Automating OC4J Container Setup

Hi All,
I was wondering if anyone would be able to help with a simple query? Our company has recently upgraded to using OAS 10.1.3.4.0 for the latest version of our product. We distribute this to all our customers, and so have many installations to do as part of this upgrade. I've written scripts and response files to enable the installation to be quicker, but I'm looking at using the admin_client.jar to do the setup of OC4J containers for the application.
In the documentation I have found how to set up shared libraries, JMS queues, etc, but I have some questions:
1. Is it possible to include server properties anywhere in an automated script, or deployment plan (i.e -D parameters, heap size, etc)?
2. Is it also possible to specify JSP properties, and transaction manager properties in a deployment plan?
3. I can specify adding JMS queues as part of an admin_tool.jar script, but is it possible to put these in the deployment plan or EAR file too? This would make it easier to change them with subsequent releases.
I hope this is clear, and someone may be able to help with these questions.
thanks,
Chris
Database Administrator, Corelogic Ltd.

Chris,
In response to 1. :
We use ant for automating deployment and I can describe this if you like, but it may not be an option for your customers since ant must be installed on their servers or on a server that can access and control their machines. In any event, the startup options for the JVM (Max Heap Size etc.) can be placed in a batch file (Windows) or shell script (*nix) that you could exec during your install. This is a great idea if you need to be certain that the target server can accomodate your application's needs but there is a caveat - you should check that the target server can accomodate your settings without being overtaxed. These (custom JVM args) may raise legitimate concerns and be something that their server admin may prefer to control.
-Michael

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Automating OC4J Instance Setup

Hi All,
I was wondering if anyone would be able to help with a simple query? Our company has recently upgraded to using OAS 10.1.3.4.0 for the latest version of our product. We distribute this to all our customers, and so have many installations to do as part of this upgrade. I've written scripts and response files to enable the installation to be quicker, but I'm looking at using the admin_client.jar to do the setup of OC4J containers for the application.
In the documentation I have found how to set up shared, libraries, JMS queues, etc, but I have some questions:
1. Is it possible to include server properties anywhere in an automated script, or deployment plan (i.e -D parameters, heap size, etc)?
2. Is it also possible to specify JSP properties, and transaction manager properties in a deployment plan?
3. I can specify adding JMS queues as part of an admin_tool.jar script, but is it possible to put these in the deployment plan or EAR file too? This would make it easier to change them with subsequent releases.
I hope this is clear, and someone may be able to help with these questions.
thanks,
Chris
Database Administrator, Corelogic Ltd.

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OEM in Linux and Unix Memory difference on Deployed OC4J Container

I have 2 Oracle 9iAS environments 1 each for production and test.
My Prod servers are on AIX (Unix)
My Test server is on Linux
Under Enterprise Manager If I create an OC4J container exactly the same in both and deploy an application exactly the same in both could someone tell me why the memory usage display is widely different - on linux its much more used than on unix?
Perplexing.

The code gets pretty messy as I have both a SendMail and MailMessage class that I use. Basically for not authenticated messages (I need authenticated), the example on metalink Doc ID: Note:234490.1 with subject "Mail Service Setup" is what I used to get this going.
I updated the local application.xml file located in C:\jdev1012\jdev\system10.1.2.2.0.1929\oc4j-config\application.xml
<mail-session location="mail/mailsession" smtp-host="my.mail.server">
<property name="mail.transport.protocol" value="smtp"/>
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On a datapage, I have a button with event_Email. In the action class I have an onEmail() method that calls the code to create a message and send it with the email transport.
In my libraries in JDeveloper, I created one called JavaMail which has activation.jar and mail.jar. This is added to the project.
Everything works fine when running locally. The problem is in deployment. The OC4J container that I deploy to has a java2.policy file. At first the classpath, and the location in the policy file for mail.jar and activate.jar were not the same. I updated the policy file to use the files in the classpath. Since mail.jar and activate.jar on the OAS server are in the classpath, I didn't include these files in the deployment.
When trying to run, I don't get any messages, just a 500 Error.
If I try to implement a policy file on the local OC4J in JDeveloper, I get lots of problems, and I gave up on that route.
Hope that adds more info. Thanks, Ken

