Thanks Jeff!
I tried this and found that the latest Eclipse/WOLips tools are very
complete in packaging up woapps for servlet deployment. However, there
were a couple of caveats worth mentioning:
1. Starting with a WOnder Application template there is no need (and
no option!) to create a project with servlet support. All that is
needed after the project is created is to check Servlet Deployment and
check Autogenerate web.xml in WOLips Build within the project
properties. This will create the proper WAR file as a fully self-
contained servlet single directory deployment (SSDD) with all of the
necessary WO frameworks. It's very slick.
2. Project dependencies (such as other frameworks) however will not be
included in the SSDD. They must be included as framework dependencies
as well. See http://wiki.objectstyle.org/confluence/display/WOL/Add+a+Framework+Dependency
.
3. The generated web.xml file in WEB-INF has a parameter named
WOAppMode which is set to "Development". I found that with this
setting, Tomcat and the WebObjects Resource Manager would not serve up
any static WebServerResources correctly. I kept getting links like "/
MyApp/WebObjects/MyApp.woa/_wr_/wodata=/Library/stuff". I don't know
if I had a particular property value set incorrectly. But I did find
that if I changed the WOAppMode value to "Deployment", the problem
went away since the static resources get served up directly by the web
server. This of course requires a split install (Tomcat + Apache).
Because I'm using Ajax, I had to remember to include Ajax.framework/
WebServerResources in the split install since there are critical
javascript files that are required.
4. For the static resources to be served correctly via port 80 of the
Apache web server (as opposed to Tomcat's port 8080), I had to install
the Tomcat-Apache plugin, mod_jk. I am deploying on Linux, but
developing on a Mac, and so I wanted to make sure this also works
under Leopard. There are useful instructions for installing mod_jk on
Leopard client at http://blog.lo-fi.net/2007/10/leopard-for-web-developer-installing.html
(the downloadable binary for mod_jk for Leopard doesn't run
correctly).
5. In the Tomcat log file (catalina.out), I keep getting an exception
(below) related to JDBC but everything runs fine regardless (I'm using
MySQL). Tomcat seems to have it's own data source mechanism for
supplying database information. Being a Tomcat newbie, I'm not sure if
there is an easy way to suppress these exceptions, or if it's better
to just configure and use the servlet container data source. I know
there is some pertinent information at http://wiki.objectstyle.org/confluence/display/WO/Web+Applications-Deployment-Tomcat+Deployment
, but I'm interested in getting input on best practices related to WO
deployment and data sources in a servlet container. Please let me
know, especially if you have experience with business-critical
deployments.
<MyApp>[2008-4-1 23:16:41 PDT] <http-8080-1>
javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: Name jdbc is not bound in this
Context
at org.apache.naming.NamingContext.list(NamingContext.java:345)
at org.apache.naming.NamingContext.list(NamingContext.java:353)
at org.apache.naming.NamingContext.list(NamingContext.java:353)
at org.apache.naming.NamingContext.list(NamingContext.java:368)
at org.apache.naming.SelectorContext.list(SelectorContext.java:307)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.list(InitialContext.java:395)
at
com
.webobjects
.jdbcadaptor.JDBCContext.setupJndiConfiguration(JDBCContext.java:310)
at com.webobjects.jdbcadaptor.JDBCContext.connect(JDBCContext.java:197)
Thanks,
Aleksey
On Mar 26, 2008, at 5:38 AM, Jeff Smith wrote:
We've just started deploying on Linux (ubuntu in this case) using a
hosting provider and have found that the Tomcat/WAR file deployment
works very well. Nothing special being used here, mainly the
standard dev tools/WO install from Apple (5.4) and then Eclipse
+WOLips (latest stable) to build the project/WAR files.
As a matter of fact, I've found that just creating the projects with
servlet support and then checking the WOLips boxes for Servlet
deployment and automatically generating the WAR files (in the
preferences) was all I needed to do to get the proper WAR file
generated.
Jeff
On Mar 25, 2008, at 9:41 PM, Aleksey Novicov wrote:
I am looking for input and instruction on deploying WO 5.4 apps on
Red Hat Linux. Are there any updated instructions for WO 5.4? Is
there a pre-compiled Apache 2.2 WebObjects adapter for Red Hat
available? How about deploying on Tomcat? Is it preferred over
JavaMonitor/wotaskd? I have experience with JavaMonitor on OS X but
have never tried deploying on Tomcat.
By the way, this mail list is invaluable. Thanks to all of the
contributors.
Aleksey
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