Hi,
I just wanted to share my thoughts regarding Orion to you all.
I am still a newbie with Orion Server. After reading thro' the
documentation, looking for information here & there, I have found the
following to be useful for "Orion Freshers" who want to kickstart their
application development.
Directory Structure for a new J2EE application
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$ORION\<application>\ - Application root
$ORION\<application>\META-INF\application.xml - Descriptor for Application
$ORION\<application>\ejb\ - Root dir for EJB's
$ORION\<application>\ejb\META-INF\ejb-jar.xml - Descriptor for EJB's
$ORION\<application>\web\ - Root dir for Web contents
$ORION\<application>\web\WEB-INF\web.xml - Descriptor for Web contents
$ORION\<application>\web\WEB-INF\classes\ - Servlet dir
$ORION\<application>\web\WEB-INF\lib\ - lib dir
where $ORION is the home directory for Orion.
$ORION\<application>\META-INF\application.xml
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<application>
<display-name>......</display-name>
<module>
<ejb>ejb</ejb>
</module>
<module>
<web>
<web-uri>web</web-uri>
<context-root>/<application></context-root>
</web>
</module>
</application>
$ORION\<application>\web\WEB-INF\web.xml
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<web-app>
<display-name>......</display-name>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
<welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
<ejb-ref>
<ejb-ref-name>ejb/<EJB Name></ejb-ref-name>
<ejb-ref-type><Entity|Session></ejb-ref-type>
<home><Home Name></home>
<remote><Remote Name></remote>
</ejb-ref>
</web-app>
Remember to add the following
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<application name="<application>" path="../<application>" /> in
$ORION\config\server.xml
<web-app application="<application>" name="web" root="/<application>" /> in
$ORION\config\default-web-site.xml
Now start orion and just point http://<servername>[:port]/<application>
That's it.
For combining everything into an .ear file, it's as simple as changing
<ejb>ejb</ejb> to <ejb>ejb.jar</ejb> and <web-uri>web</web-uri> to
<web-uri>web.war</web-uri> in $ORION\<application>\META-INF\application.xml
Is there any other better method. If yes, please do let me know. In the
meantime, I will start digging up Orion. Also I wanted to know where to
place my tag libraries, assuming I am following the above directory
structure.
With regards
sbchand
