Questions on offline-allowed

Hey guys,
Our application needs to have the ability to work offline. Hence i put the <offline-allowed/> element in the jnlp file.
However I was seeing some cases, where I was not getting the latest version of the application even while online.
The web start developer docs say :
If offline-allowed is specified, Java Web Start will also check to see if an update is available. However, if the application is already downloaded the check will timeout after a few seconds, in which case the cached application will be launched instead. Given a reasonable fast server connection, the lastest version of the application will usually be run, but it is not guaranteed. The application, however, can be run offline.
Is there any way to guarantee that the latest version of the application is downloaded if the user is online ? Writing an application that clears the cache possibly ?
What experiences have y'all had with compatability problems with different versions of the app on the users machine and on the server ?
Thanks

The problem is the <offline-allowed> is overloaded.
w/o it a program will wait infinately for the download host to determine if there is an update. (this can greatly slow down launching, even when online and there is no update available)
with <offline-allowed>, Java Web Start still dosn't really know if it is being run offline or online (unless launched with arg "-offline" which will not check for update at all). In this case it will check for finite amount of time (in 1.4.2 is 1.5 seconds). If it can't determine in that much time if there is an update, it will launch from cache, and continue to check in background.
in 1.4.2, you can put in deployment.properties the value:
deployment.javaws.forceUpdate=true
this will cause all apps to never timeout checking for updates (assuming not launched with "-offline")
or you can increese the timeout with:
deployment.javaws.updateTimeout=5000 (this would change from 1.5 to 5 seconds
unfortunately you can only do this on the indivual clients.
/Dietz

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Offline allowed - Perplexed

I am using JWS 1.4.2 and the question pertains to the usage of
<offline-allowed/> tag.
The requirements for the project are quite straight forward. First time
install of the application and download of updates if available.
Our application will be deployed on about 100 workstations(PC's) and
under no circumstance can we risk that few of the workstations have
older application and few have latest updated version when production fixes are implemented. So if an update
is available either it is downloaded on all workstations or none.
In light of the above, what is the recommdentation about usage of
<offline-allowed> tag in the JNLP file.
I have researched the Sun forums it says that if using
<offline-allowed> the update is ot guarenteed and further if this tag is ommitted than the JWS may hang forever checking for updates.
(http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?forumID=38&threadID=452567)
Kindly suggest for my requirements should I be using the tag in JNLP or not.
Looking forward for Andy to come to my rescue.

The way offline-allowed is supposed to work is that the application will not run if JavaWS can't connect to the server. What happens is a dialog is displayed saying the app won't run.
This is not hung, it's just waiting for the user to acknowledge it. There was a problem in 1.4.2 with some of the modal dialog. The problem was that dialogs that we modal were not being brought to the front correctly. Sometimes the dialog would get completely hidden by another JavaWS window. The app would then seem to be hung. I can't remember if this dialog was one of them or not. Anyway, that bug is fixed.
The best way to find out how your app will behave is to run it once, so you have a shortcut, then just unplug your network cable. ;-)
Mike.

If I include offline-allowed then creation of shortcuts will be disabled?

Hi,
I noticed that if in a JNLP file I included the element <offline-allowed/> element, then in my JWS cache viewer the "install shortcuts" function would be disabled (grayed out). I had to remove this element to regain that function. This was true no matter I set the other element attribute online for the shortcut element to be "true" or "false".
I was using JRE/JDK 1.6.0_03 (build 1.6.0_03-b05)
Clement
Here are the snippet of my code that did not work (i.e. no shortcut function)
<jnlp spec="1.0+"
      codebase="...">
   <information>
      <title>Some GUI Client</title>
      <vendor>Some company</vendor>
      <description>Some product
      </description>
      <homepage href="http://www.company.com"/>
      <description kind="short">Some Client</description>
      <icon kind="splash" href="../images/JWS-splash.jpg"/>
      <icon href="../images/JWS-icon.64x64.gif"/>
      <offline-allowed>
      <shortcut online="false">
        <desktop/>
        <menu submenu="Some Product"/>
      </shortcut>
   </information>
   <resources>... Here is the snippet of my code that worked (i.e. shortcut function allowed). Note that if I set online="true" the test result was the same.
<jnlp spec="1.0+"
      codebase="...">
   <information>
      <title>Some GUI Client</title>
      <vendor>Some company</vendor>
      <description>Some product
      </description>
      <homepage href="http://www.company.com"/>
      <description kind="short">Some Client</description>
      <icon kind="splash" href="../images/JWS-splash.jpg"/>
      <icon href="../images/JWS-icon.64x64.gif"/>
      <shortcut online="false">
        <desktop/>
        <menu submenu="Some Product"/>
      </shortcut>
   </information>
   <resources>
     ...

