Problems setting up foreign provider

Question

Hi, I'm trying to get my Weblogic 8.1 server to talk to a remote Websphere server (this is the trial installation of WS so it's not a full version of MQ).
          Basically I set up a connection factory and topic on the websphere machine. THen in Weblogic I created a foreign server containing the initial context factory com.ibm.websphere.naming.WsnInitialContextFactory and the provider url iiop://xxx.xx.xx.xx:2809 (no user/password). Then I proceded to setup a connection factory and a topic.
          I have a stand-alone client running outside the server that tries to connect to the local name of the foreign connection factory but I get an InvalidName exception when it tries to look up the connection factory. From teh stack trace it looks like it is actually trying to look it up on the foreign server but failing.
          portion of config.xml that defines the foreign JMS server:
          <ForeignJMSServer ConnectionURL="iiop://10.0.00.00:2809"
          InitialContextFactory="com.ibm.websphere.naming.WsnInitialContextFactory"
          JNDIProperties="" Name="websphere" Targets="myServer">
          <ForeignJMSConnectionFactory LocalJNDIName="com.abc.def.WSCF"
          Name="Websphere CF" RemoteJNDIName="com.abc.def.connectionFactory"/>
          <ForeignJMSDestination LocalJNDIName="com.abc.def.WSXYZ"
          Name="WSXYZ" RemoteJNDIName="XYZ"/>
          </ForeignJMSServer>
          In the code I set up the initial context with a provider URL that points to the local server (same machine actually) and the standard weblogic initial context factory class.
          The code is very simple JMS client code that works when talking to the local server with a normal connection factory etc and a local topic but when I change the connection factory to "com.abc.def.WSCF" and the topic to "com.abc.def.WSXYZ" I get the following error:
          javax.naming.InvalidNameException: Exception in lookup. [Root exception is org.omg.CosNaming.NamingContextPackage.InvalidName: IDL:omg.org/CosNaming/NamingContext/InvalidName:1.0]
          at weblogic.corba.j2ee.naming.Utils.wrapNamingException(Utils.java:47)
          at weblogic.corba.j2ee.naming.ContextImpl.lookup(ContextImpl.java:235)
          at weblogic.corba.j2ee.naming.ContextImpl.lookup(ContextImpl.java:171)
          at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(InitialContext.java:347)
          at kmr.jms.PublishToTopic.main(PublishToTopic.java:95)
          Caused by: org.omg.CosNaming.NamingContextPackage.InvalidName: IDL:omg.org/CosNaming/NamingContext/InvalidName:1.0
          at weblogic.iiop.OutboundRequestImpl.sendReceive(OutboundRequestImpl.java:187)
          at weblogic.rmi.cluster.ReplicaAwareRemoteRef.invoke(ReplicaAwareRemoteRef.java:284)
          at weblogic.rmi.cluster.ReplicaAwareRemoteRef.invoke(ReplicaAwareRemoteRef.java:244)
          at weblogic.corba.cos.naming.NamingContextAny_IIOP_WLStub.resolve_any(Unknown Source)
          at weblogic.corba.j2ee.naming.ContextImpl.lookup(ContextImpl.java:213)
          ... 3 more
          Caused by: org.omg.CosNaming.NamingContextPackage.InvalidName: IDL:omg.org/CosNaming/NamingContext/InvalidName:1.0 IDL:omg.org/CosNaming/NamingContext/InvalidName:1.0
          at org.omg.CosNaming.NamingContextPackage.InvalidNameHelper.read(InvalidNameHelper.java:60)
          at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
          at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
          at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
          at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
          at weblogic.iiop.IIOPInputStream.readWithHelper(IIOPInputStream.java:2071)
          at weblogic.iiop.IIOPInputStream.read_IDLEntity(IIOPInputStream.java:2060)
          at weblogic.iiop.IIOPInputStream.read_IDLEntity(IIOPInputStream.java:2051)
          at weblogic.iiop.ReplyMessage.getThrowable(ReplyMessage.java:360)
          at weblogic.iiop.InboundResponseImpl.getThrowable(InboundResponseImpl.java:59)
          at weblogic.iiop.OutboundRequestImpl.sendReceive(OutboundRequestImpl.java:174)
          ... 7 more
          I took the iiop stuff in the stack trace to mean that it is actually trying to go over to the websphere server and do the lookup but it's not working for some reason...
          Can anybody give me some suggestions on what to try??

Answer 1

Thanks for the response Tom. Here is the classpath:
          /h/COTS/BEAPLT/weblogic81/server/lib/webservices.jar:/h/COTS/BEAPLT/weblogic81/server/lib/ejbgen.jar::::/h/COTS/BEAPLT/weblogic81/common/eval/pointbase/lib/pbserver44.jar:/h/COTS/BEAPLT/weblogic81/common/eval/pointbase/lib/pbclient44.jar:/h/COTS/BEAPLT/weblogic81/common/eval/pointbase/lib/pbtools44.jar::/utils_common.jar:/h/COTS/BEAPLT/jdk142_06/lib/tools.jar:/h/COTS/BEAPLT/weblogic81/server/lib/weblogic_sp.jar:/h/COTS/BEAPLT/weblogic81/server/lib/weblogic.jar
          wlclient.jar is the thin one right? I don't see any here that are thin and the thick one is at the end.
          Also, I'm using "t3://localhost:80" for the provider url into weblogic (I know 80 is not default but this server was configured ot use 80 for some reason).
          Thanks again for the response - any addtnl info is greatly appreciated.