Deploying Orbeon OPS as a separate WebApp

With Adrian's help, I was able to deploy Orbeon OPS as its own WebApp in
Tomcat, and forward requests from an existing servlet to it.
The advantage of this approach is that it isolates the Orbeon JAR files
from the existing WebApp's JAR files, and prevents conflicts.

Submission doesn't yet work (it gets a JavaScript error), and the URL
rewriting causes a big mess that I don't understand.
But the approach in general seems to work.

Attached are my instructions for how I did it.  It's not a general
solution, but more an exploratin into what it would take.
The parts that I wrote are minimal configuration and string changes, and
are released as public domain.

I believe that this method of deployment would be of great advantage in
Orbeon adoption, and would like to discuss how to move forward with
finishing it.

Leigh.


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Leigh,

Thanks for all this work!

I guess now we should review your document and see how we can integrated
this in Orbeon Forms. For now I have entered an RFE:

http://forge.objectweb.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=306641&group_id=168&atid=350207

-Erik

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http://www.orbeon.com/



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Leigh,

As a follow-up slightly related to your post: the URL rewriting doc has
been updated recently:

   http://www.orbeon.com/ops/doc/reference-url-rewriting

(I cannot comment yet about why you hit URL rewriting issues.)

-Erik

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http://www.orbeon.com/



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Thank you Erik -- that confirms my limited understanding.  The URL rewriting is made unnecessary by the servlet integration I've done -- all relative URLs are made to work transparently because the XHTML+XForms that gets converted into HTML+JavaScript is served up under what the page thinks is its original URL, and the /op string never appears in the document's URL.

Unfortunately, when I removed the rewriting from the pipeline, the internally generated references to resources such as images and JavaScript used by OPS XForms stopped working.

So this will take some care on your part, I'm sure.  But I believe the ability to serve up XHTML+XForms completely transparently (preserving the existing application's URLs) is worth it...it's certainly necessary for me.

Leigh.

Erik Bruchez wrote

Leigh,

As a follow-up slightly related to your post: the URL rewriting doc has
been updated recently:

   http://www.orbeon.com/ops/doc/reference-url-rewriting

(I cannot comment yet about why you hit URL rewriting issues.)

-Erik