XSQL and BEA Weblogic 6.1

Question

I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to configure
the XSQL servlet to run on BEA Weblogic 6.1
It is really simple once you understand that you should work
off expanded directory instead of trying to get a .war or .ear
file uploaded.
I decided to give my explanation to help others...
This works with the current XDK (9.0.2.0.0D) on OTN and I got it
running on Windows 2000 and/or Solaris.
I based these instructions on Steve Muench for
"ANN Deploy Oracle XSQL Pages to OC4J" off the OTN web site.
1) get the latest xdk_java off the OTN web site.
2) create a directory (or subdirectory) named xsql (to hold the entire application
3) create /xsql/META-INF
/xsql/WEB-INF
/xsql/WEB-INF/lib
/xsql/WEB-INF/classes
structure to hold the XSQL servlet
4) create a /xsql/META-INF/application.xml with the following code:
<!DOCTYPE application PUBLIC '-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD J2EE Application 1.2//EN'
'http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/application_1_2.dtd'>
<application>
<display-name>Oracle XSQL Servlet</display-name>
<description>Oracle XSQL Servlet</description>
<module>
<web>
<web-uri>xsql.war</web-uri>
<context-root>xsql</context-root>
</web>
</module>
</application>
5) create the file /xsql/WEB-INF/web.xml with the following content
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE web-app
PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.2//EN"
"http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2.2.dtd">
<web-app>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>oracle-xsql-servlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>oracle.xml.xsql.XSQLServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>oracle-xsql-servlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.xsql</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>oracle-xsql-servlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/xsql/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
6)extract the xdk_java (that you copied from the OTN) on a temporary directory. (/otn)
7) copy the following files (they are in the /otn/lib subdirectory) into /xsql/WEB-INF/lib
oraclexsql.jar
xsqlserializers.jar
xmlparserv2.jar
xsu12.jar
8) copy /otn/xdk/admin/XSQLConfig.xml to xsql/WEB-INF/classes
9) copy the entire directory and subdir /otn/xdk/demo/java/xsql to /xsql/demo
10) no need to create a war or ear file as Weblogic will work better from the expanded directory
anyway and it is simpler to implement.
11) Now you need to copy that entire directory structure /xsql over to the Weblogic Application Server
config/domain-name/applications area so in my case it is
/bea/wlserver6.1/config/your_domain/applications/xsql
12) If Weblogic is running in development mode, it should deploy and load the servlet automatically.
If it is running in production mode, then we would need to restart it.
13) You should be able to test this with http://your_host:7001/xsql/demo/index.html
Any URL that specifies the /xsql will then be treated by the
XSQL Servlet.
It works for me...

Answer 1

Hi Denis,
I followed your procedure to deploy XSQL Servlet on WebLogic 6.1. First I deployed as expanded directory structure although I turned 'Auto Deployed Enabled' flag to on for my domain, WebLogic couldn't pick up the application. Then I tried to create ear application and deployed it (In your message you are saying that don't need to create ear or war, you mean this is not just a necessity or it never could be deployed as ear/war files). I saw on the as deployed on console but when I tried the http://myhost:7001/xsql/demo/index.html, I got the following error message.
Oracle XDK Java 9.2.0.2.0 Production
XSQL-013: XSQL Page URI is null or has an invalid format.
Oracle XDK Java 9.2.0.2.0 Production
XSQL-013: XSQL Page URI is null or has an invalid format.
Can you help me to trouble shoot this problem? Thank you very much
Deha Peker