RV: WAR Files
You can have a look at orion doc, "Application creation how-to" and get help with web-application.xml. This is a bit "thin" of explanations. If ya wanna have a better explanation, read the atachment. This is a doc from weblogic. I don't know if I can send this kind of atachments to Orion list so if anyone else want it , please tell me. Bye - David Sierra Fern ndez E.T.S.I. Telecomunicaci¢n Universidad de ValladolidAULA CEDETEL Campus Miguel Delibes E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 47011 Valladolid (SPAIN) -- -- Sierr@ -- On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Robert Keith (UK) wrote: Hi guys, Does anyone know of a decent site that details what should be described in the web.xml file, I can't find anything on Sun's site that is of any use, and how to go about creating a WAR file. cheers Bob
Re: Creation Of WAR Files?
In relation to this - up until now I have been using ant to build/deploy my EAR file. Works fine, but slow. So I've tried to get Orion working live against my source code. A couple of questions: How do EJB's fit into all of this? At the moment, I'd actually prefer to keep them in the EAR file, but I'd like to know what the options are. How does the web-app link to the EJB's? I have a directory structure identical to the WAR file I'm deploying, except with .java files instead of .class files, so it's just a matter of pointing to that, right? Problem is, this is on a different drive (network) - how do I get Orion to work from there? In my default-web-app.xml I'm not sure what to put for 'root' (or 'name' or 'application' for that matter!). Something like: web-app application="myapp" name="myapp-web" root="file://p:/myapp/war/" / web-app application="myapp" name="myapp-web" root="p:/myapp/war/" / Doesn't work? - Original Message - From: "Kevin Duffey" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Orion-Interest" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 2:35 AM Subject: RE: Creation Of WAR Files? I believe Orion has a GUI tool that creates a WAR for you, but that is beyond me. When I am developing, I don't WAR up the dir. I keep it expanded. You point to the WAR directory structure in default-web-site.xml in the /config folder. Just read up on that and you should be set to have a WAR file for development. Then you can JAR up the dir: jar cvf myfile.war root-dir That should jar up your entire www structure, including the WEB-INF folder which has /classes - the compiled code of your app /lib - the .jar and .zip libraries loaded for you by Orion (as per the servlet 2.2 spec) web.xml - the descriptor that explain to Orion how to run. Anything in /classes automatically becomes part of the classpath, that is part of the servlet 2.2 spec and should work on any servlet 2.2 container. Anything in the /lib folder should be loaded by the application server automatically and become part of the classpath as well. We put jdbc.zip (for Oracle 8i) there, along with activation.jar, mail.jar, jasp.jar, and other .jar files we need. At runtime they are automatically seen by your app (in the import statements of your classes). Nothing special to do. Orion has a very kewl feature that allows you, during development, to point to a "source" directory that matches the package structure output of your compiled classes. It then checks the source dir for changes (time-date) compared to the .class file it was compiled in to. If there is a change, it recompiles and reloads the web-app for you. This allows you not to have to shut down and restart orion every time you make a code change. Most app servers support this for classes in the /servlets dir, and generally that is javabeans and servlets. Orion (and Resin does this too) will reload the web app if any classes changed. The only downside is that it can take a few seconds for it to check the files. I believe its faster than restarting though.
Re: WAR Files: ME TOO
Hello, You can either look at the "How do I create and deploy a J2EE application?" entry in the FAQ (it provides two links that explains both .ear and .war step-by-step). Or you can get a book on the subject, there are now many JSP and Servlet books (make sure you get one that covers Servlet 2.2 or JSP 1.1 though). Or you can check out the web application chapter of the Servlet specification, it's a well written specification. Or you can try to find it in the Servlet/JSP documentation on the Sun Java site. Or you can create a new war (or a few of them) using the webappassembler.jar and see how its structure looks if you like leaning by example. You can also study the examples that are shipped with Orion Regards, Karl Avedal Steven Punte wrote: ME TOO: I'm looking for the "idiot guide to building war files" STeve Punte e-Business Software Architect Technologent Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Robert Keith (UK) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Orion-Interest [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 2:13 AM Subject: WAR Files Hi guys, Does anyone know of a decent site that details what should be described in the web.xml file, I can't find anything on Sun's site that is of any use, and how to go about creating a WAR file. cheers Bob
WAR Files
Hi guys, Does anyone know of a decent site that details what should be described in the web.xml file, I can't find anything on Sun's site that is of any use, and how to go about creating a WAR file. cheers Bob
Re: WAR Files: ME TOO
ME TOO: I'm looking for the "idiot guide to building war files" STeve Punte e-Business Software Architect Technologent Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Robert Keith (UK) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Orion-Interest [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 2:13 AM Subject: WAR Files Hi guys, Does anyone know of a decent site that details what should be described in the web.xml file, I can't find anything on Sun's site that is of any use, and how to go about creating a WAR file. cheers Bob
RE: Creation Of WAR Files?
