From: "S. Mike Dierken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "Mark Puckett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Update to xang.war for Tomcat
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 12:25:16 -0700
The version of Xang in the xang.war in my previous message is a
not-yet-checked-in version.
It has a new mode that is a workaround to the inability of servlet engines
to provide 'extra path info' to servlets that handle file extensions (like
*.xap).
In the xang.cfg you can specify one .xap file as the 'app' file. This will
let you use a URL that doesn't have a .xap extension in it & you can do
sub-url addressing.
For example:
http://localhost:8080/xang/servlet/xang/base64/
Without this fix the url could be a nice and simple
http://localhost:8080/xang/samples/hello/hello.xap/base64/ - but that
would break.
mike
----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Puckett
To: S. Mike Dierken
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 11:14 AM
Subject: Re: How can I help!
Hey Mike,
So I'm getting closer on getting the sample to run. When I execute
http://localhost/xang/hello.xap I just get the source of the page. So it
seems likely that I've still got a disconnect between tomcat/xang making it
use the xang servlet to process the page. Sound correct?
I can't believe how long this has taken to fumble through this.
-Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: S. Mike Dierken
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 10:19 PM
Subject: Re: How can I help!
I've found that the different versions of XML parsers between Tomcat
and Xerces are causing problems.
The Xang code extends the xml Document class & I think there is a
problem doing that when the base class is loaded by the default classloader
& the Xang code is loaded by the 'change-aware' Tomcat classloader.
I was able to fix the problem by putting ALL Xang code in the
classpath - in startup.bat or wherever. This includes the FESI JavaScript
engine.
For example:
set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;%TOMCAT_HOME%\lib\xerces.jar
set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;%TOMCAT_HOME%\lib\xalan.jar
set
CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;C:\Jakarta\tomcat\webapps\xang\WEB-INF\classes
set
CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;C:\projects\apache\modules\xml-xang\java\classpath\fesi.zip;
Now, the next problem is my sample .xap files reference an out of date
Xalan class.... onward and upward.
mike
----- Original Message -----
From: Jason Prescott Wohlford
To: Xang Dev
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 2:35 PM
Subject: Re: How can I help!
Mike,
What version of Tomcat do you prefer? Tomcat 3.2? 3.3? or 4?
Jason
On Monday, July 30, 2001, at 04:53 PM, Mike Dierken wrote:
Tomcat only really needs a Java VM, so I think you probably can
get it to work for OS-X.
mike
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Prescott Wohlford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 2:38 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Fwd: How can I help!
Mike,
I don't have a servlet engine installed. I'll try to see if Tomcat
is available for my platform. I'll also try to install it. I'm not
comfortable with Java at all.
Below is information I sent to you earlier. It pretty much
explains everything.
Thanks for getting back to me so quickly this time. Greatly
appreciated.
Jason
Begin forwarded message:
From: Jason Prescott Wohlford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu Jul 26, 2001 10:05:14 AM US/Central
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: How can I help!
Good gravy, you are exactly what I've been looking for...
Wonderful!
My AIM name is <JasonWohlford>. My ICQ number is <112823231>. Your
welcome to chat with me on which ever. Right now, you'll find me on AIM
more often.
I'll be able to help with development best between the hours of
8:30-5:00 p.m. CST at work. I have great flexibility from my wonderful
employer Brian Belsterling, President of The Copy Center. As long as I can
show, if asked, that I am benefiting The Copy Center and get the rest of my
work done it will be fine. Therefore, I'd eventually like to convert my
client-side JavaScript site at <SylvanOrder.com> to Xang.
I have a very strong understanding of JavaScript. I also
understand XML to a reasonable degree. (Hey, what's really to understand.)
I'm quite weak in XSL; and have almost no knowledge of Apache
configuration. That being said, I love to code. I love to code to spec. I
love XML, XSL, the DOM, and JavaScript and am passionate about them. They
rock.
I accept and agree with the Apache license and am very interested
in contributing to open source. Although I like Linux, I'm not much for the
GPL. I do like the FreeBSD license very much, although I've never run
straight FreeBSD.
This is my configuration is the tricky part. At work, I am running
Mac OS X (based on many BSDs). It has Apache built in. According to Apple
it also has a very strong Java2 environment. The Mac OS X box is what I'll
be using most of the time. At home, I should have a Linux-Mandrake 8.0 box
running this weekend. My replacement motherboard should be arriving today
or tomorrow. It has telnet and maybe SSH access? How shall I proceed?
Jason
On Wednesday, July 25, 2001, at 09:40 PM, S. Mike Dierken wrote:
Good gravy, you are exactly what I've been looking for...
The installation instructions are a bit old & are on the apache
site - I
will help you get it installed on whatever servlet engine you
currently
have.
Xang is a Java servlet, which requires a servlet engine. I wrote
it with
JServ, but have moved to Tomcat since then. There are a few
incompatibilities between servlet engines & between versions of
the Java
servlet specification from Sun.
While we get this thing configured for you machine, tell me a bit
about your
software environment & what you hope to do with Xang.
If you have an instant messaging client, we can chat during your
installation & I can work through any problems that might pop up.
Mike
Here are the instructions I wrote a long time ago:
===
The Apache Xang engine is currently implemented as a Java Servlet.
You must
include xang.jar, xalan.jar, xerces.jar and fesi.zip in the
Servlet class
path. Consult your Servlet engine documentation for detailed
instructions.
The Xang servlet needs to be registered with your Servlet engine.
The
servlet class name is:
org.apache.xang.net.http.object.impl.HTTPObjectServer
The servlet initialization parameters are:
config=full-path/to/your/xang.cfg
For the Apache JServ servlet engine, this is the configuration
information
to place in zone.properties to register the Xang servlet:
servlet.org.apache.xang.net.http.object.impl.HTTPObjectServer.initArgs=confi
g=full-path/to/your/xang.cfg
In addition, the Web server or Servlet engine needs to be
configured to pass
requests to files with a .XAP extension to the Xang servlet.
Consult your
Servlet engine documentation for detailed instructions.
For the Apache JServ servlet engine, this is the configuration
information
to place in zone.properties to register the Xang servlet:
servlet.org.apache.xang.net.http.object.impl.HTTPObjectServer.initArgs=confi
g=D:\projects\apache\modules\xml-xang\java\src\org\apache\xang\xap\xang.cfg
For the Apache JServ servlet engine, this is the configuration
information
to place in the jserv.conf for getting the Xang servlet to handle
.xap
files:
ApJServAction .xap
/servlets/org.apache.xang.net.http.object.impl.HTTPObjectServer
To run XSLT extensions, include bsf.jar and bsfengines.jar. All
these JAR
files are distributed with Xalan. For extensions implemented in
JavaScript
or another scripting language, see the Xalan extensions language
requirements to identify any additional JAR files you must place
on the
class path and where you can get them.
===
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Prescott Wohlford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 12:38 PM
Subject: How can I help!
Mike,
I've had dreams wanting something like what Xang does. I scoured
the web for
months trying to find something that handles XML, XSL, and
JavaScript. It
has huge potential!
I have some issues with the project. First, how in the heck do I
install it?
Where's all the documentation. It seem quite sparse and difficult
to
understand.
I want to work on this project. I'm extremely passionate about
Xang. How can
I become involved!?
Jason
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