Shut Down Of OC4J Container ist blocked

Hi,
i'vi got a problem with the new 10g iAS and if anybody's encountered the same or does know a solution, please let me know.
The problem is:
I'm not able to stop the OC4J container in the iAS cleanly.
The reason is:
There are two timers (java.util.Timer) running. These timers are cleanup timers, which run always throughout the application at intervalls (scheduleAtFixedRate). If i dont start the timers, the container will stop right away, without any error. If the timers are running the container is waiting for them to cancel and shutting down hardly after a timeout.
I didn't have this problem with 9i and i dont have it in the embedded OC4J of the JDeveloper.
Is there any workaround? How could i latch into the shutdown process, to cancel the timers myself?
Best regards,
Mirko

The OC4J script is not the cause of this -- if the message is shown "shutting down OC4J' then the call has been made to OC4J and its in the process of shutting down.
If you execute "set verbose=on" before executing oc4j.cmd, then you'll see the command that oc4j uses when -shutdown is performed is exactly that command you suggest:
oc4j -shutdown -port 23791 -password welcome1Executing: D:\java\jdk150_11\bin\java -jar "d:\java\oc4j-10133-prod\j2ee\home\admin.jar" ormi://localhost:23791 oc4jadmin welcome1 -shutdown
But as you are suggesting there are manual ways to shutdown OC4J that are equally valid to use; it's a matter of choice.
What you could try is using the -force extra switch with the -shutdown command to force it to shutdown:
java -jar admin.jar ormi://localhost:23791 oc4jadmin welcome1 -shutdown force
If that fails, ctrl+c the process. It doesn't do any damage to it.
A thread-dump (ctrl+break) on the hung process can help to identify any deadlock issues.
oc4j.cmd is limited certainly, but it provides a simpler entry point IMHO for new users. And we still fully support/endorse the direct startup path using the runnable JAR file.
-steve-

Upgrade oc4j container from 10.1.2 to 10.1.3

Hi to all,
We use oc4j container 10.1.2 for old applications, but now we have developed ajax applications using oracle maps, but if i'm riight 10.1.2 doesn't support oracle maps.
I've tried to install oracle application server oc4j container 10.1.3 in the same machine(i must use the same machine with red hat 3.4.4 opertive system) but i see a lot of conflicts with 10.1.2 and i cannot install that properly.
Is there any possobility to upgrade oracle application server oc4j container without having a metalink account?Is there a patch or something similar?
Thank you,
Francesco Rizzello
Edited by: francesco.rizzello on 10-nov-2009 20.31
Edited by: francesco.rizzello on 10-nov-2009 20.33
Edited by: francesco.rizzello on 10-nov-2009 21.06

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JNDI lookup help please-Bean to Bean callout locally in same oc4j container

