How I deploy simple JSP to OC4J?

[Equis Uno]

Hi,

How I deploy simple JSP to OC4J?

I started by installing OC4J ( Version J2EE 10g (9.0.4.0.0) ) on the
target machine:


Next, I fired up JDeveloper on the target machine and created a simple
default JSP.

I ran it from JDeveloper with no problem.

Next, I looked for clues in the JDeveloper HELP section on how to
deploy this JSP to my newly installed OC4J.

I found a section: "Deploying Web Applications to Standalone OC4J".

I created a 'Deployment Profile' using the wizard interface; I picked
all defaults.

It created a node called 'webapp1.deploy'.

I created an 'Application Server Connection'.
The connection wizard filled in these key-value-pairs for me:

URL ormi://targetbox/
Target Web Site http-web-site
Local directory /usr/oracle/jdev/j2ee/home
of admin.jar

I successfully tested it.

Next, I right clicked on the webapp1.deploy icon and picked the
'deploy to...' option which pointed to the new
'Application Server Connection' I had just created.

It reacted by starting an 'Embedded OC4J Server' inside of JDeveloper.

At this point I become uncertain.
I got no feed back from JDeveloper and the help documentation did
not give me any clues on what I was supposed to look for.

I looked at the OC4J instance on the target machine and found no
evidence that the JSP had been deployed.

I looked in the project directory and did find newly created EAR and
WAR files.

I wonder how am I supposed to deploy a simple JSP to OC4J?

I'm used to dealing with Tomcat, and although the process is mildly
complex,
it is documented and it is not wizard driven.

-moi

[Equis Uno]

Hi,

here is the version of JDeveloper I'm using:
9.0.3.1 (build 1107)

-moi

[Hans Forbrich]

Equis Uno wrote: Hi, How I deploy simple JSP to OC4J?

Have you looked at Oracle Examples and Sample code?

http://otn.oracle.com/obe/start/index.html

or

http://otn.oracle.com >> Samples (icon at top of page)

[Equis Uno]

Hans Forbrich <hforbric@yahoo.net> wrote in message Have you looked at Oracle Examples and Sample code? http://otn.oracle.com/obe/start/index.html or http://otn.oracle.com >> Samples (icon at top of page)

Yes,
OBE and sample code dig into this a little deeper.
They suggest that JDeveloper is wrapping a call to admin.jar.

Here is some command line syntax they give:

java -jar admin.jar ormi://<host>:<ormi-port> <uid> <pwd> -deploy
-file xyz.ear -deploymentName xyz

Question 1: How do I find out what the ormi-port is?
When I do a netstat -a I see the web server listening on 8888.
Is that the right port?

-moi

[Equis Uno]

ok,
I figured this out.
First, I found out that the admin.jar shipped with my JDeveoper is
incompatible with the OC4J 9.0.4.
The bad admin.jar gives a NullPointer Exc.

Next, I found out that the ormi port is 23791.

I dug some of this out of the documentation.

The OBE and the OTN samples were not helpful.

The doc url:
http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10464_01/web.904/b10321/deploy.htm#1023242

After editing the properties of both the connection and the deployment
description, I got it to work.

Also I found out that not one but two command lines get issued.
Only one is displayed in the log window though.

Here is a command line which I scrapped out of the
JDeveloper log window:

/usr/oracle/X/jdk/jre/bin/java -jar
/usr/oracle/oc4j/j2ee/home/admin.jar ormi://localhost:23791/ admin
oc4j -deploy -file /pt/trading/bibeans/ws01121/deploy/webapp1.ear
-deploymentName webapp1

So, once I got the wrinkles ironed out of JDeveloper, it seemed like a
worthy tool for deploying JSPs on a servlet container. It was
certainly much easier than the deployment methods I need to follow for
Tomcat.

-moi