Session Vars and Local Firewalls

I've been getting more complaints lately that session vars
are getting lost and normally I walk them through making sure
cookies are enabled, but now that doesn't seem to be always the
case anymore and have finally isolated it to when they install a
firewall. If they disable it works, but when on it doesn't. Is
there anything I can do besides telling them not to use their
firewall?
Server specs:
ColdFusion MX 6.1 on a non-clustered environment.
User:
Using IE and using "e-trust EZ Armor"

I assume then, you are storing variables in cookies, rather
than registry or database then, correct?
Are these local firewalls? (on the actual PC) or H/W on a
network?
If they are local, the firewall itself may be eliminating the
cookie storage, not the browser ... if it is, it likely has a way
to change the settings.
There's not much you can do if you are forced to use cookies
for sessions (which is very common) other than altering your coding
or having the user change their settings.
If you have access to the CF admin, you may try setting up a
DB service for variable storage, which is an option.

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"Neal Yin" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
"Nick Minutello" <[email protected]>
wrote
in message news:3d4413a4$[email protected]..
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"Peter" <[email protected]> wrote:
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Null value in Session vars and request.getParameter

We're migrating our application from iPlanet.
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Performance with globle variable and local var.

hi anyone
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First , don't use the term "global variable". It is misleading and not an official part of the Java nomenclature. I think the term used should be ( and correct me if I'm wrong ) instance variable. In C and C++ globale variables really are global - they can be accessed by any and all classes which include the header file.
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Session Var

ok, I set a session var to about 2K of text
I have an iframe which is part of a menu navigation system.
The content of that iframe is slow to get from the DB so I
cache the HTML for it into a session var.
If a user clicks a link, the iframe submits to itself, does
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I'm not overwriting it, not structDelete'ing it, Any time I
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if it isDefined first, and if so, does nothing.
Are there known issues with CFParam? large text session vars?
WTF?
D.

dnagel wrote:
> ok, I set a session var to about 2K of text
>
> I have an iframe which is part of a menu navigation
system.
> The content of that iframe is slow to get from the DB so
I
> cache the HTML for it into a session var.
>
> If a user clicks a link, the iframe submits to itself,
does
> a few things, and then cflocation's out to the chosen
page.
>
> The next time this iframe is loaded( almost immediately)
it
> reads the session var and it is EMPTY!
>
> I'm not overwriting it, not structDelete'ing it, Any
time I
> set it outside of this page, it's done with a check to
see
> if it isDefined first, and if so, does nothing.
>
> Are there known issues with CFParam? large text session
vars?
>
> WTF?
>
>
> D.
So, I pulled out Fiddler, and lo and behold I was
making a call to my page with no params at one part
of the load and then later on, calling it again
properly with the correct params. I'm checking
for an empty URL param set now and all is well...
Thanks for your time on this folks!
D.

Performance tuning: lite sessions and local ServletContext

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Lincoln wrote:
I have been doing some research on iPlanet performance tuning. In our
current production environment (iAS6.0 SP1B, iWS4.1 SP2 on Solaris), since
we don't use clustering there should be a couple of performance improvements
we can make immediately:
1. Use lite sessions (<session-impl>lite</session-impl> in ias-web.xml) - I
believe that if you use lite sessions, the session data is stored in the kjs
process space as opposed to the kxs process space. This, of course, means
that if a kjs dies the user's on it will lose their session information but
it will provide a performance improvement by reducing kxs/kjs communication.
2. Use local ServletContexts (<distributable>false</distributable> in
web.xml) - This should cause the ServletContext to only be stored in the
originating JVM. So again, if a kjs dies, the user will lose their
ServletContext but again we will get a performance improvement by reducing
kxs/kjs communcation.
What I want to understand is how our load balancing configuration will
effect our production environment if we use this configuration. Right now
we use sticky load balancing on all our servlets but we don't have our JSPs
registered and therefore sticky load balancing cannot always be trusted to
return users to the iAS they came from. We make up for this by using
hardware load balancing that keeps the majority of our users sticky.
However, using lite sessions and local ServletContexts will require that a
user not only stick to an iAS, but to a specific kjs as well. Using sticky
load balancing would ensure that, but since we also rely on our hardware
load balancers, could they create a problem? If a user gets sent back to
the iAS they came from by our hardware load balancers, will the kxs process
be smart enough to return them to the kjs they came from? If so, then I
think that means that we can safely switch to lite sessions and local
ServletContexts, but if not, I think many users will lose their sessions.
Thanks,
Linc

