To run the servlet examples, you can access the applications
from a web browser.
Before you begin
You must deploy an example to a Liberty JVM server, as described
in
Deploying the servlet examples. You must
also make sure that the
server.xml file contains
a valid port number and host name. The samples are set up to use HTTPS.
About this task
The Liberty profile server uses the Java™ TCP/IP sockets layer to accept HTTP and
HTTPS requests from web browsers. You can use a web browser to check
that your application is available and that your Liberty JVM server
is configured to accept application requests.
Procedure
- Open a web browser and enter a URL in the following format:
https://hostname:port/app_name/
- hostname is the name of the host or IP address
where you are running the Liberty JVM server.
- port is the HTTPS port number that is configured
in the server.xml file.
- app_name is the name of the example that you
deployed. The hello world example has the name com.ibm.cics.server.examples.wlp.hello.web,
the TS queue has the name com.ibm.cics.server.examples.wlp.tsq.web,
and the JDBC example has the name com.ibm.cics.server.examples.wlp.jdbc.web.
Tip: The name of the application, host name, and
port is written to dfhjvmout when the application
is successfully deployed. You can copy the URL from the log into your
web browser to access the application, but remove the /* at
the end of the URL to display the starting page for the application.
The web application is displayed in the web browser.
- You can interact with the web application. The
hello world example just displays a web page to confirm your Liberty
JVM server is running in CICS. However, you can interact with the
TS queue and JDBC examples.
- Interacting with the TS queue example
- You can use the TS queue example to create, browse, and delete
temporary storage queues in the CICS region. To create a temporary
storage queue, enter a name in the field TSQ,
enter some test data in the field Record, and
click Write TSQ. The record that you entered
is returned underneath. The TS queue name, type, and number of records
are also returned on the web page. You can add as many records as
you like.
- To browse a temporary storage queue, enter the name of the queue
and click Browse TSQ. To delete a temporary
storage queue, enter the name of the queue and click Delete
TSQ.
- Interacting with the JDBC example
- You can use the JDBC example to view and filter sample data from
DB2. The web page shows all the records for the sample DB2 table.
You can apply filters to the table columns to change the data that
is returned. Click the drop-down menu next to a column to change the
filter, for example select the greater than symbol, and enter a value
in the field. Click Update to return the filtered
data from DB2. Click Reset to remove the filters.
Results
You successfully configured and tested an example web application.