So, creating an empty WEB-INF/classes directory did not work. Creating an
empry web.xml did not work. I tried Netbeans then and it generates a WAR
with both a web.xml and an empty WEB-INF/classes directory. The deployment
trace was:
Deployment error:
null
See the server log for details.
at
org.netbeans.modules.j2ee.deployment.devmodules.api.Deployment.deploy(Deployment.java:190)
at org.netbeans.modules.j2ee.ant.Deploy.execute(Deploy.java:104)
at
org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:288)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor135.invoke(Unknown Source)
at
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at
org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:106)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:357)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:385)
at
org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1337)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1306)
at
org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor.executeTargets(DefaultExecutor.java:41)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1189)
at
org.apache.tools.ant.module.bridge.impl.BridgeImpl.run(BridgeImpl.java:273)
at
org.apache.tools.ant.module.run.TargetExecutor.run(TargetExecutor.java:486)
at
org.netbeans.core.execution.RunClassThread.run(RunClassThread.java:151)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at
org.netbeans.modules.glassfish.javaee.ide.Hk2TargetModuleID.getWebURL(Hk2TargetModuleID.java:84)
at
org.netbeans.modules.j2ee.deployment.impl.TargetModule.getWebURL(TargetModule.java:197)
at
org.netbeans.modules.j2ee.deployment.impl.projects.DeploymentTargetImpl.findWebUrl(DeploymentTargetImpl.java:178)
at
org.netbeans.modules.j2ee.deployment.impl.projects.DeploymentTargetImpl.getClientUrl(DeploymentTargetImpl.java:122)
at
org.netbeans.modules.j2ee.deployment.devmodules.api.Deployment.deploy(Deployment.java:186)
... 16 more
BUILD FAILED (total time: 6 seconds)
But it deployed correctly....
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Jose Noheda <jose.noheda_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Tim Quinn <Timothy.Quinn_at_sun.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi, Jose.
>>
>> I don't know much at all about Dojo, but from their download web page<http://dojotoolkit.org/downloads>I found this:
>>
>> 1. Extract files from archive locally or on web server
>> 2. Browse to dojo/tests/runTests.html or dijit/themes/themeTester.html
>> to see Dojo in action
>> 3. Include <script type="text/javascript" src="dojo/dojo.js"> in your
>> own page and you're on your way
>>
>> Item 3 suggests to me that Dojo itself is not a web app but is a set of
>> functionality ready to be included in and used from a web app.
>>
>
> No, dojo is a javascript library. Just static content.
>
>
>>
>> Have you seen information somewhere else that says something else?
>>
>> By the way, the GlassFish web container currently recognizes an app as a
>> web app if:
>>
>> 1. it contains a WEB-INF/web.xml file, a WEB-INF/classes directory, or a
>> WEB-INF/lib directory; OR
>> 2. it contains a .jsp file anywhere
>>
>
> That could be it because it does not contain any of those. Just js, css,
> images and html files. Not sure why Glassfish asks for those though. A war
> file could be considered a web app I guess. Tomorrow I'll test adding those
> empty dirs
>
>
>>
>> Other than that the web container does not recognize the app as a web app.
>>
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> - Tim
>>
>>
>> Jose Noheda wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I tried this ant task:
>>
>> <target name="dojo" description="--> Downloads and packages dojo">
>> <get src="
>> http://download.dojotoolkit.org/release-1.2.0b1/dojo-release-1.2.0b1-src.tar.gz"
>> dest="dojo-1.2.tar.gz" verbose="true" usetimestamp="true" />
>> <untar src="dojo-1.2.tar.gz" dest="dojo" compression="gzip" />
>> <war destfile="dojo/dojo-1.2.war" needxmlfile="false"
>> basedir="dojo/dojo-release-1.2.0b1-src/" level="9" />
>> </target>
>>
>> which should build a valid WAR file without a web.xml. I tried to deploy
>> the generated WAR using the admin console and it fails with:
>>
>> GRAVE: Module type not recognized
>>
>> Can someone confirm this is a bug? Or the WAR is not well formed?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
>>
>