in the belly of the beast

I write this from my Google tent, pitched in the Google courtyard, connected to the intarnets using Google's network; and of course using Google software. I'm here for wherecamp catching up on all things related to geo and the web. Observations of the campus: +1 for the heated toilet seats +1 for the yummy soy yogurt +1 for the schweet tent swag with the Google logo and the slogan "I'm feeling lucky." odd moment - watching Google employees pile out of cars on a Saturday night to do their laundry at the Google campus Observations on wherecamp: People are posting and editing the wiki here and here.

Embedded tomcat and launch4j FTW

I've been meaning to get around to this for years. Using this example, I compiled it with my webapps and then used lauch4j to create a windows executable wrapper. Throw in a jre and some data and I'm good to go. Now I just give the live demos to the sales people and clients on a USB stick without having to go through the install or setting it up on a web server. Here's the code example:

import org.apache.catalina.*;
import org.apache.catalina.connector.*;
import org.apache.catalina.realm.*;
import org.apache.catalina.startup.*;


public class EmbeddedTomcat
{
  // Instance variables:
  private String    name;
  private int       portNumber;
  private Embedded  embedded;
  private Engine    baseEngine;
  private Host      baseHost;
  private Connector httpConnector;
 
  /** Creates a new instance of EmbeddedTomcat */
  public EmbeddedTomcat(
    String name,
    int    portNumber)
  {
    this.name = name;
    this.portNumber = portNumber;
 
    init();
  }
 
  private void init()
  {
    MemoryRealm realm;
    Context     context;
    String      baseEngineName;
    String      hostName;
 
    embedded = new Embedded();
 
    // set default logger and realm
    /*
       FileLogger fileLog = new FileLogger();
       fileLog.setDirectory(".");
       fileLog.setPrefix(name);
       fileLog.setSuffix(".log");
       fileLog.setTimestamp(true);
       embedded.setLogger(fileLog);
     */
    realm = new MemoryRealm();
    embedded.setRealm(realm);
 
    // create an Engine
    baseEngine = embedded.createEngine();
 
    // set Engine properties
    baseEngineName = name + "Engine";
    hostName = name + "Host";
 
    baseEngine.setName(baseEngineName);
    baseEngine.setDefaultHost(hostName);
 
    baseHost = embedded.createHost(hostName, "webapps");
    baseEngine.addChild(baseHost);
 
    // RootContext
    context = addContext("", "ROOT");
 
    // ManagerContext
    context = addContext("/manager", "manager");
    context.setPrivileged(true);
    

   /* This is where you add your webapps*/

    //  GeoBrowserContext
    context = addContext("/geobrowser", "geobrowser");
    context.setPrivileged(true);
    
    // add new Engine to set of Engine for embedded server
    embedded.addEngine(baseEngine);
 
    // create Connector 
    httpConnector = embedded.createConnector((java.net.InetAddress) null,
        portNumber, false);
 
    // add new Connector to set of Connectors for embedded server, associated
    // with Engine
    embedded.addConnector(httpConnector);
  }
  
  
 
  public void start()
  {
    // start server
    try
    {
      embedded.start();
    }
    catch (org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException ex)
    {
      ex.printStackTrace();
 
      //fileLog.log("Startup failed");
      //fileLog.log(ex.getMessage());
    }
  }
  
  public void stop()
  {
    // start server
    try
    {
      embedded.stop();
    }
    catch (org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException ex)
    {
      ex.printStackTrace();
 
      //fileLog.log("Startup failed");
      //fileLog.log(ex.getMessage());
    }
  }
 
  public Context addContext(
    String path,
    String docBase)
  {
    Context c;
 
    c = embedded.createContext(path, docBase);
    baseHost.addChild(c);
 
    return c;
  }
 
  public static void main(String[] args)
  {
    new EmbeddedTomcat("RedSpider", 8080).start();
  }
}