Hi - I'm fairly new to oc4j/ejb coding - I'm trying to get a simple application running to show that our code can be run in local mode - here is the scenario:
- Bean A (our application bean) within Application A
- Bean B (customer-developed bean) within Application B
- Bean B calls Bean A
- Bean A + Bean B are different application instances in the same oc4j container
- Jsp (residing in ApplicationB) within the same oc4j container calling Bean B, which invokes Bean A
====
I get the following exception (classes renamed to match scenario):
javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: oracle.apps.applicationa.common.BeanA not found in anothercompany.applicationb.common.BeanB
[java] at com.oracle.naming.J2EEContext.getSubContext(J2EEContext.java:93)
[java] at com.oracle.naming.J2EEContext.lookup(J2EEContext.java:76)
[java] at com.evermind.server.ApplicationContext.lookupJavaCompEnv(ApplicationContext.java:265)
[java] at com.evermind.server.ApplicationContext.lookupJavaComp(ApplicationContext.java:132)
[java] at com.evermind.server.ApplicationContext.lookup(ApplicationContext.java:306)
[java] at com.evermind.server.ApplicationContext.lookup(ApplicationContext.java:120)
[java] at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(InitialContext.java:347)
- BeanA is part of application named "AppA" in server.xml
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My Stateless Session Bean is very simple and I have tried not setting the context and setting the context. I'm thinking this is a very simple configuration issue, but have not been able to find the solution yet... I've tried playing with the setSessionContext method in the session bean but have had no luck and am not sure what to set the variables to or even if I'm in the correct method...
public void setSessionContext(SessionContext ctx) {
if (verbose)
System.out.println("setSessionContext called");
Properties env = new Properties();
// tried all three context factories...
//env.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY,"com.evermind.server.ApplicationInitalContextFactory");
env.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY,"com.evermind.server.ApplicationClientInitialContextFactory");
//env.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY,"com.evermind.server.rmi.RMIInitialContextFactory");
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env.put(Context.SECURITY_PRINCIPAL, "guest");
env.put(Context.SECURITY_CREDENTIALS, "welcome");
// mProps is a local transient member var of type Properties
mProps = env;
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(edit) additional info:
- all beans/classes are in the same classes directory; there are no jar files, so in application.xml the specified classpath is "classes" which includes both appA and appB classes
- I verified that if I point (appB) jsp directly to BeanA it works with the "parent" attribute set on appB in server.xml, and when I remove the "parent" attribute on appB in server.xml the jsp throws a NameNotFoundException
edit #2:
another interesting note is that the exception message says "oracle.apps.applicationa.common.BeanA not found in anothercompany.applicationb.common.BeanB"
and usually the naming error I see is:
"oracle.apps.applicationa.common.BeanA not found in appB"
(as with the case when I use a jsp to access appA beans without setting the parent application of appB to appA)
- also my j2ee/home/applications/appB/WEB-INF/web.xml includes the oracle.apps.applicationa.common.BeanA ejb-ref tag
any help is appreciated - thanks!
Message was edited by:
oleon

Hi Steve
thanks for the reply - I currently have the parent attribute set in server.xml which is why the jsp connection works, but for some strange reason the bean cannot connect to other bean...
my server.xml has something like...
<application name="appA" location="appA" auto-start="true"/>
<application name="appB" location="appB" parent="appA" auto-start="true"/>
(ok, the tags might be off because I'm not in front of my workstation looking at the xml file...)
on another interesting note, in the session bean for AppB I've tried searching for the ejb bean for app B (itself basically) with the default initial context and it cannot find its own bean within the same application... the message would be something like "NameNotFoundException: anothercompany.applicationb.common.BeanB not found in anothercompany.applicationb.common.BeanB"

Debugging or Running from OC4J container does not save to database

When I run a project locally, from the oc4j container, none of my user input is committed to the database, for example...
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I am unable to debug any items that require user input. I don't know when or why this started happening.
Thanks,
jerry.

1. any changes to an lov input field are removed upon tabbing out of the field - may be the PPR event of LOV is handled in the controller's processFormRequest where the values are cleared
I am unable to debug any items that require user input. ----- are you trying to get the values of input items in the processFormRequest?

