James,
        Thanks! it looks like you were right; for some reason, the WOLips I 
have installed is generating the old build.xml format.

        Your newer version looks to be working so far. 

                Thanks
                        Cal



On Jan 12, 2010, at 11:30 AM, Thixton Cal wrote:

> 
> David,
>       Thanks for the reply. 
> 
>       By legacy, it is an app written about 4-5 years ago under Xcode; I have 
> since moved it to Eclipse and the woa version builds and runs fine. 
> 
>       I am relatively current on WOLips (3.4.5762) on Eclipse 3.4.2.
> 
>       I have both of the options you mentioned set (see below). 
> 
>       Should I expect to see a .war getting built in the 'build' directory 
> next to the .woa version?
> 
>       I have Tomcat installed.
> 
>       To deploy, I believe am suppose to setup and External Tools 
> Configuration for this app. 
> 
>       When I run Deploy, I get the following... now I am stumped:
> 
> 
> Buildfile: /Users/cthixton/Documents/workspace/LMCases/build.xml
> setProps:
>    [echo] Your catalina.home is: /Library/Tomcat/Home
> Trying to override old definition of datatype resources
> init.build:
> compile:
> 
> BUILD FAILED
> /Users/cthixton/Documents/workspace/LMCases/build.xml:281: There is no root 
> named '/Users/cthixton/Library/Frameworks' in [[Root: name = Project Local 
> Frameworks; folder = null], [Root: name = External Build Root; folder = 
> null], [Root: name = User Frameworks; folder = 
> /Users/cthixton/Library/Frameworks], [Root: name = Local Frameworks; folder = 
> /Library/Frameworks], [Root: name = System Frameworks; folder = 
> /System/Library/Frameworks], [Root: name = Network Frameworks; folder = 
> /Network/Library/Frameworks]].
> 
> Total time: 464 milliseconds
> 
> 
>               Thoughts?
> 
>                       Thanks
>                                       Cal
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Jan 11, 2010, at 3:52 PM, David Avendasora wrote:
> 
>> Hi Cal,
>> 
>> What do you mean by legacy woa app? Old WO version? Xcode-/Project 
>> Builder-based?
>> 
>> If you are using the latest version of WOLips, all you have to do is check a 
>> box in the project deployment properties that tell it to build for servlet 
>> deployment. Right-click on your project -> Properties -> WOLips Deployment 
>> -> check Servlet Deployment and Autogenerate web.xml
>> 
> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Dave
>> 
>> On Jan 11, 2010, at 4:41 PM, Thixton Cal wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I have a legacy woa app that needed a new database backend and needs to be 
>>> converted to a non-OSX platform (i.e. Tomcat). 
>>> 
>>> Looking through postings about converting a woa to war, I am getting stuck. 
>>> 
>>> Under External Tools, I add WAR to the build targets and when I run it, I 
>>> get a complaint about "no root named", (see below). 
>>> 
>>> Some postings say I have a legacy build.xml file because there is a 
>>> "stdFrameworks" attribute in it, but I have created a new project and I get 
>>> the same build.xml. 
>>> 
>>>     So, does anyone have a simple 1-2-3 step process of converting a WOA to 
>>> WAR?
>>> 
>>>                     Thanks
>>> 
>>>                             Cal
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Buildfile: /Users/cthixton/Documents/workspace/MyApp/build.xml
>>> 
>>> setProps:
>>>       [echo] Your install.dir is: /Library/WebObjects/Applications
>>>       [echo] Your catalina.home is: /Library/Tomcat/Home
>>>       [echo] Your catalina-ant-jar is: 
>>> /Library/Tomcat/Home/lib/catalina-ant.jar
>>>       [echo] Your dest.dir is: ${dest.dir}
>>> Trying to override old definition of datatype resources
>>> 
>>> init.build:
>>>       [echo] Your dest.dir is: /Library/WebObjects/Applications
>>> 
>>> compile:
>>>       [echo] compile: ok1
>>> 
>>> build.woapp:
>>>       [echo] woapplication: 1:MyApp 2:/Library/WebObjects/Applications 2a: 
>>> 3:Application 4:web.xml 5:WOtaglib_1_0.tld 
>>> 6:/Library/WebObjects/Applications
>>> 
>>> BUILD FAILED
>>> /Users/cthixton/Documents/workspace/MyApp/build.xml:86: There is no root 
>>> named '' in [[Root: name = Project Local Frameworks; folder = null], [Root: 
>>> name = External Build Root; folder = null], [Root: name = User Frameworks; 
>>> folder = /Users/cthixton/Library/Frameworks], [Root: name = Local 
>>> Frameworks; folder = /Library/Frameworks], [Root: name = System Frameworks; 
>>> folder = /System/Library/Frameworks], [Root: name = Network Frameworks; 
>>> folder = /Network/Library/Frameworks]].
>>> 
>>> Total time: 2 seconds
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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