J2ME client server

Hi i have a client J2ME application written verifyed and running. I am a little new to the whole programming thing but I was wondering if anybody knew if it was possible to use JSP or a servlet to distribute an application like a quiz on my server, package this into a midlet and then send it to a client and then return the results in either sms or an e-mail format using a pop3 connection
I think it is possible to do this in WML format. I know this would be more practical as the results would just be looked up in the browser of the deivce and these would link to the database. However I am having trouble setting up the server. I am not quite sure how to go about it.
I have downloaded tomcat 4.1 and i have just run it on the default localhost port number. But I am not sure where to go from here. I tried to write a servlet to deal witht the application request but I am not sure how to setup a database or the files I want downloaded for OTA provisioning. I have the WTK2.0 beta with OTA. I tried uploading the final jar and jad files to my public web space but I guess since there are not supportive mime settings this will not work.
Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated for a dummy programmer.
thanks,
Prashant

I have managed to configure tomcat properly so far and am interested in a server that can discover the IP addresss of a device using a midlet.

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import javax.microedition.io.Connector;
import javax.microedition.io.StreamConnection;
import javax.microedition.io.StreamConnectionNotifier;
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import java.io.OutputStream;
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import java.util.Timer;
import java.util.TimerTask;
import java.util.Vector;
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import javax.bluetooth.DiscoveryListener;
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...and that's it. Start the server, then the client (all on the same machine) and you've simulated bluetooth between the 2.
To get the server working with a real mobile, you'll need to use the BlueCove library instead of the 3 WTK jars (and can remove the kvem.home directive as well). The rest of the code should remain the same (haven't quite tested that yet!).
cheers
Manoj
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:email.mess
ARE FIELDS ON THE ORACLE FORM.
THE NAMES ARE DEFINED BY THE PROGRAMMER.
THE NAMES OF THE FIELDS ARE NOT RESERVED WORDS.
WHEN THE CODE IS EXECUTED, MICROSOFT OUTLOOK IS OPENED AND THE RECIPIENT LINE, COURTESY COPY LINE, SUBJECT LINE
AND BODY OF A NEW MESSAGE ARE PREPOPUTATED WITH THESE FIELDS FROM AN ORACLE FORM.
THIS ROUTINE WORKS FINE ON AN ORACLE6i CLIENT SERVER BUT IT WILL NOT WORK WELL ON AN ORACLE9i CLIENT SERVER.
WHAT DO I NEED TO DO TO CHANGE MY CODE? DO I NEED TO USE NEW UTILITY LIBRARIES? I WOULD SURE LIKE TO KNOW WHAT TO DO.

Oracle9i Forms does not support client server - so you are running in a different environment (even though you may still only be onl two tiers).
Regards
Grant Ronald
Forms Product Management

VPN Site-to-Site or VPN Client Server with Cisco IP Phone 8941 and 8945

Hi everyone,
I decide to deploy a CUCM (BE6K platform), SX20, and IP Phone 8941/8945 on Head Office and Cisco SX10 and IP Phone 8941/8945 for branch offices (actually 9 branch offices).
The connection will use internet connection for HO and each branch offices.
And the IT guy want to use kind a VPN client server or VPN site-to-site for the connection through internet,
what kind of VPN client server or VPN site-to-site that recommended for this deployment?
and what type of Cisco router that support that kind of VPN (the cheapest one will be great)?
So the SX10 and IP Phone 8941/8945 in branch offices can work properly through internet connection?
please advise
Regards,
Ovindo

Hi Leo,
technically, the ipsec users will not use up any premium license seats, so if you have 10 ipsec users connecting first, the premium seats are still free and so you can then still have 10 phones/anyconnect users connect.
However, the 250 you mention is the global platform limit, so it refers to the sum of premium and non-premium connections. Or in other words, you can have 240 ipsec users and 10 phones, but not 250 ipsec users and 10 phones.
If 250 ipsec users and 10 phones would try to connect, it would be first-in, first-served, e.g. you could have 248 ipsec users and 2 phones connected.
Note: since you have Essentials disabled I'm assuming you are referring to the legacy "Cisco vpnclient" (IKEv1 client) which does not require any license on the ASA. But for the benefit of others reading this thread: if you do have Anyconnect clients (using SSL or IPsec/IKEv2) for which you currently have an Essentials license, then note that the Essentials and Premium license cannot co-exist. So for e.g. 240 Anyconnect users and no phones, you can use Essentials. For 240 Anyconnect users and 10 phones, you need a 250-seat Premium license (and a vpn phone license).
hth
Herbert

How to delete the workbench client server name in FDM

Hi Gurus
How to delete/change the workbench client server name in FDQM?
regards
Sarilla

OK, I understand now. You are referring to the Load Balance Server Group. Yes, this can be done:
a) Browse to Oracle\Middleware\EPMSystem11R1\Products\FinancialDataQuality\SharedComponents\Config
b) Locate the LoadBalanceServerGroups.xml file
You can delete this file. The next time the workbench is launched it will ask you to set the load balance server group again and will create this file again.

