MightyWords has a report that doesn't paint Orion very well. And is wrong in part.

2000-10-25 Thread Kimberley Scott
Hiya, Just got a report from MightyWords. "The Concise Guide to Enterprise Java Bean Servers" by Subodh Atal, Ph.D. 71 pages. Quite interesting reading, and Orion rates as one of the 22 servers rated. Unfortunately Orion doesn't get the attention it deserves. And the doc is partly wrong is a few

Re: Can't call an EJB from Within another EJB

2000-10-25 Thread Jim Archer
Remember that your tage are scoped within each bean, so that the same tag name can refer to different things, depending upon which bean it is defined in. So, my guess is that you didn't include an tag *in the bean definition* for the bean you want to reference. If thats not the problem, post

RE: EJB 2.0 Dependent bidirectional relationships not working

2000-10-25 Thread Jim Archer
Jeff, you have mentioned this behavior (with the mapping table) to me before, but I have yet to see it. As I recall, your using composit keys. Is it possible this only happens when a composit key is involved? Also, I agree it would be just great to know whats is and is not implemented in EJB 2

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RE: calling native code from ejb

2000-10-25 Thread Kurt Hoyt
Actually, its the first. You are not allowed to call native code from an EJB. From the EJB Spec 1.1, Section 18.1.2, Programming Restrictions (page 274): * The enterprise bean must not attempt to load a native library. Kurt in Atlanta >-Original Message- >From: Duffey, Kevin [mailto:[EM

Duplicate Input Bug with CGI/Cold Fusion

2000-10-25 Thread awhitford
I think I have found a bug with the Orion Server talking to a CGI program like Cold Fusion. I need this bug fixed before I can pursue its adoption as I think this is a fairly fundamental problem... I am running Orion Server 1.3.8 on Windows 2000, using Sun's JDK 1.3. I have Cold Fusion Enter

Re: calling native code from ejb

2000-10-25 Thread Tony Abbott
Nope, it's not allowed. See section 18.1.2 of the EJB 1.1 spec which forbids loading native libraries from EJBs (amongst other things). -t On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 02:55:33PM -0700, Luis M Bernardo wrote: > > > hello, > > I have no experience calling native code from java applications but

RE: calling native code from ejb

2000-10-25 Thread Duffey, Kevin
I can think of only two possible reasons. One, you are not allowed to call native code from EJB, and two, your native code is causing some sort of problem. The first..I am not sure if that is the case or not. The second seems more likely to me..something might be wrong in your call to JNI, the nat

RE: Orion as NT4 Service

2000-10-25 Thread Duffey, Kevin
We are using JNT, a free service runner for java applications that properly handles the log-off command. I forget the url, but if you do a search at excite or something, I am sure you will find it. We were using run_as_service, or srvany, neither of which properly worked. > -Original Message

Re: Ok. I feel dumb. Data Sources and MS SQL.

2000-10-25 Thread Greg Matthews
we use a driver from http://www.inetsoftware.de/ for sql server. there's an evaluation version if you want to give it a go - Original Message - From: "Kimberley Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Orion-Interest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 11:15 AM Subject: Ok. I

calling native code from ejb

2000-10-25 Thread Luis M Bernardo
hello, I have no experience calling native code from java applications but I managed to write my first stateless seesion bean that uses a java class that calls native methods. when use a client to invoke a method in the bean I get the following error: C:\orion>java -Djava.library.path=u:\

RE: Interbase datasource??

2000-10-25 Thread Michael Rimov
At 11:11 AM 10/25/2000 -0700, you wrote: >Question for you..when I create a database there is something that has a >drop-down that says Dialect..and its always selected on 3. Doesn't that mean >it supports it? I recall reading that IB6 supports D3 now, so I thought that >it did. I have build 308,

Clustering Advice, Software or Hardware

2000-10-25 Thread Neal Kaiser
We are soon going to develop a J2EE app using Orion and I want it to have 2 webservers for failsafe and load balancing. In the past I've used load balancing routers, like the Web Server Director. Has anyone had good experience with clustering in a production environment? What are the pros and co

RE: Ok. I feel dumb. Data Sources and MS SQL.

2000-10-25 Thread J Davis
I checked it out on our machines and the Data source below works like a champ for me. I am using Win2K Advanced server and SQLServer 7. Just make sure your ODBC dirver is setup correctly. Later... Greg -Original Message- From: Kurt Hoyt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, Octo

Re: Orion in production

2000-10-25 Thread Kyle Cordes
> > On the other hand, if you call up Orion with a multiple of $15K at your > > disposal, you could probably arrange a very satisfactory support > > contract > I've approached them about support contracts, but they're looking > for external providers, which isn't likely to be all that success

RE: Ok. I feel dumb. Data Sources and MS SQL.

