JSPs in JBoss

[aggressivefish]

I've been using JRun up to this point and the development environment was already set up. I want to start using JBoss to run my JSPs but wasn't sure where I should put them. Is there a specific directory I should put them? Is there a way to point to another directory to access them? Which approach would be more desirable? Do the JSPs have to be compiled beforehand? On JRun, it handles compilation on it's own. Thanks for any help in advance.

AF

[peterj]

Package them in a war file and copy the war file to the server/xxx/deploy directory. Or deploy them as an exploded directory in that same location. See http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=ExplodedDeployment

To specify a different directory, look at the URLs attribute in the last meban in sevrer/xxx/conf/jboss-service.xml.

[aggressivefish]

Thanks again Peter. I guess the layout is similar to JRun with the war and WEB-INFO directories. Couple of really stupid questions now:
when entering localhost:8080/ what path does that go to? The reason why I'm asking this is because the directory(ies) I thought i would lead to doesn't appear to. I tried to look at the document's properties for JBoss to get a filename or something but nothing in the properties gave much of a clue. I was trying to experiment with a simple JSP I had put it into the jmx-console.war but I wasn't sure if the errors I was getting was related to URL problems or with the setup of the JSP. Thanks again for any help/info you can spare.

AF

[aggressivefish]

Never mind Peter. I had been trying to put in jmx-console.war, didn't realize it but tried taking off the .war and it worked.

[aggressivefish]

Hi Peter,
I figured I would give this a try. I copied a simple JSP I had into another directory at the same level as the jmx-console.war one. I tried running the app (i.e. localhost:8080/TmpDir/testjsp.jsp) and the app ran fine. What are the benefits/ requirements of having the other directories in the .war directory (i.e. WEB-INF)?
I notcied that my .class files were going to a totally separate directory (...default/work/.......apache/jsp/). If I wanted to send just my .class files over to another computer without the .jsps in the main .war directory would I simply update the web.xml document with the path of the class file(s) or is there more to it? I tried removing the jsp altogether and leaving the classes (which I didn't think would work) and it didn't work (i.e. ole 404). Thanks again.

AF

[peterj]

I guess I am not sure what you are attempting to do. There is a lot of documentation available on the web regarding the layout of the war file. Read chapters 2-5 at http://pdf.moreservlets.com/ for fairly decent coverage.

[aggressivefish]

Peter,
Couple of hopefully quick questions. Where can I change the port number from 8080 to something else? How can I go about accessing (for example) the jmx-console directory without having to type in the computer name, colon, and the port number? Instead of mycomputer:8080/ being able to type mycomputer/? Appreciate the help once again.

AF

[peterj]

To change port number, see http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=JBossOnPort80 (a search of the wiki using the terms "port 80" would have found this for you)

To change the context, see http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=ChangeTheContextOfAWAR (a search of the wiki using the terms "change context" would have found this for you)

[aggressivefish]

Thanks Peter.