After now, I ask myself “what was I’m doing most of the time??”. To play a video inside your apps, it only take a little steps. Very simple and maybe you can eat the coconuts.

Steps by step:
1. Open your XCode and create a new project (View Based Application).
2. Named it PlayVideo.
3. Import the MediaPlayer.Framework to the Library.
4. In the PlayVideoViewController.h, declare a method called playVideo as follow.

- (IBAction) playVideo;

5. Open PlayVideoViewController.xib. Place a Button Rect inside the view and change the value to “Play Video”.
6. Click on File’s Owner and in the Identity Inspector, add a new Action called playVideo.
7. Right click on File’s Owner and drag the (+) mark beside that playVideo to the button on the view and choose “Touch Up Inside” in the popup. save the file.
8. In the PlayVideoViewController.m, import the MediaPlayer’s library.

#import <MediaPlayer/MediaPlayer.h>

9. Type the following code after the ‘@implementation PlayVideoViewController’ line

- (IBAction) playVideo{
NSString *bundle = [NSBundle mainBundle];
NSString *moviePath = [bundle pathForResource:@"videoTitle" ofType:@"mov"];
NSURL *movieURL = [[NSURL fileURLWithPath:moviePath]retain];
MPMoviePlayerController* theMovie = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:movieURL];
theMovie.scalingMode = MPMovieScalingModeAspectFill;
[theMovie play];
}

10. Save all file and click Build and Go green button. All the best..

what the effect??
you will not be allowed to login and you will receive an error like below:
JAuthentication::__construct: Could not load authentication libraries

so, how to solve it??
Access your remote database, and locate to the Plugins table. Edit the Publish column to ’1′. save it and that it. good luck..

Actually, we already did this before for about two or three months before. But we didn’t make any notes so it’s still a hard time to recall the way on how to deploy our .war file to our tomcat5 server. To say the least, we stuck one more time. Well, luckily for us can manage it in a minutes. Huhu..

Problem

We just develop our website using JSP and Servlet technology and MySQL is our system’s database in our local server. After clean and build the project using netbeans IDE 6.1, so we get our .war file. Then, after cleaning and checking all tables in database, so we dump the database by export it as a .sql file at the desktop. So now, how do we do to deploy and publish these files to the real server??

Software used

One important software use is DataFreeWay. It’s used to upload the .war to the real server. This software is much faster and safety.. that why, we download it from the internet and typically install it in our machine.

What to do??

Ok. Here the steps if you want to follow mine.

A.      Pre-Condition

1.       You have your .war file at any location in your machine. Please rename it to “ROOT.war” no double court. I put mine at desktop.

2.       You have your .sql file located at any location in your machine.

B.      Step by Step

1.       Run the new installed software. I means, the DataFreeWay and browse to your tomcat server. This is mine:  ssh://server_ipaddress:port/usr/share/tomcat5/webapps

2.       Now, once they shows you the directory there, just drag your ROOT.war inside the browser(you are going to upload the file).

3.       That all.. you may going to the town now while having some coffee or playing golf or something. I means, it going to take a lot of time to upload this file. If mine, it take almost 6 hours. Huhh..

6 hours later..

4.       Open your internet browser and browse to your tomcat web application manager. Mine is http://server_ipaddress:port/manager/html

5.       At the bottom of the page, you will find 2 Deploy form. Now, you gonna use the Deploy directory or WAR file located on server because our .war file is already inside our server.

6.       Fill that form with appropriate data. If mine; Context Path: /makanmakanmaysia.com(your domain name). then, at WAR or Directory URL: /urs/share/tomcat5/webapps//ROOT.war

7.       Click the deploy button. And now, you’re done but not yet..

Export and Import Your Database

8.       Open a new internet browser and directly browse to your DirectAdmin manager. If mine, it is http://server_ipaddress:port

9.       They are going to prompt you your username and password. Get ready with yours.

10.   After login, just navigate to phpMyAdmin.

11.   Once done, click at import to import your .sql file.

12.   Fill the form by browse to your .sql file and click go button.

13.   Now, you are done. The truly done

C.      The End

1.       Open a new internet browser and browse to your domain name. if mine is: http://www.makanmkanmalaysia.com

Note:

1.       I will add the captured print screed later on.. hehe

2.       Please don’t blame me for my broken English.

Here is an example of a simple structure ofXML file:

<parentTag>
<childTag1>Data1</childTag1>
<childTag2>Data2</childTag2>
<childTag3>Data3</childTag3>
</parentTag>