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  • From: "GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing" <>
  • To: Monica Crawford <>
  • Cc:
  • Subject: Re: [grouper-users] Grouper UI In Weblogic 9.x
  • Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 16:38:46 +0100

Hi Monica,

Thanks for the descriptor and recipe.

I've modified an instance of the UI according to your 'recipe'. There are definitely issues about how the tag libraries work - or don't. I'll try and look at this early next week.

Gary

--On 10 August 2006 22:19 -0500 Monica Crawford
<>
wrote:

Hi Gary,

Thanks for the help. I've attached two files. One explains the things
that should change for the 2.4 servlet deployment descriptor and support
for jsp 2.0. The other is the 2.4 deployment descriptor taken from the
grouper-qs that is altered to use 2.4.

Some more details if your interested:
By spec a 2.4 servlet container should support a 2.3 deployment
descriptor. Weblogic 9.x will support a 2.3 servlet descriptor just fine
w/ jstl 1.0 uri references for the <@taglib> jsp refs (the jar file is
still 1.1). This works great as long as el is not used in tiles.
Tiles-el seems to be the main source of pain in weblogic 9.x.

<Thinking out loud here...> things I can think of that might work (yet to
try) include:
- keep a 2.3 deployment descriptor, but somehow find another mechanism
besides tiles-el - (maybe use the beanname?) Is it possible to remove
all el references from tiles? We still need to test if it is affecting
all struts-el (html, bean, etc)
- keep a 2.3 deployment descriptor, maybe create a custom tag to
wrap/resolve the tiles specific el issues before hitting the page.
- use a 2.4/jsp 2.0 environment, need to evaluate the impact. How many
grouper users are still on 2.3/1.2 envs? What is the protocol for
deciding things like this? This may be way out-of-scope but an
alternative.

Let me know if there are additional questions.....

Monica


GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing wrote:
Hi Monica,

I haven't tried getting the Grouper UI to run against servlet 2.4/jsp
2.0 - I have deliberately avoided taking advantage of any new features
so that there aren't any backward compatability issues.

I don't have a Weblogic instance to work against, but I'll have a go at
setting up the UI for Tomcat servlet 2.4/jsp 2.0 and see what errors
occur. If you would send me your 2.4 deployment descriptor that will
help me get started.

Regards,

Gary

--On 09 August 2006 17:24 -0500 Monica Crawford
<>
wrote:

Hi folks,

Is there intended support for Grouper UI running against a Servlet
2.4/JSP 2.0 deployment descriptor?

I'm trying to get the Weblogic 9.x (servlet 2.4/jsp 2.0) environment to
run grouper-qs and I run into errors starting with template.jsp. There
are a couple of things happening; an infinite loop in the
LoginCheckFilter if the document.location.replace("error.do") isn't
commented out, and the main issue - EL evaluation in the tiles tag
attributes isn't happening.

Seeking an answer I find this post
http://forums.bea.com/bea/message.jspa?messageID=600020538&tstart=0 and
try to convert the grouper-qs ui webapp to use the 2.4 deployment
descriptor with some hopeful success but alas keep running into various
errors regarding the taglibs on the include.jsp. Even after updating
JSTL/Standard jars to 1.1 dtd references, it appears that the taglib
definitions in include.jsp aren't being 'included' in subsequent jsps
even if I use a dynamic include. Each new thing I 'fix' seems to open a
new issue.

I'm sure I'm missing something rather simple. Any ideas for a cure? I
can recreate the EL problem with a rather simple webapp, but can't
recreate the include.jsp taglib issue. Let me know what additional info
you might need to further investigate.

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GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing




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