2008/9/1 Jamie Robert Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi, I'm currently stuck at the last hurdle of a task which involves > integrating JavaHelp into an ASP.net application. I know little about Java, > even less about JSP, but my boss likes server-side JavaHelp *sigh*. I chose > Tomcat 6.0.18 and the connector (1.2.26) as my path to integrating it with > our application. Now, I've set everything up on my XP workstation (IIS5) and > it all works fine, but when I test it on the deployment servers (Win2K3 > Server with IIS6), I have a strange problem. Namely, if I go directly to the > Tomcat URL first i.e. "http://localhost:8080/test/Help/help.jsp";, it > works, and continues to work if I then go to IIS via " > http://localhost/test/Help/help.jsp";. If I go to IIS first however, and > then Tomcat, then both fail with nulls being returned from the help objects. > Something is causing the object to be created differently..... > > Now, the reason I get the same response thereafter is probably because the > help objects are being persisted in the session (or so I take it from the > Java bean stuff in the JSP), but I don't know why I get different outcomes > depending on the initial access route. > > I'd like to be able to debug this, but as I say, I've not experience with > Java (and no-one else here does), and accordingly, I haven't the foggiest > how to set up a debugger to dig into the matter. Settings-wise, everything > is set to the defaults, and my connector settings are as given in the > associated tutorial (except I changed the uri worker map to only handle jsp > files). Only bit of magic is that I've added a context node to the localhost > in server.xml to match up with the virtual directories used in our IIS > setup. > > Can anyone think of things I can try to get this working? > > - Jamie >
Replying to my own message as I hate it when people solve their problems and leaves threads dangling without the helpful conclusion. Basically, the problem was that IIS 6 didn't have a MIME type assigned to the map file (*.jhm) and thus JavaHelp silently failed when it was unable to construct that part of the HelpSet object. At least when the helpset definition (*.hs) didn't have a MIME type the failure was reported. Anyway, hopefully that will help someone at some point. Drove me nuts working out what was going wrong and I now know far more Java than I was hoping to for this task... - Jamie
