Doing Semantic Web Development on Mac? I was asked to install this bunch of software (Tomcat/Axis/Juddi) on my machine in preparation for a course on "Intelligent Internet Applications". I spent quite a time doing this on my G4 ibook and I must say: It's just plain old installation hell :-) This should be available as a package like XAMPP for LAMP/WAMP Systems. Quite the opposite is true: some of the tutorials are outdated or inconsistent. But this is Open Source, so anyone should step up and provide tutorials.



Thus, here is what I did in order to set this stuff up. Some of this I only accomplished by googling on different mailing lists, so I hope I am saving someone time by posting this.

Most of this tutorial might also work on other operating systems since it is all Java and hence cross-platform, but I didn't bother checking. Also, it might be outdated in a few month, one never knows, but now it's up to date (for instance, the Tomcat configuration chenged recently, which caused me trouble).