Session in WAS Java with Portal

Hi,
I have a question about High Availability in NetWeaver:
Just consider the following architecture:
- Two Portals 7.0 on WAS 7.0 (one being the CI, the other the DI)
- One load balancer on top of it to split the load between the servers
- Oracle DB is clusterized with MSCS
- When a user is redirected to one server by the LB, it sticks to the same server for all its subsequent requests
What happens in the following case:
- User logs in and is redirected to, for instance, the DI
- User uses the Portal and also custom Java applications in the Portal
- The DI falls down for any reason => the Load Balancer will redirect the user to the CI
=> Is the session (and all its info) created on the DI then found back on the CI or is all info in the session lost?
=> If the session is lost, are there any means to avoid this behaviour?
Thanks,
Eric

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Q. How do I create a custom login page or a link, which will just log me into the portal server.
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You can create a custom page in your jsp page, just add this portion of html into your web page :
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Q. Can I install a portal server pointing to another Identity server? I want to install few postal servers (on different machines) pointing to same identity server, is it possible?
Ans:
No, right now the Sun ONE Portal Server is tightly integrated with Sun ONE Identity Server so you can't just install only Sun ONE Portal Server and point it to another Sun ONE Identity Server. You can have a common Directory server if you want.
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You can create a custom login page and submit the form to "/amserver/login" with a hidden parameter "goto" through which you basically specify which url to go after you log in. So you can use this mechanism to create a query string with all your request parameters you want to pass after login. For example:
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Q. After installing the Portal Server I am trying to login as admin, but it is failing and coming back to login page every time. How do I login?
Ans:
The Default Admin user is 'amadmin' and the password is the PASSPHRASE you give during Portal Server installation. Try login using these credentials.
Also in the browser give the complete URL for the Portal Server like : Http://<myhost>.<mydomain>:<port>/amserver/login or Http://<myhost>.<mydomain>:<port>/amconsole. You can't login into portal server's IDSAME console by giving IP Address or just the hostname, also your machine should be listed in the DNS server so that it can resolve the name.
Q. I installed Sun ONE Portal Server 6.0 some time back, and now I want to know all the installation parameters and user/passwords for whole portal installation. How do I do that?
Ans:
The Default Admin user is 'amadmin' and the password is the PASSPHRASE you give during Portal Server installation. Also in the browser give the complete URL for the Portal Server like : Http://<myhost>.<mydomain>:<port>/amserver/login or Http://<myhost>.<mydomain>:<port>/amconsole. You can't login into portal server's IDSAME console by giving IP Address or just the hostname, also your machine should be listed in the DNS server so that it can resolve the name.
In case you have forgotten the port numbers and PASSPHRASE that you give during installation, you still can see all the information for each component of your Portal Server Installation. The Portal server and it's components like Directory Server, Web Server and IDSAME are installed as Solaris package so the system has all the information for these packages.
Portal Server : See file /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWps/pkginfo
Directory Server : See files /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWamds/pkginfo and /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWamdsc/pkginfo
Web Server : See file /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWamws/pkginfo
Identity Server : See file /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWamsam/pkginfo
Note: In any case you should never edit/modify these files.
Q. Controlling the display of the help (?) button.
Where are the links/image elements defined for the help/edit/minimize buttons? the leafWrapper.jsp pulls the hashtable out of the HttpRequest, and that hashtable is being used by providerCommands.jsp:
Hashtable commands = (Hashtable)request.getAttribute("provider_cmds");
Any idea where this is being set?
Ans:
- You can remove the help/edit button of any channel by adding the line into the Channel's properties by editing the Xml of display profile in the admin console.
<String name="helpURL" value="" advanced="false" merge="replace" lock="false" propagate="true"/>
<Boolean name="isEditable" value="false" advanced="false" merge="replace" lock="false" propagate="true"/>
The Attribute 'provider_cmds' is set into /etc/opt/SUNWps/desktop/default/JSPTableContainerProvider/tablecolumn.jsp :
<dttable:getProviderCommand id="provider_cmds" scope="request" />, and after that only the leafwrapper.jsp is included, but the Hashtable is generated by a class com.sun.portal.providers.util.ProviderCommands.java and made available through taglib classes. So you can't change the generated contents/string in the Hashtable.
But you can change the default 'alt' text displayed and the images linked to the help/edit icons. As this modification is at Provider level, it will change the icons for all the channels in the desktop.
Please see the file:
/opt/SUNWps/web-apps/https-<host>.<domain>/portal/WEB-INF/classes/JSPTABLEContainerProvider.properties.
Here you will find the mapping. The image location are given from the context root of portal server which is by default : /opt/SUNWps/web-apps/https-<host>.<domain>/portal.
Q. I have a number of web applications needed to integrate to portal server. Any pointers or tips of what my option is?
Ans:
You can very well integrate all your web application with Portal server. Portal Server 6.0 has web container same as Sun ONE web server 6.0 Sp2, which runs on Jdk-1.3.
If your web applications are just Servlets/Jsps then you can very well port them on Portal server's webserver which supports war module deployment. (infect for Web server the Portal server and Identity server is like a war module.)
There can be two possibilities in this case, either you put the whole of your application on portal server and make the link available into the desktop via 'Application Provider Channels' or you can create a client to your web application into portal server.
If your web application is on Sun ONE Application server 7.0 and needs authentication, you can also have SSO. If you just want to show the link of your web application into desktop then you can either use URL Scrapper to show the first page of your web application or use Bookmark channel to provide just the url.
The easiest way to make a client of your web application is to use JSP Channel using JSPProvider and put your logic into the samplecontents.jsp file or you can create your own custom Provider extending JSPProvider. There can be a lot of different configurations, depending on the web application you want to integrate and your needs
Q. I removed few channels from the org level display profile but still they are coming to the desktop of users, I had accessed the desktop before. why?
Ans:
If you still see any channel after you remove it from the display profile at organization lever, that means you have to edit the user's display profile. So go to admin console and select User from Show: menu and click on the blue arrow near the user. In the right frame under the 'Desktop' category click on the Edit link (right side). This will open user's display profile in a window. Now edit it as per your requirements.