2000-10-25 Thread Kurt Hoyt
Don't care what MS did, but it is a part of the JDK distribution, yes. But, it's slow, slow, slow and doesn't support a lot of the advanced features Orion needs. Kurt in Atlanta >-Original Message- >From: Dan DiCesare [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 2:00 PM

Re: Can't call an EJB from Within another EJB

2000-10-25 Thread Sven van 't Veer
J Davis wrote: > > We have gotten our Orion server(1.3.8) to work with EJBs on a singular > level(i.e. we can call EJB A, B or C and it works fine.) But If one of our > EJB's tries to call another(i.e. A calls B) A throws a naming exception > that it can't find the EJB reference when doing a

RE: Interbase datasource??

2000-10-25 Thread Duffey, Kevin
Question for you..when I create a database there is something that has a drop-down that says Dialect..and its always selected on 3. Doesn't that mean it supports it? I recall reading that IB6 supports D3 now, so I thought that it did. I have build 308, but I know there is a newer build..maybe that

RE: Ok. I feel dumb. Data Sources and MS SQL.

2000-10-25 Thread Dan DiCesare
Has MS removed the ODBC-JDBC bridge in Win 2K? >From: Kurt Hoyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Orion-Interest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Orion-Interest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: Ok. I feel dumb. Data Sources and MS SQL. >Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 06:06:13 -0700 > >I hate to be the bearer of b

RE: Ok. I feel dumb. Data Sources and MS SQL.

2000-10-25 Thread Dan DiCesare
Has MS removed the ODBC-JDBC bridge in Win 2K? >From: Kurt Hoyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Orion-Interest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Orion-Interest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: Ok. I feel dumb. Data Sources and MS SQL. >Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 06:06:13 -0700 > >I hate to be the bearer of b

Re: HELP! orion + Linux + native threads

2000-10-25 Thread Richard E. Sansom
Sorry for including that other stuff at the end of my original message, by the way... Here's some more information: no problems under jakarta-tomcat (3.1) either, so it's beginning to look more and more like an Orion problem of some kind. I would really appreciate a word from the Orion guys on t

Re: ORION running under Solaris Environment

2000-10-25 Thread Ismael Blesa Part
Hi David, You can do whatever you want, the hardware requiriments are not very big, and on a development environment normally you won't have a lot of users. You could have the more powerful machine like a main server when all the developments could be tested. Another possibility is that you cou

Re: Starting thread when Orion starts

2000-10-25 Thread Christian Sell
you can only set the servlet to be loaded/initialized upon _application_ startup (web.xml). If server startup is where you want to go, you will have to specify that the app is preloaded as well (the latter is server-specific) -Original Message- From: J.T. Wenting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: O

Can't call an EJB from Within another EJB

2000-10-25 Thread J Davis
We have gotten our Orion server(1.3.8) to work with EJBs on a singular level(i.e. we can call EJB A, B or C and it works fine.) But If one of our EJB's tries to call another(i.e. A calls B) A throws a naming exception that it can't find the EJB reference when doing a jndi lookup. Is there a dep

HELP! orion + Linux + native threads

2000-10-25 Thread Richard E. Sansom
Attached is a simple servlet that uses the request and response input and output streams to read a text based message and simply echo the message back to the requestor. This thing runs fine when I stress it under Forte (hit it a billion times, looking for performance and memory problems) but unde

RE: Ok. I feel dumb. Data Sources and MS SQL.

2000-10-25 Thread Kurt Hoyt
Fortunately, my application only puts strings into nvarchar fields, but I'll have us check to see if that's a problem. Thanks for the head's up. Kurt in Atlanta >-Original Message- >From: Juan Lorandi (Chile) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 11:09 AM >To: Ori

AW: Interbase datasource??

2000-10-25 Thread Jens Stutte
Hi, i have no datasource for interbase, since i am using only bean managed persistence, but i can tell you some things. The current JDBC driver for Interbase (Interclient) does not support Interbases "dialect 3". This means: you can connect to "dialect 3" databases, but some features will not be

ORION running under Solaris Environment

2000-10-25 Thread David Sierra Fernandez
I want to build my development department with Orion under Sun Solaris. I want advise about: * How it should be implemented: one server with Orion inside it and terminals running that instance of Orion or Orion installed in all of the workstations * What are the hardware requiremen

RE: get reference to UserTransaction fails

2000-10-25 Thread Juan Lorandi (Chile)
a) yes, I do call Entity Beans directly... no programatic security there (yet, but can be acomplished especially with CMP, which is what I work with) yes I also place some BL within Session Beans with a facade pattern... b) Yes, you may use session beans not only as in a facade pattern, but also

RE: Ok. I feel dumb. Data Sources and MS SQL.

