Stateful bean clustering

Hi,
          Does weblogic 5.1 support stateful bean clustering? If not how to achive this?
          Thanks in advance,
          vivek

6.x supports stateful session beans clustering (replication and failover), but not 5.1.
          Vivek <[email protected]> wrote:
          > Hi,
          > Does weblogic 5.1 support stateful bean clustering? If not how to achive this?
          > Thanks in advance,
          > vivek
          Dimitri

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          I have a cluster of two servers and a Admin server. Both servers are running NT
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          When I stop one of the servers, the client does n't automatically failover to
          the other server, instead it fails unable to contact server that has failed.
          My bean is configured to have its home clusterable and is a stateful bean. My
          client holds onto the remote interface, and makes calls through this. If Server
          B fails then it should automatically fail over to server A.
          I have tested my multicast address and all seems to be working fine between servers,
          my stateless bean work well, load balancing between servers nicely.
          Does anybody have any ideas, regarding what could be causing the stateful bean
          remote interface not to be providing failover info.
          Also is it true that you can have only one JMS destination queue/topic per cluster..The
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          Thanks


Did you enable stateful session bean replication in the
          weblogic-ejb-jar.xml?
          -- Rob
          Wayne Highland wrote:
          >
          > I have a cluster of two servers and a Admin server. Both servers are running NT
          > 4 sp6 and WLS6 sp1.
          > When I stop one of the servers, the client does n't automatically failover to
          > the other server, instead it fails unable to contact server that has failed.
          >
          > My bean is configured to have its home clusterable and is a stateful bean. My
          > client holds onto the remote interface, and makes calls through this. If Server
          > B fails then it should automatically fail over to server A.
          >
          > I have tested my multicast address and all seems to be working fine between servers,
          > my stateless bean work well, load balancing between servers nicely.
          >
          > Does anybody have any ideas, regarding what could be causing the stateful bean
          > remote interface not to be providing failover info.
          >
          > Also is it true that you can have only one JMS destination queue/topic per cluster..The
          > JMS cluster targeting doesn't work at the moment, so you need to deploy to individual
          > servers?
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          > Thanks
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Stateful bean handle in HttpSession

          Hi ,
          I have environment where i create a pool of stateful EJB's and I store the pool
          in the servlet context. For each requests I obtain the refernce to the ejbhandle
          from the pool and exceute the method on the stateful bean. I use this ejbhandle till
          the session is ended. Is there any problem with this sort of design in the clustering
          environment?
          As per the httpsession replication after the state of the object stored in the sesion
          is changed , setAttribute method has to be called for the replication. So is it the
          same for ejbhandle also?
          After I call some methos on the SFEJB (getting a reference via EJBHandle in the session),
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The handle is serializable and portable. You can put it into the HTTP
          session. If you don't use setAttribute, the data won't get replicated. For
          example:
          Object[] ao = new Object[10];
          session.putAttribute("test", ao);
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          ao[3]="hello world";
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          Cameron Purdy
          Tangosol, Inc.
          http://www.tangosol.com/coherence.jsp
          Tangosol Coherence: Clustered Replicated Cache for Weblogic
          "sri" <[email protected]> wrote in message
          news:[email protected]...
          >
          > Hi ,
          >
          > I have environment where i create a pool of stateful EJB's and I store
          the pool
          > in the servlet context. For each requests I obtain the refernce to the
          ejbhandle
          > from the pool and exceute the method on the stateful bean. I use this
          ejbhandle till
          > the session is ended. Is there any problem with this sort of design in
          the clustering
          > environment?
          >
          > As per the httpsession replication after the state of the object stored in
          the sesion
          > is changed , setAttribute method has to be called for the replication. So
          is it the
          > same for ejbhandle also?
          > After I call some methos on the SFEJB (getting a reference via EJBHandle
          in the session),
          > do I have to call set sttaribute and pass the ejb handle for the
          replication?
          >
          > Any amount of feed back is appreciated.
          >
          > Thanks,
          > sri
          >

EJB 3.0 Stateful bean not saving state while Stateless bean is !!!

