Re: war file sought
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Arne Vajh?j wrote:
Roedy Green wrote:
On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:31:05 -0700, Daniel Pitts
<newsgroup.spamfilter@virtualinfinity.net> wrote, quoted or indirectly
quoted someone who said :
I have received an offer of such a file by email.
I don't believe you need a server to build a war file. You only need a
server to *use* it.
It would be a multi-day job to set up a server, build a small app, and
make sure it all works. I hoped somebody had already done that. It
seems plausible. Creating a mini-app is a common way to get familiar
with new tools.
download Tomcat
unzip it
run startup script
copy war to web apps dir
= download time + a few minutes
Except it actually went:
go to Jetty site
find out Jetty has moved to Eclipse
hunt for download page
download and unpack
read docs
write shell script to start Jetty
work out which options i need to select at startup
write WAR file contents
hunt around to find where on my system there's a servlet API JAR
hunt for info on how to set the context root for the webapp
write script to build WAR
build WAR and deploy
figure out why it's not working
fix script to build WAR properly
It took more than a few minutes - but only a couple of hours.
The next phase is to get Wicket involved. Step one will be to find some
instructions for setup that don't involve maven, since i hate maven with a
passion.
tom
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