Which keys are used in Client/Server Authentication?

Hi.
I am trying to understand how SunX509 algorithm works in a TLS context. When Server or Client authentication is done, which keys of the keystore are used?
I mean, when you set up your KeyStore instance, it is loaded a whole KeyStore from the filesystem, which has a lot of keys to be used. Are they all tried in order to find the key that authenticates the Client/Server, and when a key that works is found means that Client/Server is authenticated? Or a concrete key with a specific alias is used?
Do you know a doc or something similar where i can see this explanation? I haven't found this matter in JSSE API User's Guide nor in JSSE Javadocs.
Thanks!

The alias that is chosen is arbitrary and depends upon the order in which the aliases are returned via a hashtable enumeration. If you want to make sure you're using a particular aliasn you must write your own key manager, take a look at the X509KeyManager interface with methods such chooseClientAlias(), chooseServerAlias(), ...

Looking for a client/server that supports multiple protocol and delivery

Hi all, I don't know if this the right place to ask my question,here it goes.
I am looking to develop a client-server that supports multiple protocols such as HTTP, HTTPS etc. I am looking for a framework( i don't know if that is correct or I need some kind of web-service (soap etc)) that would manage connection, security etc. I would like to like to devote most of my time in developing business objects with multiple delivery mechanism such as sending serilized java objects, xml message or soap message, or in some case JMS message as well. So I need a client server that can come in via TCP/IP or HTTP or anyother industry standard protocol and I should be able to service him with pub/sub model and also request/response model as well.
I don't know if I had explained what I need, I would like to know what technologies I should be evaluating and which direction I should be heading... Also the server I'm developing should be free of Java constraints if needed...
Also this service is not webbased service as now but if need arises I should have a flexibilty to make them web enabled in future. Also I would like to work with open source webservers or appservers if I need

Inxsible wrote:I installed i3 - along with the i3status - which I still have to figure out. I am liking what I see as of now. It reminds me of wmii -- when I used it way back when. However I do not like the title bar. I would much rather prefer a 1 px border around the focused window.
"i3 was created because wmii, our favorite window manager at the time, didn't provide some features we wanted (multi-monitor done right, for example), had some bugs, didn't progress since quite some time and wasn't easy to hack at all (source code comments/documentation completely lacking). Still, we think the wmii developers and contributors did a great job. Thank you for inspiring us to create i3. "
To change the border of the current client, you can use bn to use the normal border (including window title), bp to use a 1-pixel border (no window title) and bb to make the client borderless. There is also bt which will toggle the different border styles.
Examples:
bindsym Mod1+t bn
bindsym Mod1+y bp
bindsym Mod1+u bb
or put in your config file
new_window bb
from: http://i3.zekjur.net/docs/userguide.html (you probably already found that by now )

Client-Server - SOA.... Is it really a transition or a big development ?

Hi,
In all sources related to SOA/ESA by SAP, it is said that, transitioning from Client-Server Arch(CSA) to SOA is the same as transitioning from Mainframe systems to Client-Server Arch.
If we think about Mainframe and CSA, it is obvious that there had been big differences in that transition. Such as, the INTELLIGENT CLIENT concept had appeared to replace the DUMMY CLIENTS, so this had changed the way of IT Business. There would be a main application providing several functionalities(server) and other applications which want to use those functionalities (clients) would connect to the server using some functionalities on its own (that means a client appliction should also have some functionalities in order to at least connect to the server, so that made them different from the DUMMY clients of the mainframe era)
Now, when I look at the differences between SOA and CSA, I cannot see that incompareble differences.Why ? Let me explain :
- One of the most important differences between SOA and CSA is, SOA is vendor and platform independent, so that any application can call any applications functionality as long as they are using Web Services. That is true. But the question arises here : It is still the case that someone is calling some others' functionalities (services), so there is still a client/server mentality, isn't there and We will still be using several client/server programming languages in order to realize the main functionality of the web services but this will be transparent to the user and the integration. The main difference is, SOA is vendor and platform independent. But I don't think this can be commented as a missing feature of CSA. Because the aim of CSA was to make the clients more intelligent and not to make them vendor/platform independent. And also architectures like CORBA and DCOM have also tried to achieve that independency (even though they have restrictions compared to Web Services, one of the main reasons for this is using Web as a transport/communication protocol) but they are still treated as some extensions on top of CSA because they are using CSA beneath. But if we compare Mainframes and CSA, even though I haven't seen manframe ages, I think it is clear that CSA does not use any architectural functionality of Mainframes. They are completely different.. But is SOA and CSA completely different ?
I agree with all reasons why today business needs sth more agile, more flexible and it is becoming clearer day by day that SOA and Web Services provides this environment, BUT, I still cannot make it clear, WHY it is accepted as a transition from CSA and why it is not treated as a big development over CSA while using the main features of it.
Any comments will be appreciated.
Regards
Ahmet Engin Tekin