Hi,
I double checked my typing. I retested and made sure that <offline-allowed/> is ended correctly with the "/>" but still I could not install shortcut. I must take out that line to get back my option of "install shortcuts".
However, now I've found a workaround. I omit the (trouble-making) line of <offline-allowed/> but turn the online attribute of the shortcut element to "false". That is
      <shortcut online="false">
        <desktop/>
        <menu submenu="Some GUI"/>
      </shortcut>And this would work (i.e. I can install shortcuts)
If I am not missing something, that I believe there may be a bug introduced very recently. I am using JRE/JDK of 1.6.0 (build 1.6.0_03-b05)
Thanks!
Clement

offline-allowed/ is not interpreted

Hello,
I've tried to deploy an application with JWS, which worked fine so far. I did NOT specify the <offline-allowed/> element within the <information> tag, anyway, JWS starts the application even if I stop the server and pull the network cable out.
But what I actually want is that JWS refuses to start the application when no connection to the originating server is available.
Could anyone give me a hint?
Thanks, Rod.

What version of Java Web Start are you running. ?1.4.2_05
I think, since version 1.4.2, if network is disabled
and app has no <offline-allowed> tag, Web Start will
wait forever at the Download Window checking for
updates.On my box it just starts, no matter online or offline.

Question about operations allowed in methods of stateless and stateful bean

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Salut Julien,
Can anyone tell me why ejbRemove and ejbCreate are
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SCCM Questions about offline clients

All,
I wanted to provide some background on a project we are working on and provide some questions that hopefully someone can help answer.
First I wanted to make note that as part of the requirements for this project we are going to have SCCM clients deployed at various locations offsite from our primary SCCM server and these SCCM clients will have only intermittent network connectivity back
to our primary SCCM server. During the times that these clients are lacking connectivity we will need the ability to do multiple manual hardware inventories of the clients with the expectation that once connectivity is resumed, ALL of the inventories taken
will report back to the primary SCCM server. Additionally, during the time that network connectivity is lacking we will need to be able to run SCCM reports regarding these clients local to the clients themselves (IE at the offsite location which won't have
network access to the primary SCCM server.)
Our proposed solution to these requirements was that we planned to provide the offsite location with a SCCM secondary site. The idea being that while network connectivity to the primary server was down the clients would continue to report their inventory
data to the secondary site and reports could still be run from the secondary site as well. Once network connectivity was resumed the secondary site would synchronize with the primary site and provide the primary site with all the missing hardware inventories.
I have since done further research and believe there are some flaws with this solution:
I am reading that secondary sites do not actually store inventory data in a local database like primary sites do.
I am reading that the “reporting services point” is not available on secondary sites, thus limiting our ability to run reports while network connectivity to the primary site is down.
With this I have a few questions:
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being restored?
If it only transmits the last inventory collected, does the idea of having a secondary site work for storing the multiple inventories that we need to collect while network connectivity to the primary server is lacking, or is it true that secondary sites
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Thank you for your time,
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Well, this is kind of a complicated project and I am not going to lie I know we are asking to use SCCM in a way that it was not designed to be used.
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Because of this requirement there may be multiple hardware inventories taken in a single day.
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How do I allow offline use AND check for updates if online?

