WLS 7.0 Premium or Advantage

We're doubting whether we need the WLS Premium edition or the Advantage
          edition:
          We don't need failover, so am I right to suppose that there are hw/sw load
          balancers that can load balance between several instances of the WLS
          Advantage edition? Any links to such products?
          We're also using the read-mostly pattern. The docs say that invalidations
          will be multicast to all servers in the cluster. Is it possible to do this
          with the Advantage edition as well?
          Thanks,
          Peter Verkest

You would need Premium for the Read-Mostly cluster invalidation.
          -- Rob
          Peter Verkest wrote:
          > We're doubting whether we need the WLS Premium edition or the Advantage
          > edition:
          > We don't need failover, so am I right to suppose that there are hw/sw load
          > balancers that can load balance between several instances of the WLS
          > Advantage edition? Any links to such products?
          > We're also using the read-mostly pattern. The docs say that invalidations
          > will be multicast to all servers in the cluster. Is it possible to do this
          > with the Advantage edition as well?
          >
          > Thanks,
          > Peter Verkest
          >
          >
          >

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Hi,
To see all the new features in Weblogic Server 10.3.3 and 10.3 can be found in the below link which would help you to compair between them
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Why does COMCAST work so hard to prevent me from taking advantage of MOCA/XB3?

I apologize in advance for the length of this post and its frustrated tone but I've spent so much time and effort trying to accomplish something that should have been quite straightforward with COMCAST but which has left me with a very biter taste in my mouth. I hope to get the attention of other concerned COMCAST customers in similar situations and the ears of people at COMCAST who can make a difference and change their current misguided policies and business models around MOCA. I also vent because of the long standing vexing problem of not being able to get the full use of the XFinity Internet I've been paying for every month for the last thirten years despite the recent availability of standardized network distribution technology in the form of MOCA 2.0 which is advertised by COMCAST as a feature of multiple versions of their latest Wireless Internet Gateways which customers are paying for but yet unable to utilize. See: http://www.cedmagazine.com/news/2013/04/comcast-bows-faster-gateway-doubles-speeds-on-2-data-tiers In a blog post on Comcast’s site, Rob Slinkard, senior vice president, product management, communications and data services, wrote that while data tiers have increased their speeds over the years, thanks in part to DOCSIS 3.0 deployments, in-home wireless gateways aren’t always capable of passing those faster speeds around a home. Coupled with the plethora of devices in subscribers homes, an inefficient wireless gateway can be a chokepoint in subscribers’ home networks.
“Today we are launching a new device that solves this problem and creates the fastest in-home wireless network available anywhere in the U.S.,” Slinkard wrote. “The new Xfinity Wireless Gateway includes the 5.0 GHz radio frequency. This new frequency is being used by many of the latest consumer electronic products (like the iPhone 5, iPad 4 and Kindle Fire HD) and results in better speed and performance from connected devices.
“It also has been built to a new standard (MoCA 2.0), which allows the device to leverage a home’s existing coaxial cable network to create a faster and more efficient network of connected devices within the home.” It has been several years since I started this troublesome journey to extend WiFi/Internet access to my living room. My Comcast cable modem/eMTA and wireless gateway is installed upstairs on one side of my home and no matter what Wireless AP device or technology I use I cannot get a strong WiFi signal downstairs especially in my living room, kitchen and dining room where a majority of my Internet access takes place. In particular, my phones and tablets sometimes drop off the WiFi network due to dead-zones and I'm unable to successfully stream any movies at even a low 2-3Mbits on my media center or streaming devices, sometimes even for home movies stored on my personal server upstairs which is connected directly to the COMCAST Wireless gateway at Gigabit speeds. Over the years, I've spent hundreds of dollars on various WiFi access points, extenders, multiple powerline adapters etc.. all to no benefit. Unfortunately my decade-old home was not built with structured wiring and the AC power lines must be too noisy for powerline AV to work any better than WiFi and so I'm stuck with at most 1-3 Mbps of sustained bandwidth from my living room to both my personal media server upstairs and the Internet. This low speed, unreliable Internet access in the center of my home entertainment area is completely unacceptable to me. Then I learnt this year from Comcast's own press releases like the one quoted above in cedmagazine that their newest Wireless gateways (Cisco DPC3939 or Technicolor TC8706C) are equipped with MOCA 2.0. MOCA is designed exactly for the kind of network distribution problem that I have. MOCA takes the Internet/Ethernet and sends it over the already laid down cable/coaxial lines in your home at high speed using the unused bandwidth available on the coax wires. It is standardized and is pretty much plug and play if you have the devices. In theory with MOCA anyone can have a fully networked high speed broadband home relying on just the coaxial wiring that most homes already have. After years of changing my WiFi access points multiple times looking for better coverage, I finally decided to try the COMCAST all-in-one Wireless Internet Gateway and eMTA (Technicolor wireless Gateway 1) but after lots of troubles with poor signal reception, frequent disconnection/drops and faulty DNS configuration that cannot be changed by the end-user, I decided to request a change to the more capable XB3 Wireless Gateway 2 with MOCA 2.0 whole-house networking features. I started a web chat with the Comcast technical representative that worked in the department for gateway replacement. I told her about my WiFi distribution problem and that I already had the Technicolor Gateway and that I needed to get Gateway 2 -- the so-called XB3. She was very quick to tell me that she knew *exactly* what I wanted and had dealt with this before. I went into detail about MOCA, about the lack of MOCA 2.0 adapters available to purchase by consumers and that she should make sure that my replacement XB3 kit came with the necessary MOCA -> Ethernet adapter or MOCA WiFi AP that I would need to extend the Comcast Internet service to my living room. She acknowledged everything, said she was creating notes about MOCA adapter for the dept that would ship out the XB3. I couldn't believe how easy it was to order the XB3 and required MOCA adapter/WiFi AP. I was so pleasantly suprised and impressed by the customer service I thought I had received from Comcast. I made sure to give her the best review scores when the chat was complete and a Comcast survey was presented to me. Later I received a FedEx shipment notice and a few days later I was shocked when I opened the package to see that I had been shipped the exact same Technicolor (non-MOCA) single band WiFi gateway (Gateway 1) which I already had and which I had specifically told the customer support agent that I did not want again. I was shocked at the deception and false promises that I had received from this Comcast customer support specialist. Even though the entire chat conversation was recorded, she had no problem lying to me directly that she was sending me an XB3 when she clearly had no intention of doing so. I later took this unwanted Technicolor Wireless Gateway 1 back to the Comcast store in Auburn WA and there the customer service representative argued with me over and over about MOCA and it was clear that he had no idea what MOCA was or why it is such a boon to anyone who has problems getting WiFi coverage in a home. He also stated that he knew nothing about XB3 