RMI and Firewalls

Hi folks,
I have a sun cluster on which I put my RMI server, clients connect to server through a firewall. My problem, since it's a clustered environment we get physical IP addresses and logical IP addresses, clients if they ahve to connect to the server without firewall they have to see only logical IP addresses and not the physical. That works fine, but when there is a firewall the setting is different. If my logical IP is, say 120.30.40.10 and my physical IPs are 120.30.40.6, 120.30.40.7 .... The firewall is configured to let clients connect to, say IP 180.70.40.4 and it transltes that to the logical IP address. When client is trying to make a lookup it connects to 180.70.40.4 which will be translated to 120.30.40.10. It passes this step and manages to get a reference to the server, but when it tries to invoke a method on that server it 's rejected by the Firewall. The cleint is getting RMI exception connection refused to 120.30.40.6, which is the physical IP of the server. After discussion with security team they said that the client is trying to initiate another connection to that physical IP which is not allowed by firewall.
My question is how to avoid the client connecting to the physical IP address. it seems that it's done internally in the RMI protocol.

I solved that problem by setting the property java.rmi.server.hostname=external_IP_address which solved the external client problem. But that raised anothe rproblem, since I have internal clients as well they couldn't connect to the sever becasue it's on an external ip adress it's giving me connection refused to that IP.
What's the solution in this case, I need somebody to help me ...
Thanx

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AND VOILA - you can connect.
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I opened a ticket in Day Care Support system, about CRX users/group membership that got lost while synchronization with our LDAP server.
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Anyways, what's not normal to me is that when the type is "10" the API does not let me get the Value (cf. ServerProperty.getValues() method)
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import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Map;
import javax.imageio.spi.ServiceRegistry;
import javax.jcr.Node;
import javax.jcr.NodeIterator;
import javax.jcr.Property;
import javax.jcr.PropertyIterator;
import javax.jcr.Repository;
import javax.jcr.RepositoryException;
import javax.jcr.RepositoryFactory;
import javax.jcr.Session;
import javax.jcr.SimpleCredentials;
import javax.jcr.Value;
public class Test {
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                                                  for (int i = 0; i < values.length; i++) {
                                                            System.out.print(values[i]);
                                                            if (i+1 != values.length) {
                                                                      System.out.print(", ");
                                                  System.out.println();
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                                                  System.out.println(value);
                              System.out.println();
                              NodeIterator kids = node.getNodes();
                              System.out.println("List of children nodes for this node :");
                              while (kids.hasNext()) {
                                        Node kid = kids.nextNode();
                                        System.out.println("\tChild node : "+kid.getName());
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                                        System.out.println("List of properties for this child :");
                                        while (kidProperties.hasNext()) {
                                                  Property property = kidProperties.nextProperty();
                                                  System.out.print("\t"+property.getName() + " : ");
                                                  if (property.isMultiple()) {
                                                            Value[] values = property.getValues();
                                                            for (int i = 0; i < values.length; i++) {
                                                                      System.out.print(values[i]);
                                                                      if (i+1 != values.length) {
                                                                                System.out.print(", ");
                                                            System.out.println();
                                                  } else {
                                                            Value value = property.getValue();
                                                            System.out.println(value);
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Here is the output of the below program:
Node : a
List of properties for this node :
          jcr:createdBy : admin
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List of children nodes for this node :
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List of properties for this child :
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Here is the list of jar files i'm using with this program:
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          732434195           335603           jackrabbit-jcr-commons-2.4.0.jar
          1107929681           411330           jackrabbit-jcr-rmi-2.4.0.jar
          3096295771           69246           jcr-2.0.jar
          1206850944           367444           log4j-1.2.14.jar
          685167282           25962           slf4j-api-1.6.4.jar
          2025068856           9748           slf4j-log4j12-1.6.4.jar
Finally, we are using CQ 5.4 (CRX 2.2) with the latest hotfix and under Websphere 7.0
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Vincent FINET

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Thanks

Hi!
Please tell me how could you get netbeans 6.1 to recognise an RMI project.
I have too, tried to import some old java files (two rmi interface files a server implementation and an applet) into netbeans 6.1. As far as i can tell it completely refuses to work with RMI, and i have not found ANY support on the internet so far, to how to do it, or any working rmi modules for netbeans 6.1 ...
Years old rmi developement, what worked nicely under windows 95 (good old days lol) does not wish to work for me now...
Should I return to use age old enviroments, or what?
I would deeply appreciate any help from You, or anyone able.
Thanks!

