Connecting to multiple servers

We have a stand alone java app that connects to our ear running in sun app server. What I'd like to do is connect to another instance of our app running on a different server (while connected to the original one). With weblogic this was easy (change the url and just do the lookup).
How can I do this with sun app server?
Thanks-
Dave

If you specifically want to connect to a particular remote server instance, then in the JAVA CMD, you will need to specify the following properties with a "-D" :
org.omg.CORBA.ORBInitialHost
org.omg.CORBA.ORBInitialPort
This should let you talk to that particular instance.
If you don't care about where the request is going, you can enable load balancing via the property:
com.sun.appserv.iiop.endpoints=host1:port1,host2:port2,...
Sheetal

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          >Tom
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          >
          >> HI,
          >>
          >> I'm trying to use a JMS client to connect to multiple WL Servers,
          >> but i'm having the following error while connecting to the third server,
          >always
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          >> I swap the order of the connections and the error always happens on
          >the third
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          >> If i had one more server equals to the first or the second (the same
          >IP) the connection
          >> to the fourth server is fine but the connection to the third server
          >is always
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          >> Is there any limitation to the number of != servers that a JMS client
          >can connect
          >> ?
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          >>
          >>
          >>
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          >> at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.java:353)
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          >> at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:197)
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          >>
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Hello,
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Environment env = new Environment();
env.setProviderUrl(url);
env.setSecurityPrincipal(user);
env.setSecurityCredentials(password);
Context ctx = env.getInitialContext();
home = (MBeanHome) ctx.lookup(MBeanHome.LOCAL_JNDI_NAME);
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I need to compare folders from multiple servers which do not have direct connection so i was trying to generate a text file with command dir /b /s >c:\server1.txt and feed them to script to compare.
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File name,Server1,server2,server3,is it missng file?
File1,yes,yes,yes,No
file2,Yes,Yes,No,Yes
File3,Yes,No,Yes,Yes
File4,No,Yes,Yes,Yes
these folders contains few hundred thousand files and the script is taking 4 to 5 hours to run the comparison. i thought threads will help to run fast using parallel processng but did not help. i have no expreience with threads and after searching for examples
and implementing it was even slower than normal.
i probably am doing something wrong. Any help is much appreciated.
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[array]$allfileslist = @()
[array]$uniquefileslist = @()
[array]$allfilesSRVlist = @()
[array]$srvlist = @()
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$list.count
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$allfileslist.count
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$Stroutline = $Stroutline + $srvlistitem.ToUpper() + ","
$Stroutline = $Stroutline + "Is it Missing file?"
Write-Output $Stroutline | Out-File "$reportName" -Force
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$Stroutline = ""
$missingfile = "No"
$Stroutline = $uniquefileslistitem + ","
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if($contentArray[$i] -contains $uniquefileslistitem){
$Stroutline = $Stroutline + "Yes,"
else{
$Stroutline = $Stroutline + "No,"
$missingfile = "Yes"
$Stroutline = $Stroutline + $missingfile
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$j++
Following is the script i modified using threads example. this is running even slower.
[array]$contentArray = @()
[array]$allfileslist = @()
[array]$uniquefileslist = @()
[array]$allfilesSRVlist = @()
[array]$srvlist = @()
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$reportName = $FolderName + "\ComparisonReport3.csv"
$ListOfFiles = get-childitem $FolderName
$List = $ListOfFiles | where {$_.extension -ieq ".txt"}
$list.count
$index = 0
#$contentArray = New-Object 'object[,]' $xDim, $yDim
foreach($listitem in $List){
$listfilename = $listitem.FullName
$listname = $listitem.Name
$listname = $listname.replace(".txt","")
$srvlist = $srvlist + $listname
write-host $listfilename
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$StrContent = [io.file]::ReadAllLines($listfilename)
$contentArray += ,@($StrContent)
$StrContent.count
$contentArray[$index].count
$index = $index + 1
for($i = 0;$i -lt $index;$i++){
$allfileslist = $allfileslist+ $contentArray[$i]
$allfileslist.count
#$uniquefileslist = $allfileslist | select –unique
get-date
$uniquefileslist = $allfileslist | sort-object | get-unique
$uniquefileslist.count
get-date
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foreach($srvlistitem in $srvlist){
$Stroutline = $Stroutline + $srvlistitem.ToUpper() + ","
$Stroutline = $Stroutline + "Is it Missing file?"
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$j = 1
$count = $uniquefileslist.count
$stroutput = ""
$maxConcurrent = 50
$results= ""
$PauseTime = 1
$uniquefileslist | %{
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$job = start-job -argumentList $_,$contentArray,$index -scriptblock {
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$ArgContentArray = $args[1]
$ArgIndex = $args[2]
$Stroutline = ""
$missingfile = "No"
$Stroutline = $StrArgFileName + ","
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$Stroutline = $Stroutline + "Yes,"
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Thank you very much!
Vamsi.