Unfortunately Web Server 6.0SP2 is no longer available for download.
If you must use Web Server 6.0, you should use the most current Service Pack. It is backward compatible and contains many performance and security fixes.

How to configure SSO for WAS Java stack

Hi all,
I want to configure our WAS server with java stack as a SAP ticket issuing system. This system does not have Portal installed on it.
I want to know weather it is possible or not. if possible how it can be done.
actually ABAP stack their are transaction like SSO2,SSO to do the task. but what about WAS with Java stack?
Thank all.

HI Kumar
Follow this link.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/53/695b3ebd564644e10000000a114084/frameset.htm
Hope this helped you
Reagrds,
RK

What's the right way to start up with Portal's dev?

Hi to all Portals experts,
I am really struggling to start up learning Portals and more specific their development.Here is the problem - I am a bit new in the NetWeaver but not new in J2EE environment. I went trough all WebDynpro tutorials and really the documentation was written nice.Good hands-on approach with lots of examples and that is what I found with WebDynpro - everything well explained step by step.
But when I started the Portals Tutorials I was a bit disappointed.
1.First of all, there is no explanation which tools one needs to start up with Portal Dev?
I only have SAP Netweaver Development Studio SP15 installed on my PC and I dont have any access to R/3, CRM or other system. Is this enough to at least start to learn Portal Development or not?
2. I realize well that at some point I will need real system to play with but , until than what useful practice I can do on my own and how?
- Even within the WebDynpro tutorial , the very first Part : Define a system - (http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/cb/f4bc3d42f46c33e10000000a11405a/frameset.htm) -In the portal, navigate to System Administration - System Configuration - System Landscape
Which Portal ? I dont have System Administration on my NWDS SP15?Is is something I should install?unclear?
3. My understanding is that NWDS SP15 contains EP , within its J2EE local engine , but is this EP.6.0, is this enough to develop complete Portal Application A-Z or not - unclear ?
4. PDK. Somewhere I read that Portal Application can be developed with either WebDynpro or with PDK. Ive read about PDK but It is not clear if it is Dev Kit as its name says , should it be downloaded , installed or imported into NWDS, again? And bottom line do I need PDK as a Portal Developer, and at which point?
I only need the starting point for Portal Develop. or some guide that should set milestones 1st ,2nd .. I would prefer the hands-on approach. If some of you has already taken this path and can help me with your directions, links, at least how to get started, I will highly appreciate it! Thanks in advance!Regards, Bob

Hi Bob,
The below reply is as per my experience with Development so far:
1> It is not necessary to have access to R/3 or any other SAP/non SAP application unless you are writing an application in connection to them.
Example: An application which is reading data from R/3 and displaying the same in a table. Yes, in this scenario you would require access to R/3.
2> System Administration is a role just like Home, User Administration, etc in Portal itself.
It contains all the configuration related to System Landscape, Knowledge Menegement, etc
If in case you have not been given this role, you may ask your System Administrator to create the required system (PCD Object). You may then use this system from your Profile (Personalize Portal) link directly.
3> NWDS resides over Portal so you may create your own standalone application or application thats talking to the underlying Portal.
WebDynpro is used to create UI & likewise you may build Web applications or EJB applications.
4> PDK stands for Portal Development Kit. YUou may ask your administrator to download and assign the same to you. This would appear as a "Java Developer" named role in your portal. It contains all APIs required for Java development.
If you do nto have this, you may still use the Javadocs provided on SDN itself.
Depending what custom developmetn you do, depending upon the type the .par (portal archieve), .ear (Enterprise archieve), .war (web archieve) needs to be deployed in portal, so that users may access/view the custom created data.
Hope this helps
All the best!
Warm Regards,
Ritu

