emily has this down pat with the minor correction that
the WEB-INFO directory should be WEB-INF.
nice work and thx for sharing the notes.
- james
~{4tM74tDT~} PapayaHead wrote:
> ha, I just made my timesheet servlet working with jsdk2.1:)
>
> here is what I did:
>
> 1. create subdirectories under jsdk2.1 like this:
>
> ...jsdk2.1/timesheet/WEB-INFO/servlets
>
> 2. put all my relevant servlets under the
> ...jsdk2.1/timesheet/WEB-INFO/servlets sub-diretory;
>
> 3. add 2 new lines in the default.cfg:
>
> server.webapp.timesheet.mapping=/timesheet
> server.webapp.timesheet.docbase=timesheet
>
> 4. run the startserver script;
>
> 5. run my servlet using the URL:
>
> localhost:portnumber/timesheet/servlet/whateverclassname
>
> hope this helps.
>
> Emily
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: "<James W. Cooper>" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> 1. The file default.cfg contains
>
> server.webapp.examples.mapping=/examples
> server.webapp.examples.docbase=examples
>
> 2. Yet the URL for the examples is
>
> http://localhost:8080/examples/servlet/HelloWorldExample
>
> 3. and the actual location is
>
> /jsdk2.1/examples/web-inf/servlets/
>
> I don't see how this works out. How do facts 1 and 3 result in 2?
> How does the servletrunner know where to look?
> How can I add my own paths? Or can I?
>
> > The readme says that the servlets are located in
> > /examples/web-inf/servlets
> >
> > How could I deduce (and thus change) this by reading default.cfg or
> > any of the properties files?
> > In other words, how do I tell a configuration file where to look for
> > my servlet?
>
> Servlets are either in context/path/WEB-INF/servlets (where they're by
> default accessed as /context/path/servlet/Foo) or they're in the
> server's classpath. If you look, the classpath set by the startup
> script includes jsdk2.1/classes, but you can change that within the
> startup script.
>
> In default.cfg you can see how contexts are added. Contexts can be
> dirs or even other sites. How's this one for cool:
>
> server.app.proxy.mapping=/proxy
> server.app.proxy.base=http://otherserver/
>
> Now http://localhost:8080/proxy/index.html serves
> http://otherserver/index.html. Fun, cool, and even potentially useful
> when you have a client with limited network visibility.
>
> I think the API 2.1 getResource() abstraction facilitated this.
> For more fun, picture if you write a new protocol handler what you
> could do here.
>
> server.app.db.mapping=/db
> server.app.db.base=dbtp://something
>
> Assuming you wrote a protocol handler for the "database transfer
> protocol", you could as easy as this serve files coming from a db.
> Exactly how URIs mapped to db queries would be known by the dbtp
> handler.
>
> -jh-
>
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