Using JMS to connect to Sun's 1.4 J2EE server

Question

Hi,
I've been reading around various postings detailing how to connect to J2EE servers at runtime, and they all seem to follow the format:
Properties props = new Properties();
props.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, "com.sun.enterprise.naming.SerialInitContextFactory");
props.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, "rmi://localhost");
// Create a JNDI API InitialContext object
// (may throw a NamingException)
jndiContext = new InitialContext(props);
But none of the discussion is totally complete. It seems incredibly difficult to connect to a J2EE server, and the documentation on the issue is incredibly poor.
I'd like to do this without the 'appclient' program that comes with Sun's J2EE server as I wish to have a development environment that can start up, connect to the J2EE server, and send messages.
So has anyone managed to get this to work?
I'm confused to where the username and password go. I've seen other suggestions to make the above work, including:
props.put("org.omg.CORBA.ORBInitialPort", "3700");
props.put("org.omg.CORBA.ORBInitialHost", "localhost");
ORB orb = ORB.init(new String[] {}, props);
props.put("java.naming.corba.orb", orb);
Therefore can anyone clear this up for me! A few lines of code, showing exactly how I can connect to a J2EE server.
All I want to do is send a few messages.. :)
Cheers
John

Answer 1

Hello everyone;
Actually I have a error below;
Feb 23, 2006 11:52:27 PM com.sun.corba.ee.spi.logging.LogWrapperBase doLog
INFO: "IOP00710299: (INTERNAL) Successfully created IIOP listener on the specified host/port: all interfaces/1973"
Feb 23, 2006 11:52:36 PM com.sun.enterprise.connectors.util.SetMethodAction handleException
WARNING: RAR7096: Exception null while trying to set the value on property Name
Feb 23, 2006 11:52:36 PM com.sun.enterprise.naming.SerialContext lookup
SEVERE: NAM0004: Exception during name lookup : {0}
com.sun.enterprise.resource.PoolingException
at com.sun.enterprise.connectors.AdministeredObjectResource.createAdministeredObject(AdministeredObjectResource.java:143)
at com.sun.enterprise.naming.factory.AdministeredObjectFactory.getObjectInstance(AdministeredObjectFactory.java:89)
at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getObjectInstance(NamingManager.java:304)
at com.sun.enterprise.naming.SerialContext.lookup(SerialContext.java:293)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(InitialContext.java:351)
at javaapplication17.Main.main(Main.java:39)
Caused by: java.security.PrivilegedActionException: com.sun.enterprise.connectors.ConnectorRuntimeException
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at com.sun.enterprise.connectors.AdministeredObjectResource.createAdministeredObject(AdministeredObjectResource.java:139)
... 5 more
Caused by: com.sun.enterprise.connectors.ConnectorRuntimeException
at com.sun.enterprise.connectors.util.SetMethodAction.handleException(SetMethodAction.java:110)
at com.sun.enterprise.connectors.util.SetMethodAction.run(SetMethodAction.java:96)
... 7 more
Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at com.sun.enterprise.connectors.util.SetMethodAction.run(SetMethodAction.java:69)
... 7 more
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: MQ:Queue:Invalid Queue Name -
at com.sun.messaging.Queue.setName(Queue.java:64)
... 12 more
javax.naming.CommunicationException: serial context communication ex [Root exception is com.sun.enterprise.resource.PoolingException]
at com.sun.enterprise.naming.SerialContext.lookup(SerialContext.java:317)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(InitialContext.java:351)
at javaapplication17.Main.main(Main.java:39)
Caused by: com.sun.enterprise.resource.PoolingException
at com.sun.enterprise.connectors.AdministeredObjectResource.createAdministeredObject(AdministeredObjectResource.java:143)
at com.sun.enterprise.naming.factory.AdministeredObjectFactory.getObjectInstance(AdministeredObjectFactory.java:89)
at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getObjectInstance(NamingManager.java:304)
at com.sun.enterprise.naming.SerialContext.lookup(SerialContext.java:293)
... 2 more
Caused by: java.security.PrivilegedActionException: com.sun.enterprise.connectors.ConnectorRuntimeException
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at com.sun.enterprise.connectors.AdministeredObjectResource.createAdministeredObject(AdministeredObjectResource.java:139)
... 5 more
Caused by: com.sun.enterprise.connectors.ConnectorRuntimeException
at com.sun.enterprise.connectors.util.SetMethodAction.handleException(SetMethodAction.java:110)
at com.sun.enterprise.connectors.util.SetMethodAction.run(SetMethodAction.java:96)
... 7 more
Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at com.sun.enterprise.connectors.util.SetMethodAction.run(SetMethodAction.java:69)
... 7 more
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: MQ:Queue:Invalid Queue Name -
at com.sun.messaging.Queue.setName(Queue.java:64)
... 12 more
I tried everything in this form but I could not send a message to queue from my standalone client.
I am trying to communicate with my application server throught JMS almost a week. But I could not get any result. I even read twice some forms. Actually all I can say I progressed to here..
My code is below...
Context initialContext = new InitialContext();
            javax.jms.QueueConnectionFactory factory = (javax.jms.QueueConnectionFactory) initialContext.lookup("jmsFactory");
            Destination queue = (javax.jms.Queue) initialContext.lookup("jmsQueue");
            javax.jms.QueueConnection connection = factory.createQueueConnection();
            javax.jms.QueueSession session = connection.createQueueSession(false, Session.AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE);
            On the jmsQueue lookup there is the error... I create all the resources in my Sun System Application Server 8.2 PE...
Please help or say some thing?
.....