Best practice for editing Captions, photo names, places, etc.

Hello - I find the small windows in iPhoto to be a bit "clunky" to do a bunch of meta-tagging. Anyone have any thoughts or suggestions on how to best do this? Where I can, I do batch changes. If I upload photos to mobilme galleries - can you edit this data there and have it sync back?
Thanks.
Steve

You mean adding metadata? Keywords can be added in the Info Window or using the Keyword Manager window, or with Quick Groups.
Titles and Descriptions (as iPhoto calls Captions) can be added via the Info Window or by the Batch Change command, if you’re working in batches.
You can also add titles and keyword simply by editing them directly under the image in Browse mode.
Those, and my suggestions above, are about your options.
Regards
TD

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Best practices for Edit Proxies in Final Cut Server?

We just bought Final Cut Server, and for the most part are pretty happy with the product. We are a small production facility, and primarily work with DVCPro HD footage at 720P. One feature we'd like to use would be the edit proxies feature in FCS, but they don't seem to be working for us.
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We're using a mac mini server with snow leopard server and final cut server 1.5.
Problem
Whenever we specify in the Administrator Pane of FCS, Under Preferences and Analyze, we'd like to use a custom transcode setting for the edit proxies, keeping Frame Size, TC, and Frame rate the same, but changing the codec to h264 least quality, the effects are a different compression than expected. We tested out the compression settings using Compressor on the server, and we get the desired results:
Input: DVCPro HD 720P Quicktime 960X720 (1248 x 702) 23.98 fps
Output: H264 Quicktime 960X720 (1248 x 702) 23.98 fps
Also did the same outputs using Apple Prorez, Photo Jpeg and got the following outputs:
Output: Apple Prorez Quicktime 960X720 (1248 x 702) 23.98 fps
Output: Photo Jpeg Quicktime 960X720 (1248 x 702) 23.98 fps
(We also made new transcode settings for these compressor settings and we not able to control the compressions through FCS with these settings as well. Our target codec is H264.)
After connecting the new compression settings on the Mac Mini Server to a new transcode setting in the FCS Admin Pane, we restarted the Java Client, logged in to FCS as an FCSadmin, opened the Admin Pane, and under preferences/analyze change the edit proxy setting to the New H264 setting that worked perfectly when using Compressor. After uploading a final cut project, with one associated media file (DVCPro HD 720P Quicktime 960X720 (1248 x 702) 23.98 fps), the resulting edit proxy did not match the specification: 384 x 216, 23.98fps, TC matches source.
Also did not dynamically connect when checking out the project from FCS and selecting edit proxies and keep media with project and saving to the desktop.
Question 1:
Does anyone have any best practice transcode setting(s) to create for DVCPro HD 720P using edit proxies that dynamically connect and are smaller size than the original? H264? Photo Jpeg?
Question 2:
Why is Final Cut Server's Compressor giving a different output, when the same settings work well with just Compressor?
Question 3:
Does H264 work in creating dynamically linking edit proxies (ie, no need to reconnect)?
I can imagine this information to be very useful to the community, so any input or solutions will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

H.264 is a puzzling choice of codec for edit proxies. H.264 is not an edit-friendly codec since it is a complex long-GOP structure and will require a ton of rendering just to play back the timeline. ProRES 422 Proxy would be a much better choice for editing. I'm afraid I can't account for the differences between Compressor and FCServer in this case, but my gut tells me the non-I-frame codec you are trying to use for edit proxies might have something to do with it. Maybe for an edit-proxy workflow to operate properly on the server-side the codec must be I-frame? Is there any reason you do not want to use ProRES 422 Proxy? They are about 1/3 the footprint of 720p24 DVCPRO-HD, which is already very efficient. For that frame rate and frame size they would be roughly half the heft of good ol' DV25.
So my answer to all three questions would be to try ProRES 422 Proxy for your edit proxies and see if everything lines up.

