The goal was to make online calculator that will produce the same results calculations that there was alredy made in  spreadsheet. 

First of all I thought How I do that. It looked quite hard to code all non-transparent logic and data with different formulas that was already done  in xls file that I’ve got from my custumer. But what if just open xls(odf) file change some cells value (input  params )  and read the the result of calculations from others. This thought had crossed my mind. There sould be tools that could work with .xls or .odf files and I need a crossplatform one.  And I start looking up….

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Two month ago I build Glassfish v.2 on my FreeBSD 7.1/i386 . It still works. And no failures.

So here is my expierence. It was based on this articles Building GlassFish on FreeBSD and Compile Glassfish on FreeBSD (JDK 1.5)  (which are primary the same) and some others.

First of all:

1) Don’t try to build it using maven2 . Just use maven (/usr/ports/devel/maven)

2) It ‘s important to specify which BRANCH to checkout cause if you don’t you ‘ll get the newest sources that won’t be compiled.  To Checkout sources of Glassfish v2 use:

 $cvs -d :pserver:YOUR_ACCOUNT_LOGIN@cvs.dev.java.net:/cvs co -r SJSAS91_UR2_BRANCH glassfish/bootstrap

3) Don’t try to build it using jdk1.6 cause you get build errors on step 4 ‘Build the checked out source code. ‘

That’s all. Step by step tutorial you find in  Building GlassFish on FreeBSD just remember my remarks.

There was no good documentaion but in fact was realy easy.
1) get sources rfunc-2.1.3.1-RC1-unix.tar.gz
2) untar it:  

#tar -xzf rfunc-2.1.3.1-RC1-unix.tar.g 
#cd sources

3)change config file ‘makefile.freebsd’: here is my config makefile
4) run make :

#make -f makefile.freebsd rfunc

5)copy ‘rfunc’ to ‘/usr/local/libexec/firebird/udf/rfunc.so’

#cp rfunc /usr/local/libexec/firebird/udf/rfunc.so

(found some useful information on this forum post )