.WAR FILE

Question

HI,
I am completely new to the weblogic environment - these are the set of questions
that i have -
ANY HELPIS GREATLY APPRECIATED
i am using weblogic version 5.1 running on windows NT 4.0
1.Do we need to create .WAR file for development( documentation says .WAR is
needed only for deployment)
     (Though my jsp's are under the document root directory i am not able to access
them if i do not have the .WAR file created)
2.Relating to the .WAR file - is this entry necessary for development in the weblogic.properties
file
     #weblogic.httpd.webApp.SVI=c:/weblogic/myserver/SVI/SVI.war(where SVI is the
app name)
3.Does weblogic5.1 support jsp 0.92(the behaviour here is not consistent - with
old tags we get to work attimes and with new tag attimes - also i see examples
within weblogic which uses jsp 0.92)
4.What should be location of the .class file(the compiled code for servlets) in
the directory structure.(inside web-inf directory there are two locations right
now we have
     the compiled code - one under web-inf/classes directory and one under tmpwar_SVI
- which weblogic creates - is it necessary to be in two locations)

Answer 1

"sundari" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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HI,
I am completely new to the weblogic environment - these are the set ofquestions
that i have -
ANY HELPIS GREATLY APPRECIATED
i am using weblogic version 5.1 running on windows NT 4.0
1.Do we need to create .WAR file for development( documentation says .WARis
needed only for deployment)
(Though my jsp's are under the document root directory i am not able toaccess
them if i do not have the .WAR file created)That shouldn't be the case.
As long as you have correctly defined your JSP properties, you should be
able to pick up a JSP; for example, taking from examples/jsp/HelloWorld.jsp,
placing it in your document root and calling
http://server_address:port/HelloWorld.jsp should display the page. Do you
have a proxy server in front without having defined a handler for JSPs? Or
perhaps your JSP properties are not correctly defined. Have you looked at:
http://www.weblogic.com/docs51/classdocs/API_jsp.html
>
2.Relating to the .WAR file - is this entry necessary for development inthe weblogic.properties
file
#weblogic.httpd.webApp.SVI=c:/weblogic/myserver/SVI/SVI.war(where SVI isthe
app name)On 5.1, to deploy the webapp, it is necessary to add this property to define
the context name and its location.
>
3.Does weblogic5.1 support jsp 0.92(the behaviour here is not consistent -with
old tags we get to work attimes and with new tag attimes - also i seeexamples
within weblogic which uses jsp 0.92)WLS 5.1 uses JSP 1.1. Whether this fully allows usage of 0.92, I'm not
entirely sure. I do see some mention of the useBean tag from 0.92 within
the 1.1 spec.. Other than that, I'm inclined to believe that you would have
problems in this respect.
>
4.What should be location of the .class file(the compiled code forservlets) in
the directory structure.(inside web-inf directory there are two locationsright
now we have
the compiled code - one under web-inf/classes directory and one under
tmpwar_SVI
- which weblogic creates - is it necessary to be in two locations)WEB-INF/classes/* is where the servlet and utility classes should reside.
Patrick