Tuesday 11 April 06
Now that I’ve got most of the webservices etc sorted out for the JoinIn enterprise database, I started to look at creating the standalone interface for doing the grouping. I started off by creating a blanks struts application (on Tomcat 4.1- as I had been using for the JoinIN enterprise database), but soon noticed that I can’t use the filters in the servlet 2.3 spec that I’d have liked to have used for the page layout (header & footer), the reason being that the struts framework uses a forward to map the action in the URL to the actual jsp page. This functionality is only available in servlet spec 2.4, which then also means upgrading to Tomcat 5.5.
So, after a bit of ‘fun’, I’ve got both the JoinIn enterprise database/webservice and the standalone grouping interface now running on tomcat 5.5 on my tablet PC. I now need to make sure that I update the tomcat on our dev server and get both the apps running correctly on that too.
How a datasource is configured in tomcat 5.5 is slightly different to tomcat 4.1 too. Rather than creating a joinindb.xml file in the webapps folder to store the context data, this file must now be within the META-INF directory, called context.xml.