Good point..Actually those are the things clearly known but it becomes a bit confusing to build clear sentences when it comes to declare the differences. Anyway, here are my additions :
- Mainframes were centralized systems which had their own hardware architecture as well. All processes/applications were running on 1 central DB/system and everyone in the company had to use the same functionality and interface.
- In time, as a result of business demand, people needed different functionalities/applications regarding different business needs. This could either be done by extending the higly-costed big mainframe systems/softwares OR a new approach had to be developed in order to solve those problems. At this point, (thanks to IBM,Macintosh and Xerox) PC and ethernet concepts had emerged. That was a completely different hardware architecture which allowed less costly systems and also distributing the process load and/or applications to different systems in one landscape (app servers, intelligent clients - 2 tier, 3- tier arch.). Thus, while those were happening on harware side, new communication and programming models/languages emerged on software side. As a result, people started using different applications on different systems according to their needs and thus an efficient solution had been provided to the business need (described above).
To criticise, this was really a big transition. Not only software concepts but also hardware concepts are also changed drastically. Actually, it is not wrong if we say, developments on the hardware side, allowed changes on the software side
- What happened next ? Companies started using so many different applications by different vendors with different business logic and programming models (thanks to CSA). But in times, this has emerged the biggest problem of the CSA era : Integration.
We all know the rest. "Web Services" concept emerged with SOA as well. So that, the boundaries between the systems began to disappear.
So, is this a transition ? Well, yes it is.. The point that made it confusing (at least for me) is that this time there is no hardware transition (yet) but only a transition in software side. But I still insist that the IT transition during Mainframe->CSA was like a revolution (forget what you've left behind) but from CSA to SOA; it is more likely to be an evolution (the next best thing)
Anyone have more comments ?
Regards,
Ahmet

Error deploying a composite to a clients server

Hi,
I'm having trouble deploying a composite to a clients server.
I've defined the Configuration Plan to change all the references from our server to the clients server.
The composite has some references to webservices deployed on the same server. I can test those webservices on the Enterprise Manager and they work.
The error when I try to deploy is the following:
Deploying on partition "default" of "/Farm_bpm_domain/bpm_domain/soa_server1" ...
Deploying on "/Farm_bpm_domain/bpm_domain/soa_server1" failed!
Error during deployment: Deployment Failed: Error occurred during deployment of component: ServiceTest2Process to service engine: implementation.bpmn for composite: ServiceTest2Composite: ORABPEL-05250
Error deploying BPMN suitcase.
error while attempting to deploy the BPMN component file "/oracle/product/fmw/11.1.1/bpm/user_projects/domains/bpm_domain/deployed-composites/ServiceTest2Composite_rev1.0/sca_ServiceTest2Composite_rev1.0/soa_68135a9a-c6b0-4982-99de-2eb366875b5d"; the exception reported is: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Conversation is not properly defined. There are not operation/process or external services defined
This error contained an exception thrown by the underlying deployment module.
Verify the exception trace in the log (with logging level set to debug mode).
.The logs on the server (set to TRACE:32 (FINEST)) don't add anything to the error message.
Anyone has had the same problem or has any ideia what might be the problem?
Thanks in advance,
Diogo Henriques

Hi
Can't offer much help but I just got exactly the same problem also. I just made a minor modification to a simple BPMN Test process. The change involved adding a Script Task and changing the assignment to the Output Argument of a Sub-Process. This change should not have caused any change to the service interface of the process. This was on a local Dev box.
The process does call a Web Service. It was deploying/executing without error at last WLS boot a day ago, the Web Service is running fine and the process is building without error. There have been no other changes.
This seems to be some kind of deployment versioning or stale caching related bug. I just undeployed the current version via EM (which actually reported a failure during undeployment but undeployed anyway!) and rebooted WLS and the deployment was then successful.
See also Error deploying 2 processes in the same project BPM 11gR3 Project
I suspect both of these are symptoms of the the same underlying problem which show up when there are repeated deployments of the same process after changes - regardless of whether you overwrite the existing version or start a new one.
Regards
Jim Nicolson

J2ME client server

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