J2EE For Mac

Hi Greg

This article might be a place to start:
http://developer.apple.com/internet/java/enterprisejava.html

Unfortunately, I'm not a J2EE user myself so I can't give any specific help. Words like JBoss and Jetty mean nothing to me 😟

Bob

PS: Please let us know how you get on. This question crops up from time to time in these forums and it would be nice to know we have (or don't have) the answer.

Hi Greg,

it also took me a while to find the perfect J2EE development server for OS X. I did not want to use JBoss but rather something close to the sun application server. After quite some search, I found out about Glassfish which is an open source version of the Sun Application System Server. If you have any experience with that, you'll find Glassfish to be an exact copy of it, added to the fact that it works very well on Mac and you can develop using Netbeans 5.5 with which it integrates pretty well.

You can get more information about Glassfish here:
https://glassfish.dev.java.net/

Cheers!

PowerBook 1.67 Ghz PowerPC 15" Mac OS X (10.4.9) 512 MB DDR2 RAM, 80GBs HDD

Not exactly sure what exactly you are after.

Normally you just get the SDK with which ever application server you choose as a development platform.

As mentioned there is the open source version of Sun's application server (Glassfish).

See:
http://java.sun.com/javaee/sdk/
http://java.sun.com/javaee/downloads/index.jsp

JBoss - http://labs.jboss.com/projects/download
Geronimo - http://geronimo.apache.org/

Unfortunately, JBoss no longer ships with a J2EE Dev Kit. And, even more unfortunately, Sun do not provide a standalone JDK for Mac OS X.

BEA WebLogic 9 ships with a modified version of the Sun 1.5 JDK but, alas, it's not available for OS X

To be honest, OS X is not the best choice for professional J2EE development - it's all much easier on Linux, Windows or Sun Solaris.