployment
- $TOMCAT_HOME/bin/startup.sh
browse to http://localhost:8080/pluto/portal/
PlutoProjectPages/InstallingPluto/JBoss*
Easy as pie. Thanks to the pluto dev team for making it so simple!</sarcasm>