Look in the archives for my post from April 3, 2001, entitled:
"Orion(web) -> Orion(ejb) communication rough mini how to"
You must make sure that your EJB machine (referenced from your Web machine's
rmi.xml) contains at least the same applications as the Web machine (see my
Warning note in original post).
-jaon
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> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 2:42 PM
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>
> We have our project happily working with the web component and the ejb
> components
> living on a single machine. We'd now like to separate them, each
> on separate
> Orion boxes.
> We tried following some of the explanations on the Orion mailing list
> archive, but the
> ejb machine complains loudly about a NullPointerException -
> at ObjectInputStream.InputClassDescription (Unknown Source) when
> we start up
> the web machine.
> So it seems the client machine is trying to connect to the ejb machine but
> it's failing for some reason...
>
> We made the following settings on the client machine:
>
> in the orion-application.xml file for the web deployment we add the
> following line:
> <ejb-module remote="true" path="EJBCOMP" /> (EJBCOMP is the name
> of the ejb
> component)
>
> and this to the rmi.xml file:
> <server host="n.n.n.n" username="admin" password="123"/>
> where n.n.n.n is the machine with the ejb component.
>
> the username and password seem to be the default admin info in the
> principals.xml file.
>
> What are we missing? Are we supposed to register the client with the ejb
> host
> somehow besides a username and password?
>
> Thanks very much!
>
> -----------------------------------------------
> Eric Knight
> Ninth House Network
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