Session vars, CFCs and CFHTTP

Hi guys
I'm using session vars to maintain whether or not a user is
logged in on our site. The only problem is is that the session vars
seem to be lost after I call a CFC that then does a CFHTTP post.
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wezcornell2008 wrote:
> Hi guys
>
> I'm using session vars to maintain whether or not a user
is logged in on our
> site. The only problem is is that the session vars seem
to be lost after I call
> a CFC that then does a CFHTTP post.
>
> Does anyone know how I maintain the session vars?
>
> All the best
>
> Wez
>
Why do you say they are lost? Are you sure you did not just
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Session ID and IP Address

Hi Experts,
In BIEE 11.1.1.6.11
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hang on, if I made my session facade statefull, and the first method you called was login...
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Rich Domain Model and Local JNDI Lookups

Hi,
I'm sure this is a problem a lot of other people have come across but there seems to be very little coherent discussion on the issue, so I'd very much appreciate any views people might have on the matter.
The problem is whether or not you compromise your object-oriented principles and stick with the field or method level EJB dependency injection annotations, a procedural programming style, and a weak domain-model; or, strive for a richer domain model with a sub-optimal JDNI lookup solution.
Take adding an item to simple shopping cart as an example.
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@EJB
private ProductManagerLocal productManager;
@EJB
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There seems to be very little guidance from Sun on this matter; ALL the examples in the JEE 5 Tutorial follow the anaemic domain model approach with business objects presented as little more than dumb placeholders for persistent data.
What are people's thoughts on this? When it comes to EJB do we simply have to accept that local service lookups from POJOs aren't that robust and go with a procedural programming style, or should we be implementing a local service locator to facilitate domain objects taking on appropriate responsibilities via access to local stateless session beans / services?

Hi,
I'm sure this is a problem a lot of other people have come across but there seems to be very little coherent discussion on the issue, so I'd very much appreciate any views people might have on the matter.
The problem is whether or not you compromise your object-oriented principles and stick with the field or method level EJB dependency injection annotations, a procedural programming style, and a weak domain-model; or, strive for a richer domain model with a sub-optimal JDNI lookup solution.
Take adding an item to simple shopping cart as an example.
@Stateful
public class CartBean implements Cart {
@EJB
private ProductManagerLocal productManager;
@EJB
private PricingServiceLocal pricingService;
private Order order;
public void addItem(final int productId) {
    if (order.containsLineItem(productId) {
      order.addQuantity(productId, 1);
    } else {
      final Product product = productManager.getProduct(productId);
      final Price price = pricingService.getPrice(productId);
      order.createLineItem(product, price);
}The code above makes Cart dependent on Product and Price, when in reality Cart only cares about Order. The logic in the addItem() method should really be in the Order object on the basis Order is the information expert, but because Order is a POJO you can't inject the necessary EJB references. What's more, because the EJB interfaces are local they don't have a JNDI name assigned in the same way a remote one would.
To perform a portable lookup of the required EJBs from within an instance of the Order class, the method must be invoked by a component with the required EJB references in its private namespace. See https://glassfish.dev.java.net/javaee5/ejb/EJB_FAQ.html#POJOLocalEJB. This makes for a very brittle solution with no compile time checks whatsoever.
The problem seems to have been addressed in EJB 3.1 as the proposal for portable global JNDI names also applies to session beans exposing local only interfaces. See http://blogs.sun.com/kensaks/entry/portable_global_jndi_names.
There seems to be very little guidance from Sun on this matter; ALL the examples in the JEE 5 Tutorial follow the anaemic domain model approach with business objects presented as little more than dumb placeholders for persistent data.
What are people's thoughts on this? When it comes to EJB do we simply have to accept that local service lookups from POJOs aren't that robust and go with a procedural programming style, or should we be implementing a local service locator to facilitate domain objects taking on appropriate responsibilities via access to local stateless session beans / services?

