RE: Simple WAR files
I would use an IDE like Netbeans or Forte to get started. It will do most of this for you, including packaging the entire app into a WAR file. Once you go through the process within the IDE it starts to make much more sense. -Original Message- From: James [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 11:28 AM To: Tomcat List Subject: Simple WAR files Hi, I have read the documentation for writing web applications and distributing them in WAR files, but now I am just more confused than ever. I'm looking for a simple step by step tutorial on making WAR archives and making them redistributable. I know this so far: - Directory structure; WEB-INF, WEB-INF/classes, etc and what they are used for - How to write servlets and JSPs, no worries there... So now I need to know, what are the basic steps to make a very simple, almost HelloWord.war type of application? How do I write an application descriptor, and what do I do with it to make an application WAR file? What are all the references to asking an administrator to assign a context path? (I have no administrator, only my home computer and myself!) Thanks, James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Simple WAR files
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 01:28:16AM +1000, James wrote: Hi, I have read the documentation for writing web applications and distributing them in WAR files, but now I am just more confused than ever. I'm looking for a simple step by step tutorial on making WAR archives and making them redistributable. I know this so far: - Directory structure; WEB-INF, WEB-INF/classes, etc and what they are used for do you also know about the web.xml that is supposed to go into web-inf? So now I need to know, what are the basic steps to make a very simple, almost HelloWord.war type of application? How do I write an application descriptor, and what do I do with it to make an application WAR file? What are all the references to asking an administrator to assign a context path? (I have no administrator, only my home computer and myself!) let's say you are working in ~/src/myapp which contains the dir structure you describe above. all you need to do is execute the following command in ~/src/myapp: jar cvf myapp.war * then proceed to copy the war file to however many tomcats you want. that's it in its simplest form. if you then want to do some neater stuff, you need to look into how the web.xml file is structured. it basically defines your web app and what happens where. it is really beyond the scope of a single email. creating the war file is always the same. Thanks, welcome. - -- Peter Abplanalp Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP: pgp.mit.edu -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9b5NTggA8sH0iRXQRArVaAKCRlTJBYAidxf3fmHS4z95KQQBAIwCcDCGk n0vaUtmoJNZYWPPJjI76jbY= =oJfH -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Simple WAR files
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 11:41:19AM -0400, Wagoner, Mark wrote: I would use an IDE like Netbeans or Forte to get started. It will do most of this for you, including packaging the entire app into a WAR file. no offense but i recommend /not/ doing this. the ide's do a lot of stuff behind the scenes that you may not understand. if you really want to understand the process, do it manually. once you can do simple things manually, you can switch to an ide because you now know what the ide is doing under the covers. Once you go through the process within the IDE it starts to make much more sense. once you start creating large complicated applications, ide's make sense because they take some of the manual labor out of the process. - -- Peter Abplanalp Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP: pgp.mit.edu -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9b5QbggA8sH0iRXQRApgqAJ9ZZQX3XaRO7QJFEZ0GRnsidiOKBgCeJXZv MX2oP1nBGhQVcZC4oWi493Y= =MmIF -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Simple WAR files
Personal preference I suppose. I, personally, almost gave up trying to teach myself Java using the notepad/javac/System.out.println routine. Once I was able to step through the code in the debugger (and get something to actually work) I started to appreciate Java. I guess I need that instant gratification. ;o) I would hate to guess how long it would have taken me to get my first servlet to work using the manual method. But different people learn in different ways. -Original Message- From: Peter T. Abplanalp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 11:50 AM To: 'Tomcat Users List' Subject: Re: Simple WAR files -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 11:41:19AM -0400, Wagoner, Mark wrote: I would use an IDE like Netbeans or Forte to get started. It will do most of this for you, including packaging the entire app into a WAR file. no offense but i recommend /not/ doing this. the ide's do a lot of stuff behind the scenes that you may not understand. if you really want to understand the process, do it manually. once you can do simple things manually, you can switch to an ide because you now know what the ide is doing under the covers. Once you go through the process within the IDE it starts to make much more sense. once you start creating large complicated applications, ide's make sense because they take some of the manual labor out of the process. - -- Peter Abplanalp Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP: pgp.mit.edu -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9b5QbggA8sH0iRXQRApgqAJ9ZZQX3XaRO7QJFEZ0GRnsidiOKBgCeJXZv MX2oP1nBGhQVcZC4oWi493Y= =MmIF -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Simple WAR files
Thanks Peter. Now that I know how to make WAR files, is there a tutorial on writing the bits and pieces of web.xml? Also... I see this is a popular question, (I was also going to ask) where is mod_jk in binary for Win32? Do you have one in a package with docs that you can send me? :-) Sorry! I can't see how to get it. James - Original Message - From: Peter T. Abplanalp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tomcat List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2002 1:46 AM Subject: Re: Simple WAR files -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 01:28:16AM +1000, James wrote: Hi, I have read the documentation for writing web applications and distributing them in WAR files, but now I am just more confused than ever. I'm looking for a simple step by step tutorial on making WAR archives and making them redistributable. I know this so far: - Directory structure; WEB-INF, WEB-INF/classes, etc and what they are used for do you also know about the web.xml that is supposed to go into web-inf? So now I need to know, what are the basic steps to make a very simple, almost HelloWord.war type of application? How do I write an application descriptor, and what do I do with it to make an application WAR file? What are all the references to asking an administrator to assign a context path? (I have no administrator, only my home computer and myself!) let's say you are working in ~/src/myapp which contains the dir structure you describe above. all you need to do is execute the following command in ~/src/myapp: jar cvf myapp.war * then proceed to copy the war file to however many tomcats you want. that's it in its simplest form. if you then want to do some neater stuff, you need to look into how the web.xml file is structured. it basically defines your web app and what happens where. it is really beyond the scope of a single email. creating the war file is always the same. Thanks, welcome. - -- Peter Abplanalp Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP: pgp.mit.edu -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9b5NTggA8sH0iRXQRArVaAKCRlTJBYAidxf3fmHS4z95KQQBAIwCcDCGk n0vaUtmoJNZYWPPJjI76jbY= =oJfH -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Simple WAR files