2000-10-25 Thread Juan Lorandi (Chile)
Last week I bailed out of SprintA 2000, because variable length fields don't grow... Bugzilla #127 Say, you have an Object/Serializable field in a CMP bean... It's mapped to either a nvarchar(S), or a varbinary(S) Whenever the serializable version of the object is bigger than S (look above) Spri

cant load JavaMail provider

2000-10-25 Thread Christian Sell
Hello, I am having problems accessing a JavaMail POP3 provider. I always get a NoSuchProviderException, even though the pop3.jar is in my classpath (I can Class.forName() it), and I have placed the javamail.providers any place that is mentioned in the docs (inside the jar in META-INF, outside any

RE: Orion doesn't interpret Javascript correctly

2000-10-25 Thread Drew Kidder
Yes, the quotes are right. You'll notice that the double quotes surround a URL argument for the javascript variable (which starts with a leading /), and that whole thing is enclosed in single quotes as the argument to the onmouseover call. I believe what you're saying is that I should escape

RE: Orion in production

2000-10-25 Thread Juan Lorandi (Chile)
I would also like to note Pramati (http://www.pramati.com). Their support is EXCELLENT... and they're by no means a HUGE company... On Today, Kyle Cordes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > often the ones asked, and so on. That just isn't the case in any vendor > that > > I have bought software from.

RE: Anyone using Forte + JPDA + Orion

2000-10-25 Thread Rob Lapensee
Lars, Here is the script we use to startup orion for JPDA access from netbeans, PATH=$PATH://c/desktop/java/delfour_working/build/jpda/bin export PATH java -Dd4n=orion -Djava.compiler=NONE -Xdebug -Xnoagent -Xrunjdwp:transport= dt_ socket,server=y,suspend=y,address=5000 -DinitialProperties=file:

Re: EJB classpath problem

2000-10-25 Thread wim veninga
Hi Laurent Where is your rapids-util.jar file located. I would suggest that you put this in your_orion_dir/lib. I had the same kind of situation with cloudscape (database) and orion. I have a couple of objects that need to be stored in cloudscape but cloudscape couldn't find it. But i had the cl

Orion as NT4 Service

2000-10-25 Thread Todd Renner
Hi, We've setup orion (1.2.9) to be an NT service as specified at orionsupport.com. But whenever we log off the machine the server stops with no errors. I recall some discussion on this awhile ago, but all I could find in the archives pertained to Unix.We've tried several different sc

RE: Starting thread when Orion starts

2000-10-25 Thread Christophe Hartwig
You could write a J2EE client module, and specify it should be started upon startup of the server (can't remember in which .xml file it is specified). Or you could write a program with a main() which will start your thread and Orion... Look in the manifest of orion.jar to know the main class name

RE: Ok. I feel dumb. Data Sources and MS SQL.

2000-10-25 Thread Kurt Hoyt
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you'll have to spring for a type 4 JDBC driver. We bought the one from Inet Software called "Sprinta 2000". The price was reasonable and it performs comparably with the best of them. That's how we got Orion and SQL Server 7 and Win2K to work together. Kurt

Re: Ok. I feel dumb. Data Sources and MS SQL.

2000-10-25 Thread Daniel C. DiCesare
Hope this helps:

Disallowed table names for Orion table auto-creation

2000-10-25 Thread Markus Holmberg
Hi.. Is there a way to specify table names that should be avoided by Orion when auto-creating tables for CMP EJB's? (Specifying the disallowed table names with disallowed-field elements in the database schema does not work. Which is as expected, since those specify disallowed *field* names). Ma

Anyone using Forte + JPDA + Orion

2000-10-25 Thread Lars Heller
I'm using Forte for Java 2.0 beta Internet Edition and I'm trying to debug code running under orion. I started orion with java -jar -Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,server=y,address=7070,suspend=n orion.jar and was able to attach to its vm with forte. but when setting breakpoints, it doesn't

