perfsonar development work

[Slawomir Trzaszczka <>]

Hi Michael,

On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 16:23 +0100, Michael Bischoff wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> "In spite it is intended to use maven in the whole perfSonar set of
> tools, WebAdmin still uses ant script.
> Is there any particular reason for this?
> 
> What about serving index.jsp and /wa/* from a jar (through a servlet)
> this way you can simply bumb the version of the dependency to update
> the webadmin?

javascripts, css styles, images in jar? Hmm I think this structure is
good.

Regards,

Slawek


> Regards,
> 
> Michael Bischoff
> 
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Wiktor Procyk 
> <>
> wrote:
>         WebAdmin - Developers Guide
>         
>         WebAdmin is web based tool for editing config files required
>         to configure other java perfSonar services .
>         
>         1. Obtaining sources and compiling
>         
>         The most current version of WebAdmin is available in SVN at
>         branches/new-structure-with-base2/ps-mdm-web-admin
>         
>         In spite it is intended to use maven in the whole perfSonar
>         set of tools, WebAdmin still uses ant script. To properly
>         compile and build working war package it is required to run
>         "get-repo" and then "prepare-war-structure". Complete
>         structure of compiled WebAdmin is placed in build directory
>         
>         2. Structure of WA application
>         
>         \
>          |-META-INF
>          |-wa
>          |-WEB-INF
>          |   |-classes
>          |   |   |-perfsonar
>          |   |   |   \ conf
>          |   |   |      |-configuration.xml
>          |   |   |      \ webAdminConfig.xml
>          |   |   \ log4j.properties
>          |   |-lib
>          |   \ web.xml
>          \ index.jsp
>         
>         
>         Directory/files tree above presents main path/files which have
>         to be accessed during integration.
>         
>         3. Integration with other perfSonar java service
>         
>         3a. Required files
>         
>         To integrate WebAdmin with other java perfsonar service it is
>         required to copy to its structure following directories/files:
>         - directory \wa
>         - directory \WEB-INF\classes\perfsonar
>         - directory \WEB-INF\lib
>         - file index.jsp
>         
>         Please be careful and NOT overwrite your own log4j settings by
>         just copying \WEB-INF\classes\log4j.properties file.
>         
>         In the case that WebAdmin and other java perfsonar service use
>         the same java library (*.jar file located in \WEB-INF\lib)
>         copying can cause warnings notifying about overwriting file -
>         it is nothing wrong when such a message occurs.
>         It is recommended to check if the same library does NOT occur
>         two times with different versions numbers; in such case the
>         older one should be deleted, because it cane cause some errors
>         and instability.
>         
>         3b. Required changes
>         
>         WebAdmin is supposed to be used for editing configuration file
>         of other java perfsonar service - this file is \WEB-INF
>         \classes\perfsonar\conf\configuration.xml . To tailor WebAdmin
>         to specyfic java perfsonar service needs it is required to
>         edit \WEB-INF\classes\perfsonar\conf\webAdminConfig.xml . This
>         file is responsible for the structure of forms on the web
>         (links Service settings and Advanced service settings). It
>         contains also valid username and password used to initial
>         authorization. Default parameters values should be placed in
>         configuration.xml file. Every time setting webpage is
>         requested basing on webAdminConfig.xml file form is build and
>         filled in with values from configuration.xml file. After
>         editing when we press Submit button configuration.xml file is
>         rewriten to reflect made changes.
>         It is also required to concatenate contents of web.xml files
>         in both services (WebAdmin and other java perfsonar service)
>         and put the result in the structure of other java perfsonar
>         service. By concatenating I mean to copy all the text between
>         <webapp> and </webapp> marks from WebAdmin \WEB-INF\web.xml
>         file and paste copied text before closing </webapp> mark in
>         other java perfsonar service in \WEB-INF\web.xml file.
>         
>         
> 
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 Slawomir Trzaszczka                       
                                           
 Poznan Supercomputing & Networking Center 
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