On another note, I once again installed a copy of XPlanner on one of
my Linux boxes.  XPlanner is a very cool XP/Agile project manager
that allows a team to create user stories and plan development
iterations.  I really like the tool, and am looking forward to the
next version.

To install XPlanner, I had to install Java, along with Ant, then build
XPlanner.  The version of Ant on my FC2 box was too old, and so
then I had to upgrade Ant.  Then build XPlanner.  Then
install Tomcat, and deploy XPlanner within Tomcat.  Then go and
get mod_jk to connect Apache to Tomcat.  Then configure
mod_jk.  Then configure Apache.

All in all … this whole process is still far too complex, and is
overly complicated.  I fully understand the “power” and
“flexibility” that many people will claim … but it is just too hard
for the simple tasks of getting things working.

This is one place that I believe that Open Source falls down. 
This entire suite is a very incomplete solution due to the manual labor
required to install and configure.  It’s just not a “complete” nor
“polished” solution … IMHO.