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WO 5.4 Getting Started

Version 34.1 by Pascal Robert on 2011/03/20 03:06
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Installing WebObjects and WOLips

Download Xcode from ADC. Not useful for WebObjects deployment, but it will install tools like gcc and debugging tools that you might want useful. 

Install Golipse. Golipse will fetch the needed version of Eclipse, WOLips and other tools for WebObjects development.

Install the WebObjects frameworks according to those instructions.

Start Eclipse and switch to the WOLips perspective.  To achieve this, open the Window menu, select Open Perspective and select Other....

PerpectiveMenu.png

In the perspective choices, select WOLips and click Ok.

PerspectiveChoices.png

If you don't switch to the WOLips perspective, you won't be able to create new WebObjects projects.

You are now ready to create projects or importing the examples. 

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Running Monitor and wotaskd on Mac OS X

Monitor and wotaskd are installed, but the launchd scripts to start them are not installed.  You can grab them from a 10.5 Server installation, or follow those instructions.

Make sure Web Sharing is enabled in the Sharing panel in System Preferences (note: 10.5 comes with Apache 2.2 as the default).

Edit /etc/apache2/httpd.conf (if you did a fresh install, you may already have these - search httpd.conf first)

Search for rewritemodule, and above it, add this line:


LoadModule WebObjects_module /System/Library/WebObjects/Adaptors/Apache2.2/mod_WebObjects.so

Go to the very end and add:


Include /System/Library/WebObjects/Adaptors/Apache2.2/apache.conf

Search for "Directory /" and comment out the Order and Deny lines:


<Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    #Order deny,allow
    #Deny from all
</Directory>

Restart apache


sudo apachectl graceful

If you run ps auxw  grep httpd you should see apache now running

Create /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.webobjects.wotaskd.plist with:
(for OSX 10.5 make sure the permissions of this file are 644 system/wheel/everyone otherwise launchctl will throw a "dubious permissions" error when you try to load the plist with the commands that follow)


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Disabled</key>
<false/>
<key>GroupName</key>
<string>appserverusr</string>
<key>Label</key>
<string>com.apple.webobjects.wotaskd</string>
<key>OnDemand</key>
<false/>
<key>Program</key>
<string>/System/Library/WebObjects/JavaApplications/wotaskd.woa/wotaskd</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>wotaskd</string>
<string>-WOPort</string>
<string>1085</string>
</array>
<key>ServiceIPC</key>
<false/>
<key>UserName</key>
<string>appserver</string>
</dict>
</plist>

Create /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.webobjects.womonitor.plist with:
(for OSX 10.5 make sure the permissions of this file are 644 system/wheel/everyone otherwise launchctl will throw a "dubious permissions" error when you try to load the plist with the commands that follow)


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Disabled</key>
<false/>
<key>GroupName</key>
<string>appserverusr</string>
<key>Label</key>
<string>com.apple.webobjects.womonitor</string>
<key>OnDemand</key>
<false/>
<key>Program</key>
<string>/System/Library/WebObjects/JavaApplications/JavaMonitor.woa/JavaMonitor</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>JavaMonitor</string>
<string>-WOPort</string>
<string>56789</string>
</array>
<key>ServiceIPC</key>
<false/>
<key>UserName</key>
<string>appserver</string>
</dict>
</plist>

Start the launchd daemons :
(you may need to sudo here)


launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.webobjects.wotaskd.plist
launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.webobjects.womonitor.plist

If you run "ps auxw  grep java" you should see wotaskd and java monitor now running.  You should be able to connect to Monitor by this URL:


http://localhost:56789