<html><head><META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><title>Form Tags WAR</title><meta content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.76.0" name="generator"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Virgo Programmer Guide"><link rel="up" href="ch06.html" title="Chapter&nbsp;6.&nbsp;Case Study: Migrating the Form Tags Sample Application"><link rel="prev" href="ch06.html" title="Chapter&nbsp;6.&nbsp;Case Study: Migrating the Form Tags Sample Application"><link rel="next" href="ch06s03.html" title="Form Tags Shared Libraries WAR"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table summary="Navigation header" width="100%"><tr><td align="left" width="20%"><a accesskey="p" href="ch06.html">Prev</a>&nbsp;</td><th align="center" width="60%">&nbsp;</th><td align="right" width="20%">&nbsp;<a accesskey="n" href="ch06s03.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="section" title="Form Tags WAR"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="formtags-case-study-war"></a>Form Tags WAR</h2></div></div></div><p>
			We begin with a standard WAR deployment.
			</p><div class="note" title="Note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Note</h3>
				The VTS supports the standard Java EE WAR
				packaging
				and deployment format as a first-class citizen, and there
				are many
				benefits to deploying a standard WAR file on the
				VTS including,
				but not limited to: tooling
				support, runtime error diagnostics, FFDC
				(first failure data
				capture), etc.
				In addition, support for standard WAR deployment
				provides an easy on-ramp
				for trying out the
				VTS with existing web applications.
			</div><p>
		</p><p>
			The following screen shot displays the directory structure of the
			Form Tags application using the standard WAR format. As you can see,
			there is no deviation from the standard structure and layout, and as
			you would expect, all of the web application&rsquo;s third-party
			dependencies
			(for example: Spring, Commons Logging) are packaged as
			JARs in
			<code class="literal">WEB-INF/lib</code>
			.
		</p><p>
			<img src="images/formtags-case-study-exploded-war.png">
		</p><p>
			To deploy this application, simply copy
			<code class="literal">dist/formtags-war-3.0.0.*.war</code>
			to
			the
			<code class="literal">SERVER_HOME/pickup</code>
			directory for hot deployment.
		</p><p>
			You should then see the VTS produce
			console output similar to the following:
		</p><div class="note" title="Note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Note</h3><p>The console output has been reformatted to fit this document.
			</p></div><pre class="programlisting">
[2009-07-01 14:54:45.135] fs-watcher
	&lt;SPDE0048I&gt; Processing 'CREATED' event for file 'formtags-war-3.0.0.RELEASE.war'.
[2009-07-01 14:54:45.797] fs-watcher
	&lt;SPDE0010I&gt; Deployment of 'formtags-war-3.0.0.RELEASE.war' version '0' completed.
[2009-07-01 14:54:45.797] Thread-20
	&lt;SPWE0000I&gt; Starting web bundle '/formtags-war-3.0.0.RELEASE'.
[2009-07-01 14:54:46.380] Thread-20
	&lt;SPWE0001I&gt; Started web bundle '/formtags-war-3.0.0.RELEASE'.
</pre><p>
			Navigate to
			<code class="literal">http://localhost:8080/</code>
			plus the web application context path,
			which in the above case is
			<code class="literal">formtags-war-3.0.0.RELEASE</code>
			. Thus navigating to
			<code class="literal">http://localhost:8080/formtags-war-3.0.0.RELEASE</code>
			should render the sample application&rsquo;s welcome page, as
			displayed in the screen
			shot below.
			</p><div class="tip" title="Tip" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Tip</h3>
				For WARs, the default web context path is the name of the WAR file
				without the
				<code class="literal">.war</code>
				extension. You can optionally
				specify a context path using the
				<code class="literal">Web-ContextPath</code>
				bundle
				manifest header, which will be described in further detail
				later.
			</div><p>
		</p><p>
			<img src="images/formtags-case-study-war-webpage.png">
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