Trying to build a 'real' deployment of OPS-based application, but failing somewhere!

>
> We have been experimenting with OPS for a couple of months, and are now
> looking to deploy it in a 'real-ish' situation, to provide a small number of
> xml-based services for our clients.  To try to achieve this, I have a local
> installation of Tomcat 5.5.17, to which I have deployed OPS, by, broadly,
> following the instructions in a ops-users mailing list response from Erik
> Bruchez from 16th February, 2006.  Specifically, I have taken the following
> steps (in Windows XP Pro SP2):
>
>
> Extracted the HEAD from cvsroot/ops at objectweb.org CVS site
> Followed the build instructions in documentation (and from ops-users) to
> build a war file
> Extracted the contents of the war file to a new directory
> Removed the directories from this directory, as indicated in Erik's response
> on ops-users, namely:
>
> xforms-jsp (and subdirectories)
> WEB-INF/resources/examples
> WEB-INF/resources/examples-portal
> WEB-INF/resources/examples-standalone
> WEB-INF/resources/init-database
> (I left the WEB-INF/resources/context directory, partly because I wasn't
> sure what it did.)
>
>
> Added a directory WEB-INF/resources/irs with some of our resources, and
> modified the page-flow.xml file in the WEB-INF/resources directory, to point
> to the new directory.
> Copied the whole of this directory into the Tomcat webapps directory as a
> new ops subdirectory.
> Started up Tomcat locally
> As this stage, Tomcat reports the ops web-app is started (good), but when I
> open the browser (Firefox, although tried with IE too), I get the startup
> screen for the OPS examples portal (the one with the list of examples down
> the left-hand side, and 'Welcome to the OPS Examples' title).  Didn't I just
> remove this page?, I think.  But, I carry on regardless, and select Controls
> from under Must-See XForms from the menu on the left.  As if by magic, the
> XForms example with the tabs and many XForms controls comes up (!).  If I
> then click on the VIEW SOURCE link at the top of the page, an OPS error page
> comes up, with the message "Cannot read from file
> /examples/xforms/xforms-controls/example-descriptor-files.xml".
>  Well, that's a very reasonable message, because none of the files that make
> up the examples are there.  The question is, From where has it located the
> examples start-up screen, and the Controls XForms view?  And why does it not
> get the page flow details for our own pages?
>
> I did suspect that, somehow, the browser's cache had interfered, but I
> cleared the cache completely, and get the same result.  It's obvious I'm
> missing something very simple, but, as always, the simplest things are the
> most frustrating ...
>
>
> Nigel Harrison
>  LeSoftCo Limited
>  UK
>
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> Alex:
>
> Thanks for your reply.  I checked, and there is certainly no examples
> directory under WEB-INF/resources (although there is, both in the
> Eclipse workspace for the ops CVS, and in the directory I unzipped the
> war file to.  However, I have noticed this text in the Tomcat startup
> sequence (in the stdout):
>
> Starting PresentationServer Release 3.0.1.200607031854
> Initializing Resource Manager with:
> {org.orbeon.oxf.resources.WebAppResourceMana
> gerImplServletContext=org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContextFacade@14d1d41,
>
>  oxf.resources.priority.2=org.orbeon.oxf.resources.ClassLoaderResourceManagerFac
>
> tory,
> oxf.resources.factory=org.orbeon.oxf.resources.PriorityResourceManagerFact
> ory,
> oxf.resources.filesystem.sandbox-directory=C:\eclipse\workspace\orbeon/src/
> examples/web,
> oxf.resources.priority.3=org.orbeon.oxf.resources.WebAppResourceMa
> nagerFactory,
> oxf.resources.priority.1=org.orbeon.oxf.resources.FilesystemResour
> ceManagerFactory, oxf.resources.webapp.rootdir=/WEB-INF/resources}
> IN CONFIGURE
> cluster.journal.maxStore 65000
> cluster.journal.shift 100
> 04-Jul-2006 18:36:56 org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol start
> (98 %)
> INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
> 04-Jul-2006 18:36:57 org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket init
> INFO: JK: ajp13 listening on /0.0.0.0:8009
> 04-Jul-2006 18:36:57 org.apache.jk.server.JkMain start
> INFO: Jk running ID=0 time=0/125  config=null
> 04-Jul-2006 18:36:57 org.apache.catalina.storeconfig.StoreLoader load
> INFO: Find registry server-registry.xml at classpath resource
> 04-Jul-2006 18:36:57 org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
> INFO: Server startup in 9906 ms
>
> I just noticed the part of this in the 'Initializing Resource Manager
> with: ...' line that has the following
> "oxf.resources.filesystem.sandbox-directory=C:\eclipse\workspace\orbeon/src/"
> -- where is this coming from?  And how does the Resource Manager go
> about searching for resources?
>
> I could just load the whole ops webapp directory into a running Tomcat
> on a proper (I mean, LInux, really) server, and not inside our LAN.
>  What do you think?
>
> And, in case I wasn't clear in my last message, we like everything we
> see in OPS :-)
>
> Regards
>
> Nigel
> examples/web
>
> Nigel Harrison
>
>
> [hidden email] wrote on 05/07/2006 20:47:09:
>
>  > Hi Nigel,
>  >
>  > The list of examples displayed on the left in the "examples portal"
>  > comes from examples/examples-list.xml. So it is quite surprising that
>  > you would have that list displayed after you removed the whole
>  > examples directory.