boxes and that the Comcast store did not have any and that he couldn't find any information about XB3 in his computer. He also gave me a Motorola HD PVR which he said was newer than the really ancient one I had but which still had component outputs for my older TV unlike the X1 (to my knowledge). A few weeks later, I went back again to the same store and requested an XB3 Wireless gateway 2. This time the customer service agent I spoke to seemed to have some idea that MOCA existed (she said she had it installed in her home) but then insisted that I could not get an XB3 with MOCA *unless* I also ordered an X1 Comcast HD PVR. Also she said that it required professional installation and I would be charged for that even though all I wanted in the first place was just the XB3 MOCA Gateway. I asked her if the XB3 kit came with a MOCA -> Ethernet adapter or MOCA WiFi AP for the living room and then it became clear that she really either did not understand the use of MOCA for network distribution or she was playing dumb. She kept on insisting that Comcast does *NOT* provide any MOCA adapters or WiFi access points to use with the XB3 to extend the home network. Frustrated, I kept on asking her why there was a required bundling of MOCA Wireless gateway with a specific model of COMCAST DVR that I didn't want and she just insisted that was the way things had to be done. I also explained to her that I had an older Plasma TV without HDMI inputs. She finally went to talk to her supervisor and came out with a XB3 and an X1 HD DVR. I didn't want the X1 but I was very eager to get a chance to use MOCA to allow me to use my Comcast Xfinity Internet reliably downstairs. I figured that perhaps the the new X1 PVR had a built-in MOCA client and an Ethernet port with which I could use to plug in my own WiFi access point and thus have both 100% signal strength downstairs as well as high bandwidth hardwired network link backhaul upstairs back to the XB3. Last night, I finally installed the XBR3 after multiple false starts with the device sometimes refusing to complete activation or losing complete connectivity to my hardwired PC, turned on MOCA (which was disabled by default) and then tried to install the X1 DVR but suddenly discovered at 1AM in the morning that the X1 really didn't have any component outputs. There was no way to hook it up to my TV. Anyway, I wanted so badly to get MOCA as a network extender working that didn't care at that point about the TV and just wanted to make sure that the MOCA worked. The XB3 upstairs said that it detected 2 MOCA devices in my home, everything looks good although it would have been nicer if the XB3 detailed what devices were connected via MOCA and perhaps what version of MOCA they were using. Anyway, since I could not see the X1 screen on my TV or perform any setup I may have needed to do to setup MOCA on the X1, I gave up with that and tried the older non-X1 Motorola DVR (DCX3501M/MOR200BN) which some googling showed that it too actually supported MOCA (see http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/11/motorola-rolls-out-the-latest-hd-dvr-the-dcx3501-m/) as well though it was not an X1 model. I setup the Motorola DVR and after it was activated, I plugged the media center into the the back of the Motorola DVR's ethernet port. The media center showed that it was trying to acquire an IP address but no matter what it could not succeed. I called up COMCAST technical support again. It was 1:30AM. As usual the technical customer service representative had no idea what MOCA was and couldn't even clarify if it was possible to connect my streaming media device into the back of the Motorola DVR using an Ethernet cable and get Internet access that way via MOCA. In all my encounters with COMCAST support personel so far I've noticed that they all claim to know what MOCA is but yet keep on saying things that demonstrate clearly that they have no idea what it it is, how it works, why a consumer would want to use it for network distribution and most shockingly have no idea whether or how MOCA home networking is supported by Comcast products. This representative insisted over and over that I needed to setup a truck roll appointment for a technician to help me troubleshoot my MOCA/DVR issue but yet she would not clarify the simple question about whether COMCAST supported the use of the Ethernet port on the Motorola DVR to provide Internet access to begin with and she was not willing to pass me on to a support person who knew what MOCA was and how it was supported by COMCAST. What was the point of staying at home to wait for a technician to troubleshoot a device scenario that may not even be supported by COMCAST to begin with? Are all these COMCAST technical support representatives not even trained on the products that COMCAST is selling/installing in our homes? Why are they all clueless about MOCA technology even though COMCAST itself touts this feature in every press release about their new Wireless Gateways? The very unhelpful customer service agent rudely transfered me to another number without any warning, the number had a recorded message saying nobody was available and then hung up on me. Now, that is the kind of customer service I'm used to from COMCAST. I spent the next 30 minutes googling Comcast X1 DVR to figure out if any of the new ones supported component outputs and ended up learning more than I wanted to about Comcast RNG reference designs, X1/X2 software and finally the important fact that the Comcast X1 HD DVR has two variants manufactured by two seperate companies PACE and ARRIS and that one of the variants by PACE has on-board component outputs. That is the X1 DVR that the local Auburn store support person should have given me after I had told her that I did not have HDMI inputs on my TV. It was 2:30am. This morning I called up COMCAST technical support again and the representative I spoke to was quite helpful at first with helping to determine that my Auburn COMCAST store had a dozen+ units of the X1 DVR with component outputs. He also gave me a free 90days HBO due to all the time I've wasted driving back and forths to the Comcast store and getting/returning products, which was nice although I usually don't watch premium cable channels or much TV anyway; but still an appreciated gesture. Now that I was going to get an X1 DVR that would work with my TV and which I had reason to believe had on-board MOCA for Internet access, I asked the tech support representative if COMCAST did not sell or rent a MOCA 2.0 -> Ethernet adapter or WiFi AP, how was I going to use this X1 to extend the Internet downstairs for my mobile devices and to my TV for streaming movies? That simple question seemed to unnerve him for some reason. Once I got into this questioning about MOCA it was deja-vu all over again. He claimed to fully understand MOCA, claimed that the X1 used it to access applications and the Internet but insisted that I need to have a truck-roll again to my home from the Wifi experts to "troubleshoot" my WiFi distribution problem. Geez. I'd already been through these unreasonable conversations before multiple times! I tried to explain that I did not want or need any truck roll (more importantly, I'm not taking a day off work to wait for a house visit). I didn't need someone to troubleshoot something if the support personal himself doesn't even know if it is supported to begin with. While trying to explain that all I was asking for was an answer if the X1 exposed the Internet via it's rear Ethernet port or how otherwise I was supposed to access the Internet via the MOCA coax outlet, the line was dropped. Again, the typical COMCAST customer support. I've done a lot more research on MOCA and COMCAST and my thinking now is that the possible reason why COMCAST goes out of its way to make it very difficult for consumers to deploy MOCA whole house networking using its gear and why every single one of their representatives I've spoken to about MOCA home networking have acted very antagonistic towards that topic is because COMCAST does *NOT* want customers to learn about or utilize MOCA for whole house networking unless they are using a locked-in MOCA that works only with COMCAST proprietary video on demand, DVR/Cloud-DVR and other closed ecosystem multimedia entertainment products. Basically, a COMCAST customer who can have easy high