trouble with war file

[miguel lisboa]

i'm totally new to spring
i downloaded a rcp zip from spring and there is a war file; i used my tomcat to deploy it, tomcat says its running, but i cant see it(petclinic web app)
what am i doing wrong? when i click in tomcats manager link column of respective app (of the war), shows 404 error msg...

HTTP Status 404 - /spring-richclient-petclinic-server-0.2.1/

type Status report

message /spring-richclient-petclinic-server-0.2.1/

description The requested resource (/spring-richclient-petclinic-server-0.2.1/) is not available.
Apache Tomcat/5.5.17

[ September 30, 2006: Message edited by: miguel lisboa ]
i just typed in adress bar:
http://localhost:8080/manager/start?path=/spring-richclient-petclinic-server-0.2.1
and got this page:
OK - Started application at context path /spring-richclient-petclinic-server-0.2.1

but ehre can i see it?
[ September 30, 2006: Message edited by: miguel lisboa ]

[miguel lisboa]

i deleted war file from tomcat install, used tomcat's manager page to deploy it agsain, restarted server and got:
/spring-richclient-petclinic-server-0.2.1 Petclinic RCP Web Services false 0 Start Stop Reload Undeploy
when i click on start, i get:
FAIL - Application at context path /spring-richclient-petclinic-server-0.2.1 could not be started
i inspected inside war file and couldnt find any jsp, servlet or html file, so i guess maybe this war file isnt ready for displaying
could this be true?

[Sonny Gill]

Originally posted by miguel lisboa:

i inspected inside war file and couldnt find any jsp, servlet or html file, so i guess maybe this war file isnt ready for displaying
could this be true?

I think that you need at least a WEB-INF/web.xml file to define a J2EE app, is it there?

[miguel lisboa]

yes, it is there:

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> 
  <!DOCTYPE web-app (View Source for full doctype...)> 
- <!-- 
  - $Id: web.xml 932 2006-03-12 16:32:49Z ge0ffrey $
  
 
  --> 
- <web-app>
  <display-name>Petclinic RCP Web Services</display-name> 
  <description>Provides a web services interface to the Spring Rich Client Project (RCP) Petclinic Demo Application</description> 
- <!-- 
  - Location of the XML file that defines the root application context
  - Applied by ContextLoaderListener.
  
 
  --> 
- <context-param>
  <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name> 
  <param-value>classpath:/org/springframework/richclient/samples/petclinic/ctx/common/business-layer-context.xml classpath:/org/springframework/richclient/samples/petclinic/ctx/clientserver/security-context-server.xml</param-value> 
  </context-param>
- <filter>
  <filter-name>Acegi HTTP BASIC Authorization Filter</filter-name> 
  <filter-class>org.acegisecurity.util.FilterToBeanProxy</filter-class> 
- <init-param>
  <param-name>targetClass</param-name> 
  <param-value>org.acegisecurity.ui.basicauth.BasicProcessingFilter</param-value> 
  </init-param>
  </filter>
- <filter>
  <filter-name>Acegi Security System for Spring Auto Integration Filter</filter-name> 
  <filter-class>org.acegisecurity.util.FilterToBeanProxy</filter-class> 
- <init-param>
  <param-name>targetClass</param-name> 
  <param-value>org.acegisecurity.adapters.HttpRequestIntegrationFilter</param-value> 
  </init-param>
  </filter>
- <filter-mapping>
  <filter-name>Acegi HTTP BASIC Authorization Filter</filter-name> 
  <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern> 
  </filter-mapping>
- <filter-mapping>
  <filter-name>Acegi Security System for Spring Auto Integration Filter</filter-name> 
  <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern> 
  </filter-mapping>
- <!-- 
  - Loads the root application context of this web app at startup,
  - by default from "/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml".
  - Use WebApplicationContextUtils.getWebApplicationContext(servletContext)
  - to access it anywhere in the web application, outside of the framework.
    
 
  --> 
- <listener>
  <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class> 
  </listener>
- <servlet>
  <servlet-name>ws</servlet-name> 
  <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class> 
  <load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup> 
  </servlet>
- <!-- 
- Dispatcher servlet mapping for HTTP web services.
- (see ws-servlet.xml for the controllers).
   
 
  --> 
- <servlet-mapping>
  <servlet-name>ws</servlet-name> 
  <url-pattern>/ws/*</url-pattern> 
  </servlet-mapping>
  </web-app>    

[Sonny Gill]

Next, you need to make sure that everything needed by your web.xml is present, for example the Spring jar should be in WEB-INF/lib.

In any case, check the logs under Tomcat_home/logs to see what exactly goes wrong during context initialization. Or if you can run Tomcat from command line, you should be able to see it on your console.

HTH.

- Sonny