Loading Sametime Proxy Scripts

More useful insight on integrating sametime dojo widgets into a web application - this entry explains how scripts are loaded.

Why can't I find these scripts?

Inspecting the example HTML provided with the ST proxy, one can identify some scripts such as:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://<YourServer>:9081/stwebclient/dojo_1.2.3/dojo/dojo.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://<YourServer>:9081/stbaseapi/baseComps.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://<YourServer>:9081/stwebclient/livename.js"></script>

but don't go looking for them in your filesystem because you won't find them. The HTTP requests are intercepted by a servlet that maps the filename in the URL to a physical filename in the stproxyweb.war. For example in the above case the request for livename.js is redirected to the physical file /dojo_1.2.3/sametime/LiveNameAll.js. This little bit of knowledge is very useful when debugging because many of the javascript files are also uncompressed, and loading that version makes life much easier.

So, we can replace our above example with this:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://<YourServer>:9081/stwebclient/dojo_1.2.3/dojo/dojo.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://<YourServer>:9081/stbaseapi/baseComps.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://<YourServer>:9081/stwebclient/dojo_1.2.3/sametime/LiveNameAll.js.uncompressed.js"></script>

And now we can read the original code in firebug, enabling us to insert appropriate breakpoints.

Servlet mapping list

widgetsPart1.js >> stproxyWidgetsAllFirst.js
widgetsPart2.js >> stproxyWidgetsAllSecond.js
chatPart1.js >> stproxyChatAllFirst.js
chatPart2.js >> stproxyChatAllSecond.js
adderLoader.js >> stproxyAdder.js
meetingLoader.js >> stproxyMeeting.js
announcementLoader.js >> stproxyAnnouncement.js
widgets.js >> stproxyWidgetsAll.js
widgetsLight.js >> stproxyWidgetsAllNoDojo.js
livename.js >> LiveNameAll.js
livenameLight.js >>LiveNameAllNoDojo.js