Thanks for the input. I think I will have to start with the total basics before moving on to struts. Anyhow I googled for any tutorials, sources I just got more and more frustrated, as I just dont know where to start. Has anyone a got starting point, link, etc. for me?
On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 13:20 -0400, Jim Cushing wrote: > I haven't touched Ant in years, so I can't help you much there, but > with Maven 2, it's as simple as running 'mvn package'. The POM itself > says whether the project produces a JAR, WAR, or some other artifact, > so package always builds the appropriate artifact for the project. > For a web app, that is of course a WAR, for something else, it may be > a JAR. > > For development, you might want to try using Jetty instead of Tomcat, > because Maven 2 has a plugin that makes this really simple. Add the > following to your POM: > > <plugins> > <plugin> > <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId> > <artifactId>maven-jetty-plugin</artifactId> > <version>6.1.5</version> > <configuration> > <scanIntervalSeconds>10</scanIntervalSeconds> > <connectors> > <connector > implementation="org.mortbay.jetty.nio.SelectChannelConnector"> > <port>7171</port> > </connector> > </connectors> > </configuration> > </plugin> > </plugins> > > You can set the port to whatever you want (7171 in this example), > just make sure it doesn't conflict with anything else you have running. > > Then, run 'mvn jetty:run', and a Jetty server will fire up. Nothing > to install. > > Go to http://localhost:7171/ in a browser, and you'll see a link to > your application. > > Now, the really fun part begins: Make changes to your application. > Edit your pages, your actions, and your configuration, and Jetty will > pick up those changes without you having to rebuild. Changes to your > Java code or configuration will cause Jetty to restart your web app, > automatically, though it may take several seconds. Page changes, of > course, are picked up without a restart. > > Sometimes, I'll find that Jetty does hang on me and ctrl-c won't kill > the maven/jetty process. If that's the case, just hit ctrl-z to put > it in the background, 'ps' to get the PID, and 'kill -9 <pid>' to > force it to quit. Run 'mvn jetty:run' again. But even if you find > that happening to you 2-4 times a day, it's so much faster than > WARing it up and pushing it to Tomcat. Plus, anyone on your team can > use this same command, as they don't have to install or configure > Tomcat. > > On Aug 29, 2007, at 12:07 PM, sp4rc wrote: > > > Hello listmembers, > > > > I am new to all this java webapplication stuff, but I hope you can > > help > > me to get into this great technologies. > > > > So far I have got my tomcat server (5.5.23-r6) up and runnig, > > struts-2.0.9 is on my system (gentoo-linux) and I was able to > > deploy the > > sample war "blank" ([1] tree output). Now I would like to follow the > > struts tutorial [2] and create my own war file from scratch... > > > > But the problem is, that simply don't know how to create a war file > > using ant or even maven. Can you point me to the right direction? > > > > What is this MANIFEST.MF about? > > > > Does ant or maven compile any sourcecode, or is it just packin the > > files > > and the servlet-container compiles the first time it gets run? > > > > How does the filestructure of my sources have to look like befor using > > [ant|maven]? > > > > Regs > > /sp4rc > > > > [1] > > /var/lib/tomcat-5.5/webapps/struts2-blank-2.0.9 > > |-- META-INF > > | |-- MANIFEST.MF > > | `-- maven > > | `-- org.apache.struts > > | `-- struts2-blank > > | |-- pom.properties > > | `-- pom.xml > > |-- WEB-INF > > | |-- classes > > | | |-- LICENSE.txt > > | | |-- NOTICE.txt > > | | |-- example > > | | | |-- ExampleSupport.class > > | | | |-- HelloWorld.class > > | | | |-- Login-validation.xml > > | | | |-- Login.class > > | | | |-- package.properties > > | | | `-- package_es.properties > > | | |-- example.xml > > | | `-- struts.xml > > | |-- lib > > | | |-- commons-logging-1.0.4.jar > > | | |-- freemarker-2.3.8.jar > > | | |-- ognl-2.6.11.jar > > | | |-- struts2-core-2.0.9.jar > > | | `-- xwork-2.0.4.jar > > | |-- src > > | | `-- java > > | | |-- LICENSE.txt > > | | |-- NOTICE.txt > > | | |-- example > > | | | |-- ExampleSupport.java > > | | | |-- HelloWorld.java > > | | | |-- Login-validation.xml > > | | | |-- Login.java > > | | | |-- build.bat > > | | | |-- package.properties > > | | | `-- package_es.properties > > | | |-- example.xml > > | | `-- struts.xml > > | `-- web.xml > > |-- example > > | |-- HelloWorld.jsp > > | |-- Login.jsp > > | |-- Menu.jsp > > | |-- Missing.jsp > > | |-- Register.jsp > > | `-- Welcome.jsp > > `-- index.html > > > > [2] http://struts.apache.org/2.x/docs/simple-setup.html > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