Best Practices for editing

I have a large document (college course catalog) that I need to produce. I have a previous version in publisher. I need to have various individuals edit specific sections of the catalog. I am wondering if anybody has any suggestions on the best way to do this. I have Adobe CS4 and plan on producing the new catalog using InDesign. I have the ability to use a share drive, website, email, or snail mail to deliver the files. Should i break it out by section, send via Word (tracking), and insert the sections in ID? Other ideas?

There are several 3rd party options that heavily utilize two Adobe apps: inDesign and inCopy. The 3rd-parties add the functionality to allow various levels of collaboration. I've been doing demos with several companies, and each takes a different approach. Here's part of my list: Woodwing, K4, Doczone with TopLeaf (not an inDesign solution), Atomik/easypress.
All these are xml-based, which basically means you are driving an editable database that feeds into inDesign. Through various tools (some are web-based, for instance) authors can make revisions to words while you work on layout. Again, each company has a different approach to be ready to be blown away, at least temporarily.
Best part of many of these tools: If you create the data for the print book you also have the data for the school's website and internal class database.
It also seems that there should be solutions already developed specifically for the school market, but maybe my imaginination is just getting the best of me today.

Best practice for RDGW placement in RDS 2012 R2 deployment

Hi,
I have been setting up a RDS 2012 R2 farm deployment and the time has come for setting up the RDGW servers. I have a farm with 4 SH servers, 2 WA servers, 2 CB servers and 1 LS.
Farm works great for LAN and VPN users.
Now i want to add two domain joined RDGW servers.
The question is; I've read a lot on technet and different sites about how to set the thing up, but no one mentions any best practices for where to place them.
Should i:
- set up WAP in my DMZ with ADFS in LAN, then place the RDGW in the LAN and reverse proxy in
- place RDGW in the DMZ, opening all those required ports into the LAN
- place the RDGW in the LAN, then port forward port 443 into it from internet
Any help is greatly appreciated.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties or guarantees and confers no rights

Hi,
The deployment is totally depends on your & company requirements as many things to taken care such as Hardware, Network, Security and other related stuff. Personally to setup RD Gateway server I would not prefer you to select 1st option. But as per my research,
for best result you can use option 2 (To place RDG server in DMZ and then allowed the required ports). Because by doing so outside network can’t directly connect to your internal server and it’s difficult to break the network by any attackers. A perimeter
network (DMZ) is a small network that is set up separately from an organization's private network and the Internet. In a network, the hosts most vulnerable to attack are those that provide services to users outside of the LAN, such as e-mail, web, RD Gateway,
RD Web Access and DNS servers. Because of the increased potential of these hosts being compromised, they are placed into their own sub-network called a perimeter network in order to protect the rest of the network if an intruder were to succeed. You can refer
beneath article for more information.
RD Gateway deployment in a perimeter network & Firewall rules
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rds/archive/2009/07/31/rd-gateway-deployment-in-a-perimeter-network-firewall-rules.aspx
Hope it helps!
Thanks.
Dharmesh Solanki
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What is the best program to use on Mac for editing, cropping photos from my computer. Looking for a free program that is good.

What is the best program to use on Mac for editing, cropping photos from my computer. Looking for a free program that is good.

If your needs are limited to those tasks then both Preview and iPhoto will fit the bill They are already on your Mac. There is a free download from Google called Picasa available here:
http://picasa.google.com/
It works much the in same manner as iPhoto. For some really heavy duty work there is GIMP available from SourceForge:
http://www.gimp.org/macintosh/ Also a free download.
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Best practices for setting up projects

We recently adopted using Captivate for our WBT modules.
As a former Flash and Director user, I can say it’s
fast and does some great things. Doesn’t play so nice with
others on different occasions, but I’m learning. This forum
has been a great source for search and read on specific topics.
I’m trying to understand best practices for using this
product. We’ve had some problems with file size and
incorporating audio and video into our projects. Fortunately, the
forum has helped a lot with that. What I haven’t found a lot
of information on is good or better ways to set up individual
files, use multiple files and publish projects. We’ve decided
to go the route of putting standalones on our Intranet. My gut says
yuck, but for our situation I have yet to find a better way.
My question for discussion, then is: what are some best
practices for setting up individual files, using multiple files and
publishing projects? Any references or input on this would be
appreciated.