speed broadband wired and wireless access in every room of their house via MOCA 2.0 is also a customer that may be tempted to start using over-the-top Internet television, streaming and entertainment services such as Amazon Instant Video, Dramatize, DramaFever, Crackle, HBO, Hulu, myTV, NetD, Netflix, NowTV, Qello, RPI TV, WhereverTV and Chromecast that are not controlled by COMCAST and which COMCAST makes no extra money off of you when you do it in every room of your home due to the power of MOCA and the accessibility of COAX conenctors in most rooms of most homes. Basically COMCAST touts MOCA 2.0 and puts it into their latest Wireless gateways, DVRs and set top boxes not to help their customers easily have high speed whole house inter-networking but ONLY for the purpose of exploiting your in-home COAX wiring for their closed multimedia services like AnyRoom DVR etc.. That is why they allow their X1 and other DVRs and set top boxes to access the Internet via MOCA but then disable the rear ethernet ports so that your own entertainment streaming devices cannot also make use of the fast broadband connection. That is also why some of the COMCAST employees I've tried to get help from have stated in no uncertain terms that COMCAST will not sell or rent to me any device that allows my own devices to access the high speed MOCA 2.0 broadband connection that I pay for every month with my Xfinity Triple Play and Wireless Gateway rental fees. Look right here where COMCAST explains the benefits of the two main Wireless Gateways it rents to customers: http://customer.comcast.com/help-and-support/internet/wireless-gateway-compare/For the Wireless Gateway 2 which I'm currently renting from them, COMCAST clearly marks out that this Gateway offers "MOCA". COMCAST then explains what MOCA is:
"MoCA: Multimedia over Coax Alliance. MoCA is a universal standard for home networking over the in-home coaxial cable. MoCA can be used to extend the Wi-Fi range of the Wireless Gateway 2, using a Wireless Ethernet Coax Bridge (WEC." Note though that COMCAST refuses to sell or rent you that Wireless Ethernet Coax Bridge to make use of your spanking new MOCA. At least that is what several COMCAST technical and support persons have told me. That document above though, is a COMCAST document aimed at current and future customers and it clearly explains the benefits of MOCA. But yet I'm supposed to believe that out of the six or so COMCAST technical and customer support personel I've spoken to about MOCA not a single one of them knows about this obvious purpose of MOCA and that they all refuse to rent or sell me equipment that allows my own devices to use the high speed MOCA broadband Internet that their own devices such as the X1 can access inside my home? I'm also supposed to believe that it is a coincidence that COMCAST spends the time, effort and cost to build in MOCA 2.0 into their DVRs and settop boxes but then blocks access to make use of it via the Ethernet ports on all their MOCA capable set top boxes and DVRs? These devices are all rented by COMCAST and they charge hefty monthly bills for it but then they disable my full use of the technology which I've already paid for? Finally, I wanted to find a store where I could buy my own MOCA 2.0 Wireless Ethernet Coax Bridge or MOCA compatible Wireless Access point in order to bypass COMCAST's blatent attempt to monopolize MOCA wholehouse broadband for just its own entertainment services. I couldn't find any ! It turns out that not a single manufacturer of MOCA 2.0 products (head-unit or adapters) will agree to sell any directly to a consumer - all of them will only sell to large ISPs and Cable companies like COMCAST. This makes absolutely no sense for such an important consumer technlogy. Imagine if all the Wifi AP and Cable Modem companies decided that you would not be able to buy their products and they would only sell to giant monopolistic companies like COMCAST that require that you indefinitely rent these devices and also insists on crippling them as well to remove basic functionality that the manufacturers had already built in for the benefit of the end-user? But then I thought back to the commotion a few months ago where people were buying the Cisco DPC3939 (ie, XB3) Wireless Gateway with MOCA 2.0 and having it activated without having to pay the ridiculous unending COMCAST rental fees and how quickly COMCAST acted to ban activation of Cisco DPC3939's that were purchased outright by customers by suggesting without any proof given whatsoever that the customers must have purchased "stolen" goods. How much does COMCAST make from overcharging so many customers for so long for "HD" DVRs (separate charge for DVR, separate charge for HD ability in 2014??), settop boxes, cable modems, eMTA etc..? I calculate that almost since the entire time I've been signed up to Comcast for Television in 2004, I've paid them at least $200/year for the right to use a slow, buggy and primitive 1080i 4:3 aspect ratio HD DVR with 250GB hard drive. Over ten years, I've paid COMCAST more than $2,000 for a device that I still don't own and has never offered anything to me but which I was forced to rent and use because COMCAST fought and lobbied during the late 90s and early 2000's to ensure that other companies could not make and sell consumer purchasable devices that were able to access the cable content I had already paid COMCAST for. Today, a 1 Terabyte hard drive along with a compact system able to both play & stream 4K UHD TV, install apps, play games and designed much better than anything that has ever come out of COMCAST costs about $200 to $300 in total at retail. COMCAST and other cable companies ensured that the burden of CableCard and restrictive licensing and usage rights and the complexity of the associated industry crypto regulations would kill off innovative products like Microsoft Windows Media Center which despite all its great features was unable to access Digital cable channel content especially as COMCAST started vigerously encrypting every single channel on their lineup -- even the usually free-to-air channels like ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS etc.. Never mind the extra $5 to $10 they charged you a month to "rent" a single cable card that allowed you to only watch or record one Digital cable channel even though their own Cable company DVRs and set top boxes did not require the additional rental of cablecards to access digital cable via two or even five channels. This was all to cripple competing 3rd party devices while giving an unfair advantage to their own crippled products. I've come to believe that the situation with the inexplicable crippling of MOCA by COMCAST is no different. COMCAST is going out of its way to lock out 3rd party television-like services, devices and streaming applications from using the whole house MOCA 2.0 broadband Internet that is made possible by their XB3 Wireless Gateway and the coax cables that *I* paid to be put into my own home even if it means cruelly denying *all* their customers a very elegant and cost effective solution to the common problem of poor WiFi Internet coverage in homes. Finally, as the last persuasive piece of evidence supporting this belief that COMCAST is actively working to prevent its customers from using MOCA 2.0 because it does not want them to have the *choice* and *opportunity* to access reliable Internet TV-like multimedia not purchased from or controlled by COMCAST, I refer you to the absurd mandatory bundling of the COMCAST XB3 MOCA 2.0 Wireless Gateway with the COMCAST MOCA 2.0 X1 DVR and Cloud based Entertainment device. Clearly COMCAST wants you to pay for and rent their own substandard Television streaming/DVR device even if you don't want it and prefer to use something else with better design, reliability, quality and content. They want to tax you every month for using the Coaxial cables that you paid for in your own home. It seems to me now that COMCAST believes that the great advance of MOCA 2.0 is soley a benefit for their bottom line a sole benefit to themselves of extending their broadband high speed Internet access monopoly into the market for streaming/online video services even if it is at the expense of providing a quality whole-house Internet service and associated devices and accessories that meet the needs of their numerous customers.

