Patterns in Forte / UDS

I'm having difficulty locating this. Where on the Sun website, or elsewhere can I find information and examples of various patterns in Forte?

Try http://www.fortedevelopers.intranets.com/login.asp?link= and enter as a GUEST. I remember they had some documents about some common forte patterns.
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Active Directory - Forte/UDS integration

Does any body integrated Active Directory Server with Forte ?
We are trying to integrate Forte with Active Directory Server.
Our first step is to open a session on Active Directory from Forte and that was successful.
The second step is to bind to the Active Directory server so as to authenticate the user against the Active Directory service fails.
The error message is :- "ASN.1 Integer does not begin with 0x02 at offset 0".
we are using Forte/UDS 5.0.3 and Windows Server 2000 SP4 for Active Directory.
Any help you can provide in this matter is greatly appreciated
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We plan to install CRM 2007 ABAP+Java stack (dual stack).
I can tell you from my experience: avoid dual stack installations wherever possible because
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When will Forte/UDS finally get a decent development environment ??

As a enterprise computing environment nothing beats UDS/Forte (not even J2EE).
however ...
In comparison to more 'modern' development environment(s), the Forte/UDS environment seems to be lacking a lot of features (like Code-Completion, Code-Highlighting, a decent class-explorer, Cross-references, etc).
Will there ever be a development environment that will support these features (like Forte 4 Java for instance) or will we be destined to puddle on with this 'stone age' environment forever ...
After all it is us developers that will have to make it all work ... a little support would be nice ...
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I dought there will ever be a development environment like UDS/Forte 4GL. The only one that came close was SynerJ but that now is our of the picture because Sun decided not to support it. Forte 4 Java is almost there but lacks a lot of feature like partiton workshop to make it a good tool to use.

Is Forté UDS version 5.1.3 supported on Oracle 10?

Hi,
in the company I work in we've got applications developed in Forté UDS 5.1.3 and we've got Oracle 8.1.7
We're going to change Oracle version and we'd like to upgrade towards Oracle 10.
Someone has told me Forté UDS 5.1.3 is only supported on Oracle 9 and not on Oracle 10. Do you agree with that? Can you help me to undestand whether it's true or not?
Thanks in advance!
Edited by: Mark1970 on 19-mar-2010 3.05

There are documentation and certification matixes provided at http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/coll/S1_UnifiedDevelopmentServer_35
Why not look there.. and contact Sun support to clarify?
From a pure client-server perspective - the Forte database interface for Oracle supports need to support OCI (or JDBC) as communication interface to Oracle. The question thus is whether or not this interface can use the later OCI driver versions (9i, 10g, 11g). As a 9i OCI client can for example connect successfully to a 10g or 11g database instance, Forte can likely be used with such a client to connect to a newer Oracle version.

Forte UDS 5.1.8 Syntax

I am primarily a C# programmer with some java experience. We have an application that we purchased that uses Forte UDS 5.1.8. The syntax is easy to figure out but there is one thing that I have not been able to find documentation on. It is database or a structure that corresponds to the database. The syntax looks like this:
<tablename.columnname> = "whatever"
<tablename.columnname> = 1
numAVar = <tablename.columnname>
numOfRows = <tablename.count>
The < and > are part of the syntax.
Does anyone recognize this as being TOOL technology or is it possibly a part of a 3rd party preparser?
Thanks!

That was the only place in the documentation that I found that syntax which seemed to reference screen fields. However, we do not have any screens in forte. This software release is partly java/Websphere and partly Forte. The Websphere part handles all the HTML GUI and data storage while Forte provides for some additional backend processing yet to be converted to java.

Forte/UDS and SOlaris running on Intel platforms

I am interested in knowing your experiences about Forte/UDS running on Solaris/Intel, specially DELL boxes. Please, you can email me at [email protected] Information about problems and known bugs will be highly appreciated.
Thanks for your help.