Adobe form MSS PCR senarios not working with Portal SSL

Hi All,
we have implemented MSS PCR senarios Nw04 with ERP2004 system.
every thing is working fine when use http protocal for portal acess.
Now we try to implement ssl for portal. so started implemnation and done in portal side, after that when try access any senario forms , The adobe form is not opening for editing, its throwing error
<b>The initial exception that caused the request to fail, was:
   java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect
    at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
    at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:305)
    at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSocketImpl.java:171)
    at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:158)
    at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:461)
    ... 47 more</b>
its very urgent anybody can help out this, what settings ot be done on R/3 server and Portal and ADS server
Thanks in advance
Gopal

Hello Gopal,
You would only need an https connecion between the browser and the portal server if you are only concerned with the MSS applications. You need to have SSL configured from the portal to ADS server had you implemented some custom scenarios like certification, digital signature etc. But, considering your MSS issue, you do not need to worry about it untill and otherwise your landscape demands you to do so for any security reason.
Well, you might have already gone through the following link, incase not, please go through the link to find out more on how to confugre SSL on the j2ee engine:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/f1/2de3be0382df45a398d3f9fb86a36a/frameset.htm<a href="http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/f1/2de3be0382df45a398d3f9fb86a36a/frameset.htm">http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/f1/2de3be0382df45a398d3f9fb86a36a/frameset.htm</a>

Authentication Error with portal Tools

I'm using WLS 6.1 SP1 and Portal 4.0 SP1 on solaris.
I've modified everything in my configuration files to work with Oracle 8.17 instead of Cloudscape. The database has been correctly created (I've followed all the items as described in the doc) with all the examples.
The problem is that I cannot reach the 'stockportal' example. I'm getting the following exception :
<Feb 4, 2002 4:32:29 PM WET> <Error> <HTTP> <[WebAppServletContext(2833966,stockportal,/stockportal)] Servlet failed with ServletException
javax.servlet.ServletException: Received a null Portal object from the PortalManager.
at com.bea.portal.appflow.servlets.internal.PortalWebflowServlet.setupPortalRequest(PortalWebflowServlet.java:194)
at com.bea.portal.appflow.servlets.internal.PortalWebflowServlet.doGet(PortalWebflowServlet.java:99)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:740)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:265)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:200)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.RequestDispatcherImpl.forward(RequestDispatcherImpl.java:215)
at weblogic.servlet.jsp.PageContextImpl.forward(PageContextImpl.java:112)
at jsp_servlet.__index._jspService(__index.java:92)
at weblogic.servlet.jsp.JspBase.service(JspBase.java:27)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:265)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:304)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:200)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.invokeServlet(WebAppServletContext.java:2459)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletRequestImpl.execute(ServletRequestImpl.java:2039)
at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:139)
at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:120)
>
I thought no portal example was provided with Oracle database so I tried to create my own portal with 'portalTools' but when I enter the URL : http://<myServer>:<myPort>/portalTools
I'm getting 403 error. The server does not send me any authentication form. The same occurs with any other Tools : p13nAppTools, portalTools or wlcsAppTools .
Any Idea ?
[att1.html]

Laurent,
I think you need to run a DataSync. You can either sync a "appname-project" directory (for server installs) or sync from the EBCC. If you run bin/win32/loadSampleData it will sync all the application for you.
Sincerely,
Daniel Selman
"Laurent PAILLARD" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
I'm using WLS 6.1 SP1 and Portal 4.0 SP1 on solaris.
I've modified everything in my configuration files to work with Oracle 8.17 instead of Cloudscape. The database has been correctly created (I've followed all the items as described in the doc) with all the examples.
The problem is that I cannot reach the 'stockportal' example. I'm getting the following exception :
<Feb 4, 2002 4:32:29 PM WET> <Error> <HTTP> <[WebAppServletContext(2833966,stockportal,/stockportal)] Servlet failed with ServletException
javax.servlet.ServletException: Received a null Portal object from the PortalManager.
at com.bea.portal.appflow.servlets.internal.PortalWebflowServlet.setupPortalRequest(PortalWebflowServlet.java:194)
at com.bea.portal.appflow.servlets.internal.PortalWebflowServlet.doGet(PortalWebflowServlet.java:99)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:740)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:265)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:200)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.RequestDispatcherImpl.forward(RequestDispatcherImpl.java:215)
at weblogic.servlet.jsp.PageContextImpl.forward(PageContextImpl.java:112)
at jsp_servlet.__index._jspService(__index.java:92)
at weblogic.servlet.jsp.JspBase.service(JspBase.java:27)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:265)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:304)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:200)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.invokeServlet(WebAppServletContext.java:2459)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletRequestImpl.execute(ServletRequestImpl.java:2039)
at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:139)
at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:120)
>
I thought no portal example was provided with Oracle database so I tried to create my own portal with 'portalTools' but when I enter the URL : http://<myServer>:<myPort>/portalTools
I'm getting 403 error. The server does not send me any authentication form. The same occurs with any other Tools : p13nAppTools, portalTools or wlcsAppTools .
Any Idea ?
[att1.html]

