Re: getting back into jsft - question on testing code changes to glassfish

From: Ken Paulsen <Ken.Paulsen_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 20:36:18 -0700

Hi Mike!

A general debugging tip for GlassFish... enable access logging. This will help you see what the browser is requesting and give you an idea of why it's not working. You can do this by going to the admin console (localhost:4848) and then:

Configuration -> HTTP Service

Then make sure the "accessLoggingEnabled" property in the table is "true" (it's false by default).

You will then be able to see the access log in .../domains/domain1/logs/access/*

The URL you listed below looks incorrect because you are missing the context root. Normally you deploy an app with a context root (the default is the name of the directory it is in). So your url should look something like:

http://localhost:8080/docroot/info.jsf

Also... backslashes '\' will not work in URLs, not even in Windows I think. M$ made a big mistake using the character typically used for escaping other characters for a directory separator... they've been confusing people ever since...

Good luck!

Ken

Michael Phoenix wrote:

OK I moved the files to WEB-INF/lib, deployed docroot, and set the DEBUG parameter to "true". Now when I set the browser to "locolhost:8080\xxx.jsf", it displays a blank page not matter what .jsf file it points to. I thought that this would let me view the jsf pages. What am I missing here?

On 6/2/07, Ken Paulsen <Ken.Paulsen@sun.com> wrote:

When you built GlassFish, you have a directory:

.../glassfish/admin-gui/src/docroot

This is the "docroot" directory I am talking about. This directory is part of the source code of the application. You will see it doesn't have any jar files in ".../glasfish/admin-gui/src/docroot/WEB-INF/lib/*". You need to have them there if you want to deploy the "docroot" directory on GlassFish. If you do this, then every file in this directory is directly accessed when you visit: http://localhost:8080/docroot/<file> (where "docroot" in the url is the "contextroot" which is configured to point to .../glassfish/admin-gui/src/docroot).

Deploying this directory can be done via the admin console (http://localhost:4848). Goto Web Applications, and click the deploy button.

The jar files you need to copy will exist in a directory like .../publish/glassfish/lib/install/applications/admingui/adminGUI_war/WEB-INF/lib/*.

When I say "deploy your source" I mean deploy the directory containing the source files for this web app (in this case ".../glassfish/admin-gui/src/docroot").

Ken