Using Weblogic to Deploy Simple Flex App

Question

Hi,
   I am trying to deploy a simple Flex application in a weblogic8.1  server , so that I can use it locally.
Can any one please guide me where and how I have to deploy my flex app .
I am pretty new to this can any body provide me a guide or walk through step wise for me.
More over What is the url I need to give in the browser to access the flex app I deploy in the Weblogic server.
(At present I am using the IIS -- just copying the .swf file and wrapper html page in to the C:\Inetpub\wwwroot and giving http://localhost/test.html
in the browser to access it) ---  How do I do this using Weblogic 8.1
thanks
Nash

Answer 1

Hi again Nash,
the stuff I am doing at present is not yet permitted to be publicly available, but the principles are very straightforward. Remember that WebLogic is primarily concerned with server-side functionality and Flex with client-side, so there is not really a great deal of overlap. The place where your Flex instantiation code will sit is in one or other JSP, using code very like the templates that Adobe generate. The only thing you have to do is ensure that your JSP (or the controller/code files behind it) generate HTML that contains the necessary. I tend to use the Apache Beehive libraries for UI stuff, but from vague memory I don't think these were around in WL8 - however, it doesn't really matter what tag library you prefer as all you are doing is generating HTML that looks like the usual JavaScript calls to AC_FL_RunContent (or swfobject if you are using that method). Basically, just take the Adobe-generated template and wrap the necessary bits and pieces round the edge to make it a proper JSP.
When you need to make calls to get functionality, just use something like
                    service = new HTTPService();
                    separator_date = new Date();
                    service.url = "get_tool_list.jsp?sep=" + separator_date.valueOf();
                    service.addEventListener(FaultEvent.FAULT , fault_handler);
                    service.addEventListener(ResultEvent.RESULT, resultHandler);
                    service.resultFormat = "text";
                    CursorManager.setBusyCursor();
                    service.requestTimeout = WEB_SERVICE_TIMEOUT;
                    service.send();
and then inside get_tool_list.jsp (or whatever...) do the server-side functionality you need, and return the result in a suitable format that the Flex resultHandler method can then interpret and make use of.
Hope that helps,
Richard