Hi,
Here are some of my suggestions:
1) Set up a style guide for all your standard slides. Eg.
Title slide, Index slide, chapter slide, end slide, screen capture,
non-screen capture, quizzes etc. This makes life a lot easier.
2) Create your own buttons and captions. The standard ones
are pretty ordinary, and it's hard to get a slick looking style
happening with the standard captions. They are pretty easy to
create (search for add print button to learn how to create
buttons). There should instructions on how to customise captions
somewhere on this forum. Customising means that you can also use
words, symbols, colours unique to your organisation.
3) Google elearning providers. Most use captivate and will
allow you to open samples or temporarily view selected modules.
This will give you great insight on what not to do and some good
ideas on what works well.
4) Timings: Using the above research, I got others to
complete the sample modules to get a feel for timings. The results
were clear, 10 mins good, 15 mins okay, 20 mins kind of okay, 30
mins bad, bad, bad. It's truly better to have a learner complete
2-3 short modules in 30 mins than one big monster. The other
benefit is that shorter files equal smaller size.
5) Narration: It's best to narrate each slide individually
(particularly for screen capture slides). You are more likely to
get it right on the first take, it's easier to edit and you don't
have to re-record the whole thing if you need to update it in
future. To get a slicker effect, use at least two voices: one male,
one female and use slightly different accents.
6) Screen capture slides: If you are recording filling out
long window based databse pages where the compulsory fields are
marked (eg. with a red asterisk) - you don't need to show how to
fill out every field. It's much easier for the learner (and you) to
show how to fill out the first few fields, then fade the screen
capture out, fade the end of the form in with the instructions on
what to do next. This will reduce your file size. In one of my
forms, this meant the removal of about 18 slides!
7) Auto captions: they are verbose (eg. 'Click on Print
Button' instead of 'Click Print'; 'Select the Print Preview item'
instead of 'Select Print Preview'). You have to edit them.
8) PC training syntax: Buttons and hyperlinks should normally
be 'click'; selections from drop down boxes or file lists are
normally 'select': Captivate sometimes mixes them up. Instructions
should always be written in the correct order: eg. Good: Click
'File', Select 'Print Preview'; Bad: Select 'Print Preview' from
the 'File Menu'. Button names, hyperlinks, selections are normally
written in bold
9) Instruction syntax: should always be written in an active
voice: eg. 'Click Options to open the printer menu' instead of
'When the Options button is clicked on, the printer menu will open'
10) Break all modules into chapters. Frame each chapter with
a chapter slide. It's also a good idea to show the Index page
before each chapter slide with a progress indicator (I use an
animated arrow to flash next to the name of the next chapter), I
use a start button rather a 'next' button for the start of each
chapter. You should always have a module overview with the purpose
of the course and a summary slide which states what was covered and
they have complete the module.
11) Put a transparent click button somewhere on each slide.
Set the properties of the click box to take the learner back to the
start of the current chapter by pressing F2. This allows them to
jump back to the start of their chapter at any time. You can also
do a similar thing on the index pages which jumps them to another
chapter.
12) Recording video capture: best to do it at normal speed
and be concious of where your mouse is. Minimise your clicks. Most
people (until they start working with captivate) are sloppy with
their mouse and you end up with lots of unnecessarily slides that
you have to delete out. The speed will default to how you recorded
it and this will reduce the amount of time you spend on changing
timings.
13) Captions: My rule of thumb is minimum of 4 seconds - and
longer depending on the amount of words. Eg. Click 'Print Preview'
is 4 seconds, a paragraph is longer. If you creating knowledge
based modules, make the timing long (eg. 2-3 minutes) and put in a
next button so that the learner can click when they are ready.
Also, narration means the slides will normally be slightly longer.
14) Be creative: Capitvate is desk bound. There are some
learners that just don't respond no matter how interactive
Captivate can be. Incorporate non-captivate and desk free
activities. Eg. As part of our OHS module, there is an activity
where the learner has to print off the floor plan, and then wander
around the floor marking on th emap key items such as: fire exits;
first aid kit, broom and mop cupboard, stationary cupboard, etc.
Good luck!

