Hi Pierre,
the launch stuff is work in progress. In the future there will be two
tabs:
- one for NSProjectSearchPath, DWORootDirectory and so on
- one for the arguments with a checkbox for each argument to
enable/disable it.
(Thats the reason for the empty WO+ tab.)
Ulrich
Am Dienstag, 04.02.03 um 18:04 Uhr schrieb Pierre Bernard:
> Hi Ulrich!
>
> After hunting down the problem for a full day, I came to the
> conclusion that I misunderstood the problem right from the beginning.
>
> I had added a WOPort value in my properies file which my application
> was not seeing. Thus I concluded it did not find the Properties file.
>
> In the end it turns out that id does find and read the file. The
> problem is that the run configuration created by WOLips adds a
> WOPort=1 parameter which overrides the value found in my Properties
> file.
>
> So in the end I'd vote for WOLips not to generate default values for
> optional arguments. What do you think?
>
> Pierre.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ulrich Köster [mailto:ulric..ssense.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 5:34 PM
> To: Pierre Bernard
> Cc: woproject-de..bjectstyle.org
> Subject: Re: Recommended way for launching an app with WOLips
>
>
> Hi Pierre,
>
> I would recommend this way to launch your WOApp:
>
> Select the application class in the left.
> Select Run->Run... from the menu.
> Create a new WOApplication or ProfiledWOApplication launch
> configuration.
>
> Click run.
>
> This will set
> - the application class name
> - the DWORoot if required on your plattform
> - the NSProjectSearchPath (rapid turnaround mode for applications and
> frameworks)
> - the working directory
> for you.
>
> The next time you can choose this configuration from the debug and
> launch buttons in the wolips perspective. The little triangles will
> open a popup with list of your launch configurations.
>
> I will take a llok at the application jar problem.
>
> Ulrich
>
> Am Dienstag, 04.02.03 um 17:18 Uhr schrieb Pierre Bernard:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I am wondering what is the recommended way of launching an application
>> with WOLips. Besides using the generated Apple-style launcher scripts
>> I have determined two methods.
>>
>> First, the easy one: create a run configuration with the name of the
>> application class specified as a main class. Strightforward. Drawback:
>> differs notably from Apple's way of launching the application. Most
>> importantly, the custom bootstrap class is not used. Thus the
>> WebObjects extensions directory is ignored.
>>
>> This is not a straightforward as it sound as the run configuration has
>> to be slightly modified in order to work correctly:
>>
>> - The WORootDirectory needs to be set for auto-open in browser to work
>> (Windows only?)
>> - The projects JAR file from the .woa directory need to be added to
>> the classpath for WOComponents to find their classes
>>
>> With these modifications, the run configuration no longer updates
>> manually to reflect classpath changes.
>>
>> Second: Use Apple's class loader by applying the folowing procedure:
>>
>> 1. Modify the build.xml file in your application project to specify
>> the fully qualified name of your application class. This is also
>> required for WOLips to correctly generate the standard launch scripts.
>>
>> 2. Change your run configuration to include the WOBootstrap.jar file
>> from your project's .woa in the classpath
>>
>> 3. Set the main class of your run configuration to
>> "com.webobjects._bootstrap.WOBootstrap". One main class to rule them
>> all!
>>
>> This closely resembles Apple's way of starting the application.
>> However there are still a few oddities:
>>
>> - Again, one needs to modify the default classpath
>> - The WORootDirectory needs to be set for auto-open in browser to work
>> (Windows only?)
>> - One needs to add a few VM arguments: -DWOPlatform=Windows
>> -DWOLocalRootDirectory=D:\Apple\Local -DWORootDirectory=D:\Apple
>> - Stripping down the classpath to only WOBoostrap.jar does not seem to
>> work
>>
>>
>> Any thoughts, comments or suggestions?
>>
>> Why doesn't WOLips define the WOPlatform, WOLocalRootDirectory,
>> WORootDirectory and WOUserDirectory properties?
>>
>> Why doesn't WOLips include the generated JAR file in the default
>> classpath?
>>
>>
>> Best
>> Pierre Bernard
>>
>>
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