New to Solaris, looking for pointers
Here's the deal. I work at a company where we do J2EE developement. Until now, we've done all of our hosting on Linux (mostly white box versions of RHEL, some Debian).
We decided to give a couple Sun servers with Solaris a try over the Dell servers with Linux.
My question is, as someone who is a pretty strong Linux user/admin, what differences can I expect from Solaris? Is there something in particular that is so different that it will cause me problems figuring it out at first? I do pretty much all of the admin through SSH, so GUI differences aren't really an issue.
I'll be running Resin J2EE app server and/or Apache and running backups, some cron stuff here and there.
Any other Linux to Solaris converts out there? What did you notice at first that was either awesome, or a real PITA?
My question is, as someone who is a pretty strong
Linux user/admin, what differences can I expect from
Solaris?Completely different userland. The whole filesystem is a little more divided, but has a very logical reasoning behind it. Still, it maybe confusing at first not to find apachtctl in /usr/sbin but /usr/apache/bin.
And well, "Solaris is not Linux". If you have a fair experience with the commandline and you know how to use commands like 'man' and 'apropos' well you should be decently safe. Still, it won't hurt to start by giving http://docs.sun.com a good workout. It sounds cliche but you'll notice that the documentation has a little higher quality than most Linux distributions (even though I have to admit that both RedHat and SuSE (Novell) are doing an excellent job when it comes to their own docs).
Is there something in particular that is so
different that it will cause me problems figuring it
out at first?Depends on what you plan to do. Like I said; its not Linux so if you expect to be able and use rpm to install/remove stuff, expect to use /etc/sysconfig/network to setup your LAN, etc, etc. you'll be in for a surprise.
But thats where apropos and the URL I mentioned above come in very handy.
As to pro's / con's; I think thats a silly thing to do. Solaris is WAY out of Linux' leage, it simply wouldn't make sense to even try and start a comparison. Where Sun has to keep its customers satisfied Linux developers can simply wing certain pieces of software. Its a whole different game.
But still; what I liked best? Robustness, stability, security and the option to back out of an update after you installed it. Something which can be hell on distributions like Debian / RedHat.
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public class Test {
public static void main(String[] args) {
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// ch3A shifts ch2 down by 1
ModifiableChannel ch3A = new DownShiftedChannel(ch2, 1);
// ch3B shifts ch2 up by 1, tests independence from ch3A
ModifiableChannel ch3B = new UpShiftedChannel(ch2, 1);
// ch4 shifts ch3A up by 1, data now looks same as ch2
ModifiableChannel ch4 = new UpShiftedChannel(ch3A, 1);
// print channels:
System.out.println("ch1:");
printChannel(ch1);
System.out.println("ch2:");
printChannel(ch2);
System.out.println("ch3A:");
printChannel(ch3A);
System.out.println("ch3B:");
printChannel(ch3B);
System.out.println("ch4:");
printChannel(ch4);
public static void printChannel(Channel channel) {
for(int i = 0; i < channel.size(); i++) {
System.out.println(channel.get(i) + "");
// Note how channel's getAverage() method "sees"
// the changes that each wrapper imposes on top
// of the original object.
System.out.println("avg=" + channel.getAverage());
* A Channel is a simple container for data that can
* find its average. Think audio channel or any other
* kind of sampled data.
public interface Channel {
public void fill(double[] data);
public double get(int i);
public double getAverage();
public int size();
public class DefaultChannel implements Channel {
private double[] data;
public void fill(double[] data) {
this.data = new double[data.length];
for(int i = 0; i < data.length; i++)
this.data[i] = data;
public double get(int i) {
if(i < 0 || i >= data.length)
throw new IndexOutOfBoundsException("Incorrect index.");
return data[i];
public double getAverage() {
if(data.length == 0) return 0;
double average = this.get(0);
for(int i = 1; i < data.length; i++) {
average = average * i / (i + 1) + this.get(i) / (i + 1);
return average;
public int size() {
return data.length;
public class ModifiableChannel extends DefaultChannel {
protected ChannelModifier modifier;
public void fill(double[] data) {
if (modifier != null) {
modifier.fill(data);
} else {
super.fill(data);
public void _fill(double[] data) {
super.fill(data);
public double get(int i) {
if(modifier != null)
return modifier.get(i);
else
return super.get(i);
public double _get(int i) {
return super.get(i);
public double getAverage() {
if (modifier != null) {
return modifier.getAverage();
} else {
return super.getAverage();
public double _getAverage() {
return super.getAverage();
public class ChannelModifier extends ModifiableChannel {
protected ModifiableChannel delegate;
protected ModifiableChannel root;
protected ChannelModifier tmpModifier;
protected boolean doSwap = true;
private void pre() {
if(doSwap) { // we only want to swap out modifiers once when the
// top call in the chain is made, after that we want to
// proceed without it and finally restore doSwap to original
// state once ChannelModifier is reached.
