29-Dec-2010, Want to revisit rovctd plots and tomcat servlet container to prepare to bring them up-to-date, they havent been touched for years....

eg. tomcat on anvil is 5.5 and current rev is 7.0, java was 1.4

Im setting it up on macbook in my windows 7 VM

Install java sdk

First I installed java6 jre but that was a mistake... I will need the java sdk to get tools.jar etc. that ANT requires.  (jre might be ok though for deployment to anvil or typhoon?)

So get java sdk from oracle... not my vm is 32-bit cpu. so get the right one., download w/firefox and click the resulting exewhich was jdk-6u23-windows-i586.exe

Set environment variables:

JAVA_HOME C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_23

JRE_HOME C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_23  (for tomcat)

Add to PATH:  ;%JAVA_HOME%\bin

Install ant

Install ant 1.8.2, firefox download and unzip to c:\ant <<< my choice....

Set environment variables:

ANT_HOME C:\Program Files\Ant\apache-ant-1.8.2

Add to PATH:   ;%ANT_HOME%\bin

Install Tomcat

download only the  32-bit/64-bit Windows Service Installer (it gets the Tomcat binarys)

Actually the link downloads: apache-tomcat-7.0.5.exe5)

cd to it in a cmd window and execute it, or just click it in the firefox downloads-manage

use defaults, or pick a different port # and be  sure to pick an admin acct and password to be able to manage it remotely. NOTE Anvil gets port 8085 because there is an apache with 8080...

test: http://localhost:8080
see:http://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi
see also:http://www.mulesoft.com/tomcat-windows\\

Clean up java path problems

I had a lot of issues with no class def found when trying to run java to test installation. Turned out something, either tomcat or javasdk put a copy of java.exe in Windows\system32. I deleted those 3 exe's all installed with same timestamp.

Also had to go to tomcat7\bin and run the tomcat7w.exe and check the java tab to get it to point away from the jre6 jvm.dll installed earlier and point to the sdk version down in C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_23\jre\bin\client\jvm.dll

Get a bunch of Jar files....

 jTDS (1.2 upgraded to 1.2.5)

commons.pool (1.3 > 1.5.5)

commons.dbcp (1.2.1 > 1.4)

commons.logging (1.1.1)

commons-collections (3.2 > 3.2.1)

All of the above, basically download the binary distributions, unzip somewhere, then drag the .jar file to c:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Tomcat 7.0/lib

Get jFreeChart

 download distribution of jFreeChart (1.0.2 > 1.0.13)

get the jfreechart-1.0.13.jar and jcommon-1.0.16.jar that is with it and drag to  c:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Tomcat 7.0/lib

Get the old rovctd webapps folder

from anvils tomcat 5.5 and drop it into my tomcat 7.0 webapps dir

Checkout RovctdPlots from cvs to C:\Projects

edit all applications.java to point to localhost 8080 or....anvil or typhoon

edit build.xml

configure server.xml etc according to database inst. here and elsewhere...

need the jtds add, also note that is where the connection is set to either solstice or other...

 Restart tomcat....

I often had to start twice after stoppin, it throws error when stopping, then have to start twice, once with error.

Fist time after startup, takes a long time to runt the app.

Able to do ant

clean

prepare

compile

deploy.libs

deploy.datagenerators

deploy.plots

run.1 thru 5

Stopped for today... doesnt run over browser. I get errors 

http://134.89.11.41:8080/rovctd/pages/stackedtimeseries.jsp?platform=vnta&dive=3596&domain=epochsecs&noHTMLHeader=0&r1=p&r2=t&r3=s&r4=light&r5=o2\\ org.apache.jasper.JasperException: /pages/stackedtimeseries.jsp(24,49) Attribute value request.getParameter("platform") is quoted with " which must be escaped when used within the value
org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.jspError(DefaultErrorHandler.java:40)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.dispatch(ErrorDispatcher.java:407)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.jspError(ErrorDispatcher.java:88)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseAttributeValue(Parser.java:280)