DNS best practices for hub and spoke AD Architecture?

I have an Active Directory Forest with a forest root such as joe.co and the root domain of the same name, and root DNS servers (Domain Controllers) dns1.joe.co and dns2.joe.co
I have child domains with names in the form region1.joe.com, region2.joe.co and so on, with dns servers dns1.region1.joe.co and so on.
Each region has distribute offices that may have a DC in them, servers named in the form dns1branch1.region1.joe.co
Over all my DNS tests out okay, but I want to get the general guidelines for setting up new DCs correct.
Configuration:
Root DC/DNS server dns1.joe.co adapter settings points DNS to itself, then two other root domain DNS/DCs dns2.joe.co and dns3.joe.co.
The other root domain DNS/DCs adapter settings point to root server dns1.joe.co and then to itself dns2.joe.co, and then 127.0.0.1
The regional domains have a root dns server dns1.region1.joe.co with adapter that that points to root server dns1.joe.co then to itself.
The additional region domain DNS/DCs adapter settings point to dns1.region1.joe.co then to itself then to dn1.joe.co
What would you do to correct this topology (and settings) or improve it?
Thanks in advance
just david

Hi,
According to your description, my understanding is that you need suggestion about your DNS topology.
In theory, there is no obvious problem. Except for the namespace and server plaining for DNS, zone is also needed to consideration. If you place DNS server on each domain and subdomain, confirm that if the traffic browsed by DNS will affect the network performance.
Besides, fault tolerance and security are also necessary.
We usually recommend that:
DC with DNS should point to another DNS server as primary and itself as secondary or tertiary. It should not point to self as primary due to various DNS islanding and performance issues that can occur. And when referencing a DNS server on itself, a DNS client
should always use a loopback address and not a real IP address. detailed information you may reference:
What is Microsoft's best practice for where and how many DNS servers exist? What about for configuring DNS client settings on DC’s and members?
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2010/07/17/friday-mail-sack-saturday-edition.aspx#dnsbest
How To Split and Migrate Child Domain DNS Records To a Dedicated DNS Zone
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2013/12/02/how-to-split-and-migrate-child-domain-dns-records-to-a-dedicated-dns-zone.aspx
Best Regards,
Eve Wang
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Best practices for office 365 SHARED CALENDAR for whole school / organization

hi
we need guidance on best practice for setting up SHARED CALENDAR on Office365 exchange server for entire organization (school)of150 staff.
Requirements
+ all staff should have read only / reviewer permissions on calendar
+handful staff should have editor permissions on calendar
+ the calendar should synchronise custom categories and colors
Current Solution
at the moment we have found that a shared mailbox is the best solution because;
- allusers can add the shared mailbox on outlook 2010as additional mailbox as readonly
- all the categories & colors for the calendarare automatically synchronised because the color categories are stored within this mailbox.
- you can edit calendar permissions in outlook to allow some users as "editor" of the calendar.Problem with Current Solution
the problem however is that the users also need to access this...
This topic first appeared in the Spiceworks Community

Hi Aleksei,
I think Inactive mailboxes in Exchange Online is the feature that you want. This feature makes it possible for you to preserve (store and archive) the contents of deleted mailboxes indefinitely.
A mailbox becomes inactive when an In-Place Hold or a
Litigation Hold is placed on the mailbox before the corresponding Office 365 user account is deleted.
But I'm afraid that it might be impossible to "easily share certain folders or even whole mailbox with people in the company". As can been seen from below articles, this only allows administrators, compliance officers, or records managers
to use the In-Place eDiscovery feature in Exchange Online to access and search the contents of an inactive mailbox:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn144876(v=exchg.150).aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2013/03/21/preserve-mailbox-data-for-ediscovery-using-inactive-mailboxes-in-exchange-online.aspx
Anyway, this is the forum to discuss questions and feedback for Microsoft Office client. For more details about your question, I would suggest you post in the dedicated forum of
Exchange Online, where you can get more experienced responses:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/msonline/en-US/home?forum=onlineservicesexchange
The reason why we recommend posting appropriately is you will get the most qualified pool of respondents, and other partners who read the forums regularly can either share their knowledge or learn from your interaction with us. Thank you for your understanding.
Regards,
Ethan Hua
TechNet Community Support
It's recommended to download and install
Configuration Analyzer Tool (OffCAT), which is developed by Microsoft Support teams. Once the tool is installed, you can run it at any time to scan for hundreds of known issues in Office
programs.

