Development Environment
For the assignments in this course you will use a provided development environment. This environment consists of a preconfigured package including Apache Tomcat, which has been bundled with Apache Axis2, Apache Derby, Apache Ant, and an SSL keystore/truststore for using HTTPS. As these technologies are platform-independent, it should be possible to use this development environment on any platform that supports Java, this has only been tested on Linux, Mac OS/X (1.4 and later), and Windows (XP and later) however.Installing the environment
Each student will receive a unique zip-file named after the students user account to download from the download directory. Download the zip-file and unpack it at a location of your choosing on the computer you wish to use for the assignments. When using the CS computers for the assignments, you are recommended to use the path~/edu/5dv095/env/
for the development environment.
If you are unable to find a zip-file with your username,
contact one of the teachers
as soon as possible - do NOT use someone elses package.
Please note that the package also contains an alternative configuration file
to resolve port conflicts when the package is used on the CS computers.
When unpacking the zip-file a directory structure containing a folder named
5dv095 is created.
This is the root folder for your development environment and contains
(among others) the following files:
5dv095/ <- Your development environment root folder
apache-ant-1.7.0/ <- Apache Ant (do not modify)
apache-tomcat-6.0.16/ <- Apache Tomcat
conf/ <- Apache Tomcat configuration directory
catalina.out <- Apache Tomcat default log file
logs/ <- Apache Tomcat log directory
server.xml <- Apache Tomcat configuration file
server.xml.cs <- - " - (alternative port configuration)
server.xml.home <- - " - (default port configuration)
webapps/ <- web application directory (place lecture example web applications here)
axis2/ <- Apache Axis2 home (web service engine web application)
WEB-INF/
services <- web service directory (place lecture example and assignment web services here)
username/
build.xml <- web application Ant build file
docs/ <- web application documentation directory
lib/ <- web application Java library directory
META-INF/ <- manifest and configuration files for archives
src/ <- web application Java source code directory
start-windows.bat <- start script for Windows environments
start-mac.sh <- - " - MacOS X environments
start-linux.sh <- - " - UNIX / Linux environments
stop-windows.bat <- stop script for Windows environments
stop-mac.sh <- - " - MacOS X environments
stop-linux.sh <- - " - UNIX / Linux environments
update-windows.bat <- update script for Windows environments
update-mac.sh <- - " - MacOS X environments
update-linux.sh <- - " - UNIX / Linux environments
web/ <- web application source directory (JSP files, etc)
dist/ <- generated by the update scripts
username.war <- web application archive
index.jsp <- your web application index page
WEB-INF/
lib <- web application library directory
where username is the students username.
Using the environment for web development
When starting Tomcat (by running the update script), a web application archive named username.war is created in the5dv095/username/dist/ directory.
This web application automatically gets deployed into Tomcat
(which is restared by the update script) and you can access it through a
web browser by surfing to the URL
http://localhost:8080/username
Developing web pages:
- Edit the JSP pages in
5dv095/username/web- Run the update script (the one selected for your operating system)
- Reload the web page in your browser
Using the environment for web service development
The Apache Axis2 SOAP engine has in this package been bundled to run as a web application module in the Apache Tomcat Servlet engine. In other words, all web services deployed in the service engine will run as threads in the Web Server process. This will result in, e.g., that the stdout stream of services will be redirected to the Tomcat logs, and all services will use the Web Server port regardless of port specified in the service bindings of the WSDL file. When developing a web service it is recommended that you create a service project in the root directory of your development environment. This to assure that your service build file will be able to locate the Axiom API libraries. Developing web services:- Create a service description WSDL file
- Generate service stub classes
- Implement the service implementation
- Implement a service client
- Deploy your service
- Restart the service engine (only required for updates)
- Test your service using your service client
Installing Java
A functional installation of Java (version 1.6 or later) is required to use the development environment. If installing Java on your Windows PC, use Suns Java JDK v1.10. This is (as of mid-November 2008) the latest stable release of Suns JDK. Keep the default install path for Java: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_10\ and use all other default values in the installation process as well.
Setting JAVA_HOME
The JAVA_HOME environment variable allows Tomcat to locate and determine which version of Java to use. The update scripts in the environment attempts to set JAVA_HOME to a predefined value:- UNIX/Linux
/pkg/java- Windows (all versions)
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_10- MacOS X (version 1.5 with Java 1.6 update)
/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Home
The update scripts are regular text files, simply replace the path on the JAVA_HOME line with the path to your Java installation location using an editor of your choosing.
Using the environment on CS computers
If you use the environment on the CS computers you will not need to install or configure Java (as it is already installed). The Tomcat configuration fileserver.xml.cs has been
preconfigured to contain unique port numbers for your user,
if you choose to use the CS computers to do the assignments,
we recommed you copy the
server.xml.cs onto server.xml
to avoid port conflicts.
Manually changing the Tomcat port
In addition to the tip with using a preconfigured configuration file above, you can alter the Tomcat configuration file and specify another port manually. Simply search and replace 8080 by the port number you wish to use in the Tomcat configuration file (apache-tomcat-6.0.16/conf/server.xml).
If you wish to avoid a conflict for HTTPS we also recommend that you replace
8443 with another port number of your choosing.
Note that you need to select a port numbers higher than 1023 on UNIX (and mac)
systems (as they are reserved for the root user).