Java / web.xml Remoting problem

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Hello. Thanks in advance for any help or advice.

I am using; Java 1.5, Tomcat 5.5, openamf, fmx 2004 pro.

I bought “Flash Remoting, the definitive guide by Tom Muck”. However, most documentation directly relates to the bought version of Flash Remoting and JRun 4. So i am having a little trouble getting things working myself.

I have actually got some remoting to work in Flash, a simple HelloWorld example. However, i only got this working by actually puting and compiling my Java class inside openamf (the following directory structure):

Tomcat
------->Tomcat 5.5
-------------------->webapps
------------------------------>openamf
---------------------------------------->WEB-INF
-------------------------------------------------->classes

This worked. However, from what i understand, this is not how it should acuatlly be achieved. What i should actually have (i think) is, my own completely self-contained webapp, and point it to the remoting gateway.

So what i did was:

  1. Copy openamf.jar file into the lib directory of my webapp.
  2. add the following XML to my own webapps web.xml file (inside WE-INF).

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<?xml version=“1.0” encoding=“UTF-8”?>
<!DOCTYPE web-app
PUBLIC “-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.2//EN”
“Oracle Java Technologies | Oracle”>
<web-app>

&lt;servlet&gt;
    &lt;servlet-name&gt;foo&lt;/servlet-name&gt; **&lt;!-- mapping name below --&gt;**
    &lt;servlet-class&gt;ByeByeWorld&lt;/servlet-class&gt; **&lt;!-- name of class --&gt;**
&lt;/servlet&gt;
&lt;servlet-mapping&gt;
    &lt;servlet-name&gt;foo&lt;/servlet-name&gt; **&lt;!-- finds same name above and looks up the class --&gt;**
    &lt;url-pattern&gt;/ByeByeWorld&lt;/url-pattern&gt; **&lt;!-- the url that can be typed in the browser --&gt;**
&lt;/servlet-mapping&gt;

<!-- this is what i added –>
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<servlet>
<servlet-name>FlashGatewayServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>…/openamf/gateway</servlet-class>[/color][/font][font=Courier New][color=Red]<!-- HOW DO I GET INTO OEPNAMF FROM HERE? –>[/color][/font]
[font=Courier New][color=Red] </servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>FlashGatewayServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>…/…/openamf/org.openamf.DefaultGateway</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

</web-app>
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Area of confusion…

How come i can type http://localhost/openamf/gateway into my browser and it (as it should do) return a blank page (Where is the gateway, i can’t see anything directly relating to it inside the openamf servlet?) Secondly, inside the <servlet-class></servlet-class> tag, is this what points to the actual remoting gateway, is this what makes remoting work and hence i should ‘point’ my webapp to it?

So i suppose my main question is:

What goes inside the <servlet-class></servlet-class> tags that are meant to find the remtoing gateway, inside my webapps web.xml? (assuming i already have the other <servlet-class> tags set-up to point to the actual Java class that i wrote) ?

Massive thanks for any help, really is appreciated.

Regards, snapple :slight_smile: