I've just reread my mail....
Ignore the bit 'should be posted....'. There is a lot of reference to EARS and
JBoss, so this is completely relevant.
When I started writing it I was only going to talk about the Jetty config file.
Then I took a step back, thought about EAR files and rethought my answer.
Jules
Julian Gosnell wrote:
> "Brian D. Brown" wrote:
>
> > I have a question which should be simple to answer. I am trying to add a
> > new web app to jetty, but I don't understand how to do it. Is there some
> > automated mechanism to deploy the app, or do I have to edit some config file
> > or something? Please explain how to do this with and without using virtual
> > hosting.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Brian
>
> Firstly, this should be posted to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - being a Jetty
> and not a Jboss question :-), but seeing as it's here, and it's bound to be
> asked again.....
>
> Is the webapp going to talk to EJBs ?
>
> Yes - stick it in a ear and deploy via JBoss, either by copying it into
> jboss/deploy (a hot-deploy) or via the JMX interface to the J2EEDeployer
> (available on port 8082). The J2EEDeployer must be in charge, otherwise it
> cannot coordinate the deployment of EJBs and WebApp - this means that they
> won't share a common ClassLoader and this means that all calls between them
> will result in serialisation and will not be optimised down to standard
> function calls.
>
> No - You could still stick it in an ear and deploy it via JBoss, or you can put
> an entry into Jetty's config file - currently defaults to
> jboss/conf/jetty/jetty.xml - this is the demo config. you need to insert
> another entry that looks like this :
>
> <Call name="addWebApplication">
> <Arg>/jetty/*</Arg>
> <Arg><SystemProperty name="jetty.home" default="."/>/webapps/jetty</Arg>
> <Arg><SystemProperty name="jetty.home"
> default="."/>/etc/webdefault.xml</Arg>
> <Arg type="boolean">false</Arg>
> </Call>
>
> This translates into the Java :
>
> jetty.addWebApplication("/jetty/*", System.getProperty("jetty.home",
> ".")+"/webapps/jetty", System.getProperty("jetty.home",
> ".")+"/etc/default.xml", false);
>
> the args mean :
>
> 1 - the URL you want the webapp to deploy to - e.g. localhost:8080:/jetty
> 2 - where to find the webapp (in this case a dir, but could be a war - i.e. end
> in war)
> 3 - where to find the webdefault.xml - default bindings for webapps - just copy
> this - look in the file if you are interested
> 4 - whether to unpack the webapp (if it is a war) before running it - JSPs will
> fail to compile if this is set to false and you deploy an archive
>
> If you don't understand XML - then you are taking your life into your hands
> going this route.
>
> That's as clear as it gets !
>
> Jules
>
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