Notes on running BaseX under OpenShift (using Andy Bunce's BaseX Quick Start for OpenShift)

For the benefit of any readers of this list who have been wondering whether to try Andy Bunce's Openshift quick start for BaseX, I have written up some notes on the subject [1] which are a little less terse than Andy's README file and perhaps slightly less forbidding for people (like me) who haven't used OpenShift before. The short version is: yes, if you have any interest in XQuery-driven Web applications, this is definitely worth trying: very quick to install, very straightforward. I've also updated my earlier notes on installing BaseX to run under Tomcat in a commercial Java hosting environment [2] to cover Tomcat 7 and BaseX 8.3.1. As always, my thanks to the BaseX team for the great tool, and to Andy Bunce for the quick-start, without which I would certainly not have been able to understand OpenShift well enough to get BaseX running. -C. M. Sperberg-McQueen [1] http://cmsmcq.com/mib/?p=1395 [2] http://cmsmcq.com/mib/?p=1368