Thank you very much. That does help. It ends up I had META_INF instead
of META-INF so it wasn't working.
What are the GUI tools? Are they documented anywhere? How do I use them?
I agree with you, but I'd like to graduate and use the GUI tools now :)
Thanks,
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Arved Sandstrom wrote:
>
> As you currently have your server.xml and default-web-site.xml config files
> set up, the top-level directory of your application is
> "/home/joel/app/orion/applications/test", and the server expects to find a
> directory "META-INF", containing your "application.xml" file, inside that
> top-level application directory.
>
> Your application.xml file would specify either a directory or a jarfile
> inside the "/home/joel/app/orion/applications/test" application directory,
> identifying it with the
>
> <module>
> <web>...</web>
> </module>
>
> tag.
>
> As far as the file structure of a web app (the web component) goes, this is
> spelled out in the Servlet spec. In brief, the directory containing
> everything pertaining to your web component contains content (HTML, JSP,
> image) files and a "WEB-INF" directory containing a "web.xml" deployment
> descriptor _and_ a "classes" folder, which contains servlet and JavaBean
> classes. WEB-INF may also contain a lib directory if you're including taglib
> jars.
> Hope this helps. I recommend reading the J2EE, EJB and Servlet specs for the
> file structure information. The Orion docs include all of these PDFs.
>
> Arved Sandstrom
>
> P.S. Orion includes GUI tools for doing all of this. I have found that GUI
> tools for _any_ app server are best used _after_ an individual is able to
> assemble an application manually, including writing the descriptors by hand.
> This just results in more knowledgeable team members.
