Needed Instruction to deploy JSP app. to Oracle 8i?

Question

I need the instruction to deploy a JSP BC4J application
developed by JDev9i to Oracle 8i. Web server is Oracle Http
server powered by Apache.

Answer 1

Hi,
The detailed steps are provided in Publishing Reports:
http://download-uk.oracle.com/docs/html/B14048_01/pbr_run.htm#sthref1410
But since you have already gone through the manual, here are the steps in brief:
Option 1: Suppose yo alerady have a J2EE EAR or WAR file that contains the rest of your JSPs, servlets, Java classes, EJBs, etc. In this case you need to add the reports JSP to your EAR / WAR. You can do this using any Java IDE like Oracle JDeveloper or Sun Studio. Once you have added the JSP to the EAR / WAR, you need to deploy it the EAR / WAR on the application server on the OC4J_BI_Forms instance. You can do this using Oracle enterprise manager browser-based console.
Option 2: Suppose do not have an application deployed. In other words, you simply want to deploy the reports JSP. There are 2 sub-options here:
Sub-option A: Create a new EAR / WAR file containing the reports JSP. You can again do this using any Java IDE like JDeveloper. The steps for creating a new JSP application are given in Publishing Reports 10.1.2:
Section 13.3.3.1 Creating a New J2EE Application
Sub-option B: You do not want to create a new EAR / WAR. This method is not recommended for production deployment, and is usually used only for testing. If you want to follow this method, simply copy the JSP file in the following directory:
OracleAS_Home\j2ee\OC34J_BI_Forms\applications\<appname>\<web-module>
This assumes that you have OC4J_BI_Forms instance on your OracleAS (it comes by default), and that you have deployed at least one application on this instance. This deployed application's name is <appname> above.
Let me know if you have more Qs.
Navneet.