UI Tutorial - How to deploy

[Todd Wright]

Morgan Duchène wrote:
> Hi, thanks for the previous answer.
> 
> I am now working on the user interfaces tutorial.

Great.  Thanks.

> Here is a remainder of the work to do:
> 
>> For example, it'd be great to have a UI tutorial that illustrates the 
>> same basic application implemented different ways.  The application 
>> could be a simple blackboard object counter that displays a table of 
>> classname to count, e.g.:
>>   CLASSNAME, COUNT
>>   Relay, 1234
>>   Task, 234
>>   Asset, 4321
>>   ...
>> and implement several different designs:
>>   1) HTML page
>>   2) HTML + AJAX
>>   3) Applet (embedded Swing JTable, talks to Servlet)
>>   4) Google Web Toolkit (embedded GWT widgets, talks to Servlet)
>>   5) Swing GUI (stand-alone application, talks to Servlet via 
>> URLConnection)
>>   6) SOAP client (talks to Cougaar WebServicesService "webaxis" plugin)
>> The existing Cougaar demos only illustrate simple HTML pages.
> 
> 
> 
> - I have added a Flex in the list as it's another good example.

Yes, a Flex demo would be great.

> 
> - I need help to know the best way to deploy examples as I have not 
> found any documentation on the topic. Usually with Tomcat I would make a 
> webapp and deploy it droping the war into the webapps folder. But is it 
> the philosophy of Cougaar as servlets are not deployed like that but in 
> the society description file?

Yes, if possible.

> Here I need to deploy html pages, images,
> js files and applets. Am I supposed to make a proxy with another Tomcat 
> server?

You can load the "/file" servlet:
   <node ...>
     <component class="org.cougaar.lib.web.service.FileServlet">
       <argument>/file</argument>
     </component>
     ...

A file in:
   $COUGAAR_INSTALL_PATH/mydir/myfile.txt
will be available as:
   http://localhost:8800/file/mydir/myfile.txt

Todd

> 
> Regards,
> Morgan
> 
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