Re: adding dynamic content (e.g. JSP, TagLibs, etc.) to Forrest

[Allen Lee <al...@cs.indiana.edu>]

Sorry to revive an old thread, but I am encountering a similar issue, where
I'd like to have dynamic content, adding JSP forms into a Forrest site.  I
tried random insertion of the JSP file into the generated webapp directory
tree; sticking it in the build/webapp/content directory displays the JSP
page's source text instead of interpreting it.  I know I must be missing
somethin stupid... is this sort of thing easily done, or would I be better off
havin two separate webapps, one for forrest, and the other for the dynamic
jsps?

Thanks for your time!
Allen


On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 03:09:36AM -0400, Ross Gardler wrote:
> 
> 
> Arnaud SAHUGUET wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I am using Forrest for a CS research web site.
> >Forrest is great for static content, but for things like publications 
> >(for people, for projects), I would like to have a central XML files 
> >describing all the publications and insert in people's and project's 
> >pages a call to generate the right set of publications.
> >What are my options with Forrest to do that?
> >- XSP
> 
> XSP works pretty much out of the box and is well documented over at 
> Cocoon (http://cocoon.apache.org)
> 
> >- other
> 
> Flowscript, theoretically, should be easy to set up since it is core to 
> Cocoon. I did have a little play with this a while back but hit a couple 
> of problems that I never solved due to lack of an urgent itch.
> 
> I have recently created a site that uses some PERL scripts. Works great 
> in "forrest run", currently requires either manual copying of the perl 
> scripts when distributing, or a configuration of your server to read the 
> scripts from the Forrest site diresctory. If this is an use I can send 
> you the required jetty config file.
> 
> Ross

Re: adding dynamic content (e.g. JSP, TagLibs, etc.) to Forrest

[Juan Jose Pablos <ch...@che-che.com>]

Allen Lee escribió:
> Sorry to revive an old thread, but I am encountering a similar issue, where
> I'd like to have dynamic content, adding JSP forms into a Forrest site.  I
> tried random insertion of the JSP file into the generated webapp directory
> tree; sticking it in the build/webapp/content directory displays the JSP
> page's source text instead of interpreting it.

There is not JSP support on the jetty web server that we have compiled.
>  I know I must be missing
> somethin stupid... is this sort of thing easily done, or would I be better off
> havin two separate webapps, one for forrest, and the other for the dynamic
> jsps?


If you want to have JSP  support do this:

1) Create a War file and insert on a web container that supports it.

2) Replace tools/jetty/jetty-4.2.19.jar for the one on the jetty 
distribution.


> 
> Thanks for your time!
> Allen

And yours!!!