[b]problem with deploy .war file

Question

Hi
I am trying to deploy a war file. I have Oracle 9iAS (release 2) in Sun Solaris server.
I am using the enterprise manager gui to try to deploy a .war file as follows.
My .war file has the structure: folder META-INF, folder WEB-INF, and other folders. THe folder
WEB-INF has the file web.xml and the folder classes.
I connect to enterprise manager at port 1810 and go to the OC4J home page and under
deployed applications, I choose under applications "Deploy WAR file". It takes me to the next page
where I enter the war file (pippo.war)
Application Name: pippo
Map to URL: /pippo
THe only choice I have then is to click the Deploy button. I then get the response
"Failed to deploy web application "pippo". Jar file: /var/tmp/jar29056.tmp is missing its standard xml descriptor located at WEB-INF/web.xml"
In that path there is not that file, there are 2 folders, one with the file .war and one with the file .ear
I have no idea what this error message means.
The documentation for deploying servlets in 9ias using enterprise manager makes no mention of this.
Thanks,
Marcella

Answer 1

Marcella,
Are you using Oracle9iAS 9.0.3 ?
Does this happen with any war file ?
Are you able to deploy a ear file without problems ?
Can you please test if you can deploy your war in a
OC4J standalone environment ? steps from the general faq available at http://otn.oracle.com/tech/java/oc4j
How can I deploy a WAR file to OC4J standalone ?
The command line deployment tool (admin.jar) requires an EAR file as it's deployment archive. To deploy a WAR file using this, you must package the WAR file within a EAR file.
You can manually deploy a WAR file to OC4J However following are the steps involved in deploying a WAR file in OC4J.
1. Copy the file to D:\oc4j\j2ee\home\applications where d:\oc4j is the location OC4J is installed in.
copy mywar.war D:\oc4j\j2ee\home\applications
2. Open the application.xml file in D:\oc4j\j2ee\home\config directory
and add the following after the <web-module id="defaultWebApp" path="../default-web-app" />
line:
<web-module id="mywar" path="../applications/mywar.war" />
3. Open the default-web-site.xml file in D:\oc4j\j2ee\home\config directory and add the following after the <default-web-app application="default" name="defaultWebApp" /> line:
<web-app application="default" name="mywar" root="/mywar" />
In Oracle9iAS Release 2; deployment of applications is done either using EM or via the DCM commands.
thanks,
-Prasad