A Business Case for Commons Daemon on FreeBSD

[Ronald Klop]

On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:11:27 +0200, Ronald Klop  
<ronald-freebsd8 at klop.yi.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 04:01:56 +0200, JsD <jpyobjcdude at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Good Day,
>>
>> I have been working lately with ApacheDS LDAP server and am very  
>> impressed
>> with its design and extensibility. Since it is written in pure Java, it
>> makes Java geeks like myself quite happy.
>>
>> I would love to get it running on FreeBSD but unfortunately, it will not
>> work without a service framework and therefore will not work on FreeBSD  
>> :'(
>> The ApacheDS team has suggested getting a jsvc port for FreeBSD in  
>> order to
>> port over ApacheDS. See Link to post:
>> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/directory-users/200703.mbox/%3ca32f6b020703282254j66efa8d9o2c6bec6a130861d8@mail.gmail.com%3e
>>
>> Having Commons Daemon would allow ApacheDS and solutions for Enterprise  
>> Java
>> applications to the FreeBSD platform in a way that they are available
>> already on Linux. At present, my only options are Linux (hmmm...) or  
>> Window
>> (ack!).
>>
>> Please let me know how I can help get this port rolling again or help to
>> expand this business case so we can justify getting this important  
>> project
>> rolling again. I would be quite happy to help in being a tester.
>>
>> Thanks for your time and interest!
>> TCQ
>>
>> For reference, here is the last thread on this topic:
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-java/2006-March/005035.htm
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>
> Try this.
> http://klop.ws/~ronald/jakarta-commons-daemon-1.0.1.tar.bz2
>
> It installs /usr/local/bin/jsvc and  
> /usr/local/share/java/classes/common-daemon.jar.
>
> Ronald.
>

I filed a PR for this.
ports/114431

Greetings,

Ronald.

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  Ronald Klop
  Amsterdam, The Netherlands