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 02:06:07AM +1000, James wrote: Thanks Peter. Now that I know how to make WAR files, is there a tutorial on writing the bits and pieces of web.xml? well, there are many. you can go through the tutorials at java.sun.com or you can get some book or other. i believe there are also some details in the tomcat documentation. if i'm wrong, the tomcat docs will probably point you in the right direction. Also... I see this is a popular question, (I was also going to ask) where is mod_jk in binary for Win32? Do you have one in a package with docs that you can send me? :-) Sorry! I can't see how to get it. very popular. almost to the point of being annoying, but that is another thread. :-) if you look through the messages for today, i believe john turner posted a link to win32 binaries. he also has a howto that he posts about once a day. i think he's already posted it today. - -- Peter Abplanalp Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP: pgp.mit.edu -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9b5ztggA8sH0iRXQRAvACAJ9oxtA03q7tOjOi3KOfw9T6n1NNDACdEPWz RcsEWqvEJ792xpnqfF69L3Y= =4p7A -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Simple WAR files
James, At 08:49 2002-08-30, you wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 11:41:19AM -0400, Wagoner, Mark wrote: I would use an IDE like Netbeans or Forte to get started. It will do most of this for you, including packaging the entire app into a WAR file. no offense but i recommend /not/ doing this. the ide's do a lot of stuff behind the scenes that you may not understand. if you really want to understand the process, do it manually. once you can do simple things manually, you can switch to an ide because you now know what the ide is doing under the covers. I agree with Peter. Learn the ins and outs of Web App configuration first and later you can rely on automation to relieve you of the burden. Besides, you might be surprised with the simplicity of a web.xml file, especially if you have only JSP pages. Here's the web.xml file I'm currently using (for a project that's still quite young). It includes a custom tag library: -==--==- ?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/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd; web-app taglib taglib-uri/tau-web-elements/taglib-uri taglib-location/WEB-INF/TWE.tld/taglib-location /taglib /web-app -==--===- No big deal, eh? If I didn't have the custom tags, it could have been omitted entirely. Of course, once a proper controller enters the picture, I'll need at least one servlet declaration and probably some filters. The point is to start small and simple and then work your way up to more ambitious configurations. That way you'll know what's what and won't be in the dark when you need some variation that's not easily obtained from your IDE (assuming you use one). Once you go through the process within the IDE it starts to make much more sense. once you start creating large complicated applications, ide's make sense because they take some of the manual labor out of the process. - -- Peter Abplanalp Randall Schulz Mountain View, CA USA -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Simple WAR files
Thanks Randall :) Actually I have got the connectors now, all to do is now compile them :( hahaha... you may be able to hear me scream from all the way over your at place. I also downloaded the taglibs, interesting things they are! I tried a servlet with the web.xml for the root directory, in WEB-INF, at it worked!! - Original Message - From: Randall R Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tomcat Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2002 2:47 AM Subject: Re: Simple WAR files James, At 08:49 2002-08-30, you wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 11:41:19AM -0400, Wagoner, Mark wrote: I would use an IDE like Netbeans or Forte to get started. It will do most of this for you, including packaging the entire app into a WAR file. no offense but i recommend /not/ doing this. the ide's do a lot of stuff behind the scenes that you may not understand. if you really want to understand the process, do it manually. once you can do simple things manually, you can switch to an ide because you now know what the ide is doing under the covers. I agree with Peter. Learn the ins and outs of Web App configuration first and later you can rely on automation to relieve you of the burden. Besides, you might be surprised with the simplicity of a web.xml file, especially if you have only JSP pages. Here's the web.xml file I'm currently using (for a project that's still quite young). It includes a custom tag library: -==--==- ?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/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd; web-app taglib taglib-uri/tau-web-elements/taglib-uri taglib-location/WEB-INF/TWE.tld/taglib-location /taglib /web-app -==--===- No big deal, eh? If I didn't have the custom tags, it could have been omitted entirely. Of course, once a proper controller enters the picture, I'll need at least one servlet declaration and probably some filters. The point is to start small and simple and then work your way up to more ambitious configurations. That way you'll know what's what and won't be in the dark when you need some variation that's not easily obtained from your IDE (assuming you use one). Once you go through the process within the IDE it starts to make much more sense. once you start creating large complicated applications, ide's make sense because they take some of the manual labor out of the process. - -- Peter Abplanalp Randall Schulz Mountain View, CA USA -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Simple WAR files
I know just what you mean!!! I got round the problem by starting to use ant. Its war task is pretty straight forward Best Wishes John Burgess [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 01865 718666 Fax: 01865 718600 -Original Message- From: James [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 4:28 PM To: Tomcat List Subject: Simple WAR files Hi, I have read the documentation for writing web applications and distributing them in WAR files, but now I am just more confused than ever. I'm looking for a simple step by step tutorial on making WAR archives and making them redistributable. I know this so far: - Directory structure; WEB-INF, WEB-INF/classes, etc and what they are used for - How to write servlets and JSPs, no worries there... So now I need to know, what are the basic steps to make a very simple, almost HelloWord.war type of application? How do I write an application descriptor, and what do I do with it to make an application WAR file? What are all the references to asking an administrator to assign a context path? (I have no administrator, only my home computer and myself!) Thanks, James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.381 / Virus Database: 214 - Release Date: 02/08/02 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.381 / Virus Database: 214 - Release Date: 02/08/02 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
