Now that I've discovered a reasonable work-around for the bug in Forte that causes it to hang for 40 seconds whenever a web module using struts.jar is launched, I went ahead and created a brief installation guide in the same style as those linked to at http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/installation-1.0.html under "Installing Struts with your servlet container".
Strictly speaking, Forte isn't a servlet container, but I suspect having an entry for Forte that describes in one paragraph how to set up the sample .warFiles as Forte projects will make life a lot easier for Forte users interested in Struts. The document is available as raw XML at http://www.go-canes.com/installation-forte.xml, and zipped at http://www.go-canes.com/installation-forte.zip. Content-wise, it can be summed up below: Forte for Java 3.0 w/built-in Tomcat These instructions address a known bug in Forte 3 as of January 2002. A future release of Forte might fix the underlying problem and render this work-around unnecessary. To use any of the sample web applications bundled with Struts, simply unzip the .warFile into a subdirectory, create a new project within Forte itself, and mount the subdirectory into which the .warFile was unzipped as a directory filesystem. At that point, Forte should recognize it as a web module. If Forte hangs for approximately 40 seconds when starting Tomcat, then reports "The Tomcat Server is not running correctly", load the web application's deployment descriptor (web.xml) and comment out or remove the "debug" and "detail" init-param elements of the "servlet" element for the "action" servlet: <web-app> <servlet> <servlet-name>action</servlet-name> <servlet-class>org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet</servlet-class> <init-param> <param-name>application</param-name> <param-value>ApplicationResources</param-value> </init-param> <init-param> <param-name>config</param-name> <param-value>/WEB-INF/struts-config.xml</param-value> </init-param> <!-- The offending elements that cause Forte to hang: <init-param> <param-name>debug</param-name> <param-value>1</param-value> </init-param> <init-param> <param-name>detail</param-name> <param-value>1</param-value> </init-param> --> <init-param> <param-name>validate</param-name> <param-value>true</param-value> </init-param> <load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup> </servlet> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
