Re: Deploying WebPad as a webapp in tomcat

From:
"Andrew Thompson" <u32984@uwe>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Thu, 10 May 2007 05:49:36 GMT
Message-ID:
<71f413292d131@uwe>
Keith Beef wrote:

..

I have a bit of a problem with something I'm trying to do with Java,

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as an application, launched via web start? (where) On the
server, or on the client?


I expected to see an HTML page with a link, on clicking on the link the
jnlp should start up the WebPad application on the client machine.


OK.. this one I presume..
<http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/relnotes/samples.html#webpad>
..it can be run in a sandbox..

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid <url-pattern> publish in servlet mapping
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.addServletMapping(StandardContext.java:2385)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.addServletMapping(StandardContext.java:2361)
... 46 more

Now I know that Tomcat is picky, and wants UNIX-style directory separators ..


No, it is actually wanting 'URL style', ..

..even though this is being deployed on a Windows OS (i.e. / and not \).


..which is, and always was, '/' in all situations, on all OS'.

I suggest you work to getting this web pad working from a
web page before worrying about figuring what is wrong with
the WAR based deployment. Do you have a publicly
accessible server? Can you put up a test web page
(pure uncompressed HTML) with a link to the JNLP?

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Andrew Thompson
http://www.athompson.info/andrew/

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