Among the alternatives not mentioned... Using a TiVo DVR, rather than the X1; a Roamio Plus or Pro would solve both the concern over the quality of the DVR, as well as providing the MoCA bridge capability the poster so desperately wanted the X1 DVR to provide. (Although the TiVo's support only MoCA 1.1.) Just get a third-party MoCA adapter for the distant location. Why the hang-up on having a device provided by Comcast? This seems especially ironic given the opinions expressed regarding payments over time to Comcast. If a MoCA 2.0 bridge was the requirement, they don't exist outside providers. So couldn't the poster have simply requested a replacement XB3 from the local office and configured it down to only providing MoCA bridging -- and perhaps as a wireless access point? Comcast would bill him the monthly rate for the extra device, but such is the state of MoCA 2.0. Much of the OP sounds like frustration over devices providing capabilities the poster *thinks* they should have.

Upgrade to CS4 web premium . . . or wait for CS5 ?

The question I have for anyone who may have some insight: Is there anything groundbreaking in the works for Dreamweaver, Photoshop or Illustrator in CS5 which is due to be released in about 6 months ?
We have CS3 Web Standard, and now want to upgrade to Web Premium so we can get Photoshop and Illustrator which we now need, but with some pain could probably find a way to hold off for another 6 months .... if it was worth the wait that is. We don't necessarily need (and can't afford) the latest Software version all the time, but has there been any discussion about Improvements or New Features in the next release that's going to make us regret not waiting .......... ?
* We are a small home business, but don't want to miss out on any major changes if you know what I mean . . .

I wouldn't expect anything groundbreaking from one version to the next. It sometimes comes down to maximizing your operating system to take advantage of speed boosts in both the OP and CS applications. Your existing CS3 system may not be compatable with the requirements of CS5 whatever they may be, or not. It's hard to say. If you are planning on getting new hardware ( sounds like you are not ), then you may want to wait. If you plan on using your existing hardware, you may be able to upgrade to CS4. But from the sounds of it, CS3 and Tiger is a pretty good combination and you will be able to get away with using that for awhile. There have been significant fixes from CS2 to CS4, where CS3 had it's problems in Illustrator ( not sure about PS ). Adobe sometimes throws a bone out to people who buy CS4 and get a break when they ante up for CS5, just be aware of the system requirements.

