Questions about deploying compressed WAR

[dimival]

I've been having issues when trying to deploy a compressed
Flex application into my Weblogic Server. I read in the
Installation Guide (
http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/flex/2/install.html)
that you need to some "hacking" to make it work but i have a big
question:



The guide says:


Locate the servlet definition for MessageBrokerServlet, and
update the flex.write.path init-param element to specify an
existing, writeable, directory path:



<init-param>

<param-name>flex.write.path</param-name>

<param-value>C:/bea/flex</param-value>

</init-param>





I have no clue about this, i mean what is supposed to be in
the path C:/bea/flex??? Can anyone explain what the
"flex.write.path" means or referrers to?





Diego

[Former Community Member]

Hi dimival,



flex.write.path is basically the path to a writable folder.
Flex/FDS will use this folder to save the stuff that it usually
saves in your FDS installation directory. Since you're trying to
run FDS compressed, there's no installation directory, therefore it
needs to have access to a writable folder to write these files and
that's why you need to define fkex.write.path.

[dimival]

So basically is it any writable and empty folder??? Can i
create a new one and use it as the write.path?

[Former Community Member]

Yes.

[dimival]

I tried setting the write path to any folder like the example
and i got this during the server startup:



[Flex] [WARN] The watch-file,
/WEB-INF/flex/services-config.xml, could not be resolved to a path
and will be ignored.

[Flex] [WARN] The watch-file, /WEB-INF/flex/proxy-config.xml,
could not be resolved to a path and will be ignored.

[Flex] [WARN] The watch-file,
/WEB-INF/flex/remoting-config.xml, could not be resolved to a path
and will be ignored.

[Flex] [WARN] The watch-file,
/WEB-INF/flex/messaging-config.xml, could not be resolved to a path
and will be ignored.

[Flex] [WARN] The watch-file,
/WEB-INF/flex/data-management-config.xml, could not be resolved to
a path and will be ignored.

[Flex] [WARN] The touch-file, /WEB-INF/web.xml, could not be
resolved to a path and will be ignored.



And then when i tried to run the sample application CRM
(which is included in the samples war when you install flex 2) i
get this error:



java.sql.SQLException: The url cannot be null



so what's wrong?

[Former Community Member]

"The url cannot be null" indicates that you're trying to
access to the Database but the url you're using is null for some
reason. I'd put a breakpoint where that SQLException is thrown and
see if you can spot the problem from the stacktrace.

[dimival]

Any idea why i get this when deploying the compressed war?



[Flex] [WARN] The watch-file,
/WEB-INF/flex/services-config.xml, could not be resolved to a path
and will be ignored.

[Flex] [WARN] The watch-file, /WEB-INF/flex/proxy-config.xml,
could not be resolved to a path and will be ignored.

[Flex] [WARN] The watch-file,
/WEB-INF/flex/remoting-config.xml, could not be resolved to a path
and will be ignored.

[Flex] [WARN] The watch-file,
/WEB-INF/flex/messaging-config.xml, could not be resolved to a path
and will be ignored.

[Flex] [WARN] The watch-file,
/WEB-INF/flex/data-management-config.xml, could not be resolved to
a path and will be ignored.

[Flex] [WARN] The touch-file, /WEB-INF/web.xml, could not be
resolved to a path and will be ignored.