RMI and concurrency (newbie)

Hi
I have a simple question related to RMI and concurrency.
I have a server and several clients calling remote objects concurrently.
How is concurrency usually handled when one used RMI ?
Can we make use of "synchronized" on some method of the remote objects ?
I have read about risk related to performance and worse, some problems of deadlock if the synchronize is not well organized.
Is there other ways to deal with that ?
Thanks in advance for providinge me any information or suggestion.

RMI is inherently multithreaded. If you have specific remote resources that you want protected from concurrency, then define all of the accessor methods to be synchronized. (I don't think you can get away with making the remote methods synchronized; I would instead figure out what which resources I want to protect, and only protect those particular objects.)
Could there be problems? Maybe. But these are absolutely standard coding techniques.

Rmi and wireless

Hello!
I'm using the RMIAdapter sample of Oracle to check the basic mechanism of rmi and wireless.
Does anybody now, if there are some known problems with wireless regarding this subject?
I have written both: the adapter and the client code. So far so good. But when I try to point a masterservice
to this adapter, there are some strange results:
If I define the RMI Service URL in this way: rmi://localhost:port, ASW accepts the input, but using the
service returns an IllegalArgumentException in the logfile.
If I define the RMI Service URL with its ServiceName (= rmi://localhost:port/ServiceName, ASW doesn't accept
the input.
So my question is: where's the error? As far as I know, a "correct" RMI URL consists of the following parts:
rmi://<hostname>[:<port>]/servicename. It would be the second above-mentioned trial.
Why does ASW rejects this kind of RMI Service URL?
So it would be great, if someone could help me out with the RMI magic of ASW.
Thanks a lot in advance,
Heike Skok

Hello Heike,
Here are the values for the RMIAdapter Init Parameters:
RMI Server URL: rmi://localhost:2099/Sample
Remote interface: oracle.panama.adapter.rmi.SampleInterface
(assuming that you didn't make any changes in the sample source code).
Here are some steps that the documentation does not describe in details (assuming that developers are familiar with RMI).
1. I copied SampleInterface.class and SampleImpl.class in $ORACLE_HOME/wireless/server/classes/oracle/panama/adapter/rmi directory
2. I ran
rmic -d . oracle.panama.adapter.rmi.SampleImpl
from $ORACLE_HOME/wireless/server/classes directory to generate SampleImpl_Stub.class and SampleImpl_Skel.class
3. I ran
java oracle.panama.adapter.rmi.SampleImpl
from $ORACLE_HOME/wireless/server/classes directory to start my RMI server.
You have to start the remote RMI server first before you can create the MasterService. The RMIAdapter will connect to the remote RMI server during initialization. The remote RMI server will print out
"Sample bound in registry" if started correctly.
If you have problems with the RMI registry then you may have to change JAVA_HOME\jre\lib\security\java.policy file and add the following:
grant {
permission java.net.SocketPermission "*:1024-65535",
"connect,accept";
permission java.net.SocketPermission "*:80", "connect";
After doing all that I was able to successfully run RMIAdapter based services.
Thanks,
Hristo Tonev

Can we use applets as user interfaces with sockets, RMI and J2EE

Dear Sir or Madam,
Since I am a TA for software architecture class, some one ask me the following question: I think the answer is "No" based on the document on http://java.sun.com/sfaq/
How I answer the quesions? Looking forward your help!!!
1.You may have 2 applets and 2 html files. One applet with one html file may stay at a client PC and run on this PC, and the other applet with the other html file may stay at a server PC and run on this PC. In this case, all the applets are run locally.
2.Could applets works with sockets, RMI and J2EE?
3.Can we use applets as user interfaces with sockets, RMI and J2EE?
Thank you very much!
Best regards,
Jing

The scenario you paint doesn't quite make sense. The "server PC" wouldn't be running an applet, normally, since applets are by definition in a web browser page, and most likely involve user interaction, and "server processes" generally are done without user interaction.
The security rules around applets are that -- by default -- applets can connect with sockets ONLY to the server from whence the applet was loaded. RMI uses sockets (J2EE is too broad a spec) and hence RMI calls would also be limited to the server from whence the applet was loaded. Within that limitation, an applet could open all the sockets it wants, so long as they are all on the server from whence the applet was loaded.
If you want two applets on two different systems to communicate with each other, the simplest way is to have them rendevous through a server process on the server(s) from whence each applet was loaded. Maybe it's PC-a <-> server-a <-> server-b <-> PC-b ...? Or maybe PC-a and PC-b both are talking to the same server.
The limitation is rooted in the security subsystem. You can specify a policy file and override anything in the security subsystem. That does mean signing the applet and then cajoling the user into agreeing to grant greater levels of security than the default. In such a case you can open sockets more broadly and then PC-a could talk directly to PC-b without going through any servers.
- David

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