Getting Tomcat 4.1 to call EJBs in WLS 8.1

I know this is not necessarily a new topic, but we're upgrading our Tomcat
4.1 -> WLS 5.1 to a Tomcat 4.1 -> WLS 8.1 configuration.
Firstly, has ANYONE got Tomcat 4.1.x to work with a post 5.1 container at
all? Ever?
We are using the T3 protocol to talk to our beans, and the goal, of course,
is that our Tomcat based client code will ideally not have to change.
Our beans are all EJB 1.1, and I have them loaded into a running WLS 8.1
container. They appear to work.
The way I tested to see if I could talk to WLS was by using a simple client
that I had that gets an InitialContext, and then grabs a bean.
I now have a simple JSP that essentially does the same thing. I've bundled
this jsp into a properly formatted WAR file.
Within this WAR file in the WEB-INF/classes directory are the Session bean
Home and the Session Bean Remote interface classes.
Within the WEB-INF/lib directory is the
c:\bea\weblogic81\server\lib\weblogic.jar, slightly modified.
After the first attempt to load this, Tomcat would complain because the
weblogic.jar contains the javax.servlet package, so I exploded the
weblogic.jar file, renamed javax/servlet to javax/servlet.x, and then
rejarred the file. This file was placed into the WEB-INF/lib directory.
This is otherwise a default Tomcat 4.1.18 binary package.
Here's the WAR file contents:
./META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
./WEB-INF/classes/com/pfizer/ecms/as/CustomizationSession.class
./WEB-INF/classes/com/pfizer/ecms/as/CustomizationSessionHome.class
./WEB-INF/lib/wlsx.jar <-- Edited weblogic.jar
./WEB-INF/web.xml
./test.jsp
This is the contents of the test.jsp:
<%@ page language="java" %>
<%@ page import="javax.naming.*" %>
<%@ page import="com.pfizer.ecms.as.*" %>
<%
try{
System.setProperty(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY,
"weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactory");
System.setProperty(Context.PROVIDER_URL, "t3://localhost:7001");
InitialContext ctx = new InitialContext();
CustomizationSessionHome csth = (CustomizationSessionHome)
ctx.lookup("CustomizationSession");
CustomizationSession cst = csth.create();
catch (Throwable t) {
System.out.println(">>>t = " + t);
t.printStackTrace(System.out);
%>
<HTML>
<BODY>
This is the jsp.
</BODY>
</HTML>
Similar code to this has been working for us for 3 years so far.
When I try and load the JSP, it dumps a stack trace. Here's the relevant
bits up to the Tomcat container:
t = java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: weblogic/rmi/extensions/server/Stubjava.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: weblogic/rmi/extensions/server/Stub
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:502)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:123)
at
weblogic.utils.classloaders.GenericClassLoader.findLocalClass(GenericClassLo
ader.java:431)
at
weblogic.utils.classloaders.GenericClassLoader.findClass(GenericClassLoader.
java:169)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:299)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:255)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:315)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:217)
at
weblogic.utils.classfile.utils.CodeGenerator.generateClass(CodeGenerator.jav
a:71)
at weblogic.rmi.internal.StubGenerator.getStubClass(StubGenerator.java:672)
at weblogic.rmi.internal.StubGenerator.generateStub(StubGenerator.java:712)
at weblogic.rmi.internal.StubGenerator.generateStub(StubGenerator.java:699)
at weblogic.rmi.extensions.StubFactory.getStub(StubFactory.java:76)
at
weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactoryDelegate.newRootNamingNodeStub(WLInitia
lContextFactoryDelegate.java:486)
at
weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactoryDelegate.newRemoteContext(WLInitialCont
extFactoryDelegate.java:449)
at
weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactoryDelegate.newContext(WLInitialContextFac
toryDelegate.java:345)
at
weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactoryDelegate.getInitialContext(WLInitialCon
textFactoryDelegate.java:308)
at
weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactoryDelegate.getInitialContext(WLInitialCon
textFactoryDelegate.java:234)
at
weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactory.getInitialContext(WLInitialContextFact
ory.java:135)
at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getInitialContext(NamingManager.java:662)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.getDefaultInitCtx(InitialContext.java:243)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.init(InitialContext.java:219)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.<init>(InitialContext.java:175)
at org.apache.jsp.test_jsp._jspService(test_jsp.java:51)
What is interesting about this is that the system could "see"
weblogic.utils.classloaders.GenericClassLoader, but THAT class could not
find weblogic.rmi.extension.server.Stub, even though they are, ideally, at
the same level within the Tomcat imposed hierarchy of classloaders.
Unfortunately, we don't quite know where in that hierarchy each class is
placed.
Now, the culprit may well be java.security.SecureClassLoader (or, actually,
the java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0), which is very high up in the
hierarchy trying to load a the result of the StubGenerator, only to find
that an associated class, weblogic.rmi.extensions.server.Stub, was "not
found" because it only existed deep in the Tomcat hierarchy.
One way that I tried to get around this was to start taking selective bits
of of weblogic.jar and put them on the system CLASSPATH used by Tomcat when
it starts up.
This gets us farther along, in that more classes seem to load without
getting the ClassDefNotFound error, but it finally leads us into this
exception:
The error is, with a small bit of stack dump:
weblogic.utils.AssertionError: ***** ASSERTION FAILED *****[ Environment not
found on thread ]
at
weblogic.jndi.internal.NamingNodeReplicaHandler.<init>(NamingNodeReplicaHand
ler.java:150)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at
sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAcces
sorImpl.java:39)
at
sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstruc
torAccessorImpl.java:27)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:274)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:306)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:259)
at
weblogic.common.internal.ChunkedObjectInputStream.readObject(ChunkedObjectIn
putStream.java:90)
snip
The relevant starting point is toward the middle of the stack trace:
at
weblogic.rjvm.BasicOutboundRequest.sendReceive(BasicOutboundRequest.java:106
at weblogic.rmi.internal.BasicRemoteRef.invoke(BasicRemoteRef.java:125)
at
com.pfizer.ecms.as.DataImporterSession_aiw0oz_HomeImpl_810_WLStub.create(Unk
nown Source)
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:324)
at com.pfizer.ecms.com.AppServer.createInstance(AppServer.java:163)
at com.pfizer.ecms.com.AppServer.getDataImporterSession(AppServer.java:231)
at
com.pfizer.ecms.ws.ECMSActionServlet.testBeans(ECMSActionServlet.java:1662)
at
com.pfizer.ecms.ws.ECMSActionServlet.initOther(ECMSActionServlet.java:62)
at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.init(ActionServlet.java:472)
Now, according to the Weblogic documentation, the AssertionError exception
"is impossible". Well, that's my job they say, doing the impossible.
Minimally, it's a meaningless message to me and pretty much stops me cold.
I have seen other discussions about Tomcat and how it's not J2EE, etc, and
perhaps my expectations that this will work are too high. My concern with
that is simply that in our case, Tomcat is a Fat Client no different from
"any other Java application". We just use Tomcat to talk to beans rather
than a custom client. The difficulty, it seems, is in the complexities of
the Tomcat class loaders interoperating with the expectations of Weblogics
classes et al.
I've got a small application that does exactly what Tomcat wants to do, so
"weblogic works", except of course, in Tomcat.
So, in the end, I'm curious if others have some data on getting these two
system cooperating. If anyone has any other ideas on how to use Tomcat as a
client of Weblogic 8 that utilizes techniques besides replacing Tomcat
(which is not an option at the moment) I'd like to hear those as well. I
have been fighting this for days, and tried several things, but nothing
"obvious" seems to help.
Weblogic 8 has a "thin client" jar, but it's only useful for RMI rather than
T3, plus it's still not clear how we'd go about rewriting the interfaces to
support that versus the standard EJB interfaces already created for the
beans.
Any assistance greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Will Hartung
([email protected])