I am interested in knowing your experiences about Forte/UDS running on Solaris/Intel, specially DELL boxes. Please, you can email me at [email protected]. Information about problems and known bugs will be highly appreciated.
Thanks for your help.

Forte UDS 5.1.9

Did any of you here are on UDS 5.1.9 ?
Do you think it is a stable release?
What is the latest version are you on ?
Srikanth

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Fort� / UDS migration to Java EE

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Failed to bring up UDS Control Panel

Hi,
I have installed FORTE-UDS 5.0.3 on a Windows 2000 professional machine. The problem is, when I tried to bring up the UDS Control Panel, I see the start up screen flashed by and nothing happened.
From the DOS prompted, I manually invoked the command:
C:\forte\install\bin\ftexec.exe -fs -fss -fi bt:c:\forte\USERAPP\ENVIRONM\CL0\FCONTROL
and got the following error message:
ftexec Forte Version 5.0.3
Windows NT
Copyright (c) 2001 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. Use is
subject to license terms. Third-party software, including font
technology, is copyrighted and licensed from Sun suppliers. Sun, Sun
Microsystems, the Sun logo, Forte, iPlanet and Unified Development
Server are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc.
in the U.S. and other countries. Federal Acquisitions: Commercial
Software - Government Users Subject to Standard License Terms and
Conditions.
Copyright (c) 2001 Sun Microsystems, Inc. Tous droits r�serv�s. Distribu�
par des licences qui en restreignent l'utilisation. Le logiciel d�tenu
par des tiers, et qui comprend la technologie relative aux polices de
caract�res, est prot�g� par un copyright et licenci� par des fournisseurs
de Sun. Sun, Sun Microsystems, le logo Sun, Forte, iPlanet et Unified
Development Server sont des marques de fabrique ou des marques d�pos�es de
Sun Microsystems, Inc. aux Etats-Unis et dans d'autres pays.
Tue Nov 13 18:45:58 2001
Process ID 516 (Native threading)
Type Service Flags Level
err sh * 255
Loaded Forte Message Catalog 'fortemsg/en_us.cat'
NLM Startup is Complete - Partition's Locale is 'en_us.win'
SecurityManager Using: Default-Export-Security
ERROR: Exiting due to following exception:
SYSTEM ERROR: Could not find the transport provider library named windows
sockets.
Class: qqsp_SystemResourceException
Error #: [501, 13]
Detected at: qqcm_CommManager::InstallTransportProvider at 1
Error Time: Tue Nov 05 16:00:33
Exception occurred (locally) on partition "Forte_Executor", (partitionId =
0x0, taskId = [0x0.8]) in application "Forte Runtime", pid 516 on node
WW730BNN1 in environment <unknown>.
SYSTEM ERROR: System Error: The specified module could not be found.,
loading the library 'windows sockets.dll'
Class: qqos_DynamicLibraryException
Error #: [101, 29]
Detected at: qqos_DynamicLibrary::OSLoad at 1
Error Time: Tue Nov 05 16:00:33
Exception occurred (locally) on partition "Forte_Executor",
(partitionId = 0x0, taskId = [0x0.8]) in application "Forte Runtime",
pid 516 on node WW730BNN1 in environment <unknown>.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks Roberto for your reply. I could not find "windows sockets.dll" anywhere. This .dll file does not exist even on the Win 2000 machines that I had no trouble invoking UDS Control Panel. My machine has wsock32.dll in the C:\WINNT\system32 directory and the system path is also set to point to that directory.
By the way, when someone else logs onto the same machine, he has no trouble bringing up UDS Control Panel. The problem occurs only if I logon. I also compared the environment variables with that person's environment variables and they are exactly the same.

