ACME Video demo:JWS setup:Can't find classes

Question

*** ACME Video demo ***
*** using: JDeveloper 3.0 (build 532) and JWS 2.0 ***
I am having great troubles simply getting JWS (v2.0) to acknowlege existence of my WebAppServlet (ie, ACME Video demo). I have been able to use the demo from within JDeveloper's own runtime environment, but then members can't log in to the demo database. So I am trying to use JWS to see if I can get the ACME Video demo working from a real web server, but I keep getting the infamous 404: File not found error when trying to access it from a browser at http://mycomputer:8080/acmevideo.html.
So to simplify the test I am now just trying to hit the LOAD button from within the JWS configuration manager, but when I try to hit the LOAD button in the JWS servlets tab I consistently get the folowing error:
Problem Updating Servlet
Cannot update servlet WebAppServlet:
Cannot find class for servlet WebAppServlet:
Could not load class acmevideo.servlet.WebAppServlet.
So here I am . . . if there is any guidance out there it would be greatly appreciated.
1) Is it true that I only have to put my WebAppServlet.jar file, along with the libraries listed at the bottom of this message in my e:\acmedir that I set my classpath to before starting JWS?
2) Why can't I just set the classpath to "e:\acme". Why must I set it to specify each individual archive in the folder when they are all in the same folder?
3) Does anyone know the logic behind the "acmevideo.servlet.WebAppServlet" naming scheme that is used to define the servlet in the JWS configuration? How does that define WebAppServlet? I have no folders named "acmevideo.servlet", my jar is named WebAppServlet, so I would suspect that I should define it as simply "WebAppServlet" since I have set my classpath to the folder that it exists in. Maybe this has something to do with why JWS can't find it, so can't load it?
4) How can I check inside the WebAppServlet.jar archive file to make sure that it really contains the class files that should be in there? Maybe I have the wrong jar file? I'm looking at all possibilities at this time.
4) Boy have I ever spent a lot of time simply trying to view this demo. . . . . I'll bake a pie for anyone who can get this thing working. I may not actually send the pie to you, but I'll bake it in your honor and tell you how good it was.
1) Here's my batch file (largely a copy of William Wise's batch file):
set cstdir=e:\acme
set JDK_HOME=
set JAVA_HOME=
set classpath=
set path=
set classpath=%CSTDIR%;%CSTDIR%\aurora_client.jar;%CSTDIR%\javax_ejb.zip;%CSTDIR%\jndi.jar;%CSTDIR%\vbjorb.jar;%CSTDIR%\vbjapp.jar;%CSTDIR%\vbjtools.jar;%CSTDIR%\vbj30ssl.jar;%CSTDIR%\ classes11 1.zip;%CSTDIR%\jdev-rt.zip;%CSTDIR%\WebAppServlet.jar
e:\javawebserver2.0\bin\httpd -verbose
2) Here's the contents of my e:\acme folder:
aurora_client.jar
classes111.zip
javax_ejb.zip
jdev-rt.zip
jndi.jar
servlet.jar
vbj30ssl.jar
vbjapp.jar
vbjorb.jar
vbjtools.jar
WebAppServlet.jar (this should be ACME Video archive, I guess)
3) My WebAppServlet's Servlet Class is defined in the JWS:Servlets:Configuration as:
acmevideo.servlet.WebAppServlet
4) My servlet alias in the JWS:Setup:Servlet Aliases is:
Alias: /acmevideo.html
Servlet Invoked: WebAppServlet
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Answer 1

*** ACME Video demo ***
*** using: JDeveloper 3.0 (build 532) and JWS 2.0 ***
I am having great troubles simply getting JWS (v2.0) to acknowlege existence of my WebAppServlet (ie, ACME Video demo). I have been able to use the demo from within JDeveloper's own runtime environment, but then members can't log in to the demo database. So I am trying to use JWS to see if I can get the ACME Video demo working from a real web server, but I keep getting the infamous 404: File not found error when trying to access it from a browser at http://mycomputer:8080/acmevideo.html.
So to simplify the test I am now just trying to hit the LOAD button from within the JWS configuration manager, but when I try to hit the LOAD button in the JWS servlets tab I consistently get the folowing error:
Problem Updating Servlet
Cannot update servlet WebAppServlet:
Cannot find class for servlet WebAppServlet:
Could not load class acmevideo.servlet.WebAppServlet.
So here I am . . . if there is any guidance out there it would be greatly appreciated.
1) Is it true that I only have to put my WebAppServlet.jar file, along with the libraries listed at the bottom of this message in my e:\acmedir that I set my classpath to before starting JWS?
2) Why can't I just set the classpath to "e:\acme". Why must I set it to specify each individual archive in the folder when they are all in the same folder?
3) Does anyone know the logic behind the "acmevideo.servlet.WebAppServlet" naming scheme that is used to define the servlet in the JWS configuration? How does that define WebAppServlet? I have no folders named "acmevideo.servlet", my jar is named WebAppServlet, so I would suspect that I should define it as simply "WebAppServlet" since I have set my classpath to the folder that it exists in. Maybe this has something to do with why JWS can't find it, so can't load it?
4) How can I check inside the WebAppServlet.jar archive file to make sure that it really contains the class files that should be in there? Maybe I have the wrong jar file? I'm looking at all possibilities at this time.
4) Boy have I ever spent a lot of time simply trying to view this demo. . . . . I'll bake a pie for anyone who can get this thing working. I may not actually send the pie to you, but I'll bake it in your honor and tell you how good it was.
1) Here's my batch file (largely a copy of William Wise's batch file):
set cstdir=e:\acme
set JDK_HOME=
set JAVA_HOME=
set classpath=
set path=
set classpath=%CSTDIR%;%CSTDIR%\aurora_client.jar;%CSTDIR%\javax_ejb.zip;%CSTDIR%\jndi.jar;%CSTDIR%\vbjorb.jar;%CSTDIR%\vbjapp.jar;%CSTDIR%\vbjtools.jar;%CSTDIR%\vbj30ssl.jar;%CSTDIR%\ classes11 1.zip;%CSTDIR%\jdev-rt.zip;%CSTDIR%\WebAppServlet.jar
e:\javawebserver2.0\bin\httpd -verbose
2) Here's the contents of my e:\acme folder:
aurora_client.jar
classes111.zip
javax_ejb.zip
jdev-rt.zip
jndi.jar
servlet.jar
vbj30ssl.jar
vbjapp.jar
vbjorb.jar
vbjtools.jar
WebAppServlet.jar (this should be ACME Video archive, I guess)
3) My WebAppServlet's Servlet Class is defined in the JWS:Servlets:Configuration as:
acmevideo.servlet.WebAppServlet
4) My servlet alias in the JWS:Setup:Servlet Aliases is:
Alias: /acmevideo.html
Servlet Invoked: WebAppServlet
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