tmpModifier = root.modifier;
root.modifier = this;
if(delegate instanceof ChannelModifier)
((ChannelModifier)delegate).doSwap = false;
private void post() {
if (doSwap) {
root.modifier = tmpModifier;
} else {
if(delegate instanceof ChannelModifier)
((ChannelModifier)delegate).doSwap = true;
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if(delegate instanceof ChannelModifier)
this.root = ((ChannelModifier)delegate).root;
else
this.root = delegate;
this.delegate = delegate;
public void fill(double[] data) {
pre();
if(delegate instanceof ChannelModifier)
delegate.fill(data);
else
delegate._fill(data);
post();
public double get(int i) {
pre();
double result;
if(delegate instanceof ChannelModifier)
result = delegate.get(i);
else
result = delegate._get(i);
post();
return result;
public double getAverage() {
pre();
double result;
if(delegate instanceof ChannelModifier)
result = delegate.getAverage();
else
result = delegate._getAverage();
post();
return result;
public int size() {
//for simplicity no support for modifying size()
return delegate.size();
public class DownShiftedChannel extends ChannelModifier {
private double shift;
public DownShiftedChannel(ModifiableChannel channel, final double shift) {
super(channel);
this.shift = shift;
@Override
public double get(int i) {
return super.get(i) - shift;
public class UpShiftedChannel extends ChannelModifier {
private double shift;
public UpShiftedChannel(ModifiableChannel channel, final double shift) {
super(channel);
this.shift = shift;
@Override
public double get(int i) {
return super.get(i) + shift;
Output:ch1:
1.0
1.0
1.0
1.0
avg=1.0
ch2:
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
avg=0.0
ch3A:
-1.0
-1.0
-1.0
-1.0
avg=-1.0
ch3B:
1.0
1.0
1.0
1.0
avg=1.0
ch4:
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
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Hello,
unless you sell your design better, I deem it is an inferior derivation of the Adapter pattern.
In the Adapter pattern, the adaptee doesn't have to be designed to support adaptation, and the instance doesn't even know at runtime whether it is adapted.
Your design makes the "modifiable" class aware of the modification, and it needs to be explicitly designed to be modifiable (in particular this constrains the implementation hierarchy). Overall DesignPattern are meant to provide flexibility, your version offers less flexibility than Adapter, as it poses more constraint on the modifiable class.
Another sign of this inflexibility is your instanceof checks.
On an unrelated note, I intensely dislike your naming choice of fill() vs _fill()+, I prefer more explicit names (I cannot provide you one as I didn't understand the purpose of this dual method, which a good name would have avoided, by the way).
That being said, I haven't followed your original problem, so I am not aware of the constraints that led you to this design.
Best regards,
J.
Edited by: jduprez on Mar 22, 2010 10:56 PMThank you for your input, I will try to explain my design better. First of all, as I understand it the Adapter pattern is meant to translate one interface into another. This is not at all what I am trying to do here, I am trying to keep the same interface but modify behavior of objects through composition. I started thinking about how to do this when I was trying to apply the Decorator pattern to filter some data. The way I would do that in my example here is to write an AbstractChannelDecorator that delegates all methods to the Channel it wraps:
public abstract class AbstractChannelDecorator implements Channel {
protected Channel delegate;
...// code ommitted
public double getAverage() {
return delegate.getAverage();
...// code ommitted
}and then to filter the data I would extend it with concrete classes and override the appropriate methods like so:
public class DownShiftedChannel extends AbstractChannelDecorator {
...// code ommitted
public double get(int i) {
return super.get(i) - shift;
...// code ommitted
}(I am just shifting the data here to simplify the examples but a more realistic example would be something like a moving average filter to smooth the data).
Unfortunately this doesn't get me what I want, because getAverage() method doesn't use the filtered data unless I override it in the concrete decorator, but that means I will have to re-implement the whole algorithm. So that's pretty much my motivation for this, how do I use what on the surface looks like a Decorator pattern, but in reality works more like inheritance?
Now as to the other points of critique you mentioned:
I understand your dislike for such method names, I'm sorry about that, I had to come up with some way for the ChannelModifier to call ModifiableChannel's super's method equivalents. I needed some way to have the innermost wrapped object to initiate a call to the topmost ChannelModifier, but only do it once -- that was one way to do it. I suppose I could have done it with a flag and another if/else statement in each of the methods, or if you prefer, the naming convention could have been fill() and super_fill(), get() and super_get(), I didn't really think that it was that important. Anyway, those methods are not meant to be used by any other class except ChannelModifier so I probably should have made them protected.
