Macromedia Generator(soltion and question)

[Jay Goodman <ja...@hotmail.com>]

To those unfamiliar with the product, MM Generator is a group of servlets 
that takes templates(.swt) and generates flash Movies(etc..)
on the fly.  MM only officially supports JRun.

(The end of the post poses a tomcat/apache question so those
unfamiliar with the product may still be able to help.
As soon I figure out the answer, I'll make sure that
it gets added to an appropriate FAQ. )

To those familiar with MM generator:
Here's the deal to get it to work with tomcat:

copy your flashgen.jar to $TOMCAT_HOME/lib
copy libflash.so to a suitable place (i.e. /usr/java/jre/lib/i386)

$GENERATOR_HOME = /usr/local/generator

in web.xml I added:

    <servlet>
      <servlet-name> flash </servlet-name>
      <servlet-class> com.macromedia.generator.servlets.FlashGenerator 
</servlet-class>
        <load-on-startup> -2147483646 </load-on-startup>
      <init-param>
          <param-name> InstallPath </param-name>
          <param-value> /usr/local/generator/ </param-value>
      </init-param>
   </servlet>

    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>
            flash
        </servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>
            *.swt
        </url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>

point to a .swt using tomcat's HttpConnectionHandler (8080)
and all works well.

Now the question/problem lies in Apache/Tomcat.

In httpd.conf, I added the lines

AddType */* .swt
AddHandler jser-servlet .swt
(FlashGen sets the mime type because it can produce many types)

At this point, I point to a swt, and the browser shows 404.
Apache's access log claims a 200 and control does make it
to the flash Servlet because the following message is
reported in the generator's log.

Wed Oct 11 10:22:56 CDT 2000: Invalid URL reference to Flash Generator 
template: /Templates/e_Cards/e_Corporate/Templates/e_geometric.swt

Why does tomcat's web server work,
but the apache/tomcat connector fail.

I'd assume some sort of rewriting is/needs to be involved.
Can anyone shed some light on this situation?



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