Of course I feel obliged to first recommend that you run your webapps
and EJBs in WLS. There's significant performance advantages and it
greatly simpifies your life since you don't have to deal with another
remote failure case.
That being said, I believe it should be possible especially with 8.1 to
make Tomcat a WLS client.
Answers inline.
Will Hartung wrote:
I know this is not necessarily a new topic, but we're upgrading our Tomcat
4.1 -> WLS 5.1 to a Tomcat 4.1 -> WLS 8.1 configuration.
Firstly, has ANYONE got Tomcat 4.1.x to work with a post 5.1 container at
all? Ever?
We are using the T3 protocol to talk to our beans, and the goal, of course,
is that our Tomcat based client code will ideally not have to change.
Our beans are all EJB 1.1, and I have them loaded into a running WLS 8.1
container. They appear to work.
The way I tested to see if I could talk to WLS was by using a simple client
that I had that gets an InitialContext, and then grabs a bean.
I now have a simple JSP that essentially does the same thing. I've bundled
this jsp into a properly formatted WAR file.
Within this WAR file in the WEB-INF/classes directory are the Session bean
Home and the Session Bean Remote interface classes.
Within the WEB-INF/lib directory is the
c:\bea\weblogic81\server\lib\weblogic.jar, slightly modified.My suggestion is to ditch the weblogic.jar and the joys of trying to
modify it. I'd instead check out 8.1's thin client support:
http://e-docs.bea.com/wls/docs81/rmi_iiop/rmiiiop2.html#1071450
>
After the first attempt to load this, Tomcat would complain because the
weblogic.jar contains the javax.servlet package, so I exploded the
weblogic.jar file, renamed javax/servlet to javax/servlet.x, and then
rejarred the file. This file was placed into the WEB-INF/lib directory.
This is otherwise a default Tomcat 4.1.18 binary package.
Here's the WAR file contents:
./META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
./WEB-INF/classes/com/pfizer/ecms/as/CustomizationSession.class
./WEB-INF/classes/com/pfizer/ecms/as/CustomizationSessionHome.class
./WEB-INF/lib/wlsx.jar <-- Edited weblogic.jar
./WEB-INF/web.xml
./test.jsp
This is the contents of the test.jsp:
<%@ page language="java" %>
<%@ page import="javax.naming.*" %>
<%@ page import="com.pfizer.ecms.as.*" %>
<%
try{
System.setProperty(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY,
"weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactory");
System.setProperty(Context.PROVIDER_URL, "t3://localhost:7001");
InitialContext ctx = new InitialContext();
CustomizationSessionHome csth = (CustomizationSessionHome)
ctx.lookup("CustomizationSession");
CustomizationSession cst = csth.create();
catch (Throwable t) {
System.out.println(">>>t = " + t);
t.printStackTrace(System.out);
%>
<HTML>
<BODY>
This is the jsp.
</BODY>
</HTML>
Similar code to this has been working for us for 3 years so far.
When I try and load the JSP, it dumps a stack trace. Here's the relevant
bits up to the Tomcat container:
t = java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: weblogic/rmi/extensions/server/Stubjava.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: weblogic/rmi/extensions/server/Stub
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:502)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:123)
at
weblogic.utils.classloaders.GenericClassLoader.findLocalClass(GenericClassLo
ader.java:431)
at
weblogic.utils.classloaders.GenericClassLoader.findClass(GenericClassLoader.
java:169)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:299)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:255)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:315)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:217)
at
weblogic.utils.classfile.utils.CodeGenerator.generateClass(CodeGenerator.jav
a:71)
at weblogic.rmi.internal.StubGenerator.getStubClass(StubGenerator.java:672)
at weblogic.rmi.internal.StubGenerator.generateStub(StubGenerator.java:712)
at weblogic.rmi.internal.StubGenerator.generateStub(StubGenerator.java:699)
at weblogic.rmi.extensions.StubFactory.getStub(StubFactory.java:76)
at
weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactoryDelegate.newRootNamingNodeStub(WLInitia
lContextFactoryDelegate.java:486)
at
weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactoryDelegate.newRemoteContext(WLInitialCont
extFactoryDelegate.java:449)
at
weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactoryDelegate.newContext(WLInitialContextFac
toryDelegate.java:345)
at
weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactoryDelegate.getInitialContext(WLInitialCon
textFactoryDelegate.java:308)
at
weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactoryDelegate.getInitialContext(WLInitialCon
textFactoryDelegate.java:234)
at
weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactory.getInitialContext(WLInitialContextFact
ory.java:135)
at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getInitialContext(NamingManager.java:662)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.getDefaultInitCtx(InitialContext.java:243)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.init(InitialContext.java:219)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.<init>(InitialContext.java:175)
at org.apache.jsp.test_jsp._jspService(test_jsp.java:51)
What is interesting about this is that the system could "see"
weblogic.utils.classloaders.GenericClassLoader, but THAT class could not
find weblogic.rmi.extension.server.Stub, even though they are, ideally, at
the same level within the Tomcat imposed hierarchy of classloaders.
Unfortunately, we don't quite know where in that hierarchy each class is
placed.
Now, the culprit may well be java.security.SecureClassLoader (or, actually,
the java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0), which is very high up in the
hierarchy trying to load a the result of the StubGenerator, only to find
that an associated class, weblogic.rmi.extensions.server.Stub, was "not
found" because it only existed deep in the Tomcat hierarchy.
One way that I tried to get around this was to start taking selective bits
of of weblogic.jar and put them on the system CLASSPATH used by Tomcat when
it starts up.
This gets us farther along, in that more classes seem to load without
getting the ClassDefNotFound error, but it finally leads us into this
exception:
The error is, with a small bit of stack dump:
weblogic.utils.AssertionError: ***** ASSERTION FAILED *****[ Environment not
found on thread ]
at
weblogic.jndi.internal.NamingNodeReplicaHandler.<init>(NamingNodeReplicaHand
ler.java:150)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at
sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAcces
sorImpl.java:39)
at
sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstruc
torAccessorImpl.java:27)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:274)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:306)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:259)
at
weblogic.common.internal.ChunkedObjectInputStream.readObject(ChunkedObjectIn
putStream.java:90)
snip
The relevant starting point is toward the middle of the stack trace:
at
weblogic.rjvm.BasicOutboundRequest.sendReceive(BasicOutboundRequest.java:106
at weblogic.rmi.internal.BasicRemoteRef.invoke(BasicRemoteRef.java:125)
at
com.pfizer.ecms.as.DataImporterSession_aiw0oz_HomeImpl_810_WLStub.create(Unk
nown Source)
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:324)
at com.pfizer.ecms.com.AppServer.createInstance(AppServer.java:163)
at com.pfizer.ecms.com.AppServer.getDataImporterSession(AppServer.java:231)
at
com.pfizer.ecms.ws.ECMSActionServlet.testBeans(ECMSActionServlet.java:1662)
at
com.pfizer.ecms.ws.ECMSActionServlet.initOther(ECMSActionServlet.java:62)
at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.init(ActionServlet.java:472)
Now, according to the Weblogic documentation, the AssertionError exception
"is impossible". Well, that's my job they say, doing the impossible.
Minimally, it's a meaningless message to me and pretty much stops me cold.
Right, it's not really meant to be meaningful because customers "should"
never see these assertions.
I have seen other discussions about Tomcat and how it's not J2EE, etc, and
perhaps my expectations that this will work are too high. My concern with
that is simply that in our case, Tomcat is a Fat Client no different from
"any other Java application". We just use Tomcat to talk to beans rather
than a custom client. The difficulty, it seems, is in the complexities of
the Tomcat class loaders interoperating with the expectations of Weblogics
classes et al.
I've got a small application that does exactly what Tomcat wants to do, so
"weblogic works", except of course, in Tomcat.
So, in the end, I'm curious if others have some data on getting these two
system cooperating. If anyone has any other ideas on how to use Tomcat as a
client of Weblogic 8 that utilizes techniques besides replacing Tomcat
(which is not an option at the moment) I'd like to hear those as well. I
have been fighting this for days, and tried several things, but nothing
"obvious" seems to help.
Weblogic 8 has a "thin client" jar, but it's only useful for RMI rather than
T3, plus it's still not clear how we'd go about rewriting the interfaces to
support that versus the standard EJB interfaces already created for the
beans.I'm not sure I follow you here. You always write to RMI interfaces.
The question is what protocol (eg T3, JRMP, IIOP) will actually run RMI.
By default WLS uses its own protocol (t3), but most customer apps
should run without change over IIOP.
I'd really recommend going the thin client route. Otherwise I fear
you'll end up with a heavily modified weblogic.jar and headaches when
you try to install a service pack etc.
-- Rob
>
Any assistance greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Will Hartung
([email protected])