Abs does not create /var/abs/local?

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One issue that seems to be (and has been) a major topic is where to store the "local" files. Many suggest the standard "/var/abs/local" directory, though others suggest storing elsewhere, e.g. in a $HOME directory.
Without getting into a discussion of where to store the files for now, I figured I'd start with the "standard" location first, play around, then change later if it didn't suit my needs well.
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- Is running 'abs' supposed to create it?
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From all the docs and forum topics (HOW TOs and such), it appears (at least through heavy implication and / or omission of facts to the contrary) that running 'abs' for the first time should create the tree including "/var/abs/local".
Just wondering if something went wrong since the directory was not created for me by 'abs', or if I should just create the directory and move on. I suspect the latter will be my course of action, but I'm curious.
Thank you.

It is not created automatically... Just create it if needed.

No Auto-Update for To Do list, session message and toast message

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JGroups is an open source project that allows processes to send messages to one another. LiveCycle data services uses it for its messaging implementation (basically it configures the server to multicast messages to all the listening clients...even in a clustered environment across different LAN/WAN).
In most cases the default configuration will work fine, the problem is that if you are running a firewall on the server (or your local machine...i.e. windows firewall) the ports that JGroups uses for its communications can be blocked. In a local environment its easy enough to disable windows firewall and bounce your server to get things working.
In a production environment you need to open the ports that JGroups is using. These settings are in the Global Administration settings (as mentioned by WorkspaceUser above). If you export it and look at the JChannelConnectionProperties you'll see the ports its using and you can set your firewall to allow communication to those ports.
Bryan

Java, Mint and Locale

Hello,
I am doing some programming in the Java language. In my country we use the dot (.) separator for the decimals and the comma separator for the thousands. For example the number
1,234.567 in the British locale is written as 1.234,567. When I was doing the java programming in Windows Vista Java could detect the default locale and represent and accept output/input of numbers in the right format. Now in (Linux) Mint although I changed the locale (with a process that I will describe below) Java didn't consider that and continued to use its own British locale. Only after using the NumberFormat class and the Locale object I managed to have the expected result but in Windows Vista this happened automatically. Because I don't want to switch back to Vista can you help me?
The procedure that I followed: changed the /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local by adding this line el_GR.UTF-8 UTF-8
changed the /etc/default/locale/ by modifying the variable LANG to el_GR.UTF-8 and the variable LANGUAGE to el_GR:el
run the command sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
reboot the system
recompile my program.
The code of my program is the following:
public class Dokimi
     public static void main(String [] args)
     Number n = new Double(4.2);
     System.out.println(n.doubleValue());
}I have the same problem when I use JOptionPane showInputDialog to get input from the user. If I enter the number 4,2 instead of 4.2 I get an error.
Thanks

Try setting the locale from within your programme with
Locale.setDefault(Locale newLocale)