My Stateless bean is as follow:
package test;
import javax.ejb.Stateless;
@Stateless(mappedName = "StatelessBean")
public class StatelessBean implements StatelessBeanRemote {
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          counter++;
My Stateful bean is as follow:
package test;
import javax.ejb.Stateful;
@Stateful(mappedName = "StateFulBean")
public class StateFulBean implements StateFulBeanRemote {
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Client is as follows:
package test;
import java.util.Hashtable;
import javax.naming.Context;
import javax.naming.InitialContext;
public class TestClient {
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The output i am getting after running the client twice is as follows:
//first time
Stateful counter value:0
Stateless counter value:0
//second time
Stateful counter value:0
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Can anyone please explain this confusing behavior of stateless and stateful ejb 3.0 beans.

868664 wrote:
Can anyone please explain this confusing behavior of stateless and stateful ejb 3.0 beans.It is very simple: a stateless bean is ASSUMED to be stateless; you cannot keep state in a stateless bean as a contractual rule. That doesn't mean that you will fail to keep state in them at least for a little while, they are still only Java objects. Generally stateless EJBs are pooled, so you may get the same instance each time you use such an EJB, but you may just get another one. It is not dependable and the rules say don't do it - so don't do it.
A stateful bean is tied to a single client, and so can be used by a client to keep state in it. Since You are running the client application twice you are operating with two different clients and so you will get a new stateful bean each time and your code will keep printing 0. However there is also a bug in your code:
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System.out.println("Stateful counter value:"+counter);
}You are not incrementing anything.

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Is there anything that I should do to make it stateless.
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import javax.ejb.EJBObject;
import java.rmi.RemoteException;
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HOME
import javax.ejb.EJBHome;
import java.rmi.RemoteException;
import javax.ejb.CreateException;
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import javax.naming.Context;
import javax.naming.InitialContext;
import javax.rmi.PortableRemoteObject;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
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          remote.showCart();
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          Object objref = (Object)ic.lookup("ejb/cartJNDI");
          cartHome home = (cartHome)PortableRemoteObject.narrow(objref, cartHome.class);
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          session.setMaxInactiveInterval(60);
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Please help me,
Check the code is wrong or is it a bug in the EJB container.
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Handling disconnections in stateful beans

i have a stateful bean with some resources that it has to close after closing. I programed a close () method, marked as +@Remove+, that clients call to close the resources; and a exiting () method, marked as @PreDestroy to finish the work.
but, how can i handle unexpected disconnections, for clients frozen, cable network disconnected or the like, when the client () can't call the close method?
It thought that +@PreDestroy+ method should replace finalize method's, but it doesn't.
What can i do?

Ok... Here it goes...
You can do it in the following manner.
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I'd like to know if someone gets to work a stateful ejb clustering. The stateful ejbs are called from a servlet so i'm not using RMI.
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My application already works but not in a cluster. Is this possible? I supose yes AND HOW???
Thanks in advanced.

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Stateless and Stateful beans.

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Thanks in advance.

See this thread
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jsp?forum=13&thread=529706&tstart=15&trange=15

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The concern is that the resultset might need to be closed after each Stateful
Bean access such that we don't hold on resources on the database.
Stefan

