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Additional Porting and Deployment Considerations

BEA WebLogic Server 7.0 Upgrade Guide 2-35

Wireless Application Protocol Applications

To run a Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) application on WebLogic Server 7.0,

you must now specify the MIME types associated with WAP in the

web.xml file of

the web application. In WebLogic Server 5.1, the default mime-type can be set using

weblogic.httpd.defaultMimeType in weblogic.properties where its default

value is "text/plain". WebLogic Server 6.0, WebLogic Server 6.1, and WebLogic

Server 7.0 do not have a default

mime-type. You must explicitly specify mime-type

for each extension in the

web.xml file.. For information on required MIME types see

Programming WebLogic Server for Wireless Services. For information on creating and

editing a

web.xml file, see Writing Web Application Deployment Descriptors in

Assembling and Configuring Web Applications.

An example configuration of the

mime-types in the web.xml file:

<web-app>

<mime-mapping>

<mime-type>image/tiff</extension>

</mime-mapping>

<mime-mapping>

<mime-type>image/tiff</extension>

</mime-mapping>

</web-app>

Writable config.xml File

WebLogic Server 7.0 automatically updates configuration information read from the

6.x

config.xml file to include version 7.0 information. In order for these changes to

be retained between invocations of the server, the

config.xml file must be writable.

To allow the file to be writable, make a back-up copy of your

config.xml file from

your 6.x configuration and change the file attributes.