Applet Deployment in Weblogic 8.1

[JohnMillet]

Hello all,

I am trying to deploy a signed java applet into a weblogic 8.1 server, but I cannot seem to find any documentation stating how applets are deployed. If anyone could provide me with a link to the documentation, or a set of steps necessary for deployment it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
John Millet

 

[Diancecht]

What do you mean by "deploy" an applet? You just have to copy the compiled files.

Deploying applets

Cheers,
Dian

 

[JohnMillet]

By deploy I mean in what format does the webserver need the files in (jar/war/ear/uncompressed), and how to "register" the application with the webserver so it knows it exists. With Tomcat, this is as simple as placing the compiled jar files into the root folder of the webapps subdirectory. With weblogic, it appears that you need to go through a graphical deployment process, that is what weblogic refers to it as.

Basically the question simplified is this. An applet is nothing more than a jar file with a corresponding html file which "launches" the applet. I can't find any documentation for weblogic for deploying applets merely as a jar file in a directory with it's html file. What I have found is how to deploy packaged j2ee applications in war and ear files, however this isn't standard packaging for an applet. When using one of these archives you usually have a web.xml file that describes the pieces of the application (how many jsps, how many servlets, etc..). There is no attribute within the Sun web.xml xsd that describes an applet, therefore it doesn't seem like they were meant to be packaged this way.

So, do I have to hack together an applet war file as the package, and if so will this even work? Or is there some other way of deploying applets in weblogic that I seem to be glossing completely over?

Thanks in advance