no i am not comparing the number of lines.. count i used was only for my information... it has nothing to do with the compare. here is the script with out count...
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[array]$allfileslist = @()
[array]$uniquefileslist = @()
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$listname = $listitem.Name
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$contentArray += ,@($StrContent)
$index = $index + 1
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foreach($uniquefileslistitem in $uniquefileslist){
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$Stroutline = $uniquefileslistitem + ","
for($i=0;$i -lt $index;$i++){
if($contentArray[$i] -contains $uniquefileslistitem){
$Stroutline = $Stroutline + "Yes,"
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$Stroutline = $Stroutline + "No,"
$missingfile = "Yes"
$Stroutline = $Stroutline + $missingfile
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if you want to test it... just create two text files and put them in the same folder as the script.
server1.txt will have the following content
filename1
filename2
filename3
server2.txt will have the following content
filename1
filename2
filename4
it should generate the csv file ComparisonReport3.csv
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filename2,yes,yes,no
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filename4,no,yes,yes

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>
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The system cannot find the file specified.
The system cannot find the file specified.
The system cannot find the file specified.
,±Ôð¦%eYžEÛ÷Wpen config file: /usr/local/ssl/openssl.cnf
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Java client connecting to multiple weblogic instances

We have a standalone java client JMS application that needs to connect to multiple
Weblogic instances running in different domains.
The client works fine when we obtain an initial context to the multiple instances
without specifying a security principle and password. As soon as we add in this
information, we get problems: The initial context is still successfully retrieved
for each of the weblogic instances, but we cannot send JMS messages to destinations
on one of the Weblogic instances due to a security exception which states that
there is an 'Invalid Principal'.
Any advice would be appreciated.

You should first establish a trust relationship between your Weblogic
servers:
http://e-docs.bea.com/wls/docs70/secmanage/domain.html#1171534
It is very poorly documented since this is a change in the behavior with
previous versions and should have been in the Release Notes but instead
is inside the normal documentation.
--dejan
jonathan wrote:
Thanks Arvind, but both JVMs are the same (1.3.1) and there is no jsse stuff in
the classpath.
"Arvind Gudipati" <[email protected]> wrote:
check if yr client's jvm version is the same as server's jvm.. ive noticed
this problem a few times when i was using client jvm (1.4.x) connecting
to
server jvm (1.3.x).. also check if u have any jsse libraries in yr
classpath.. if so remove 'em
+arvind
"Jonathan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:3f2f9f19$[email protected]..
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retrieved
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to
destinations
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states
that
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I thought I read somewhere that in the file I could do something like this:
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Thanks

There is not a mechansim as you describe built into ThinInstaller. There are, however, various ways you can invoke Thin Installer which might accommodate your end goal.
Usually people that have this need have some kind of data value on the target device that lets them know which repository they should be pulling from. Sometimes a network share is used and that share is established earlier in the deployment process to point to a local server. Sometimes an environment variable is used. The command line of ThinInstaller allows for you to specify the path to the repository at execution time. The calling of ThinInstaller can be performed by a script or cmd file that determines the correct repository path to pass to ThinInstaller.
You can find more details on controlling ThinInstaller in this document: http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/thinkvantage_en/tvsu4_mst_en.pdf
Without knowing a lot more details about your environment I'm not sure how to better guide you. You might try posting in the Enterprise / IT Management forum and see if any of the folks there have done this already.

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