I am actually not sure if this is a bug or not, as the behavior changed when I updated from 1.6u20 to u21. I have an application in a single JAR, and a JNLP file. I am testing with Windows 7 64-bit (with both the 32- and 64-bit version of the JVM installed, 1.6u20-b06 on both). The application cache is enabled. Here is my JNLP file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="us-ascii"?>
<jnlp
spec="6.0+"
codebase="http://hidden"
href="Librarian.jnlp">
<information>
    <title>Librarian</title>
    <vendor>Vendor</vendor>
    <homepage href="http://hidden"/>
    <description>Description.</description>
    <offline-allowed/>
    <shortcut online="false">
      <desktop/>
      <menu submenu="Vendor"/>
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</resources>
<application-desc main-class="com.vendor.apps.librarian.Librarian"/>
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When allow-offline is present:
- JWS does not download updates to the JAR file when the desktop link is clicked.
- The application can run when I disable the network connection.
- The "-offline" switch is passed to javaw in the desktop shortcut.
When allow-offline is not present:
- JWS does download JAR updates when the desktop link is clicked.
- The application can not run when I disable the network connection (HostNotFoundException).
- The "-offline" switch is not passed to javaw in the desktop shortcut.
What I want to happen is for JWS to check for updates if it can, and if it times out, instead of barfing, just go ahead and run the cached version. What I can get right now is either no updates + offline allowed, or updates + offline disallowed. However, I can obtain the behavior I want if I specify allow-offline then hand-edit the desktop shortcut and remove "-offline":
When allow-offline is present but I remove "-offline" from the desktop shortcut:
- JWS does download updates to the JAR file.
- The application can run when I disable the network connection, after a short timeout.
Now, I was under the impression that this behavior is the intended behavior of allow-offline: attempt to download update, on error, silently start the cached version instead. This does not seem to be the case. I actually wonder if this is a bug, as with 1.6u20, it seemed to download JAR updates just fine when allow-offline was specified (I had issues when the cache was disabled with 1.6u20, and so I moved to u21).
How can I make this work the way I want without having to hand edit the desktop shortcut?
Is this a bug, or am I misconfiguring (OED says this is a real word!) the application?
Is there something else I have to do to indicate that the JAR is updated besides just uploading a new version to the server?
It should be noted that I am not doing any web page magic here, I'm testing by simply downloading the JNLP file off the server and opening it. This is actually my first JWS experience and I haven't gotten to properly embedding it in a web page yet. I do not know if this is significant or not.
Thanks!
M

Well, I solved that quick. I've been staring at it for over an hour but it popped out at me as soon as I looked at my JNLP file in my post here (guess it's the red text, heh).
All I need to do is set online="true" in the shortcut, and also specify allow-offline, and all works exactly as I want it to. :-)
Perhaps it was a bug in u20 that was causing it to check for updates anyways even with an offline shortcut... I'm not sure, and I don't have it in me to test it any more at the moment.
Thanks,
M

Java Web Start(the program itself) doesn't start in offline mode

Hi,
My Java Web Start doesn't start when my internet connection is not on??? I have a program that needs also offline access so it's crucial to get JWS work without internet connection as well.
The problem might be in those sun's example programs you can't remove? Maybe the program crashes when trying to get some information for those programs?
(please read the question well. My problem IS NOT in the .jnlp-files <offline-allowed/>)
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ColdFusion 11: custom serialisers. More questions than answers