Best practice for upgrading task definition without deleting task instances

best practice for upgrading task definition in production system without deleting or terminating task instances
If I try and update a task definition with task instances running I get the following error:
Task definition 'My Task - Add User' may not be modified while there are active task instances
Is there a best practice to handle this. I tried to force an update through the console but that didn't work. I tried editing the task from the debug page and got the same error.

1) Rename the original task definition.
2) Upload the new task definition with the original name.
3) Later, after all the running tasks have timed out, delete the old definition.
E.g., if your task definition is "myWorkflow":
1) Rename "myWorkflow" to "myWorkflow-old-2009-07-28"
2) Upload the new task definition as "myWorkflow".
Existing tasks will stay linked to the original (renamed) workflow definition.
New tasks will use the new definition.
As the previous poster notes, depending on the changes you are making, letting the old task definitions stay active could have bad side-effects and might be better avoided.

Best Practice for Conversion Workflow

Hello,
I'm converting video files from our "home grown" virtual media reserve to iTunes U. Some of the files are in RM format, some are already compressed .mov's (not H.264) and some I have the original DV files for.
Anyone out there have a best practice for converting these file types for posting to iTunes U? I have Final Cut Studio (Compressor), QT Pro and Squeeze available to me.
Any experience you have with this would be helpful.
Thanks,
Jeana

For converting old files to a podcast compatible video and based on the machine you have, consider elgato turbo.264. It is a fairly priced "co-processor" for video conversion. It is comprised of an application and a small USB device with a encoder chip in it. In my experience, it is the fastest way to create podcast video files. The amount of time that you will save will pay for the device quickly (about $100). Plus it does batch conversion of any video that your system currently plays through QuickTime. it has all the necessary presets and you can create your own. It has a few minor limitations such as not supporting (at this moment) enhanced podcasting features such as chapter markers and closed-captions but since you have old files for conversion, that won't matter.
For creating new content, the workflow varies a lot. Since you mention MP3s, I guess you are also interested in audio files. I would stick with GarageBand, especially if you are a beginner plus it supports enhanced podcasts.
In any case the most important goal is to have the simplest and fastest way to go from recording to publication. The less editing the better. To attain that, the best methods will require the largest investments. For example, for video production the best way is to produce the content live so when you finish recording it is only a matter of encoding and publishing. that will require the use of a video switcher that can ingest at least one video camera and a computer output to properly capture presentation material. That's the minimum. there are several devices that can do this for you. Some are disguised PCs and some connect to a PC for tapeless recording. You can check the Tricaster, which I like but wish it was a Mac and not a Windows Xp PC. Other routes may include video mixers from manufacturers like Edirol, Pansonic or Sony connected to a VTR or directly to a Mac for direct-ti-disc capture. I f you look at some of the content available in iTunes U, you will see what I explain here. This workflow requires preparation and sufficient live support but you will have your material ready for delivery almost immediately after the recorded event. No editing required. Finally, the most intensive workflow is to record everything separately and edit it later, which is extremely time consuming.

