Installing OpenBlueDragon in Five Minutes – Screencast
The OpenBlueDragon site says “Open BlueDragon, is the worlds favourite open source GPL J2EE CFML runtime engine…Available to download today as a standard Java J2EE WAR file, or completely pre-configured JETTY server, VMWare/Amazon image, you can be up and running within minutes.
The British spelling of “favourite” might indicate that OpenBlueDragon has made a jump across the pond and may be on it’s way to world dominance, so I decided to see if indeed I could be up and running in minutes. I was.
I’m familiar with WAR files, VMWare images and setting up Amazon EC2 virtual machines with ElasticFox, but I’d never even heard of JETTY. After a few minutes of Google to resolve fears that JETTY would somehow destroy my local Apache install I dove in.
It couldn’t have been easier. Basically you unzip the file, type in a run command at the command prompt and your up and running. Take a look at the screencast below and dive in.
Next up: Drive Mappings and Data Sources.