I believe Orion has a GUI tool that creates a WAR for you, but that is beyond me. When I am developing, I don't WAR up the dir. I keep it expanded. You point to the WAR directory structure in default-web-site.xml in the /config folder. Just read up on that and you should be set to have a WAR file for development. Then you can JAR up the dir: jar cvf myfile.war root-dir That should jar up your entire www structure, including the WEB-INF folder which has /classes - the compiled code of your app /lib - the .jar and .zip libraries loaded for you by Orion (as per the servlet 2.2 spec) web.xml - the descriptor that explain to Orion how to run. Anything in /classes automatically becomes part of the classpath, that is part of the servlet 2.2 spec and should work on any servlet 2.2 container. Anything in the /lib folder should be loaded by the application server automatically and become part of the classpath as well. We put jdbc.zip (for Oracle 8i) there, along with activation.jar, mail.jar, jasp.jar, and other .jar files we need. At runtime they are automatically seen by your app (in the import statements of your classes). Nothing special to do. Orion has a very kewl feature that allows you, during development, to point to a "source" directory that matches the package structure output of your compiled classes. It then checks the source dir for changes (time-date) compared to the .class file it was compiled in to. If there is a change, it recompiles and reloads the web-app for you. This allows you not to have to shut down and restart orion every time you make a code change. Most app servers support this for classes in the /servlets dir, and generally that is javabeans and servlets. Orion (and Resin does this too) will reload the web app if any classes changed. The only downside is that it can take a few seconds for it to check the files. I believe its faster than restarting though. Dear Orion-Interest Group: Can I simply create a war file by: 1)Properly creating an WEB-INF directory. 2)Properly creating a WEB-INF/web.xml file. 3)Properly supplying WEB-INF/classes/*.class files. 4)Executing "jar cvf myNewWarFile.war WEB-INF" And I figure out all the more powerful graphics tools a bit later once I get the basic concepts down. STeve Punte e-Business Software Architect Technologent Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Mike Cannon-Brookes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Orion-Interest [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 4:50 PM Subject: RE: WAR Files: ME TOO A WAR file is just a jar that has one special directory /WEB-INF that has to contain a web.xml file. As long as your web.xml file validates according to the DTD, it's a valid WAR. Basically you can has as much or as little in the web.xml file as you want. (see http://www.orionserver.com/docs/web.xml.html for more details on what can go in the web.xml file) That's really all there is too it. Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Steven Punte Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 8:12 AM To: Orion-Interest Subject: Re: WAR Files: ME TOO ME TOO: I'm looking for the "idiot guide to building war files" STeve Punte e-Business Software Architect Technologent Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Robert Keith (UK) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Orion-Interest [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 2:13 AM Subject: WAR Files Hi guys, Does anyone know of a decent site that details what should be described in the web.xml file, I can't find anything on Sun's site that is of any use, and how to go about creating a WAR file. cheers Bob
Fw: Creation Of WAR Files?
Kevin:
Thanks for the reply.
My interest in a WAR file is for placing an application
in a production environment. It's very nice to simply
ship it over, and keep track of it, as a single file.
Thanks for you description below. It helps.
Would/should JSP files also be located in the
WEB-INF directory, or is it ok for them to
be in a sibling directory that is also jar-ed
up into the war file?
Sincerely:
STeve Punte
e-Business Software Architect
Technologent Inc
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Original Message -
From: Kevin Duffey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Steven Punte [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Orion-Interest
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 6:35 PM
Subject: RE: Creation Of WAR Files?
I believe Orion has a GUI tool that creates a WAR for you, but that is
beyond me. When I am developing, I don't WAR up the dir. I keep it
expanded.
