[Mono-list] Mono Success Story

[amit.x.goswami at us.hsbc.com]

Abe,
We're using log4Net configured in the Web.config file without any 
problems. You just have to register the section at the top of the file. 
Here's the structure of our file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
 
        <!-- Register a section handler for the log4net section -->
        <configSections>
                <section name="log4net" 
type="System.Configuration.IgnoreSectionHandler"/>
        </configSections>
 
 
        <appSettings>
        ...
        </appSettings>
 
        <system.web>
        ...
        </system.web>
 
        <system.runtime.remoting>
        ...
        </system.runtime.remoting>

        <!-- This section contains the log4net configuration settings -->
        <log4net>
        ...
        </log4net>

</configuration>
 

Amit





Abe Gillespie <abe.gillespie at gmail.com> 
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I just wanted to write Miguel et. al and thank everyone for the amazing 
product that is Mono!

My company, Obtuse Software, recently rolled out their online store which 
is 100% powered by Mono (you can see the Mono badge proudly displayed at 
the bottom of every page).  Some key points about the site and its Mono 
utilization:

o PostgreSQL database backend connected by Npgsql.
o Webforms authentication with various Web.config <location>s.
o Logging via log4net.
o Google Checkout integration using the Google Checkout .Net API.
o The purchased software is built on-the-fly by kicking off an external 
NAnt build process.  NAnt builds both a license assembly and the NSIS 
Windows installer.

The whole system is all Linux (CentOS) / all awesomeness.  This is my 
first production use of Mono and it has been a great joy.  Mono's ASP.NET 
has been greatly improved since my last failing attempt at a Mono site 
(somewhere back around Mono 1.1.x).  Mono sensing updates to assemblies, 
.aspx files, and the Web.config is a big help.

Now, of course, the entire experience wasn't w/o problems:

o log4net's config doesn't work when embedded into the Web.config file.  I 
had to use a separate config file and use log4net's 
XmlConfigurator.Configure(FileInfo pathToConfig)
o It's difficult to predict the root directory of the webapp.  I'm using 
Mono's ASP.NET auto-configuration so I *think* what happens is Mono 
configures the "~" path (as in, Server.MapPath("~")) relative to the first 
.aspx page that's loaded.  But I probably can just fix this by 
specifically configuring the webapp in the Apache config file.
o We're using https for our site and have found that Mono cannot handle 
loading the same webpage using both http:// and https://  For example, if 
I load http://www.mysite.com/default.aspx, and then later 
https://www.mysite.com/default.aspx, it barfs.  It looks like it stays 
configured to whatever was first loaded (if http first, then only http 
works / if https first, then only https works).  Now this is also not a 
big deal since I just need to stratify the webapp into separate http and 
https pieces and use Apache to setup different VirtualHosts.
o Mono doesn't let you change around the .aspx page on-the-fly like MS 
ASP.NET does.  For example, if you have a button with an OnClick method 
like:  <asp:Button id="fooButton" OnClick="FooClick" runat="server" /> you 
cannot remove the OnClick attribute w/o recompiling on Mono, MS you can.
o Had to use the deprecated ServicePointManager.CertificatePolicy method 
for SSL communication with Google.  Mono does not yet implement the newer 
method using ServerCertificateValidationCallback.

Other than these few small hindrances, Mono worked great.  Thank you, 
again, for such a quality product!

-Abe

PS - If you're interested in what Obtuse Software does, you can checkout 
the press release here:  http://www.obtusesoft.com/pr.html  zigGIS (Obtuse 
Software's inaugural product) is an Open Source GIS extension to ESRI 
ArcMap.

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