Friday August 07, 2009

Jython Web Application on Sun Web Server 7.0

Jython Web Application on Sun Java System Web Server 7.0

Download Jython from http://softlayer.dl.sourceforge.net/project/jython/jython/2.5.0/jython_installer-2.5.0.jar

Run Jython installer and install it in lets say in /opt/jython/jython2.5.0

$java -jar jython_installer-2.5.0.jar

Lets try deploying a simple demo web application that comes along with this. This demo application has a simple demo_app.py script.

cd /opt/jython/jython2.5.0/Demo/modjy_webapp/WEB-INF
cp /opt/jython/jython2.5.0/jython.jar lib/

In web.xml change python.home i.e.
<init-param>
  <param-name>python.home</param-name>
  <param-value>C:/jython2.5</param-value>
</init-param>
to
<init-param>
   <param-name>python.home</param-name>
   <param-value>/opt/jython/jython2.5.0</param-value>
</init-param>

cd /ws7-install-dir/https-instance-name/config

Add in server.xml in virtual server element, the location of this web application

<web-app> 
    <uri>/modjy_webapp</uri> 
    <path>/opt/jython/jython2.5.0/modjy_webapp</path>
</web-app>

Start the web server instance, and access the web application via browser using URI http://host:port/modjy_webap

you should see a page starting with the contents:

Thursday August 06, 2009

Python CGIs in Sun Web Server 7.0

Python CGIs in Sun Java System Web Server 7.0

Add this test script in <ws7-install-dir>https-<instance-name>/docs/cgi-bin directory and call it hello.cgi

#!/usr/bin/env python

print("Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8")

print("\r\n")

print("Hello World!")

Change obj.conf default object 

<Object name="default">

AuthTrans fn="match-browser" browser="*MSIE*" ssl-unclean-shutdown="true"

NameTrans fn="ntrans-j2ee" name="j2ee"

NameTrans fn="pfx2dir" from="/cgi-bin" dir="/<ws-install-dir>/https-<instance-name>/docs/cgi-bin" name="cgi"

...

<Object name="cgi">
ObjectType fn="force-type" type="magnus-internal/cgi"
Service fn="send-cgi"
</Object>

Send a request through the browser http://host:post/cgi-bin/hello.cgi

You can see Hello World! displayed.

References

http://docs.python.org/3.1/howto/webservers.html

Thursday February 26, 2009

JavaMail Sample Application in Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 update 4

JavaMail Sample Application in Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 

I just tried out JavaMail sample application bundled with Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 and I thought it may be useful for others as well.

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Friday October 24, 2008

Understanding Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 - for developers

Here are things a developer working on Web Server 7.0 or writing a NSAPI plugin should know  

I have tried to blog about basic things a NSAPI developer should know.

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