Can't start OC4J container

Hi! I can't start my OC4J container. I've pasted here the error message.
Can anyobody help me? Thanks.
C:\Documents and Settings\zoli>java -jar "C:\Program Files\Jdeveloper 10.1.3\j2e
e\home\oc4j.jar"
2006-10-09 14:10:29.031 ERROR Failed to set the internal configuration of the OC
4J JMS Server with: XMLJMSServerConfig[file:/C:/Program Files/Jdeveloper 10.1.3/
j2ee/home/config/jms.xml]
06/10/09 14:10:29 *** (SEVERE) Failed to set the internal configuration of the O
C4J JMS Server with: XMLJMSServerConfig[file:/C:/Program Files/Jdeveloper 10.1.3
/j2ee/home/config/jms.xml]
2006-10-09 14:10:29.046 ERROR J2EE OJR0011 Exception starting JMS server: Failed
to set the internal configuration of the OC4J JMS Server with: XMLJMSServerConf
ig[file:/C:/Program Files/Jdeveloper 10.1.3/j2ee/home/config/jms.xml]
2006-10-09 14:10:32.484 WARNING J2EE JNDI0001 Resource Environment reference jms
/store not found. Allowing J2EEContext creation to continue anyway.
2006-10-09 14:10:32.484 WARNING J2EE JNDI0001 Resource Environment reference jms
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2006-10-09 14:10:32.484 WARNING J2EE JNDI0001 Resource Environment reference jms
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2006-10-09 14:10:32.562 WARNING J2EE JNDI0001 Resource Environment reference jms
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uring endpoint activation: failure looking up ConnectionFactoryJndiName:jms/XAQu
eueConnectionFactory: javax.resource.spi.ResourceAdapterInternalException: Looki
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eueConnectionFactory not found
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ng.InstantiationException: Error initializing ejb-modules: Resource exception(Or
acleASjms) for MessageDrivenBean event during endpoint activation: failure looki
ng up ConnectionFactoryJndiName:jms/XAQueueConnectionFactory: javax.resource.spi
.ResourceAdapterInternalException: Looking up jms/XAQueueConnectionFactory: java
x.naming.NameNotFoundException: jms/XAQueueConnectionFactory not found
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flow.MessageEndpointFactoryImpl@128340.
06/10/09 14:10:32 Error initializing server: Error initializing ejb-modules: Res
ource exception(OracleASjms) for MessageDrivenBean event during endpoint activat
ion: failure looking up ConnectionFactoryJndiName:jms/XAQueueConnectionFactory:
javax.resource.spi.ResourceAdapterInternalException: Looking up jms/XAQueueConne
ctionFactory: javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: jms/XAQueueConnectionFactory n
ot found
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C:\Documents and Settings\zoli>

Hello,
You are hitting a known issue that has been fixed in OC4J 10.1.3.1.
The work around is to remove the *.lock file in the $ORACLE_HOME/j2ee/home/persistence directory.
Let me know if that does not work after this.
Regards
Tugdual Grall

Sort order in Java application (oc4j container) -- ear file deployment

I have a Java application deploy in Oracle OC4J container (EAR file).
In my Java application (jsp), I have a SQL statement who return data but the
sort order is wrong. The letters "é" and all characters with accents
appears at the end of the result.
I tried many things to change the sort order (NLS parameters in database
and OAS10g parameter files).
When I use SQL*plus on database server, that's working.
The sort order is wrong when I use the java application.
Somebody can tell me what and where is the NLS parameters to change ?
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Robin

Robin,
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I tried many things to change the sort order (NLS parameters in database
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9.0.3: OC4J container start "hang" - urgent

I installed 9.0.3 on a win2k machine that was previously running 9.0.2. I migrated preferences, workspaces, etc., rebuilt my project, and tried to run it. The tab for the oc4j container appears, and there is a message that it is starting, but it never finishes launching (opens window, browser, posts message to window about having started). I restarted jdev, rebuilt the project, tried again - same thing. Rebooted, restarted, rebuilt, same thing. I tried starting the debugger because it will kill the current oc4j instance and restart, and it said that it needed to do that, but never returned either. I have a developer down, so a speedy response would be greatly appreciated.

I've reread all your messages again. Here's a summary of the information you've provided so far (please make any corrections or additions):
* Platform is Win2k. (Not sure if reproduces on other platforms.)
* Severe performance degradation in JDev 9.0.3 Preview compared to 9.0.2 Production.
* Specific issue is with embedded OC4J, which does not complete its startup.
* Restarting and reinstalling JDev and rebooting Windows do not improve the situation.
* While OC4J is struggling to start up, other IDE responsiveness is extremely sluggish.
* The Run | Terminate | Embedded OC4J menu item is disabled. No context menu at all when right-clicking on "Embedded OC4J" in the Run Manager.
* A migration bug (2525992) is involved, but we've ruled it out as the cause of performance problems, because embedded OC4J problems are still observed in a brand new (not migrated) 9.0.3 install.
* Problem occurs only if the .jws and .jpr are on a LAN drive. OK for source and classes to be on LAN drive.
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* LAN drive is a NetWare resource.
The keymap exception that you got appears to be unrelated. A similar exception was reported internally as bug 2493459, which was fixed last week in the 9.0.3 Production code line.
Based on your information so far, I can offer the following details:
(1) When you have files on a network volume, and these files are open in JDeveloper, if you switch to another Windows app and then come back to JDev, JDev will check those files' timestamps to see if their content needs to be reloaded in the IDE. Unfortunately, this reloading code runs on the AWT Event thread, which means that painting will be frozen until all open files have been scanned. This can lead to an extremely sluggish response in the UI. Currently there is no work-around to this problem. I have filed bug 2566932 for this issue, which I am pushing to get fixed for 9.0.3 Production.
(2) One of the behaviors that changed between JDev 9.0.2 and 9.0.3 Preview with regard to embedded OC4J is the following command-line flag:
-Doracle.j2ee.dont.use.memory.archive=true
This affects the behavior of the OC4J classloaders, and it usually produces a much faster startup time for the server. However, it theoretically could cause performance problems if classes are located on a remote network drive, but we don't have a lot of good data on this. One thing you could try then is to disable this flag:
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Now try to run your webapp again and see if there is a difference.
(3) If you are running jdev.exe instead of jdevw.exe, one of the things you can do is hit Ctrl-Break in the console window. If you do this while JDev is hung, you will get a stack dump of all the live threads. Please email the entire thread stack dump to me, Armand.Dijamco at oracle . com.
Thanks again!

