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Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 10:19:11 -0500
From: "Ted Husted" <news.ted@husted.com>
To: "Struts List" <struts-user@jakarta.apache.org>
Cc: "Struts Dev" <struts-dev@jakarta.apache.org>
Subject: Re: Struts installation notes - WebLogic 5.1
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** WEBLOGIC USERS ***

We're adding a installation page to the Struts documentation package.
If any can playtest Robert's notes, or has any other additional
comments, please let us know as soon as possible. 

This is an important way you can contribute to the Struts project. We
appreciate everyone's help!

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On 1/31/2001 at 10:50 AM rhayden@rdg.boehringer-ingelheim.com wrote:

>I have put together the following install notes for WebLogic 5.1 based
on my
>experience over the past few weeks. Any comments or suggestions? I am
>particularly disturbed by the fact that I can't get WL to deploy
unzipped
>web applications without including app-specific classes in the WL
classpath!
>Does anyone have another approach to this? Another problem I can't
seem to
>get around- Deployment of wars requires manually extracting the
resource
>file(s). Perhaps there is a way to get WL to find all files in the war
(and
>not just *.class)?
>
>BTW- the builds for the past few nights have a problem with the lowsrc
>property in class ImgTag (Thanks Carl for pointing out that problem
with the
>case in that method).
>
>
>-Bob
>
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>WEBLOGIC 5.1 (service pack 8)
>
>(1) Obtain and install the Xerces XML parser (do not use the Sun
reference
>implementation). Put xerces.jar in your WebLogic system path.
>
>(2) Obtain and unpack the Struts binary distribution (this procedure
assumes
>it was extracted to C:\jakarta-struts).
>
>(3) Add an entry to weblogic.properties for each of the Struts web
>applications that you would like to configure. For example, to make
the
>struts-example application available, add the following line to
>weblogic.properties:
>
>weblogic.httpd.webApp.strutsexample=c:/jakarta-struts/webapps/struts-ex
ample
>.war
>
>(4) You do not need to include struts.jar or any of the application
specific
>classes in the WebLogic classpath, since this will be done
automatically
>(unless deploying an unpacked web archive- see below).
>
>(5) Start WebLogic server and point your web browser to the struts
>application. For example, to connect to the example application added
in
>step 3:
>
>http://localhost:7001/strutsexample
>
>* This example application depends on the Struts specific resource
file
>ApplicationResources.properties to be present on the classpath.
However,
>WebLogic only extracts *.class files from the archive so this file
will not
>be found, resulting in an error the first time it is needed- something
>similar to: javax.servlet.ServletException: runtime failure in custom
tag
>'message'. Steps 6 & 7 will need to be performed for this application,
and
>any other that relies on ApplicationResources.properties.
>
>(6)  Extract ApplicationResources.properties from the *.war file, and
>manually copy it to the respective package in the _tmp_war_ directory
>WebLogic created for this application. Again referring to the
struts-example
>application, this would be:
>
>c:\jakarta-struts\webapps\WEB-INF\_tmp_war_strutsexample
>
>(7) Restart WebLogic. You will now be able to run the application:
>
>http://localhost:7001/strutsexample
>
>
>* The above steps should be followed for applications deployed as
*.war
>files. For unpacked web applications, configuration involves adding
both
>struts.jar and /WEB-INF/classes to the WebLogic classpath. For this
reason,
>I would suggest deploying applications as war files to WebLogic.
However,
>the same example application can be successfully deployed in extracted
>format by modifying weblogic.properties (assuming the war was
extracted to
>directory webapps/struts-example):
>
>weblogic.httpd.webApp.strutsexample=c:/jakarta-struts/webapps/struts-ex
ample
>/
>
>And starting WebLogic with the updated WebLogic classpath. For
example:
>
>c:\jdk1.3\bin\java -ms16m -mx64m -classpath
>c:\weblogic\lib\weblogic510sp8boot.jar;C:\weblogic\classes\boot;c:\xerc
es\xe
>rces.jar
>-Dweblogic.class.path=c:\weblogic\lib\weblogic510sp8.jar;C:\weblogic\li
cense
>;C:\weblogic\classes;C:\weblogic\myserver\serverclasses;C:\weblogic\lib
\webl
>ogicaux.jar;C:\jakarta-struts\lib\struts.jar;C:\jakarta-struts\webapps\
strut
>s-example\WEB-INF\classes -Dweblogic.system.home=c:\weblogic
>-Djava.security.manager
-Djava.security.policy=c:\weblogic\weblogic.policy
>weblogic.Server


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