The solution that I tried (see my post from yesterday: Orion JNDI using
web-to-ejb and client-to-ejb) uses JNDI and orion's
RMIInitialContextFactory. You may want to try that.
At 12:32 4/26/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>Thanks! I'll give it a try.
>My concern is that this solution doesn't seem to be a J2EE solution,
>but more of a Orion specific one. On further thought towards my initial
>question,
>I wonder if there isn't a simpler solution, it seems to me that one should
>be able to
>reference the remote machine without any modifications to the config files.
>Something like this:
>
> Hashtable env = new Hashtable(5);
> env.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY,
> "com.evermind.server.ApplicationClientInitialContextFactory");
> env.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, host);
> env.put(Context.SECURITY_PRINCIPAL, username);
> env.put(Context.SECURITY_CREDENTIALS, password);
> InitialContext ic = new InitialContext(env);
>
>Where host is any accessible machine that is running the ejb app in
>question,
>and is set up to handle the username and password sent. This code works fine
>if host is localhost, why not with a remote host?
>Eric.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jason Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 6:02 AM
>To: Orion-Interest
>Subject: RE: Unknown Source (2nd attempt)
>
>
>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
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Eric Knight
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 2:42 PM
> > To: Orion-Interest
> > Subject: Unknown Source (2nd attempt)
> >
> >
> > 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
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
