Slide examples

["Thamm, Russell" <ru...@dsto.defence.gov.au>]

Hi,

I recently installed jakarta-slide-1.0.11 (binary distribution) onto an NT
machine.
I can access the WebDav server as a Web Folder. I can access slidedoc and
the Tomcat Manager application.

However, I don't think that slide is working properly. The examples appear
to run OK in that
the output seems correct. However, the examples run the same whether or not
the CATALINA/TOMCAT is running.

Using Web Folders and IE5.5, I can find no evidence that any content has
been added.
Using NetStat, I cannot see any evidence of a connection on ports 8080,8081
or 8082.

The other thing that worries me about the slide service is the errors in the
log file, localhost.log

SlideHost[localhost]: Installing web application at context path /slide from
URL http://slideslide
SlideHost[localhost]: Installing web application at context path / from URL
http://slideslide
...
ContextConfig[/slide]: Missing application web.xml, using defaults only
...
Internal Error: File /WEB-INF/web.xml not found
...
ContextConfig[]: Missing application web.xml, using defaults only
...
Internal Error: File /WEB-INF/web.xml not found

Slide.war is in %TOMCAT_HOME%/webapps. I don't understand why the slide
service is 
not installed from URL
jar:file:D:\jakarta-slide-1.0.11\server\webapps\slide.war!/
and why web.xml cannot be found.

I tried unloading slide and reloading using the above URL using the TOMCAT
Manager service. This
got rid of the error messages in localhost.log but I could notice no
difference in behaviour.

The other applications in webapps (slidedoc & manager) install without
error. 

I'd be grateful for any advice
Russell Thamm