Best practice for nested scripting on UCCX

Hello All!
Newbie on scripting here and inheritted a HIGHLY customized UCCX environment. In looking at the scripts, it seems the system integrator built out the logic for every script within every script. That is, if one script queues calls into CSQ1 and if they are waiting for more than 2 minutes it sends them to CSQ2, it has all of the logic in that one script that the regular CSQ2 script has as well. So that means anytime "a change" has to be made, it has to be made to the CSQ2 logic in the CSQ1 script AND the CSQ2 script as well.
Is there a best practice for this? I would think it would be easier to say, in the above scenario that if the caller is waiting in CSQ1 for more than 2 minutes, it shoudl redirect the call to a trigger for the application that uses CSQ2. Thus the logic is in the respective scripts and not duplicated across the board.
Any thoughts and experiences on how this is best accomplished and maintained would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
JG

Yes, if all queue logic is the common for your different CSQs you can build one common script and then reference this script as a subflow from your main scripts and simply pass the CSQ name as a variable to it. This way you avoid what you said the need to rebuild logic in several places if you need to make a global change, you simply change the one common script logic.
HTH,please rate all helpful posts!
Chris

HTML and CSS Best Practices for Eloqua?

Hello Topliners Community,
My name is Ben and I am a Web Designer. I am currently looking for any guidance on HTML and CSS best practices when working with Eloqua. I am interested in the best practices for e-mail and landing pages.
Thank you,
Ben

Personally I like to upload my custom created html/css into Eloqua instead of using the WYSIWYG.
But if you must then right clicking on text boxes and click edit source is the way to go.
There was a good discussion on editing your forms with CSS:
Energize Your Eloqua10 Forms with CSS
created by Ryan Wheler on Nov 2, 2012 8:44 AM, last modified by Greg Stotler on Sep 19, 2013 2:00 PM
Version 2
CSS can be used to heavily customize the layout of forms in Eloqua10. In this article we will provide sample cover some common formatting use cases on Eloqua10 Landing Pages. Further details about uses of CSS in Eloqua10 form templates can be found here: EE12 - Do It - Eloqua - Energize E10 Forms
Eloqua10 Forms HTML Structure
Below is an outline of the structure of the HTML generated by Eloqua when a form is added to a landing page. By targeting the HTML classes highlighted below, we can control the layout of any form on your landing page.
For the rest of page: http://topliners.eloqua.com/docs/DOC-3015

Best Practice for Servlets

I guess I'm asking for most peoples' input on what I'm planning to do here ....
Here's what I want to do, and know a bit about.
o I want to make a servlet that serves only XML.
o After that, I want to transform the XML into web pages, RSS feeds etc.. using XSLT.
Here's what I'm not so sure about...
o How should I implement the interface to the web-based aspects? Should the servlet be coded to display HTML pages on "GET" requests? Or should I use a pile of HTML files to make forms?
o What do I use to perform the XSLT transformations? Where should the set of solutions be placed relative to my servlet? Would a user then access this solution rather than the servlet itself?
o How do I code the servlet on one machine, and then test it on another without breaking the libraries? How do I set up any libraries I might have to use (like for XSLT transformations) on the server?
Any other advice here? I'm sure this is done often, but I can't find a resource that explains the best practices for it all.
I know this sounds like a lot of stupid questions. I've had lots of programs working with Java before, but I'm at a loss as to how I'm supposed to package libraries I use in my programs - moreso with a servlet. To make matters worse, I plan on using MySQL as the database.
If there's some wizard on the forums here who's willing to say more than just "RTFM" (of which there is none to answer my questions together as one), I'd be very very happy ":^)