How to deploy a web service into a WAS JAVA

hello,
we have Netweaver 2004s AS Java with SP 11. I need to know how we can deploy or start up a web services into WAS. It is possible? how? Any document to help me?
please thanks!
Gaby

Hi Gabriel,
Hi Rohini,
How to create Web Service:
1. Create EJB Project(Stateless session bean is recommended).
2. Create interface according to your requirements
3. Signature(Parameters, data type) should be same in Remote,Bean and Local interface
4. Create EAR Project and corresponding add the EJB Project
5. Expose EJB as Web service. Right click on EJB Project->other->web services->web service(new VI and VSD).
6. Deploy to Application Server.
7. Goto http://localhost:50100/index.html. click on Web service navigator you can find web service
8. Test the web service.
Let me know if want more details
Regards, Suresh KB

WAS JAVA 640 engine is giving performance problems.

Hi,
We are facing the performance issues in WAS java 640 SP19 engine. Pages are taking much time to load.
Kindly suggest if there anything do with jco connection parameter changes and recommended values. Is there any parametes to check at the backend system level.
WAS version: 640, SP19
OS : SUN 5.9
Oralce: 9.2.0.8
Thanks,
Hareesh

Hello Hareesh
You should find the root cause of your performance problem first.
Start with checking the server (cpu, memory, paging) and by checking if your portal runs on the recommended parameters (check oss notes).
A killer for portal performance is when you have a lot of paging going on, make sure the portal has enough extended memory available to avoid any paging.
If those don't give a result, you can still analyze garbage collection logs with third party tools.
Check if heapdumps are being generated and analyze them.
Once those checks are done, I would recommend installation of Sol Man Diagnostics + Wily Introscope so you get a better view on what is going on and troubleshoot further from there.
Kind regards
Tom

Failed to activate session in OSB: java.io.IOException: Permission denied

I was able to successfully import my sbconfig jar. But while activating the session, the error below appeared.
Error message:
<Error> <ConfigFwk> <BEA-390101> <Activation of session weblogic failed: java.io.IOException: Permission denied (errno:13)
java.io.IOException: Permission denied (errno:13)
at java.io.UnixFileSystem.createFileExclusively(Native Method)
at java.io.File.createNewFile(File.java:903)
at com.bea.wli.sb.resources.archive.ArchiveResourceRuntimeManager$ArchiveResourceLifecycleListener.createJarClassLoader(ArchiveResourceRuntimeManager.java:103)
at com.bea.wli.sb.resources.archive.ArchiveResourceRuntimeManager$ArchiveResourceLifecycleListener.onCreate(ArchiveResourceRuntimeManager.java:171)
at com.bea.wli.config.impl.ResourceListenerNotifier.sendChangeNotification(ResourceListenerNotifier.java:456)
Truncated. see log file for complete stacktrace
We assume that the error was with the creation of the new file. We need to check if its filesystem has proper permissions. Please advise on the fix for the permission error and also any inputs on where this file is created.

This can also occur if your $DOMAIN_HOME/osb/config/core/_binary/_jars path and the files it contains are owned by root, which can happen if you have accidentally started the server as root once.
The easiest way however to find the root cause (on Linux) is:
cd $DOMAIN_HOME
find . -user root > /tmp/ownedByRoot
And then check the file /tmp/ownedByRoot for any hits. Finally change the file permissions using the chown command, so they get owned by the user running WebLogic.
My experience is that you don't need to restart the OSB server after this change. Activating the OSB import worked immediately after I chown'ed that dir.
Edited by: 925121 on Apr 3, 2012 1:26 AM

In the previous version i was able to close my mozilla and to open it again, the web pages which i was working with remained however i've tried many ways to have this advantage again but it is not working what can i do ???

in the previous Mozilla version i used to leave some web sites opened and when i start working again my Mozilla showed the web pages i was working with in that occasion, i have looked in the options menu but there is no way, perhaps it was an add-on and now it is removed??? i would like to have this advantage again in my Mozilla could it be possible?? thx!

Your webpages/tabs are still there. When you start firefox again, there is a "Restore Previous Session" icon below. If you click that, it will open up all your tabs again.
Or you could see this article for better understanding-
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Firefox%20does%20not%20ask%20to%20save%20tabs%20and%20windows%20on%20exit?s=how+to+save+tabs&as=s#os=win&browser=fx4

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