Issue loading itunes on windows 7 home premium 64

Hello All ,
Kind of a computer newbie here with issue loading the new iTunes 9.0.3 software onto a new pc.
here is situation
Just got a new gateway dx4831 with windows 7 home premium 64 os preinstalled, down loaded the new software this afternoon. iTunes and QuickTime seemed to load and install correctly. Go to click on iTunes shortcut on desktop and nothing happens. Quick times loads and seems ok. Have tried to uninstall and download a couple of times but same issue.
Please help this computer newbie out
Thanks in advance for the input
J

Can never get the time zones clear in my head. This used to cause all manner of issues when I was based in North Carolina, and trying to call home ...
Thursday's tomorrow for you? If so, I'd try (on Thursday) both uninstalling the Norton trial and then running Symantec's Norton Removal Tool. (There's an unpleasant possibility of "undead" Norton componentry surviving the uninstall and continuing to molest your iTunes and/or BonJour.) Here's a link to the Tool:
[Download and run the Norton Removal Tool|http://service1.symantec.com/Support/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2005033108162039]
I don't use it myself, but I hear quite good things about Microsoft Security Essentials. It also has the advantage of being free:
http://www.microsoft.com/Security_Essentials/
And the built-in Windows firewall is not to be sneezed at (and also free). That's what I'm currently running on this particular box.
I'm planning to eventually install a Norton of some description on the Lenovo, but that's mostly because it's handy to have hands-on access to a version of the software when helping folks to configure it for their iTunes ... (Yes, I agree that that's a bit of a perverse reason for installing security software.)

J 6480/ Vista Home Premium, HP DV 6928: Creating a unique installation

J 6480/ Vista Home Premium, HP DV 6928, also have HP LJ 1020 for regular b/w printing, which is hard wired to notebook:
Finally setting up my J 6480.
Read over some install issues and some thoughts from the "Wireless and network printing transcript for Meet the Experts" thread
My configuration for Internet is as follows:
I have Roadrunner Time Warner Internet cable service (10mb down load speed), but prefer to have that hard wired to my computer (unless convinced otherwise) in that it will be theoretically faster for Internet than using the T Mobile (WPA secure) router.
I do not download movies but do watch tv shows via HULU and Fox.Com, etc.
Notebook is WiFi 'G'.
My wireless router is T Mobile (D Link) and I have it turned off, disconnected, at the moment. Works fine, but I have opted for the apparent faster hard wired connection.
Wish to use the J 6480 printer wirelessly to save cables and improve functionality in that J 6480 may be placed quite far from the notebook, though not over 25 feet.
I will do lots of scanning, mostly with the J 6480. Infrequent faxing and occasional color printing.
Will this setup be possible?, ad hoc wirelessly, or will it be best if I connect wirelessly via the T Mobile router, or go to the basic hard wired approach?
Security may not be an issue or is this something I ought to be concerned with? I live in an apartment building and other folks use WiFi, all secured.
I understand the J 6480 can be Ad Hoc wirelessly connected to my notebook and am seeking to find the advantages / disadvantages of this type set up if any.
Your thoughts will be greatly appreciated.
Set up to take place this week: week of May 3 to May 7, 2009.
Cordially,
Robert
HP Elite 8000 SFF, (Desktop) WIN 8.1 Professional, Intel Core 2 Quad 2.83GHz processor. Internal 750GB HDD. 8GB RAM memory. 3 external HDDs : 1TB primary external, 1.5TB backup external, special backup 250GB external (all externals for files, music, video). Please note: 750GB HDD for WIN OS and programs only. Backed up to an 80GB external Image Maker via WIN 7 system image maker. 1 DVDRW drive. 10 USB ports. Plus there are four extra USB via PCI card. 14 USB ports in all. 240 W power supply. Printers: LJ 1020, HP AIO 6480. 3 Monitors, 20" Acer; 22" Acer; 37" LG TV.
ALSO:
HP ENVY: 15 ENVY 15634 Laptop 8GB Memory 750GB Hard Drive Natural Silver
And:
HP DV6928us, (Notebook)
AND:
external 1.0TB HDD, 250GB external HDD, 1.5 TB external HDD,
AND:
HP LJ 1020,
and:
HP J 6480 AIO,
Windows 7 Home Premium on Desktop, WIN8 on ENVY
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Thanks for the info. It appears that your Time-Warner router is serving a public IP address.
My suggestion is to use the D-Link wireless-router for your local LAN (connect the Time-Warner to the WAN input of the D-Link). If you're concerned about speed issues, you can connect your laptop into the LAN bridge of the D-Link.
If you're worried about speed, you can do a simple before and after experiment to see if the D-link is degrading your I/O throughput. I've used sites speedtest.net with good success in troubleshooting bandwidth issues.
Regards / Jim B / Wireless Enthusiasts
( While I'm an embedded wireless systems engineer at work, on this forum I do not represent my former employer, Hewlett-Packard, or my current employer, Microsoft )
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HP Deskjet Ink Advantage 4625e Refuses to Install