You point to the WAR directory structure in default-web-site.xml in the
/config folder. Just read up on that and you should be set to have a WAR
file for development. Then you can JAR up the dir:
jar cvf myfile.war root-dir
That should jar up your entire www structure, including the WEB-INF
folder
which has
/classes - the compiled code of your app
/lib - the .jar and .zip libraries loaded for you by Orion (as per the
servlet 2.2 spec)
web.xml - the descriptor that explain to Orion how to run.
Anything in /classes automatically becomes part of the classpath, that
is
part of the servlet 2.2 spec and should work on any servlet 2.2
container.
Anything in the /lib folder should be loaded by the application server
automatically and become part of the classpath as well. We put jdbc.zip
(for
Oracle 8i) there, along with activation.jar, mail.jar, jasp.jar, and
other
.jar files we need. At runtime they are automatically seen by your app
(in
the import statements of your classes). Nothing special to do.
Orion has a very kewl feature that allows you, during development, to
point
to a "source" directory that matches the package structure output of
your
compiled classes. It then checks the source dir for changes (time-date)
compared to the .class file it was compiled in to. If there is a change,
it
recompiles and reloads the web-app for you. This allows you not to have
to
shut down and restart orion every time you make a code change. Most app
servers support this for classes in the /servlets dir, and generally
that
is
javabeans and servlets. Orion (and Resin does this too) will reload the
web
app if any classes changed. The only downside is that it can take a few
seconds for it to check the files. I believe its faster than restarting
though.
Dear Orion-Interest Group:
Can I simply create a war file by:
1)Properly creating an WEB-INF directory.
2)Properly creating a WEB-INF/web.xml file.
3)Properly supplying WEB-INF/classes/*.class files.
4)Executing "jar cvf myNewWarFile.war WEB-INF"
And I figure out all the more powerful graphics tools a
bit later once I get the basic concepts down.
STeve Punte
e-Business Software Architect
Technologent Inc
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Original Message -
From: Mike Cannon-Brookes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Orion-Interest [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 4:50 PM
Subject: RE: WAR Files: ME TOO
A WAR file is just a jar that has one special directory
/WEB-INF that has
to
contain a web.xml file. As long as your web.xml file validates
according
to
the DTD, it's a valid WAR. Basically you can has as much or as
little
in
the
web.xml file as you want. (see
http://www.orionserver.com/docs/web.xml.html
for more details on what can go in the web.xml file)
That's really all there is too it.
Mike
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Steven
Punte
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 8:12 AM
To: Orion-Interest
Subject: Re: WAR Files: ME TOO
ME TOO:
I'm looking for the "idiot guide to building war files"
STeve Punte
e-Business Software Architect
Technologent Inc
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Original Message -
From: Robert Keith (UK) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Orion-Interest [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 2:13 AM
Subject: WAR Files
Hi guys,
Does anyone know of a decent site that details what should be
described
in
the web.xml file, I can't find anything on Sun's site that is of
any
use,
and how to go about creating a WAR file.
cheers
Bob
Easy deployment of .war files?
Hi, I've been using tomcat and recently began using orion. I was wondering if there was an easy way to deploy war files (read w/o creating an .ear file)? There are a lot of projects on the web that simply exist as .war files. Thanks, Dorwin
Re: Easy deployment of .war files?
YEs Dorwin, it's very easy. If you hace a complete application in a .war file, you only have to follow the steps in "Hot-to setting up an Application" in Orion docs, that implies to write a couple of lines in two property files. But the most important thing is that you have to bear in mind that in those war files that you find in Internet, there shouldn't be any property particular for any other server that orion. In your war files there only cuold be standard properties and orion proerties. You can read "web-application.xml" and orion-web-application.xml" in orion docs. The same to move the war files in Orion to other servers, you have to eliminate the specific properties in order to make the war work in other server. - David Sierra Fern ndez E.T.S.I. Telecomunicaci¢n Universidad de ValladolidAULA CEDETEL Campus Miguel Delibes E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 47011 Valladolid (SPAIN) -- -- Sierr@ -- On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Shields, Dorwin T. wrote: Hi, I've been using tomcat and recently began using orion. I was wondering if there was an easy way to deploy war files (read w/o creating an .ear file)? There are a lot of projects on the web that simply exist as .war files. Thanks, Dorwin
Re: Support of WAR files.
Does anyone know if or when OrionServer will support .war files? Orion currently supports .war files and the latest version supports .ear files as well (the first server I've seen that does). -Joe Walnes
Support of WAR files.
Does anyone know if or when OrionServer will support .war files? Thanks, Abraham
