JWS using WAR archives and Version based DL

Question

Hi everyone. I am having trouble with JWS. Let me explain what i am doing and maybe someone can tell me what i am doing wrong and what i need to do.
I created a war file in the same structure as what is shown in the "Packaging JNLP Applications in a Web Archive" docs. So my jnlp file is in the war file in the app directory along with my jar files. The web.xml is in the WEB-INF directory and the other needed files in the WEB-INF/lib directory (that is where the jnlp-servlet.jar file is located within the war file).
Next, i have an iplanet server. I created a directory on the server - eqam/app_version and i placed the war file there. I expect now when i goto my browser and go to "(server here)/eqam/app_version/app" it should go to servlet in the war file, which then launches the jnlp file. Is my understanding correct, because that does not work.
Here are a few questions. Am i supposed to place the jnlp-servlet.jar anywhere else on the server outside of the war archive, or is the server supposed to expand the archive somehow (how do i get it to do that)? Also, how do i configure the iplanet server to use this servlet?
Any help will be appreciated. Thanks!!
Chris
Here is the JNLP code...
TS: 2002-07-22 14:30:00
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<jnlp spec="1.0"
codebase="$$codebase"          
href="$$name">
<information>
<title>Title</title>
<vendor>Vendor</vendor>
<homepage href="$$context"/>
<description>Description</description>
<description kind="short">Opera Style MDI</description>
<icon href="images/check_digit_calc.gif"/>     
<offline-allowed/>
</information>
<security>
<all-permissions/>
</security>
<resources>
     <j2se version="1.4" />
     <jar href="guiMgr07152002.jar" version="1.5" download="eager"/>
     <jar href="accountpreview.jar" version="1.5" download="eager"/>
     <jar href="alert.jar" version="1.5" download="eager"/>
     <jar href="accountSearch.jar" version="1.5" download="eager"/>
     <jar href="CheckDigitalCal_srvc.jar" download="eager"/>
     <jar href="eqam_framework_07122002.jar" version="1.5" download="eager"/>
     <jar href="login_srvc.jar" version="1.5" download="eager"/>
     <jar href="resources.jar" version="1.5" download="eager"/>
     <jar href="serverside_07162002.jar" version="1.5" download="eager"/>
     <jar href="swingutil.jar" version="1.5" ftpdownload="eager"/>
     <jar href="desktopsrvc.jar" version="1.5" download="eager"/>
     <jar href="3rd_parties/weblogic_core_lite.jar" download="eager"/>
     <jar href="3rd_parties/weblogicaux_lite.jar" download="eager"/>
     <jar href="3rd_parties/xalan.jar" download="eager"/>
     <jar href="3rd_parties/xerces.jar" download="eager"/>
     <jar href="3rd_parties/jdomb8.jar" download="eager"/>
     <jar href="3rd_parties/lookAndFeel/kunststoff.jar" download="eager"/>
     <jar href="3rd_parties/lookAndFeel/macplaf.jar" download="eager"/>     
</resources>
<application-desc main-class="com.gs.eq.accountmaster.client.guimanager.AppManager"/>
</jnlp>

Answer 1

ensure you web.xml is set so the Download servlet processes requests for jar files
eg
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE web-app
PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.2//EN"
"http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2_2.dtd">
<web-app>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>JnlpDownloadServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.sun.javaws.servlet.JnlpDownloadServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>JnlpDownloadServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.jnlp</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
     <servlet-name>JnlpDownloadServlet</servlet-name>
     <url-pattern>*.jar</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
     <welcome-file-list>
          <welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
     </welcome-file-list>
</web-app>