Script to check for updates to /var/abs/* compaired to /var/abs/local/

Motivation: I built some packages myself by copying the directory from /var/abs/* to /var/abs/local and using makepkg.
I updated abs with the abs command, but I have no way of telling if a package I built and installed has an update.
Goal: This script compares all the PKGBUILD files under /var/abs/local to the PKGBUILD for the same package under /var/abs/* and reports differences which would indicate that the package was updated.
In order not to report differences caused by tweaked configure options, the script only looks up to the 'build()' line in the PKGBUILD file.
I don't have many local packages, so this was not tested extensively or against many cases.
Comments, feedback, requests and all the rest would be appreciated.
#!/bin/bash
# Retrieve a list of man pages from pacman for a package
manpages () {
# Query pacman
pacman -Ql "$1" | \
grep $'/usr/share/man/.\n/usr/man/.' | \
while IFS=' ' read _ file ; do
# Strip the path to a num and man page name
file="${file#/usr}"
file="${file#/share}"
file="${file#/man/man}"
num="${file%%/*}"
file="${file#*/}"
file="${file%%.*}"
[[ $file ]] || continue
echo "$num $file"
done
(( $# == 0 )) && echo "Usage: "$(basename "$0")" package [more_packages...]"
for arg ; do
# Get the list of man number and names
IFS=$'\n' list=( $(manpages "$arg" 2>&1) )
# Check if any found
if ! [[ "$list" ]] ; then
echo "$arg has no man pages."
continue
fi
p='error: package * not found'
if [[ "${list[0]}" == $p ]] ; then
list="${list[0]}"
echo "${list#error: }"
continue
fi
# Only show prompt for more than one man page
prompt=0
if (( ${#list[@]} > 1 )) ; then
echo "$arg has ${#list[@]} man pages."
prompt=1
fi
for pair in "${list[@]}" ; do
IFS=' ' read num name <<< "$pair"
if (( prompt )) ; then
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read -p "Show man $pair? [Y/n] " -n 1
[[ $REPLY == [nN] ]] && { echo ; continue ; }
fi
man "$num" "$name"
done
done
Last edited by yitzle (2009-10-06 04:31:46)

Daenyth, thanks for the reply.
When using the bash [[ ]] builtins, quoting is not needed, which is one way they improve on the [ ] tests.
I'll play around with comm and possibly update the above code.

Participant.create ignores timezone and locale

Hi,
I create participants in an automatic activity by using:
Java.Util.Locale locale=new Java.Util.Locale("en");
Java.Util.TimeZone timeZone = TimeZone.getTimeZone(arg1 : "Europe/Zurich");
humanParticipant = DirHumanParticipant.create(...);
humanParticipant.changeLocale(locale : locale);
humanParticipant.changeTimezone(timezone : timeZone);
After the creation in the database everything seems to be correct, but if the user logs in for the first time, the language of the workspace is German and if the user goes to the setting the timezone is something in Africa ... If the user then corrects the entries in the settings dialog and saves it, everything works perfect. The user gets the workspace in englisch and the timezone is correct (also after a logout and login). But in the database it seems to me nothing has changed.
Does anyone knows, why the locale and timezone is ignored in this case?
Many thanks for your help.
Kind regards
Matthias

Hi Matthias,
Oracle Support might disagree, but I think it's a bug. Telling you what you already know, but it will always give new Participants the default timezone and language even if you run the changeTimezone( ) and changeLocale( ) methods in logic like this:
locale as Java.Util.Locale
locale = Java.Util.Locale(arg1 : "fr", "")
timeZone as Java.Util.TimeZone = TimeZone.getTimeZone(arg1 : "PST");
timeZone.id = "PST"
humanParticipant.changeLocale(locale : locale);
changeTimezone humanParticipant
using timezone = timeZone
update humanParticipant
humanParticipant = DirHumanParticipant.fetch(session : directorySession, id : name)As shown here, I'm trying to update the participant's timezone and locale using logic. If you happened to check the Directory Service Database, you'd see that the row for the participant was inserted correctly with the right values in the FUEGO_PARTICIPANT table's FUEGO_LOCALE and FUEGO_TIMEZONE ("fr" and "PST") respectively.
As you already discovered, Oracle BPM ignores this and forces these values back to the Engine's default timezone and language when the participant logs in for the first time. Guessing there is a flag set somewhere that indicates that the end user has never logged in.
Sorry,
Dan

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