war file sought

[Roedy Green]

Does anyone have a tiny self-contained war file I could post in the
Java glossary to help people understand the structure and pieces
needed?

--
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
http://mindprod.com

"For reason that have a lot to do with US Government bureaucracy, we settled on the one issue everyone could agree on, which was weapons of mass destruction."
~ Paul Wolfowitz 2003-06, explaining how the Bush administration sold the Iraq war to a gullible public.

 

[Arne Vajhøj]

Does anyone have a tiny self-contained war file I could post in the
Java glossary to help people understand the structure and pieces
needed?

Why ask?

If the accompanying text is to have any value, then you need to
be able to create a valid one yourself.

And if you want a real one, then there are plenty of pre
packaged Java web apps available on the net.

Arne

 

[John B. Matthews]

Does anyone have a tiny self-contained war file I could post in the
Java glossary to help people understand the structure and pieces
needed?

You could link to a popular servlet container's examples:

<http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat/trunk/webapps/>

I think these are exploded archives, discussed here:

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_WAR_(file_format)>

 

[Roedy Green]

If the accompanying text is to have any value, then you need to
be able to create a valid one yourself.

And if you want a real one, then there are plenty of pre
packaged Java web apps available on the net.

I need permission to post it on my site. There is lots of detail
documentation on how to create one, but nothing beats a complete
example to pull it all together.

Ideally it would be a hello world like app that is well-commented.
--
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
http://mindprod.com

"The industrial civilisation is based on the consumption of energy resources that are inherently limited in quantity, and that are about to become scarce. When they do, competition for what remains will trigger dramatic economic and geopolitical events; in the end, it may be impossible for even a single nation to sustain industrialism as we have know it in the twentieth century."
~ Richard Heinberg, The Party’s Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies

 

[Arne Vajhøj]

I need permission to post it on my site.

Not if it is open source.

Arne

 

[Roedy Green]

If you've got any business providing a reference with respect to what a
.war file is, then you already know how to make a suitable one yourself.

I don't and I don't have the resources in energy or money to set up a
server to do it. Much as I roar at people on the net, physically I
have the energy of a 90 year old.

I have received an offer of such a file by email.
--
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
http://mindprod.com

"The industrial civilisation is based on the consumption of energy resources that are inherently limited in quantity, and that are about to become scarce. When they do, competition for what remains will trigger dramatic economic and geopolitical events; in the end, it may be impossible for even a single nation to sustain industrialism as we have know it in the twentieth century."
~ Richard Heinberg, The Party’s Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies

 

[Arne Vajhøj]

I don't and I don't have the resources in energy or money to set up a
server to do it.

I would assume Tomcat can run on any system capable of running
a modern browser/newsreader.

Arne

 

[Daniel Pitts]

I don't and I don't have the resources in energy or money to set up a
server to do it. Much as I roar at people on the net, physically I
have the energy of a 90 year old.

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.

And anyway, for testing purposes, many app containers (including free
ones) will run on less-than-stellar machines.

 

[Roedy Green]

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.
--
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
http://mindprod.com

"The industrial civilisation is based on the consumption of energy resources that are inherently limited in quantity, and that are about to become scarce. When they do, competition for what remains will trigger dramatic economic and geopolitical events; in the end, it may be impossible for even a single nation to sustain industrialism as we have know it in the twentieth century."
~ Richard Heinberg, The Party’s Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies

 

[Daniel Pitts]

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.

So far, its been a multi-day job begging for it

Download resin 3
Build your war
Install it
run it.

 

[Arne Vajhøj]

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

Arne

 

[Tom Anderson]

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

 

[Roedy Green]

Does anyone have a tiny self-contained war file I could post in the
Java glossary to help people understand the structure and pieces
needed?

I have one. It is now posted at
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/warfile.html
--
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
http://mindprod.com

"The industrial civilisation is based on the consumption of energy resources that are inherently limited in quantity, and that are about to become scarce. When they do, competition for what remains will trigger dramatic economic and geopolitical events; in the end, it may be impossible for even a single nation to sustain industrialism as we have know it in the twentieth century."
~ Richard Heinberg, The Party’s Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies

 

[Roedy Green]

Except it actually went:

Was this your first time with that womb or with any womb? What were
your expectations vs actual in the time required. These are jobs
become utterly trivial if you have already done them a few times.

How much documentation came with your womb. How much of it did you
read? How did you know which parts to read? The usual problem is
being overwhelmed with detail. Buried in there somewhere are the 10
important facts you need.

I did this at the request of some stranger who emailed me. I have no
need of a war file personally. I did this as a favour to the
computing community. Some of you treat what I did as a crime.

Try doing this when you are continually on the verge of throwing up.
It is hard to concentrate. Things that I could have done with my eyes
closed before seem like requests to climb Everest.

If somebody already had such a file, (which turned out to be true),
they could provide it with very little effort. When it all done it
look utterly trivial, but we all know how much time you can waste to
labour to produce a mouse when the docs are aimed at someone producing
a magnum opus.

The result is at http://mindprod.com/jgloss/warfile.html
--
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
http://mindprod.com

"The industrial civilisation is based on the consumption of energy resources that are inherently limited in quantity, and that are about to become scarce. When they do, competition for what remains will trigger dramatic economic and geopolitical events; in the end, it may be impossible for even a single nation to sustain industrialism as we have know it in the twentieth century."
~ Richard Heinberg, The Party’s Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies