How to install WebObjects in Ubuntu for free(III)
Right now you got WebObjects frameworkes, Eclipse and WOLips on your Linux box. Next question is how to config/setup them together.
1. wobuild.properties file
After you open WOLips in Eclipse, the wobuild.properties file is created in your box.
for example, my WO stuff is sitting under /home/username/Apple, the new file would be in /home/username/Library folder.
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wo.system.root=/home/username/Apple/System
wo.user.frameworks=/home/username/Library/Frameworks
wo.system.frameworks=/home/username/Apple/System/Library/Frameworks
wo.bootstrapjar=/home/username/Apple/System/Library/WebObjects/JavaApplications/wotaskd.woa/WOBootstrap.jar
wo.network.frameworks=/Network/Library/Frameworks
wo.api.root=/home/username/Apple/Developer/ADC%20Reference%20Library/documentation/WebObjects/Reference/API/
wo.network.root=/Network
wo.extensions=/home/username/Apple/Library/WebObjects/Extensions
wo.user.root=/home/username
wo.local.frameworks=/home/username/Apple/Library/Frameworks
wo.apps.root=/home/username/Apple/Library/WebObjects/Applications
wo.local.root=/home/username/Apple/
wo.system.root=/home/username/Apple/System
wo.user.frameworks=/home/username/Library/Frameworks
wo.system.frameworks=/home/username/Apple/System/Library/Frameworks
wo.bootstrapjar=/home/username/Apple/System/Library/WebObjects/JavaApplications/wotaskd.woa/WOBootstrap.jar
wo.network.frameworks=/Network/Library/Frameworks
wo.api.root=/home/username/Apple/Developer/ADC%20Reference%20Library/documentation/WebObjects/Reference/API/
wo.network.root=/Network
wo.extensions=/home/username/Apple/Library/WebObjects/Extensions
wo.user.root=/home/username
wo.local.frameworks=/home/username/Apple/Library/Frameworks
wo.apps.root=/home/username/Apple/Library/WebObjects/Applications
wo.local.root=/home/username/Apple/
2. Ubuntu and Eclipse
One thing you need to do is install java-1.5.0-sun version, not the default java with Ubuntu.
Then in Eclipse, Window->Preferrences->Java->installed JREs, select java-1.5-sun (not java-1.5.0-gcj version).
3. Test WO by your own default WO application
How do you know you are the right track?under WOLips perspective
In Eclipse->NEW ->WebObjects Application->Project name (TEST)-> Finish
Right click and Run as WOApplication, select Application ->your.app (default)
Then copy the URL like: [url]http://127.0.0.1:52469/cgi-bin/WebObjects/TEST.woa[/url]
to your browser, you can get "hello world" text in the page.
If you got 127.0.1.1 in URL, you need to modify /etc/hosts file change 127.0.1.1 to 127.0.0.1
in WOlips change WOAdaptorURL=http://127.0.0.1/cgi-bin/WebObjects.
4. Run the existing WO example applications
I copied all examples source from Apple/Developer/Examples/JavaWebObjects to my workspace.
in Eclipse, Import ->Existing projects into Workspace -> NEXT-> select root dir to "HelloWorld" in your workspace -> Finish
If you got the little red x at Chinese.lproj, just delete it from your project. Don't know why, i think it's encoding problem.
IN Eclipse, change project properties, change the Text file encoding to UTF-8.
Run WO application
Right click HellowWorld project and Run as WOApplication, select Application ->webobjectsexamples.helloworld.
then link to your URL in your Console.
5. WONDER
WONDER is perfect framework for WO. There are some new frameworks, ajax frameworks, examples and WOAdaptor source for Apache2 for Linux.
You can follow the tutorial in [url]http://wiki.objectstyle.org[/url] web site. try example in WONDER project as well.
enjoy it.