My printer is an HP Deskjet Ink Advantage 4625e (4620 series). Firmware Version: CAP1FN1451AR
First, this is what I can do with the printer:
Print internal ‘Test’ pages and reports.
Print documents in all applications from a wireless, networked laptop.
Print documents using ePrint.
My computer is an HP Omni All-in-one Running Windows 7 Home Premium X64
The issue is I am unable to (re)install the printer on the HP Omni using either ‘Add Printer’, HP downloads or the installation disk.
Hoping for a definitive solution.
Background: Just over a week ago I upgraded from Office Pro 2010 to Office Pro 2013. When I went to print I noticed the dfautl print was showing as One Note 2013. I selected the HP printer then hit print. I got an error message: Word Cannot Print this Document. There is no printer installed.
I tried to print using NotePad and an Adobe document (thinking it may have been Word related only). This did not work. I could print from any application using the Desktop. But, as noted, I can do so from the networked laptop.
On opening the Printers folder OneNote was set as the default. I changed the default to the HP printer. No luck. I was told it was not installed.
I ran Malwarebytes Premium and Microsoft Security Essentials to check for possible incursions. None.
I then tried System Restore. No change.
I then tried to repair the print program. No change.
I then uninstalled Office 2013. No Change.
I then tried the “Add Printer” function. No Luck. I was informed: “Unable to install printer. Some files are missing or incorrect. Reinstall the driver or try using the latest version.” (Screenshot 1)
I then tried to reinstall the printer. First as a straight reinstall then second after doing a complete uninstall using Revo Professional Uninstaller and an Advanced Scan.
This did not work, yet the printer is recognised as being on the wireless network during the reinstall process (Screenshot 2).
This is what I Cannot do: (Note: during any install attempt I disable both Malware Byes and Windows Security Essentials. I have also attempted installs with the Firewall turned OFF.)
Cannot reinstall on the system. It refuses to allow a wireless network installation even though it shows on the install screen (Screenshot 2).
If using ‘Add Printer, it says files missing or incorrect (Screenshot 1).
If installed using HP Download, I am able to input IP Address but it does not show the copmupter name. It says either. “Computer’s Network Name: Retrieving’ OR ‘Computer’s Network Name: Unable to Retrieve’ (Screenshot 3 & Screenshot 4 respectively).
When install fails, I get the screen asking to search for a solution (Screenshot 5) which then gives me instructions re a download ‘Helper Application’ (Screenshot 6).
After attempting to follow those instructions, the downloaded ‘solution’ does not work (Screenshot 7).
Instead of trying to install over the wireless network I have tried using the USB Install process. The printer then only installs as a ‘Fax’ Printer. On checking the Device Mager – Show Hidden Devices – it shows a ‘Multifunction Device’ with a yellow exclamation mark (!) next to the driver. On checking, it says I need to reinstall the driver.
Any attempt to convert the USB connection (even though it only installs as a fax printer) to a wireless connection fails.

Hi @jindo53,
Welcome to the HP Forums!
Thank you for a very well detailed post! From what I have read, I understand that your HP Deskjet Ink Advantage 4625e is refusing to install either as a Wireless or USB connected printer, on Windows 7. I am sorry to hear this, but I am happy to help!
Please take a look through this guide, 'Unable to Find Printer' Error Message Displays for the HP Officejet 4620 e-All-in-One and HP Deskje....
Tips to avoid wireless connection issues
The following tips can help prevent wireless connection issues. You might need to experiment with each of these tips to secure a successful wireless connection.
Move the product, the computer, and the access point (router) closer together.
Remove any metal objects that are between the product, the computer, and the access point (router). Objects such as refrigerators or metal bookcases can interfere with a wireless transmission.
Move any device that emits radio signals farther away from the HP product. Devices such as microwaves and cordless telephones can interfere with wireless transmission.
Accept or allow any firewall pop-up messages that display during the software installation.
If you connect to a virtual private network (VPN), temporarily disconnect from the VPN during the HP software installation (see your VPN software for further details).
If you have MAC address filtering enabled on your router, you will need to add the HP product's MAC address to the address filter list. You can find the MAC address on the Network Configuration Page. Follow instructions for your router to add the address.
If that does not help, please try the following:
Uninstall the software. Uninstalling the Printer Software.
Clean boot the computer. How to perform a clean boot in Windows.
Disable any Antivirus programs. Disable Antivirus software.
Disable any firewall programs. Turn Windows Firewall on or off.
Create a new user account. Managing User Accounts and Logins (Windows 7).
Reinstall using the HP Printer Install Wizard for Windows.
If still unsuccessful, proceed to back up your files, and reinstall Windows 7.
Hope this information is helpful, and thank you for posting!
RnRMusicMan
I work on behalf of HP
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What is the best motherboard to use with Photoshop elements 11 premium edition?

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I'm not interested in anything from Dell (alienware).
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Thanks

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Are there advantages to buying from the Apple Store v authorised reseller?

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