Tomcat 3.3, 4.x, 5.x ExperShop release notes
This document gives an example of a Tomcat 3.3 configuration for ExperShop (also applicable to Tomcat 4.x and 5.x):
It requires a basic knowledge of the Tomcat configuration process
- including what Tomcat is, what the organization
of a servlet application looks like (and particularly the directory tree
involved in a .war file) and where these elements should be.
Web Application install (.war packaging)
- Copy expershop.war in tomcat's webapps directory. On Windows, this file
may appear as "expershop.war.zip": if so, rename it "expershop.war".
- Restart tomcat
- Contact http://hostname:8080/expershop
If it works, you're done with the install.
Classical install (No .war packaging)
The main tasks involved in a Tomcat configuration are:
-
Copy all required jar files in the lib/common directory (expershop.jar, openeas.jar, xapool.jar, log4j.jar and hsqldb.jar from the expershop/WEB-INF/lib directory) so Tomcat finds the ExperShop servlets in its CLASSPATH.
-
Create a webapps/expershop/WEB-INF/web.xml file, and declare ExperSHOP servlets
there.
What to put in webapps/expershop/WEB-INF/web.xml
Note: the following example uses unix-style paths. On Windows, the right path
to put in the "init-param" tag could be (note the duplicate \ characters):
c:\\ExperSHOP\\EShopWin.cfg
Sample web.xml file content:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE web-app
PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.2//EN"
"http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2_2.dtd">
<web-app>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>
com.expershop.lite.ExperSHOP
</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>
com.expershop.lite.ExperSHOP
</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>SHOPCONFIG</param-name>
<param-value>/usr/local/expershop/EShop.cfg</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>
1
</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
</web-app>
Contact the ExperSHOP servlets
http://yourhost:8080/servlet/com.expershop.lite.ExperSHOP
http://yourhost:8080/servlet/com.expershop.lite.ESAdminServlet