Wiki source code of Why doesn't my application launch into my browser?
Version 14.1 by Johan Henselmans on 2008/01/17 15:47
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1 | **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. | ||
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3 | **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. :p// | ||
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5 | **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'. | ||
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7 | If you are on Leopard, something else is going on. | ||
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9 | 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 | ||
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11 | That application does not exist any more in Leopard. But there is a simple workaround: | ||
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13 | Type this in a terminal as root (or precede with sudo). | ||
14 | ## mkdir --p /System/Library/WebObjects/Executables--##-- | ||
15 | ##ln ##--##s /usr/bin/open /System/Library/WebObjects/Executables/WOOpenURL ## |