L&F Problem with Demo War

Question

I recently downloaded the Demo War and deployed it with both Tomcat and Weblogic 8.1. With Weblogic, it appears as though the style-sheet is not being used - it is using all the default browser fonts and colors. With Tomcat however, it appears as it should. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks!

Answer 1

Ben,
The UIX technology that OHW uses for its user interface requires write access to the area on the server where the application is deployed. This is normally no problem on most servlet containers, since the usually automatically unpack WAR and EAR files at deployment time. Weblogic, however, defaults to leaving the archives unpacked. This makes it so UIX can not write out the style sheets it generates, etc.
This is the bit from the JDeveloper/UIX docs about how to resolve this when deploying to Weblogic (from
http://helponline.oracle.com/jdeveloper/help/state/content/navSetId.jdeveloper/navId.4/vtTopicFile.jdeveloper%7Cdeploying%7Cj2ee_aweblogicuixdeploy%7Ehtml/)
Then complete the deployment according to the instructions found in the Quickstart Guide to Deployment of the WebLogic Server documentation, at edocs.bea.com.
An overview of the required steps are as follows:
1. Follow the instructions found in Step 1 of the "Quickstart Guide to Deployment" in the WebLogic Server documentation for expanding the EAR file into a directory.
2. If the EAR file contains WAR files, expand them, too.
3. Delete the expanded EAR and WAR archives.
4. Follow the remaining steps in the "Quickstart Guide to Deployment" to finish deploying the UIX application to WebLogic.
Hope this helps,
-brian