G'day:
I am reposting this from my blog ("ColdFusion 11: custom serialisers. More questions than answers") at the suggestion of Adobe support:
@dacCfml @ColdFusion Can you post your queries at http://t.co/8UF4uCajTC for all cfclient and mobile queries.— Anit Kumar Panda (@anitkumar85) April 29, 2014
This particular question is not regarding <cfclient>, hence posting it on the regular forum, not on the mobile-specific one as Anit suggested. I have edited this in places to remove language that will be deemed inappropriate by the censors here. Changes I have made are in [square brackets]. The forums software here has broken some of the styling, but so be it.
G'day:
I've been wanting to write an article about the new custom serialiser one can have in ColdFusion 11, but having looked at it I have more questions than I have answers, so I have put it off. But, equally, I have no place to ask the questions, so I'm stymied. So I figured I'd write an article covering my initial questions. Maybe someone can answer then.
ColdFusion 11 has added the notion of a custom serialiser a website can have (docs: "Support for pluggable serializer and deserializer"). The idea is that whilst Adobe can dictate the serialisation rules for its own data types, it cannot sensibly infer how a CFC instance might get serialised: as each CFC represents a different data "schema", there is no "one size fits all" approach to handling it. So this is where the custom serialiser comes in. Kind of. If it wasn't a bit rubbish. Here's my exploration thusfar.
One can specify a custom serialiser by adding a setting to Application.cfc:
component { this.name = "serialiser01"; this.customSerializer="Serialiser"; }
In this case the value - Serialiser - is the name of a CFC, eg:
// Serialiser.cfccomponent { public function canSerialize(){ logArgs(args=arguments, from=getFunctionCalledName()); return true; } public function canDeserialize(){ logArgs(args=arguments, from=getFunctionCalledName()); return true; } public function serialize(){ logArgs(args=arguments, from=getFunctionCalledName()); return "SERIALISED"; } public function deserialize(){ logArgs(args=arguments, from=getFunctionCalledName()); return "DESERIALISED"; } private function logArgs(required struct args, required string from){ var dumpFile = getDirectoryFromPath(getCurrentTemplatePath()) & "dump_#from#.html"; if (fileExists(dumpFile)){ fileDelete(dumpFile); } writeDump(var=args, label=from, output=dumpFile, format="html"); } }
This CFC needs to implement four methods:
canSerialize() - indicates whether something can be serialised by the serialiser;
canDeserialize() - indicates whether something can be deserialised by the serialiser;
serialize() - the function used to serialise something
deserialize() - the function used to deserialise something
I'm being purposely vague on those functions for a reason. I'll get to that.
The first [issue] in the implementation here is that for the custom serialisation to work, all four of those methods must be implemented in the serisalisation CFC. So common sense would dictate that a way to enforce that would be to require the CFC to implement an interface. That's what interfaces are for. Now I know people will argue the merit of having interfaces in CFML, but I don't really give a [monkey's] about that: CFML has interfaces, and this is what they're for. So when one specifies the serialiser in Application.cfc and it doesn't fulfil the interface requirement, it should error. Right then. When one specifies the inappropriate tool for the job. What instead happens is if the functions are omitted, one will get erratic behaviour in the application, through to outright errors when ColdFusion goes to call the functions and cannot find it. EG: if I have canSerialize() but no serialize() method, CF will error when it comes to serialise something:
JSON serialization failure: Unable to serialize to JSON.
Reason : The method serialize was not found in component C:/wwwroot/scribble/shared/git/blogExamples/coldfusion/CF11/customerserialiser/Serialiser .cfc.
The error occurred inC:/wwwroot/scribble/shared/git/blogExamples/coldfusion/CF11/customerserialiser/testBasic.c fm: line 4
2 : o = new Basic();
3 :
4 : serialised = serializeJson(o);5 : writeDump([serialised]);
6 :
Note that the error comes when I go to serialise something, not when ColdFusion is told about the serialiser in the first place. This is just lazy/thoughtless implementation on the part of Adobe. It invites bugs, and is just sloppy.
The second [issue] follows immediately on from this.
Given my sample serialiser above, I then run this test code to examine some stuff:
o = new Basic(); serialised = serializeJson(o); writeDump([serialised]); deserialised = deserializeJson(serialised); writeDump([deserialised]);
So all I'm doing is using (de)serializeJson() as a baseline to see how the functions work. here's Basic.cfc, btw:
component { }
And the test output:
array
1
SERIALISED
array
1
DESERIALISED
This is as one would expect. OK, so that "works". But now... you'll've noted I am logging the arguments each of the serialisation methods receives, as I got.
Here's the arguments passed to canSerialize():
canSerialize - struct
1
XML
My reaction to that is: "[WTH]?" Why is canSerialize() being passed the string "XML" when I'm trying to serialise an object of type Basic.cfc?
Here's the docs for canSerialize() (from the page I linked to earlier):
CanSerialize - Returns a boolean value and takes the "Accept Type" of the request as the argument. You can return true if you want the customserialzer to serialize the data to the passed argument type.
Again, back to "[WTH]?" What's the "Accept type" of the request? And what the hell has the request got to do with a call to serializeJson()? You might think that "Accept type" references some HTTP header or something, but there is no "Accept type" header in the HTTP spec (that I can find: "Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1: 14 Header Field Definitions"). There's an "Accept" header (in this case: "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8"), and other ones like "Accept-Encoding", "Accept-Language"... but none of which contain a value of "XML". Even if there was... how would it be relevant to the question as to whether a Basic.cfc instance can be serialised? Raised as bug: 3750730.