Re: Singleton Pattern

At PerSe Technologies, we have implemented the singleton pattern in our
Enterprise Component Toolkit Framework. We have what we call our "shared
data managers", which are visible to the appropriate architecture layer.
We did not implement this as a service object and do not use a Forte
"Shared" object. Instead, we use mutexes to control data locking ourselves
which allows multiple tasks to execute against the shared data manager
concurrently. This approach ensures us that we have one and only one copy
of a given object at a time. Our approach also gives another benefit in
that it caches frequently accessed data and has improved overall
performance of our applications.
Dustin Breese
[email protected]
Supervising Technical Consultant
PerSe Technologies
From: Mark Addesso <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 12:36:02 -0500
Subject: Implementing the Singleton pattern
Has anyone implemented the singleton pattern in Forte? A singleton is =
simply ensuring that there is one unique instance of a class. In other =
OO languages I would create a class method which would use a class =
variable to hold onto the unique instance. Since forte doesn't have =
either of these (class methods or variables), I'm not sure how to do it.=
I thought of using named objects, but it seems like a heavy =
implementation. Any ideas.

Is the danger that someone might make the Singleton
cloneable really a the most important reason to make a
Singleton non-extensible? I think not.It IS a good reason if cloning or subclassing it means
you can end up with more than one in the same JVM. If
you really implemented Singleton because "There Can
Only BE One", I'd say prohibiting subclassing and
cloning might be important.
I gotta go with the OP on this. That comment is abit queer.
I gotta go with the definition of Singleton on this
and disagree. It's not like it's that difficult.
Don't implement Cloneable or Serializable and make
the constructors private. Done. What's the
problem?
At some point it is just too much.
Are you going to implement a security manager as well? Because unless you do I can create JNI method and create a new object as well.
If they don't understand that the singleton is a singleton then are you going to assume that that is the only problem that they are having?
When I program I make assumptions about those that I work with and those that will come after me. I like to think that they have a minimal level of intelligent. They might not write the best code all the time but they do understand most of the ideas. And given that singleton the most used and probably easiest pattern to understand is it really necessary to be so protective?

UDS Application Architecture Validation

Hi Everyone,
I am curious to find out if there are any tools that can validate the existing UDS application architecture. Especially is there anything within the UDS family - say a UDS parser - that we can use?
thanks in advance,
Vamsi.

There is at least one Consulting tool still in existence that can analyse Forte/UDS code and provide limited feedback on the architecture used, but it focuses more on syntax and things considered to be poor (or risky) coding. As far as I know, it was developed within Forte to assist their Consultants in the field. It requires a fairly high degree of Forte/UDS Architecture knowledge to use correctly and especially to make good use of the results.

Implementing the Singleton pattern

Has anyone implemented the singleton pattern in Forte? A singleton is simply ensuring that there is one unique instance of a class. In other OO languages I would create a class method which would use a class variable to hold onto the unique instance. Since forte doesn't have either of these (class methods or variables), I'm not sure how to do it. I thought of using named objects, but it seems like a heavy implementation. Any ideas.

An SO with its shared=TRUE and anchored=TRUE?
Venkat J Kodumudi
Price Waterhouse LLP
Internet: [email protected]
Internet2: [email protected]
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [SMTP:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, February 02, 1998 1:09 PM
To: Venkat Kodumudi
Subject: Implementing the Singleton pattern
To: [email protected] @ Internet
cc:
From: [email protected] @ Internet
Date: 02/02/98 12:36:02 PM
Subject: Implementing the Singleton pattern
Has anyone implemented the singleton pattern in Forte? A singleton is
simply
ensuring that there is one unique instance of a class. In other OO
languages I
would create a class method which would use a class variable to hold
onto the
unique instance. Since forte doesn't have either of these (class
methods or
variables), I'm not sure how to do it. I thought of using named
objects, but it
seems like a heavy implementation. Any ideas.

Forte to Java Help

Hello All,
I am new to this forum and new to Forte (working with it for about a year). I wanted to know the benefits of moving from Forte to Java. I am suppose to list all the benefits- pros & cons. I am reading on the subject but any help or advice from your end will also help.
thanks.

