Comments on: Deploying WebObjects under Tomcat

By: Edward

Edward — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:17:55 +0000

I’m trying to deploy a Project Wonder app in Tomcat under Windows. I built my app’s WAR in Eclipse+WOLips. When i’m launching Tomcat after moving the WAR to the webapps folder i’m getting this exception:

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Servlet /HelloWonderWorld threw load() exception
javax.servlet.UnavailableException: Can’t find application bundle. You can either define WOROOT, LOCALROOT and WOAINSTALLROOT as Java system properties (e.g. in your application server’s launch script as command line arguments) or in the application Deployment Descriptor file (web.xml).
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From what i can tell all paths point to the right directories where i keep all the WO frameworks. I’ve been messing around with those variables for quite some time now without success.

Any hints on that?

Thx!

By: check_writer

check_writer — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

So I’m curious about doing this on Linux. Any idea whether it will work, or even on Windows 2003. I’m thinking about deploying WO 5.3 on both platforms any pointers or guidance?

thanks.

By: D'Arcy

D'Arcy — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Should work fine on Linux, Windows, or anything else that can run Tomcat as a container. The biggest thing I’d watch out for is paths and environment variables. A little trial and error should get you going.

Another developer on the Pachyderm project has been able to get the app running just fine on Windows and Linux, just by running the .woa as a service (on it’s own, without Tomcat). Not sure how that will scale, but it’s another option.

By: check_writer

check_writer — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Great!!! do you have a contact email for the Pachyderm project developer? I’m about to embark on doing this and i need as much help as possible as i’m facing a deadline.

thanks!

By: check_writer

check_writer — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

I tried moving my .woa files (which works well and good on OSX) to an windows 2004 server and made sure the Jars in use where also copied and accessible etc. However when i tried just running the myapplication.cmd script it hits an error that looks like this:

Any pointers from the pachyderm developer (if you can put me in touch with him/her) would be greatly appreciated.

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[2006-04-12 21:03:44 EDT] Unable to initialize WOProperties for reason: C
annot find JavaWebObjects framework ! java.lang.NullPointerException
[2006-04-12 21:03:44 EDT] A fatal exception occurred: null: : Cannot be initialized.
[2006-04-12 21:03:44 EDT] com.webobjects.foundation.NSForwardException fo
r java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.webobjects.appserver._private.WOProperties.initUserDefaultsKeys(W
OProperties.java:188)
at com.webobjects.appserver.WOApplication._initWOApp(WOApplication.java:
5081)
at com.webobjects.appserver.WOApplication.(WOApplication.java:551)

at Application.(Application.java:24)
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By: D'Arcy

D'Arcy — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

You could try posting to the Sourceforge project for Pachyderm…

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pachyderm/