Hi Esse, The web.xml stuff I gave you goes right at the beginning, before the first <servlet> tag.
It took me a while to get my head round the app lifecycle, so I understand your confusion! The <listener> allows you to write a class that is guaranteed to be executed before any of your servlets. The interface for ContextListener defines a method for when your context (ie, your web app) is initialized (first loaded), and another for when the context is destroyed (shut down), so this is where you open your database connection, configure FOP, etc etc, at startup, and close everything at shutdown. I hope that helps - it's late here in Helsinki, so I'm a bit sleepy! Martin On 25 August 2010 15:10, Esse <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Martin! > > Thanks a lot for your help! However, i'm really a rookie and i need some > clarification to understand :) > > How should i modify my web.xml(below)? > > web-app> > <!-- Servlets --> > <servlet> > <servlet-name>Fop</servlet-name> > <servlet-class>org.apache.fop.servlet.FopServlet</servlet-class> > </servlet> > <servlet> > <servlet-name>FopPrint</servlet-name> > <servlet-class>org.apache.fop.servlet.FopPrintServlet</servlet-class> > </servlet> > <!-- Servlet mappings --> > <servlet-mapping> > <servlet-name>Fop</servlet-name> > <url-pattern>/</url-pattern> > </servlet-mapping> > <servlet-mapping> > <servlet-name>FopPrint</servlet-name> > <url-pattern>/fopprint</url-pattern> > </servlet-mapping> > </web-app> > > > > > Martin Jacobson wrote: >> >> This is what I would do... >> >> 0) move the config file to be part of the war file, inside WEB-INF >> >> 1) web.xml >> >> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> >> >> <!DOCTYPE web-app >> PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN" >> "http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2.3.dtd";> >> >> <web-app> >> <display-name>cartoWeb - vector map server</display-name> >> >> <context-param> >> <param-name>configuration-file</param-name> >> <param-value>WEB-INF/fop.xconf</param-value> >> </context-param> >> >> <listener> >> >> <listener-class>com.emc.carto.web.servlet.WebAppInitializer</listener-class> >> </listener> >> ... >> >> 2) Listener >> >> public class WebAppInitializer implements ServletContextListener >> { >> ServletContext ctx = null; >> >> public void contextInitialized(ServletContextEvent sce) >> { >> ctx = sce.getServletContext(); >> String configFileName = >> ctx.getInitParameter("configuration-file"); >> String realConfigFile = ctx.getRealPath(configFileName); >> try { >> fopFactory.setUserConfig(new File(realConfigFile)); >> } >> etc. >> >> >> HTH >> Martin >> >> >> >> >> On 25 August 2010 14:25, Esse <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi fopusers! >>> >>> Specs: >>> Latest fop (1.0) >>> Latest tomcat (7.x) >>> >>> I’m using the fop servlet example in tomcat, with a config file. >>> >>> Right now, FOpServlet is modified like this: >>> >>> protected void configureFopFactory() { >>> try { >>> fopFactory.setUserConfig(new File("/conf/fop.xconf")); >>> } catch (SAXException e) { >>> System.out.println(e); >>> } catch (IOException e) { >>> System.out.println(e); >>> } >>> } >>> >>> However, the path for the config file in the above example is >>> C:\conf\fop.xconf . >>> >>> How to make config file path relative(in jar/war/tomcat folder? >>> >>> Really anywhere would do except a hard path, like >>> [JAVA_HOME]/conf/fop.xconf >>> or something like that. >>> >>> >>> Please help :) >>> >>> >>> -- >>> View this message in context: >>> http://old.nabble.com/Relative-paths-when-running-FOP-as-servlet-%28Tomcat%29-tp29531194p29531194.html >>> Sent from the FOP - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> From my MacBook Pro >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> >> > > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/Relative-paths-when-running-FOP-as-servlet-%28Tomcat%29-tp29531194p29531548.html > Sent from the FOP - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- >From my MacBook Pro --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
