[Yanel-dev] Ports scanning re Tomcat

[Guillaume Déflache]

Michael Wechner schrieb:
> Hi

Hi!


> Various people were telling me that they had issues re ports conflicts 
> if for example they already had another
> Tomcat installed on their operating system. I have now added a question 
> re ports to the configure script,
> which does not solve the issue automatically, but at least should make 
> people more aware of this.
> 
> @Guillaume: You told me that there is a bugzilla entry, but I couldn't 
> find it. Maybe you can send a pointer to this email thread.

It's http://bugzilla.wyona.com/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6871


> Please be aware that the "build quick-start" target does assume that all 
> ports are available. I guess there we would need some port scanning lib, 
> e.g.
> 
> http://www.java.happycodings.com/Java_Networking/code9.html

Also some port checking code would help knowing if the cluster nodes 
really started, which we assume always succeed, cf. 
http://bugzilla.wyona.com/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6870

Thanks for the pointer, the needed code seems simple/short enough so we 
should not need to introduce another dependency IMHO.

Cheers,
    Guillaume