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Example 3 - ForumDemo
(from Apache's Velocity project)

Description

This app shows a discussion forum.  It uses Velocity for the presentation, with the ForumDatabase and Messages being hosted in the EOB server.  They are persisted using Hibernate from SourceForge.  The webserver happens to be in the same VM as the bean server, but that is not mandatory.  AltRMI with allow lookup from any TCP/IP visible location.

Screenshot of the Velocitywebapp .  URL : http://localhost:8080/forumdemo

Object Model navigation witharaSpect

Also included with example3 is an object model viewing application courtesy of the araSpect project at SourceForge
http://localhost:8080/forumdemo/araspect.jsp

Screenshot:

Object Model Interaction with BeanShell

Beanshell is a very cool Shell environment for Java..

You can launch the beanshell application from the command line.

    java -jar example3-beanshell.jar

Alternatively you may test it va the built-in applet. Point your browser to:

    http://localhost:8080/forumdemo/beanshell.html (if you have launched the server yourself)
    http://demo.enterpriseobjectbroker.org:8080/forumdemo/beanshell.html (demo server)

Screenshot:

Running Example3 locally

1) Get Phoenix from downloads (unless you have it already). See section titled 'Phoenix in binary form' on the downloads page. Unzip Phoenix

2) Download eob-with-http-and-db.sar from the downloads page. Place the sar file in the 'apps' directory of the unzipped Phoenix.

3) CD to the bin directory and execute run.bat or run.sh as appropriate. Phoenix will start EOB, but will exit quickly as there are no apps to host.

4) Download* eob-example3.eob and place it in the 'startupApps' directory created a couple of dirs deeper than the phoenix 'apps' dir.

* - Or make this .eob file from the source download by doing 'ant eob'

5) Execute run.bat or run.sh again. You should see....

Phoenix 4.0.3

CREATE TABLE MESSAGE( ID BIGINT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY ,CONTENTS LONGVARCHAR,EMAIL LONGVARCHAR,NAME LONGVARCHAR,parent BIGINT,SUBJECT LONGVARCHAR,SUBMITTED DATE)

Mounted EOB application eob-example3 (dir /home/eob/phoenix-bin/apps/eob-with-http-and-db/work/eob-example3)
deploying context=forumdemo, webapp=file:/home/eob/phoenix-bin/apps/eob-with-http-and-db/work/eob-example3/webapps/forumdemo
.war to host=localhost
..mounted WAR application - contextPath=forumdemo, webAppDirOrWarFile=/home/eob/phoenix-bin/apps/eob-with-http-and-db/work/eob-example3/webapps/forumdemo.war
Hypersonic SQL listening on port 9001
server.properties not found, using command line or default properties

6) Point your browser to http://localhost:8080/forumdemo to see and interact with the demo.  

7) Point your browser at http://localhost:8080/forumdemo/Inspect.jsp to browse the client side representation of the object model using araSpect

8) Launch a mainable test with java -jar example3-test.jar (get it from the downloads page)

9) From the downloads page, get and launch the beanshell environment with java -jar example3-beanshell.jar (see the screenshot above for commands)

- The EOB Team

$Revision: 1.19 $ $Date: 2003/04/15 21:24:13 $