RE: Starting thread when Orion starts

2000-10-25 Thread J.T. Wenting
You can create a servlet that starts the thread in its init(), then set the servlet to be initialised on server startup. Jeroen T. Wenting [EMAIL PROTECTED] Murphy was wrong, things that can't go wrong will anyway > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Starting thread when Orion starts

2000-10-25 Thread Russ White
make it a servlet that is preloaded. Start the thread in the init method. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Aleksi Kallio > Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 6:57 AM > To: Orion-Interest > Subject: Starting thread when Orion starts >

EJB classpath problem

2000-10-25 Thread Laurent Cornelis
Hello,I deploy a J2EE application (called rapids) with Orion, here is my directorystructure after deployment :orion/applications/rapids -> Contains EJBs jarorion/applications/rapids/rapids-web -> Contains the Web apporion/applications/rapids/rapids-web/WEB-INF/lib/rapids-util.jar -> A jarfi

RE: Installing cocoon with Orion

2000-10-25 Thread Russ White
I have been putting the Cocoon jar files in the web-app/web-inf/lib directory with success. This allows me to have web apps with different versions of Cocoon for comparison. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert > Nicholson > Sent:

RE: Starting thread when Orion starts

2000-10-25 Thread Patrik Andersson
Title: RE: Starting thread when Orion starts             com.acme.servlet.init.InitializationServlet         The Snajjd Initialization Servlet.         com.acme.servlet.init.InitializationServlet         1     -Original Message- From: Aleksi

Starting thread when Orion starts

2000-10-25 Thread Aleksi Kallio
I have a thread that needs to be running when Orion is up. How to implement it so that it automatically starts when Orion is started (ie. how Orion informs its bootup)?

Internal Orion requests vs External Requests?

2000-10-25 Thread Mike Cannon-Brookes
I'm implementing a clickstream analysis application, and I've run into a problem. Using servlet filter to intercept requests and add to the streams, I intercept all of the Orion internal requests as well! (ee requests) Is there anyway to tell from looking at a request object or it's headers, wh

Re: Internal Orion requests vs External Requests?

2000-10-25 Thread Joe Walnes
How I've tackled it is by setting a request scope attribute in the filter. Before the filter is applied, a check is performed to see if this attribute has been set or not.. if it has then the request is an internal request. In doFilter() // Check if filter has been marked as applied if ( r

RE: TheServerSide forgot Orion

2000-10-25 Thread Mike Cannon-Brookes
I'd indeed urge everyone to mail those guys, they run a great site but Orion can always use the press - and it DID have EJB 2.0 almost 4 months ago (for those in the know). Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeff Schnitzer Sent: Wednesd

SV: Ok. I feel dumb. Data Sources and MS SQL.

2000-10-25 Thread Klaus . Myrseth
Actualy the windows version of the Sybase database is just as pleasant to work with as SQL server when you use the gui tools. And a bg advantage is that the jdbc driver that is made for the database is very pleasant to work with :), and when you need extra performance you can set the server on

Re: Code generation error at deployment stage.

2000-10-25 Thread Paul Hammant
Done, bug 134 > File this with bugzilla, http://www.orionserver.com/bugzilla/.

Re: Servlet can't find Session EJB..

2000-10-25 Thread Christian Sell
Kevin, May sound stupid, but do you really mean to say context.lookup("java:comp/en==>b<==/ejb/Login"); ??(<==s added by me) >Context context = new InitialContext(); >Object obj = context.lookup("java:comp/enb/ejb/Login"); >LoginHome lh = (LoginHome) PortableRemoteObject.narrow(obj, >LoginHom

TheServerSide forgot Orion

2000-10-25 Thread Jeff Schnitzer
The latest newsletter from TheServerSide.com includes this little snippet, included in a discussion of "What makes an application server succeed": > * Being compliant with the latest specs. Again, BEA has > shined here. They were 6 months ahead of the pack with > their EJB 1.0 product, which pos

RE: Ok. I feel dumb. Data Sources and MS SQL.

2000-10-25 Thread Jeff Schnitzer
Hey, there is nothing wrong with MS SQL Server and Win2K. As someone who is not a professional DBA and has no desire to become one (I like building things, not maintaining tempermenal third-party software systems), I find that SQL Server is by far the most pleasant of the big relational databases

RE: EJB 2.0 Dependent bidirectional relationships not working

2000-10-25 Thread Jeff Schnitzer
This is something I have found puzzling about Orion's relationship mapping. I suspect it is probably one of those "partially implemented" parts of Orion. It appears that when one-to-many relationships are used, Orion creates and uses a separate relationship table. As far as the EJBs are concern