Thanks Bob,
That's exactly what I was asking and it seems more clear now. Interesting if multiple
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could somehow scale. My concern was more directed towards number of Open Cursors
in the database, but overall it does not look like a proper design ...
Stefan
"Bob Lee" <[email protected]> wrote:
Not if the ResultSet will be kept open accross multiple web requests.
The
result set is most likely tied to a database connection. If too many
are
kept open, you database connection pool will get maxed out, and other
users
won't be able to access the site.
You can handle the paging by running the query every time. You can also
keep
an index of the column you are sorting on and use this to pick out exact
pages in your query. Memory is cheap.
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news:3c7be741$[email protected]..
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          I posted this message on interest.clustering.in-memory-replication. But there is
          no answer at all. Could anyone give me
          some hints? Thanks a lot. I am a student and this work is part of my course project.
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          from the server instance like this when I run the client to invoke the bean methods:
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Hi Jenny,
          Please could you open a case to the customer support ([email protected]) There is a Cr
          on this issue CR059046
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          WLS 6.1SP1 - Accessing Stateful Session Bean from Stateless Session Bean in a
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          <Oct 5, 2001 5:08:25 PM GMT+00:00> <Error> <EJB> <Failed to update the
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          Regards
          Stephane
          Jenny Liu wrote:
          > I posted this message on interest.clustering.in-memory-replication. But there is
          > no answer at all. Could anyone give me
          > some hints? Thanks a lot. I am a student and this work is part of my course project.
          > It is due soon.
          >
          > =================================================================
          >
          > I have a big problem to get stateful session bean in-memory replication run on
          > clustering. I have three server instances on three nodes and there is always errors
          > from the server instance like this when I run the client to invoke the bean methods:
          >
          > <Jan 4, 2002 6:47:31 PM EST> <Error> <EJB> <Failed to update the secondary copy
          > of a stateful session bean from home:stateful.ejb.AgentSTF>
          >
          > Besides, the load balancing can not work probably too. Below is what I get.
          >
          > Statistics for different servers:
          > "myserver" processed 160 (12%) of 1311 invocations "ejbperf-3" processed 1151
          > (88%) of 1311 invocations
          > End Client...
          >
          > Load balancing works fine with stateless and entity bean.
          >
          > Any comments are greatly appreciated.
          >
          > Jenny
          >
          Regards,
          Stephane Kergozien
          BEA Support

WL 7.0 Fault-tolerant stateful beans. (Newbie)

Hello,
I was wondering if in WL 7.0 there is a way to make a stateful session
bean automatically persist its state without having to be passivated
as a whole.
The bean that I need to build would persist its state to a DB each
time a remote method call is executed in it. The purpose is to make
this bean fault tolerant without having to serialize the whole object
graph by using passivation.
I heard that WL 7.0 has a new feature that can make this happen but I
can't seem to find any info on this. Could anyone point me into the
right search path?
Thanks in advance.
Mateo.

I'm not aware of such feature in WLS 7.0 EJB container.
Where did you heard about it? If at all there's a feature you should
be able to locate at our online docs.
Here's the link
http://e-docs.bea.com/wls/docs70/ejb/index.html
Kumar
Mateo wrote:
Hello,
I was wondering if in WL 7.0 there is a way to make a stateful session
bean automatically persist its state without having to be passivated
as a whole.
The bean that I need to build would persist its state to a DB each
time a remote method call is executed in it. The purpose is to make
this bean fault tolerant without having to serialize the whole object
graph by using passivation.
I heard that WL 7.0 has a new feature that can make this happen but I
can't seem to find any info on this. Could anyone point me into the
right search path?
Thanks in advance.
Mateo.

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Can anyone tell me why ejbRemove and ejbCreate are allowed entreprise beans and resource manager access in stateful session beans and not in stateless session beans?
Thanks in advance,
Julien Martin.

Salut Julien,
Can anyone tell me why ejbRemove and ejbCreate are
allowed entreprise beans and resource manager access
in stateful session beans and not in stateless session
beans?I'm not sure I fully understand your question, but here is some information that may answer it.
The user is the one who creates and removes a stateful session bean. The container is the one who creates and removes a stateless session bean. So the user can pass any parameters to the create of a SFSB because he theorically knows what to pass. The container doesn't, and doesn't want to. It just wants to create SLSB to pool them, but it doesn't pool SFSB.
Maybe it doesn't answer your question. Can you reformulate?
Kexkey

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