As one of the engineers supporting Fort� and IS EAI, I would like to add to the solid comments from "fortever" -- which I basically agree with. These are my personal comments, and do not represent any offical position by Sun. (I also really love the product, and worked for Fort� before the acquisition in 1999.)
The fact is, computer science students and professional software developers have been focusing on Java for much more than a decade, and the pool of trained talent is thousands of times greater for Java, and growing. Fort� is written in C++, and as a computer science student, I welcome and honor the migration to languages that have a garbage-collected runtime, like Java, TOOL, and Objective-C. As stable as Fort� is, Java is refining and progressing the state of the art.
I also believe that the open source model for Java is a good thing, long term. Yes, products that are tightly integrated, like Fort�, are wonderful. But I've been a software engineer for nearly 30 years, and I've lost count of the number of proprietary, tightly-integrated products that have fallen by the wayside. (I've been a part of companies that have wasted tens of millions of dollars on proprietary technology, and struggled to keep them alive for decades.) We are in the middle of a paradigm shift for large IT organizations. Once upon a time, you could not go wrong by recommending IBM and their proprietary technologies. Now, we have studies by the European Economic Community and governments in South America and Asia that are recommending open source products as a long-term, strategic solution -- BECAUSE they won't fall by the wayside in the same way.
New service-oriented architecture technologies are being support in the Java world, but not in Fort�. For example, our Java CAPS development environment makes it easy to build very sophisticated applications and integration solutions using the latest WSDL, BPEL, etc. standards. Support for these standards are very basic and rather out-of-date in Fort� UDS and IS EAI, and unlikely to improve as the product moves towards end of life.
Quite honestly, I don't believe you or your organization have a choice about moving from Fort�. As flawed as Java is, it's getting better and better, and it's the only non-proprietary solution I know of that supports industrial sized, scalable, distributed, manageable, heterogeneous applications on all kinds of hardware.

Install exception

Dear all,
I got exception during my installation of Forte UDS with error code 23: Invalid service account name.
OS: win2000 professional
running nodemgr.exe error below:
SYSTEM ERROR: Failed to connect or lost connection to the environment manager
at FORTE_NS_ADDRESS = HAROLD:5000. Check that the environment manager is
installed at that location. If it is, then check to be sure that there are
enough system resources available to support this partition.
Class: qqsp_SystemResourceException
Error #: [601, 201]
Detected at: qqdo_NsClient::RegisterPartition at 1
Error Time: Thu Oct 03 17:33:48
Exception occurred (locally) on partition "Node Manager", (partitionId =
0x0, taskId = [0x0.7]) in application "System Manager", pid 512 on node
HAROLD in environment <unknown>.
INFORMATION: Network partner closed connection. This usually means the
process at the other end of the wire failed. Please go look there and
find out why.
Class: qqsp_DistAccessException
Detected at: qqcm_HoseFSM::ReceivedClose at 2
Error Time: Thu Oct 03 17:33:48
Exception occurred (locally) on partition "Node Manager", (partitionId
= 0x0, taskId = [0x0.7]) in application "System Manager", pid 512 on
node HAROLD in environment <unknown>.
INFORMATION: Failed to establish connection: Connection refused by
partner (10061).
Class: qqsp_DistAccessException
Detected at: qqcm_HoseFSM::ReceivedClose at 1
Error Time: Thu Oct 03 17:33:48
Exception occurred (locally) on partition "Node Manager", (partitionId
= 0x0, taskId = [0x0.7]) in application "System Manager", pid 512 on
node HAROLD in environment <unknown>.
Thanks ....

If you are using a particular user account for installing UDS you should make sure the account you are using has administrator privileges. Also, check if you have set the Repository/Environment services (manager) to be executed under a particular user account. If your login account is one different than the one used by the repository/environment services you migth expect problems...

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