SOA suite: configure a new oc4j container, licensing and support

Hi
We have a SOA suite installation (10.1.3.4).
Default installation is containing a OC4J_SOA running the esb, bpel etc.
Now we have a java ear (java web service), and would like to deploy this to a dedicated oc4j container.
So we want to configure a new oc4j instance named oc4j_jws.
Actually, we have already done this, and it is looking good.
Now I only want to make sure the configuration of a new oc4j container is not violating any licensing and support agreements.
We have soa suite license.
I believe a soa suite license allows for configuration of additional oc4j containers.

The adding of oc4j instances is at least well documented within the Oracle Application Server Administrator's Guide:
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Declarative java object cache in non oc4j container

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i'm trying to use the cache.jar from 10g in a standalone application.
i've followed the j2ee services guide and use cache.open(path_to_javacache.xml). javacache.xml has preload-file defined, in which i've declared my userdefined classloader and userdefined cached object. the implementations of both implement declarable. however,when i use cacheaccess.getaccess(region_name) i get regionnotfoundexception.
i've also tried to use the configurator alternative, where i specify the declarative cache xml file. but this gives me a classcastexception.
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Hi,
I ran into the same problem while evaluating OC4J V9 Java Cache standalone.
Cache.open() silently ignores errors:
* Cache.open(path_to_javacache.xml) seems to silently swallow alle error messages (in your case the ClassCastException) and the ignore the configuration file
* so to get meaningful error messages, first attempt to open the file with new Configurator(path_to_javacache.xml)
* once there are no more errors, you can open it with Cache.open(path_to_javacache.xml)
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A relative javacache.xml is relative to your working directory.
The preload-file - Path seems to be relative to the javacache.xml path, if it is not absolute. I keep javacache.xml and preload-file together which worked for me.
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Webbinding of OBI Publisher failing (OC4J contained into OAS)

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I;m deploying OBI Publisher (earlier XML publisher) xmlpserver.EAR using OC4J contained into Oracle Application server. The deployment is getting successful. But when Binding Web Modules to a Web Site After Deployment it is giving me an error
BindWebApp error: oracle.oc4j.admin.jmx.shared.exceptions.JMXRuntimeException
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Regards,
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Solved it myself.
For the benefit of others:
It is possible to use oracle_proxy plug-in for OC4J stand-alone.
Crucial points for the configuration are:
- oracle_proxy config file specified correctly
- xmlpserver roles specified correctly
- right ports specified in instanceconfig.xml and xmlp-server-config.xml
Regards,
Michal

Renaming report server OC4J container

Hi all,
I have recently had to re-install my 2 app servers from scratch ( dont ask please !!) they are Oracle 10g App Server ver 9.0.4.1.0 and both look at the same underlining DB.
Before "everything went wrong......." the Report Server OC4J container was named to repserver1. Which meant switching between app servers was easier. now after the default installations on both App servers are called rep_ap-1 or rep_ap-2.....does anyone know how to switch these back or even rename them ?
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that's a good question for the report-forum. Maybe there are more report-gurus than here in the forms-forum.

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