No context available tools like psi-probe

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Ilja,

> Tools like psi-probe http://code.google.com/p/psi-probe/ wont show a
> context-descriptor for the standard orbeon.war
>
> Any idea why?

i think there's no need for special context settings when using the
default install. If special configurations are required, the easiest way
may be:

- create a context fragment holding the required definitions, e.g. a
realm to authenticate users using LDAP;
- create a META-INF directory on the same level as WEB-INF in the orbeon
war;
- and put the context fragment (named context.xml) into the META-INF
dir.

I use such a LDAP authentication config in my own app, and psi-probe
displays that context fragment without problems.

HTH
florian




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Hi Florian,
good idea. But that means touching the original war file.
I'd prefer to, by example, attach a sandbox directory for *outside* a
completely untouched orbeon.war.
I want to avoid unpacking orbeon.war and repackage it with a differen META-INF
as tomcat6 has the availability to put a file in
catalina/localhost/orbeon.xml.

Is repackaging with a META-INF directory really necessary?

Regards Ilja Werner


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Von: Florian Schmitt [mailto:[hidden email]]
Gesendet: Freitag, 18. Februar 2011 13:00
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Betreff: [ops-users] Re: No context available tools like psi-probe

Ilja,

> Tools like psi-probe http://code.google.com/p/psi-probe/ wont show a
> context-descriptor for the standard orbeon.war
>
> Any idea why?

i think there's no need for special context settings when using the default
install. If special configurations are required, the easiest way may be:

- create a context fragment holding the required definitions, e.g. a realm to
authenticate users using LDAP;
- create a META-INF directory on the same level as WEB-INF in the orbeon war;
- and put the context fragment (named context.xml) into the META-INF dir.

I use such a LDAP authentication config in my own app, and psi-probe displays
that context fragment without problems.

HTH
florian






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Hi Ilja,

> good idea. But that means touching the original war file.
> I'd prefer to, by example, attach a sandbox directory for *outside* a
> completely untouched orbeon.war.
> I want to avoid unpacking orbeon.war and repackage it with a differen META-INF
> as tomcat6 has the availability to put a file in
> catalina/localhost/orbeon.xml.
>
> Is repackaging with a META-INF directory really necessary?

hmm - i'm not a tomcat expert, but i think it should work without
repackaging. In my own app, i have to repackage the war anyway, because
the navigation is based on page-flow and XPLs, so in my case dropping
the context descriptor into the META-INF is the easiest way.

I've just tried to add a custom context descriptor to a nightly
orbeon-CE war, and it worked for me:

--------------
florian@pc-virt-40-111:/srv/tomcat$ ls -la conf/Catalina/localhost/
insgesamt 28
(...)
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat6 tomcat6  380 2011-02-21 12:15 orbeon-CE.xml
(...)
--------------
Probe displays the content of orbeon-CE.xml without problems.

HTH
florian




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