Let me re-pose my question so as to be specific
enough to not be picked apart in my answer.
I want to FIRST AND FOREMOST, create a servlet that
serves up XML based on parameters given to it (how?
who cares.).What does "serves up XML" mean?
Let's be precise. Do you intend the servlet to send the XML back to the client? Or is the XML an intermediate step in your processing? (Yes, it matters.)
Then, I want to create interfaces (HTML, RSS,
boogledeedoo) to this XML data by having either JSP,
another servlet or insert something else here,
transform the XML into whatever the desired format
is."interface" is a loaded term in Java. What do you mean by it?
>
My assumption is that I'll make the servlet that is
capable of outputting my desired XML data and then
create another servlet that will poke it for data as
needed to transform the XML into HTML. This servlet
would also likely serve as the web site itself and
would manage user logins etc...(persistance yaddy
yadda)You're not thinking about this properly.
"yadda yadda" == muddled thinking.
My other assumption is that I'll make another servlet
that will poke the XML servlet and transform that
into RSS or anything else I can dream up.How does "poke the XML servlet" fit into the request/response protocol that is HTTP? Please explain.
-=-!REASONING!-=-
Previously, when I was working with PHP, I liked to
make scripts that would display interfaces and post
to themselves. OK, now I see. "interface" == GUI in a browser to you. Very good.
You can create a JSP that is an interface. You can have that JSP submit the HTTP POST or GET request to itself. No problem there, as long as "itself" knows what to do with the request.
It was a nice way of creating a
complete little package. Everything for one function
was encapsulated nicely under one roof. No excessive
HTML files all over the place to nurture.A simple problem, a simple solution. You can do that with a JSP.
Look. Part of my inability to describe this well is
because I DO feel like I'm in a lot of directions at
once. Or you don't understand the technology very well.
But I have to be in order to pull together
some sort of plan for myself. I understand many
concepts and have just finished studying object
oriented design etc..."Just finished"? How long did it take?
I know things about how Tomcat does connection
pooling for SQL connections.Great. Not much to understand there. It's harder to figure out how to do n-tier apps with more than one page well.
I do know how to use Google, probably a lot better
than most. But rest assured, I've yet to find a
little guide as complete as any of the "LAMP" books
there are out there. Which by the way, I have never
purchased.That's because Java Enterprise Edition isn't intended for little problems. LAMP is. Maybe the limitation is that you are used to "little" problems and not bigger ones.
If JEE seems scattered and complex, it's because it is. It encompasses more than LAMP.
I'm confident in good guidance, and not a heartfelt
smackdown. I'm still waiting for some clear suggestions.I gave you one, you just didn't know it: go read about Spring.
http://www.springframework.org
It'll help you structure complex apps from the user interface to the database in the back.
You're welcome.
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Best practices for dealing with Exceptions on storage members

We recently encountered an issue where one of our DistributedCaches was terminating itself and restarting due to an RuntimeException being thrown from our code (see below). As usual, the issue was in our own code and we have updated it to not throw a RuntimeException under any circumstances.
I would like to know if there are any best practices for Exception handling, other than catching Exceptions and logging them. Should we always trap Exceptions and ensure that they do not bubble back up to code that is running from the Coherence jar? Is there a way to configure Coherence so that our DistributedCaches do not terminate even when custom Filters and such throw RuntimeExceptions?
thanks, Aidan
Exception below:
2010-02-09 12:40:39.222/88477.977 Oracle Coherence GE 3.4.2/411 <Error> (thread=DistributedCache:StyleCache, member=48): An exception (java.lang.RuntimeException) occurred reading Message AggregateFilterRequest Type=31 for Service=DistributedCache{Name=StyleCache, State=(SERVICE_STARTED), LocalStorage=enabled, PartitionCount=1021, BackupCount=1, AssignedPartitions=201, BackupPartitions=204}
2010-02-09 12:40:39.222/88477.977 Oracle Coherence GE 3.4.2/411 <Error> (thread=DistributedCache:StyleCache, member=48): Terminating DistributedCache due to unhandled exception: java.lang.RuntimeException