serialize() gets more sensible arguments:
serialize - struct
1
https://www.blogger.com/nullserialize - component scribble.shared.git.blogExamples.coldfusion.CF11.customerserialiser.Basic
2
JSON
So the first is the object to serialise (which surely should be part of the question canSerialize() is supposed to ask, and the format to serialise to. Cool.
canDeserialize() is passed this:
canDeserialize - struct
1
JSON
I guess it's because it's being called from deserializeJson(), so it's legit to expect the input value is indeed JSON. Fair enough. (Note: I'm not actually passing it JSON, but that's beside the point here).
And deserialize() is passed this:
deserialize - struct
1
SERIALISED
2
JSON
3
[empty string]
The first argument is the value to work on, and the second is the type of deserialisation to do. I have no idea what the third argument is for, and it's not mentioned directly or indirectly on that docs page. So dunno what the story is there.
The next issue isn't a code-oriented one, but an implementation one: how the hell are we expected to work with this?
The only way to work here is for each function to have a long array of IF/ELSEIF statements which somehow identify each object type that is serialisable, and then return true from canSerialise(), or in the case of serialize(), go ahead and do the serialisation. So this means this one CFC needs to know about everything which can be serialised in the entire application. Talk about a failure in "separation of concerns".
You know the best way of determining if an object can be seriaslised? Ask it! Don't rely on something else needing to know. This can be achieved very easily in one of two ways:
Check to see if the object implements a "Serializable" interface, which requires a serialize() method to exist.
Or simply take the duck-typing approach: if a CFC implements a serialize() method: it can be serialised. By calling that method. Job done.
Either approach would work fine, keeps things nicely encapsulated, and I see merits in both. And either make far more sense than Adobe's approach. Which is like something from the "OO Failures Special Needs" class.
Deserialisation is trickier. Because it relies on somehow working out how to deserialise() an object. I'm not sure of the best approach here, but - again - how to deserialise something should be as close to the thing needing deserialisation as possible. IE: something in the serialised data itself which can be used to bootstrap the process.
This could simply be a matter of specifying a CFC type at a known place in the serialised data. EG: Adobe stipulates that if the serialised data is JSON, and at the top level of the JSON is a key eg: type, and the value is an extant CFC... use that CFC's deserialize() method. Or it could look for an object which contains a type and a method, or whatever. But Adobe can specify a contract there.
The only place I see a centralised CFC being relevant here is for a mechanism for handling serialised data that is neither a ColdFusion internal type, nor identifiable as above. In this case, perhaps they could provide a mechanism for a serialisation router, which basically has a bunch of routes (if/elseifs if need be) which contains logic as to how to work out how to deserialise the data. But it should not be the actual deserialiser, it should simply have the mechanism to find out how to do it. This is actually pretty much the same in operation as the deserialize() approach in the current implementation, but it doesn't need the canDeserialize() method (it can return false at the end of the routing), and it doesn't need to know about serialising. And also it's not the main mechanism to do the deserialisation, it's just the fall back if the prescribed approach hasn't been used.
TBH, this still sounds a bit jerry-built, and I'm open for better suggestions. This is probably a well-trod subject in other languages, so it might be worth looking at how the likes of Groovy, Ruby or even PHP (eek!) achieve this.
There's still another issue with the current approach. And this demonstrates that the Adobe guys don't actually work with either CFML applications or even modern websites. This approach only works for a single, stand-alone website (like how we might have done in 2001). What if I'm not in the business of building websites, but I build applications such as FW/1 or ColdBox or the like? Or any sort of "helper" application. They cannot use the current Adobe implementation of the customserializer. Why? Because the serialisation code needs to be in a website-specific CFC. There's no way for Luis to implement a custom serialiser in ColdBox (for example), and then have it work for someone using ColdBox. Because it relies on either editing Application.cfc to specify a different CFC, or editing the existing customSerializer CFC. Neither of which are very good solutions. This should have been immediately apparent to the Adobe engineer(s) implementing this stuff had they actually had any experience with modern web applications (which generally aren't just a single monolithic site, but an aggregation of various other sub applications). Equally, I know it's not a case of having thought about this and [I'm just missing something], because when I asked them the other day, at first they didn't even get what I was asking, but when I clarified were just like "oh yeah... um... err... yeah, you can't do that. We'll... have to... ah yeah". This has been raised as bug 3750731.
So I declare the intent here valid, but the implementation to be more alpha- / pre-release- quality, not release-ready.
Still: it could be easily deprecated and rework fairly easily. I've raised this as bug 3750732.
Or am I missing something?
Adam

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