>  >
>  > Could it be possible that you removed another 'examples' directory,
>  > not the one used by Tomcat and the instance of PresentationServer you
>  > are hitting?
>  >
>  > Alex
>  >
>  > On 7/5/06, [hidden email] <Nigel_Harrison@lesoftco.
>  > co.uk> wrote:
>  > >
>  > > We have been experimenting with OPS for a couple of months, and are now
>  > > looking to deploy it in a 'real-ish' situation, to provide a
> smallnumber of
>  > > xml-based services for our clients.  To try to achieve this, I have
> a local
>  > > installation of Tomcat 5.5.17, to which I have deployed OPS, by,
> broadly,
>  > > following the instructions in a ops-users mailing list response
> from Erik
>  > > Bruchez from 16th February, 2006.  Specifically, I have taken the
> following
>  > > steps (in Windows XP Pro SP2):
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > Extracted the HEAD from cvsroot/ops at objectweb.org CVS site
>  > > Followed the build instructions in documentation (and from
> ops-users) to
>  > > build a war file
>  > > Extracted the contents of the war file to a new directory
>  > > Removed the directories from this directory, as indicated in Erik's
> response
>  > > on ops-users, namely:
>  > >
>  > > xforms-jsp (and subdirectories)
>  > > WEB-INF/resources/examples
>  > > WEB-INF/resources/examples-portal
>  > > WEB-INF/resources/examples-standalone
>  > > WEB-INF/resources/init-database
>  > > (I left the WEB-INF/resources/context directory, partly because I
> wasn't
>  > > sure what it did.)
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > Added a directory WEB-INF/resources/irs with some of our resources, and
>  > > modified the page-flow.xml file in the WEB-INF/resources directory,
> to point
>  > > to the new directory.
>  > > Copied the whole of this directory into the Tomcat webapps
> directory as a
>  > > new ops subdirectory.
>  > > Started up Tomcat locally
>  > > As this stage, Tomcat reports the ops web-app is started (good),
> but when I
>  > > open the browser (Firefox, although tried with IE too), I get the
> startup
>  > > screen for the OPS examples portal (the one with the list of
> examples down
>  > > the left-hand side, and 'Welcome to the OPS Examples' title).
>  Didn't I just
>  > > remove this page?, I think.  But, I carry on regardless, and select
> Controls
>  > > from under Must-See XForms from the menu on the left.  As if by
> magic, the
>  > > XForms example with the tabs and many XForms controls comes up (!).
>  If I
>  > > then click on the VIEW SOURCE link at the top of the page, an OPS
> error page
>  > > comes up, with the message "Cannot read from file
>  > > /examples/xforms/xforms-controls/example-descriptor-files.xml".
>  > >  Well, that's a very reasonable message, because none of the
> filesthat make
>  > > up the examples are there.  The question is, From where has it
> located the
>  > > examples start-up screen, and the Controls XForms view?  And why
> does it not
>  > > get the page flow details for our own pages?
>  > >
>  > > I did suspect that, somehow, the browser's cache had interfered, but I
>  > > cleared the cache completely, and get the same result.  It's
> obvious I'm
>  > > missing something very simple, but, as always, the simplest things
> are the
>  > > most frustrating ...
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > Nigel Harrison
>  > >  LeSoftCo Limited
>  > >  UK
>  > >
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>
> Ryan:
>
> Thanks for your help.  I could make your suggestion work, and I could
> also use the xforms-value-changed event.  One question: is there
> somewhere I can found out what events are supported in OPS: I did
> discover that xforms-checked/xforms-unchecked didn't seem to work
> (although that could just be my lack of knowledge, of course).
>
> Regards
>
> Nigel Harrison
> LeSoftCo Limited
>
>
> Ryan Puddephatt <[hidden email]> wrote on 09/07/2006 18:15:46:
>
>  > Nigel,
>  >             You could set a value on the xforms-focus-in/xforms-
>  > focus-out event of the select1 control, based on the value of this
>  > element you could change the whether the textarea was relevant. The
>  > only problem I can see is when selecting the textarea you will lose
>  > focus of the select1 control and it will become non-relevant
>  >  
>  > Hope this helps
>  >  
>  > Ryan
>  >  
>  > Ryan Puddephatt
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>  > From: [hidden email]
> [mailto:[hidden email]]
>  > Sent: 09 July 2006 18:03
>  > To: [hidden email]
>  > Subject: [ops-users] How do I get a 'relevant' attribute to be re-
>  > evaluated after a form change?
>  >  
>  >
>  > All:
>  >
>  > I have a form, with a select1 element with a single item subelement.
>  > A related textarea has a bind which requires the select1 to be
>  > selected to become 'relevant'.  How do I do about triggering the
>  > textarea control to be displayed, when the select1 is selected, please?
>  >
>  > Regards
>  >
>  > Nigel Harrison
>  > LeSoftCo Limited
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> Hi,
>
> I would like to send a client request from Orbeon to a SOAP webservice using
> the SOAP Messages with Attachments spec
> (http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP-attachments). The attachments consist of Word and
> pdf docs uploaded via a file upload controls. Is this supported by Orbeon
> and is there an example available ?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Tom Ferdinande
> http://www.encima.be
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