Bob - Here is the full stacktrace:
2010-02-09 13:04:22.653/90182.274 Oracle Coherence GE 3.4.2/411 <Error> (thread=DistributedCache:StyleCache, member=47): An exception (java.lang.RuntimeException) occurred reading Message AggregateFilterRequest Type=31 for Service=DistributedCache{Name=StyleCache, State=(SERVICE_STARTED), LocalStorage=enabled, PartitionCount=1021, BackupCount=1, AssignedPartitions=205, BackupPartitions=204}
2010-02-09 13:04:22.653/90182.274 Oracle Coherence GE 3.4.2/411 <Error> (thread=DistributedCache:StyleCache, member=47): Terminating DistributedCache due to unhandled exception: java.lang.RuntimeException
2010-02-09 13:04:22.653/90182.274 Oracle Coherence GE 3.4.2/411 <Error> (thread=DistributedCache:StyleCache, member=47):
java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.edmunds.vehicle.Style$PublicationState
     at com.edmunds.common.coherence.EdmundsEqualsFilter.readExternal(EdmundsEqualsFilter.java:84)
     at com.tangosol.io.pof.PortableObjectSerializer.initialize(PortableObjectSerializer.java:153)
     at com.tangosol.io.pof.PortableObjectSerializer.deserialize(PortableObjectSerializer.java:128)
     at com.tangosol.io.pof.PofBufferReader.readAsObject(PofBufferReader.java:3284)
     at com.tangosol.io.pof.PofBufferReader.readAsObjectArray(PofBufferReader.java:3328)
     at com.tangosol.io.pof.PofBufferReader.readObjectArray(PofBufferReader.java:2168)
     at com.tangosol.util.filter.ArrayFilter.readExternal(ArrayFilter.java:243)
     at com.tangosol.io.pof.PortableObjectSerializer.initialize(PortableObjectSerializer.java:153)
     at com.tangosol.io.pof.PortableObjectSerializer.deserialize(PortableObjectSerializer.java:128)
     at com.tangosol.io.pof.PofBufferReader.readAsObject(PofBufferReader.java:3284)
     at com.tangosol.io.pof.PofBufferReader.readAsObjectArray(PofBufferReader.java:3328)
     at com.tangosol.io.pof.PofBufferReader.readObjectArray(PofBufferReader.java:2168)
     at com.tangosol.util.filter.ArrayFilter.readExternal(ArrayFilter.java:243)
     at com.tangosol.io.pof.PortableObjectSerializer.initialize(PortableObjectSerializer.java:153)
     at com.tangosol.io.pof.PortableObjectSerializer.deserialize(PortableObjectSerializer.java:128)
     at com.tangosol.io.pof.PofBufferReader.readAsObject(PofBufferReader.java:3284)
     at com.tangosol.io.pof.PofBufferReader.readObject(PofBufferReader.java:2599)
     at com.tangosol.io.pof.ConfigurablePofContext.deserialize(ConfigurablePofContext.java:348)
     at com.tangosol.coherence.component.util.daemon.queueProcessor.Service.readObject(Service.CDB:4)
     at com.tangosol.coherence.component.net.Message.readObject(Message.CDB:1)
     at com.tangosol.coherence.component.net.message.requestMessage.distributedCacheRequest.partialRequest.FilterRequest.read(FilterRequest.CDB:8)
     at com.tangosol.coherence.component.util.daemon.queueProcessor.service.grid.DistributedCache$AggregateFilterRequest.read(DistributedCache.CDB:4)
     at com.tangosol.coherence.component.util.daemon.queueProcessor.service.Grid.onNotify(Grid.CDB:117)
     at com.tangosol.coherence.component.util.daemon.queueProcessor.service.grid.DistributedCache.onNotify(DistributedCache.CDB:3)
     at com.tangosol.coherence.component.util.Daemon.run(Daemon.CDB:37)
     at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.edmunds.vehicle.Style$PublicationState
     at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
     at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:169)
     at com.edmunds.common.coherence.EdmundsEqualsFilter.readExternal(EdmundsEqualsFilter.java:82)
     ... 25 more
2010-02-09 13:04:23.122/90182.743 Oracle Coherence GE 3.4.2/411 <Info> (thread=Main Thread, member=47): Restarting Service: StyleCacheOur code was doing something simple like
catch(Exception e){
    throw new RuntimeException(e);
}Would using the ensureRuntimeException call do anything for us here?
Edited by: aidanol on Feb 12, 2010 11:41 AM

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I refer the couple of blof posts/Forum threads on How to model and access the Configuration data as XML inside OSB.
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For Stage :
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|
|---Dev
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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