The instanceof checks are necessary because at some point ChannelModifier instance runs into a delegate that isn't a ChannelModifier and I have to somehow detect that, because otherwise instead of calling get() I'd call get() which in ModifiableChannel would take me back up to the topmost wrapper and start the whole call chain again, so we'd be in infinite recursion. But calling get() allows me to prevent that and go straight to the original method of the innermost wrapped object.
I completely agree with you that the example I presented has limited flexibility in supporting multiple implementations. If I had two different Channel implementations I would need two ModifiableChannel classes, two ChannelModifiers, and two sets of concrete implementations -- obviously that's not good. Not to worry though, I found a way around that. Here's what I came up with, it's a modification of my original example with DefaultChannel replaced by ChannelImplementation1,2:
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public class ChannelImplementation2 implements Channel { ... }
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public double super_get(int i);
public double super_getAverage();
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extends ChannelImplementation1
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... // see DefaultChannel in my original example
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extends ChannelImplementation1
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// ChannelModifier is a Channel, but more importantly, it takes a Channel,
// not any specific implementation of it, so in effect the user has complete
// flexibility as to what implementation to use.
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protected Channel root;
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pre();
double result;
if(delegate instanceof ModifiableChannel)
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http://vc.uscannenberg.org/sites/vc.uscannenberg.org/files/documentation/31/Adobe%20InDesi gn%20Beginner%20Tutorial.pdf
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The profiles could be drawn to a convenient scale (half, quarter, etc.) and even projected to flats using ordinary drafting techniques in Illustator.
To help you further would require my speaking with you in more detail about what you actually have, where you are in the process, what exactly you need to draw, etc.--Not practical in an online forum. You just need a general understanding of working in Illustrator. Then, if you have a basic understanding of 2D drafting, you'd know how to do this in Illustrator.
I see nothing particularly challenging about it, and would not hesitate to draw it in Illustrator. (Except that, since I have them available, I'd use any other drawing program that provides the basic conveniences of user-defined rulers, callouts, and dimension tools. That would include Draw, Canvas, Corel Designer and others.) But again: This is a simple project, and could even be done in Illustrator, and just as accurately (for all practical purposes) as in a CAD program.
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Hello, new here and looking for suggestions on creating a conf script
Hi,
The current project that I am working on would like to make a java display window to be fully customizable from a conf script.
the java display window has 10 fields or so, which are updated every second. the java object passes to JNI, gets populated by C++ data, and returns back to java for display.
Now, how is one able to create a script that can modify that java window to display only certain fields, lets say 1-5.?
suggestions, or know of an area that i can look into?
thanksFirst you may want to google »photoshop tutorial distresssed«.
As for combining images like that a combination of Blend If-settings (one can split the handles by alt-click-dragging them)), Layer Groups set to Blend Modes other than Pass Through and Grtadient Maps may be employed to maintain high editability.
One could also just use the images as Layer Masks for Solid Color Layers (and use Levels or Curves to get the intended contrast), though. -
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If you did not clone the drive onto the new one, then you must install OSX on that drive in order to have it boot the Mac.
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HT1589 Why does creating a new library only look for mp3 and AAC files. why not ALAC and AIFF ?
I want to add a new library so i can use on sepcific devices. However it does not att AIFF or ALAC files. I always import using AIFF into my standard library.
If i want to use only mp3 files in the new library do i have to create them first in my standard library then they will appear in the new library. then delete from the original library but keep files?
Thanks
StuPalace1971 wrote:
Thanks for info
However when i created new library it only imported 30% of the music i have
Then it may have stalled, ot there could be permissions problems... Try adding the folder again or use iTunes Folder Watch.
Also i dont want to downsample to 128k. i want to use 320k and still have best quality without using lossless formats to put on the iPhone
iTunes can now downsample to 128k, 192k or 256k...
Also i dont want to see 2 of each song in one library
thats why i want to use two different libraries.
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Can we leave the ATV connected to my son's user profile while still accessing my iPhoto library? Doesn't appear so when I clicked on the photos tab in the ATV device. Or is there a way that I can switch the ATV to my user profile?
Searching the discussion forum and nothing show up immediately.
Thanks!Run the sync setup on the ATV again and set up your computer for syncing. Other libraries can be added for streaming from the Computers section of the settings menu. Those libraries need to be online for the content to be accessible, whereas synced content is present on the ATV hard drive, so the synced library doesn't need to be online except for syncing.
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