Morpho

Chris will test this on lifescie and try to reproduce it.

I tried reproducing this bug on another Solaris box, but didn't have Solaris
2.5.1, rather Solaris 2.7 (SunOS 5.7). I downloaded the 1.0beta1.3 version of
morpho, and chose the Linux/Unix tar/gz format. Using tar on Solaris, I got
checksum errors (of course, after gunzippping the archive) while untarring. I
tried the untar on Linux (using tar -zxvf), and it worked fine.

My second attempt was to download the Windows .zip version. On Solaris, I used
jar to unzip the archive. The archive unzipped just fine.

Two slight problems arose on execution:

1) Control-M's (Windows line-ending) in the 'morpho' shell script caused errors,
so I removed them in vi.

2) The JVM on solaris doesn't recognize the '-cp' option to the 'java' command,
rather '-classpath'. '-classpath' works on both linux and Solaris.

Once running, I had no problem connecting to the metacat server. However, other
problems arose:

The main windows worked fine. When initiating a search, the search Window first
comes up as an extremely small window (10x10 pixels or so) in the upper left
corner of the monitor display. I pulled this window open, and from that point
on, it continued to open as an appropriate size.

When trying to 'open' a dataPackage, the outline of the 'Basic Package
Information window would show (with nothing in but white, no window frame,
nothing), and then would disappear, as if it was never opened. I was
unsuccessful in actually viewing a dataPackage. The last error in the command
window was:

Name: qformat => xml
Parsing error: ./profiles/test/data/test/1.1
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The markup in the document preceding the root
element must be well-formed.
Loading saved queries...
Finished loading saved queries.

Here's the environment:

$ uname -a
SunOS lifesci 5.7 Generic_106541-09 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-4

$ java -version
java version "1.3.1_01"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.3.1_01)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.3.1_01, mixed mode)

Delay until next release because it is not high-priority to support unix
variants. It works on linux. We're running out of time. Changed target
milestone to 1.1beta1.

As of the 1.2 and 1.3 versions of Morpho, I found no rendering problems on
Solaris when I downloaded and ran the .zip distribution. The Install Anywhere
installer doesn't work, but of course it's targeted for Linux.

Original Bugzilla ID was 281