Weblogic, Dreamweaver, and JSP

[truemperjm]

I tried this over at the Dreamweaver forum, and they told me to go elsewhere, so I'll try here instead. I'm sure that this question is dumb enough that it's been asked a hundred times over, but I'm a bit too clueless to even know what keywords to search to find those hundreds of answers. So on with it:

I'm an IT consultant fresh out of college, and I've already been handed a project that is more technical than I'm prepared for. I'm taking over for a guy for four weeks on a project that is supposed to entail the creation of HTML prototypes, though apparently the guy I'm replacing went above and beyond the job description and created what I need to deal with in JSP and using a Weblogic server. I've used neither, but since I have used ASP in the past I figure I should be okay working from what he has built already... that's assuming I can even get it to load up properly.

So I've supposedly got a mirror of his computer, so I should have everything that he had to make this happen, but I just need to know how to get started. Whenever I open his JSP files in Dreamweaver I can see his code, but I can't properly see the results of his code (can't preview the page). When I try and preview it I get a complaint telling me that I need to connect to a server, and when I click "ok" I have no idea what all that stuff it's asking for is to set up the server. Can anyone step me through the process so that I can connect to a server and start playing with the code?

 

[Diancecht]

Well, this will depend on what kinf of mirror you actually have but, let's try:

1.- Start the weblogic server, you can search for startWLS.cmd on Windows.

2.- Open the jsp with the browser. I can't remember if DreamWeaver had an option to preview. You'll need to know where the application is, and if it's deployed to the server.

Cheers,
Dian

 

[truemperjm]

I'm assuming that startWLS.cmd will load up an already established server? I don't know if that's going to work, because I just copied and pasted all of his files to my computer from a shared network folder, and I'm hoping to be able to modify and run them from here.

I searched Windows though and found two startWLS.cmd files, and I tried them both. Dreamweaver does have a preview option, but when I try and use it I get: "To preview pages containing server-side code, you need a testing server. Would you like to specify one now?"

Then when I say "yes" it asks for info that I don't know (URL of site, or whether it's FTP or RDS, etc.)

 

[truemperjm]

Nevermind! I got it!

My computer obviously wasn't a perfect mirror, so I was able to gain access to the original computer and copy over some much needed files.

Thanks for the help, Dian. If nothing else, it helped out my mental model.

Now hopefully it still works tomorrow and I don't have to come back here!