Setup cocoon with 9ias 9.0.2 under windows NT

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Setup Cocoon with 9ias OC4J (9.0.2) under Windows NT
This was a painful process for me. I finally made it work. Thought my story might help someone else. If anyone sees anything that could cause problems down the line, please let me know.
NOTE: This took me a week to get right, so the restarts I suggest may not be appropriate, just guesses on my part.
A. FIRST SECTION (Based off of steps 9 - 11 of Metalink note 148497.1) - This deploys the cocoon.war file
1. Copy cocoon.war file to oracle 9ias home in the j2ee/home/applications directory. (NOT cocoon_jvm14. I tried to use the cocoon with jvm1.4. The version of 9ias I use wanted 1.3, so that is what I ended up using.)
NOTE: I followed the 9-11 steps from the above note the first time and manually changed the files below, but when I had to reboot my machine a couple of days later it lost the changes. So I went in thru OEM and did it there and have had no problems. These steps are detailed below.
2. Log into Oracle Enterprise Manager. Click on 9ias instance. Click OC4J_home.
3. Go to Advanced Properties. Edit the default-web-site.xml file. Look for the statement <default-web-app application="default" name="defaultWebApp" root="/j2ee"/>. After that statement, add the following: <web-app application="default" name="cocoon" root="/cocoon"/>
4. Go back to OC4J_home. Click on default link near the top of the page. (It has a Path underneath is that says application.xml) Then click on Advanced Properties. Edit the application.xml file. Look for the statement <web-module id="defaultWebApp" path="../../home/default-web-app"/>. After that statement, add the following: <web-module id="cocoon" path="../../home/applications/cocoon.war"/>.
5. Go back to 9ias instance and do a "Restart All".
B. SECOND SECTION ( Based off of Metalink note 184826.1)
1. Go to the Apache/Apache/conf/mod_oc4j.conf file underneath your 9ias home. Add the following line at the bottom of the file: Oc4jMount /cocoon/* home
Either "Restart All" from OEM again, or follow step 3 from the note. WARNING: I read somewhere that if you try to do the dos dcm/opmn stuff with the OEM at the same time, that you have corruption problems? So close the OEM if you do the dos commands just in case.
C. THIRD SECTION (This is what I did with the Cocoon jars to make 9ias/oc4J find them and use them. I am by no means saying this is the correct way. Just a way. If anyone has a different way, I would appreciate hearing it.)
1. Go to 9ias home and in the j2ee/home directory make a new folder. (I called mine xerces.) Copy the following jar files, found in the j2ee/home/applications/cocoon/web-inf/lib directory (this dir will show up after cocoon.war is deployed with the A. FIRST SECTION restart), into your new folder:
a. batik-all-1.5b2.jar
b. xalan-2.3.1.jar
c. xercesImpl-2.0.0.jar
d. xml-apis.jar
2. Log into the Oracle Enterprise Manager. Click on OC4J_home. Click on Server Properties. Scroll down to the bottom and type the following into Java Options: -Djava.ext.dirs=xerces. (If you named your new folder xerces.)
D. LAST SECTION
1. I rebooted my machine and said a prayer. From the url "http://myhost:7777/cocoon/" I got the cocoon welcome page!

Answer 1

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