Simple rmi-ejb question

Hi all!
I'm a new to ejb, just started, for the beginning got an exception:
javax.naming.NoInitialContextException: Need to specify class name in environment or system property, or as an applet parameter, or in an application resource file: java.naming.factory.initial
     at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getInitialContext(NamingManager.java:640)
     at javax.naming.InitialContext.getDefaultInitCtx(InitialContext.java:243)
     at javax.naming.InitialContext.getURLOrDefaultInitCtx(InitialContext.java:280)
     at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(InitialContext.java:347)
     at SimpleEjbTest.main(SimpleEjbTest.java:19)when trying to
private static Context getInitialContext(String url, String user, String password) throws
      NamingException {
    Hashtable h = new Hashtable();
//    h.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY,
//          "WHAT IS HERE?????");
    h.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, url);
    h.put(Context.SECURITY_PRINCIPAL, user);
    h.put(Context.SECURITY_CREDENTIALS, password);
    return new InitialContext(h);
}What to put into INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY?
Or you know easier way to make an InitialContext?
Using jndi.properties? But what should it be then??
Please help!
Thanks a lot to alL!!
Best regards, Boris.

well, since you don't specify your app server, how's this?
weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactory
if that doesn't work, try this
com.inprise.j2ee.jndi.CtxFactory
if that doesn't work, try this
com.evermind.server.rmi.RMIInitialContextFactory
if that doesn't work, try this
org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContextFactory
if that doesn't work, try this
com.ibm.websphere.naming.WsnInitialContextFactory
And if that doesn't work, look through your docs again, or maybe try google. Note that whatever you do, you have to have the appropriate jars on your classpath.
Good Luck
Lee

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From: Eduardo Ceballos <[email protected]>
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To: Hari Rajapakshe <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 4:38 AM
Subject: Re: problem using CORBA clients with RMI/EJBservers..!!!???
Please see the post on june 26, re Errors compiling... somewherein
there,
I suspect, you are referring to the rmi class file when you are
obliged
to
completely segregate these from the idl class files.
Hari Rajapakshe wrote:
Hi,
I have a question on using EJB / or RMI servers with CORBA
clients
using
RMI-IIOP transport, which in theory should work, but in practice
has
few
glitches.
Basically, I have implemented a very simple server,
StockTreader,
which
looks up for a symbol and returns a 'Stock' object. In the firstexample, I
simplified the 'Stock' object to be a mere java.lang.String, so
that
lookup
would simply return the 'synbol'.
Then I have implemented the above, as an RMI-IIOP server (case
1)
and a
CORBA server (case 2) with respective clients, and the pair of
client-servers work fine as long as they are CORBA-to-CORBA andRMI-to-RMI.
But the problem arises when I tried using the RMI server (via
IIOP)
with
the
CORBA client, when the client tries to narrow the object ref
obtained
from
the naming service into the CORBA idl defined type (StockTrader)
it
ends
up
with a class cast exception.
This is what I did to achieve the above results:
[1] Define an RMI interface StockTrader.java (extending
java.rmi.Remote)
with the method,
public String lookup( String symbol) throws RMIException;
[2] Implement the StorckTrader interface (on a
PortableRemoteObject
derived
class, to make it IIOP compliant), and then the server to
register
the
stock
trader with COS Naming service as follows:
String homeName =....
StockTraderImpl trader =new StockTraderImpl();
System.out.println("binding obj <" homeName ">...");
java.util.Hashtable ht =new java.util.Hashtable();
ht.put("java.naming.factory.initial", args[2]);
ht.put("java.naming.provider.url", args[3]);
Context ctx =new InitialContext(ht);
ctx.rebind(homeName, trader);
[3] Generate the RMI-IIOP skeletons for the Implementation
class,
rmic -iiop stock.StockTraderImpl
[4] generate the IDL for the RMI interface,
rmic -idl stock.StockTraderImpl
[5] Generate IDL stubs for the CORBA client,
idlj -v -fclient -emitAll StockTraderImpl.idl
[6] Write the client to use the IDL-defined stock trader,
String serverName =args[0];
String symList =args[1];
StockClient client =new StockClient();
System.out.println("init orb...");
ORB orb =ORB.init(args, null);
System.out.println("resolve init name service...");
org.omg.CORBA.Object objRef
=orb.resolve_initial_references("NameService");
NamingContext naming=NamingContextHelper.narrow(objRef);
... define a naming component etc...
org.omg.CORBA.Object obj =naming.resolve(...);
System.out.println("narrow objRef: " obj.getClass() ":"
+obj);
StockTrader trader =StockTraderHelper.narrow(obj);
[7] Compile all the classes using Java 1.2.2
[8] start tnameserv (naming service), then the server to
register
the
RMI
server obj
[9] Run the CORBA client, passing it the COSNaming service ref
name
(with
which the server obj is registered)
The CORBA client successfully finds the server obj ref in the
naming
service, the operation StockTraderHelper.narrow() fails in thesegment
below, with a class cast exception:
org.omg.CORBA.Object obj =naming.resolve(...);
StockTrader trader =StockTraderHelper.narrow(obj);
The <obj> returned by naming service turns out to be of the
type;
class com.sun.rmi.iiop.CDRInputStream$1
This is of the same type when stock trader object is registeredin a
CORBA
server (as opposed to an RMI server), but works correctly with
no
casting
excpetions..
Any ideas / hints very welcome.
thanks in advance,
-hari

RMI direction question

Hi All,
I am new to Java and would like to write a robust multi-tier client server application and is not certain whether RMI is the
best approach to use. As a result, here are the following questions on this topic:
( i ) Basically, I need to be able to initiate some native commands (e.g. ls -al > /tmp/junk...) on both client and server
side and be able to retrieve the output back. There are numerous method to do this (e.g. SOAP, ORB, webservices, LipeRMI...). Nevertheless, my question is whether RMI is still the simplest or straight forward approach as opposed to having to learn another protocol (e.g. XML, webservices). If not, what is the best/latest method to achieving the same objective?
( ii ) One of the problem encountered when going through those RMI tutorial exercises were the requirements to have a
webserver running on both client and server in order for dynamic class loading to work properly. I wonder whether there is a better way to do this without having both client server dependency?
( iii ) Could webservice or SOAP be able to do the same thing?
( iv ) Should I not be concerned with this low level communication since EJB will handle this part?
( v ) Are there any other RMI user forum, website, useful documents on this topic?
Any suggests would be much appreciated.
Many thanks,
Netbeans Fan.

i ) if your protocol is simple enough you can use plain sockets, maybe with combination of serialization.
If you need object level protocol, RMI is the simplest to learn and use from the methods you mentioned.
( ii ) First, you can use any other shared storage (like NFS, SAMBA) for dynamic classloading.
If you develop both the client and the server and the server does not change independelty of the clients (in terms of API) you can
place all the files that are required by the client (stubs, etc) on client's classpath and avoid dynamic classloading altogether.
( iii ) yes.
( iv ) why do you plan to use ejb. what is the context of your application?
( v ) which topic? RMI in general?
I've collected a list of some useful resources for the beginners at
http://www.genady.net/rmi/v20/general-resources.html
This forum is also a good place to ask questions.

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