To set soap server config file, it says you can specify a parameter that
the transport listener (i.e. RPCRouterServlet) passes along to the SOAP
server during startup. Where do I set this parameter. Anybody! Thanks.
> Yes, the server I'm using (WebLogic) unjars the WAR files into a temp
> directory. But to access that directory would rely on a
> server-specific mechanism which defeats the whole purpose of the WAR
> file. You're supposed to be able to deploy a WAR file into any app
> server. Of course, this often doesn't work in practice but you get my
> drift. So, I suppose I could read from the temp directory for now
> (since I don't anticipate running on multiple app servers any time
> soon) but it's quite a hack. Nevertheless, thanks for the idea! :-)
>
> -b
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rich Catlett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 4:25 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: deploying services
>
>
> I'm not sure what server you are using, but it sounds like the server
> does not unjar the war files, but instead introspects the war file and
> pulls what it needs directly from the war file. I'm using tomcat and
> when you start tomcat all webapps in the webapps directory that are in a
> war file are unpacked into a directory of the same name under the war
> file, thus placing the file into the file system. Currently you can set
> tomcat so that it will not unwar the war files, but will read them from
> the .war file itself. So maybe in your server you can set the default
> behavior to be that .war files are unpacked.
>
> Brian Levine wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > A webapp can't read a file in it's own WAR file as a file. The webapp
> > *can* read a file in it's WAR file as a resource using the class
> > loader. But (currently at least), there's no way to specify this to
> > Apache SOAP.
> >
> > From my original posting on this subject:
> >
> > ----
> > I suppose this falls into the enhancement request category. Right
> > now, the config manager class can be specified in a configuration file
> > (default = soap.xml). In my case, I'm using soap.xml so that I can
> > use the XMLConfigManager to read a DeployedServices.xml deployment
> > descriptor. Since both the soap.xml and DeployedServices.xml files
> > need to be actual files in the filesystem, I can't incorporate them
> > into a WAR file. This is inconvenient since I'd really like to deploy
> > this information with my webapp.
> >
> > One way to address this would be to write a ConfigManager
> > implementation that reads the deployment information out of a resource
> > in the WAR file. In order to obviate the need for the soap.xml file,
> > the custom ConfigManager class would need to be specified as a servlet
> > init parameter rather than in the soap.xml file.
> >
> > -----
> >
> > Of course, I may be missing something too...
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rich Catlett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 1:52 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: deploying services
> >
> >
> > You say that the you can't put the soap.xml into the war file. What
> > aoubt this from the server configuration page in the docs
> >
> > If a different file is to be used, the default pConfiguration
> > information may be passed to the Apache SOAP server via an XML-based
> > configuration file. By default, the server will look in the current
> > working directory for a file called "soap.xml." If a different file is
> > to be used, the default path and name can be overridden by specifying a
> > parameter that the transport listener (i.e. RPCRouterServlet) passes
> > along to the SOAP server during startup. (All transport listeners
> should
> > call the org.apache.soap.server.ServiceManager's static method
> > setConfigFileName(...) before invoking the SOAP server.)
> >
> > Tell me if I'm reading this wrong but couldn't you pass a parameter
> that
> > names the soap.xml file in the war file. If this is the case where
> do I
> > set this parameter to be passed along.
> >
> > Brian Levine wrote:
> >
> > > I do this now. I have a DeployedServices.xml file that I edit by
> > > hand. To use DeployedServices.xml as opposed to DeployedServices.ds
> > > (which is created using Java serialization and is difficult to
> edit),
> > > you'll need to use the XMLConfigManager class included with Apache
> > > SOAP. To do this, you need a soap.xml file like so:
> > >
> > >
> > > <soapServer>
> > > <configManager
> > value="org.apache.soap.server.XMLConfigManager" >
> > > <option name="filename" value="DeployedServices.xml" />
> > > </configManager>
> > > </soapServer>
> > >
> > > and an init param for the SOAP servlet like so:
> > >
> > > <init-param>
> > > <param-name>ConfigFile</param-name>
> > > <param-value>soap.xml</param-value>
> > > </init-param>
> > >
> > > You can also write your own ConfigManager class that manages
> > > deployment information in some other way. Unfortunately, the
> soap.xml
> > > file has to be in the filesystem. So you can't put it in a WAR file
> > > and hard-code the deployment information as part of the webapp.
> This
> > > may not be important to you though...
> > >
> > > -brian
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Rich Catlett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 6:05 PM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Re: deploying services
> > >
> > >
> > > Rather than having to deploy services, I want to start up the soap
> > > server with all of the services already deployed.
> > >
> > > Krishna Vemuri wrote:
> > >
> > > > Can you please explain what do you mean by hard code deployed
> > > services??
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Rich Catlett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 1:01 PM
> > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Subject: deploying services
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I want to hard code the deployed services. I am not sure how
> to go
> > > > about
> > > > this. Can someone point me in the right direction to get
> started.
> > > > Thanks!
> > > >
> > > >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > Rich Catlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Confuscious say "Man who
> > stand |
> > > > Programmer | on toilet, high on
> > pot!" |
> > > >
> > | |
> > > >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > >
> > >
> >
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