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Why doesn't my application launch into my browser?

Last modified by Kieran Kelleher on 2010/01/27 13:23

Discussion: You select 'Run as...' -> WOApplication; the project runs; you can copy the url out of the console and into the browser; but it doesn't conveniently launch straight into the browser anymore.

Solution: You probably have a space in your Eclipse project name; eg. 'My Project' remove it, or replace it suitably, eg. 'My_Project' and it will probably all start working again.

Discussion: Presumably, the launch fails because the Eclipse project name automatically forms part of the URL for running the application as a WOApplication in Eclipse/WOLips. However, a space is not a legal character for a URL as we know, and must usually be escaped with UTF-8 encoding as '%20'.

Leopard is missing WOOpenURL

Error

There is no valid license for Pro Macros. Please visit the Licenses section.

If you are on Leopard, something else is going on.

There used to be an application called /System/Library/WebObjects/Executables/WOOpenURL that opened the standard web browser with a pointer to the running the project, eg: http://193.78.79.17:49832/cgi-bin/WebObjects/d2wupload2.woa

That application does not exist any more in Leopard. But there is a simple workaround:

Type this in a terminal as root (or precede with sudo).


mkdir -p /System/Library/WebObjects/Executables
ln -s /usr/bin/open /System/Library/WebObjects/Executables/WOOpenURL

WebObjects 5.3.3 on Leopard

If you change the wo.wosystemroot setting to use WO 5.3 frameworks from a different location than /System/Library/Frameworks, you will need to also change the location of the above hack. e.g.


wo.wosystemroot=/Users/chuck

Requires this change:


mkdir -p /Users/chuck/Library/WebObjects/Executables
ln -s /usr/bin/open /Users/chuck/Library/WebObjects/Executables/WOOpenURL