Thanks for the asistance. I want to make my changes available
somewhere if its possible. Like the SQL Script and triggers I used for
oracle database. Let me know when you have time if and how I'll be
able to set this up. Thanks.

On Sep 14, 8:59 am, Ivo van Dongen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Great that you've worked out all the kinks. Sorry to see that the code isn't
> as refactorable as I hoped. Love the Criteria api of Hibernate, but using
> strings remains an evil thing. I hope that the current incarnation of
> webical fits your purposes after your alterations. Activity on the project
> has been low for a long time, but I'm still hoping to get the time soon to
> put some more effort into it.
>
> In the meantime, let us know how if you need anything else.
>
> Regards,
> Ivo
>
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Marks Andre <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Update,
>
> > I managed to find the offending line of code. In pacakge
> > org.webical.dao.hibernateImpl the class SettingsDaoHibernateImpl has
> > the following method:
>
> > public UserSettings getUserSettings(User user) throws DaoException
> > ...
>
> > try {
> >                        Criteria criteria = getSession().createCriteria
> > (UserSettings.class);
> >                        criteria.add(Restrictions.eq("user_settings",
> > user)); //had to
> > change the string "user" to "user_settings".
> >                        return (UserSettings) criteria.uniqueResult();
>
> > As you can see the Restrictions.eq method passed "user" as an explicit
> > string and was not refactored. By changing this to the correct
> > property, it prevents the exception.
>
> > The application seems to be in a working state now with the Oracle 10g
> > database. I'm sure that we will find further quirks as it now we enter
> > in to full testing. My testing team will be hard at work and I will
> > hope to continue posting in separate threads from now on.
>
> > On Sep 9, 12:39 pm, Marks Andre <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Hello,
>
> > > Thanks for the tip. I managed to debug the login by activating the
> > > debug flag you mention. Indeed is quite a pain but the fact that it
> > > delegates authentication to Tomcat worked out perfect for my purpose.
> > > Interestingly, I had to explicitly configure the realm in the
> > > server.xml file for the Tomcat configuration (this is unfortunate as
> > > is preferable that the application can be deployed without modifying
> > > the server configuration). For some reason the aplication server is
> > > ignoring the context.xml realm on META-INF.
>
> > > Now, it seems that the application its having problems initializing. I
> > > manage to login to the aplication with the default webical user. It
> > > will ofcourse, take me to the administrator page. I then have to login
> > > with un: admin, pw: admin (I dont know why, I merely guessed it). I
> > > then go on to configure the application wide settings.When I click the
> > > save button, the application tries to take me to the user calendar
> > > (Acording to the URL in the
> > browserhttp://localhost:8080/webical/app/calendar)
> > > and displays the friendly error page with the following information:
>
> > > The application returned the following error message:
>
> > > Could not retrieve application settings for user: webical
>
> > > Also I get the following stack trace:
>
> > > org.webical.web.app.WebicalWebAplicationException: Could not retrieve
> > > application settings for user: webical
> > >         at org.webical.web.app.WebicalSession.getUserSettings
> > > (WebicalSession.java:158)
> > >         at org.webical.web.app.WebicalSession.getUserSettings
> > > (WebicalSession.java:232)
> > > at
>
> > org.webical.web.component.settings.UserSettingsPanel.setupCommonComponents
> > > (UserSettingsPanel.java:73)
> > >         at org.webical.web.component.AbstractBasePanel.setupComponents
> > > (AbstractBasePanel.java:113)
> > >         at org.webical.web.component.AbstractBasePanel.onBeforeRender
> > > (AbstractBasePanel.java:223)
> > > .
> > > .
> > > .
>
> > > I have to restart Tomcat to kill the session and be able to try to
> > > login again, but the same cycle occurs. Upon further investigation I
> > > get the following entry in the log:
>
> > > 2009-09-09 10:57:04,927 ERROR SettingsDaoHibernateImpl - Could not
> > > retreive settings for  user: org.webical.u...@10651eb
> > > org.hibernate.QueryException: could not resolve property: user of:
> > > org.webical.UserSettings
> > >         at
>
> > org.hibernate.persister.entity.AbstractPropertyMapping.throwPropertyException
> > > (AbstractPropertyMapping.java:43)
> > >         at org.hibernate.persister.entity.AbstractPropertyMapping.toType
> > > (AbstractPropertyMapping.java:37)...
>
> > > This is clearly due to the fact that somewhere in the code the
> > > application is trying to make a reference to a "user" colum. Since
> > > "user" is a reserved world in oracle, the whole hibernate
> > > configuration and its mappings in the classes had to be refactored.
> > > All the "user" references were replaced with "user_settings". I would
> > > have to scour the source to find this outdated reference. Perhaps the
> > > Eclipse refactoring tool didn't catch it.
>
> > > On Sep 5, 3:25 am, Ivo van Dongen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > >   Hi,
>
> > > > Congratulations, seems like you're getting there. Debugging the log-in
> > > > procedure is quite a pain I am sad to say. We choose to leave the login
> > > > mechanism external, so it is managed by the container and can be easily
> > > > swapped out. For tomcat it is managed in the context.xml file (either
> > in
> > > > src/main/webapp/META-INF or in the profile you choose to build the
> > war).
> > > > It looks like this:
>
> > > > <Context  path="/webical-refactoring"  docBase="webical"  debug="5"
> >  reloadable="true"  crossContext="true">
>
> > > >          <!-- The database resource for hibernate -->
> > > >          <Resource
> > > >                  name="jdbc/calendarDataBase"
> > > >                  auth="Container"
> > > >                  type="javax.sql.DataSource"
>
> >  factory="org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSourceFactory"
> > > >                  username="webical"
> > > >                  password="webical"
> > > >                  driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
>
> >  url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/webical?autoReconnect=true"  />
>
> > > > </Context>
>
> > > > You need to substitute the driver, url, username and password with your
> > > > own values depending on your setup. Now for debugging it you have to
> > > > place debug="99" either on the context or resource element, forgot
> > witch
> > > > one. Then the logging to catalina.out will be more verbose.
>
> > > > Good luck again,
> > > > Ivo
>
> > > > On 9/4/09 11:50 PM, Marks Andre wrote:
>
> > > > > Well somehow I managed to mannualy set the correct configurations and
> > > > > I'm able to attempt loging in to the application. I have the database
> > > > > setup with the same schema model as the mysql example (with its
> > oracle
> > > > > variations). I'm trying to log in as the user webical but the login
> > > > > attempt fails and redirects me back to the login page. What I hope to
> > > > > find is where to look in terms of trying to debbug a loging attempt.
> > I
> > > > > know that it makes a http post to j_security_check but i havent able
> > > > > to find my way from there. Thanks for any help in the matter.
>
> > > > > On Sep 2, 10:37 am, Marks Andre<[email protected]>  wrote:
>
> > > > >> Hello,
>
> > > > >> I believe I have managed to configure the application to
> > successfully
> > > > >> validate start-up of the context with the Oracle database. As you
> > > > >> mention Oracle has too many quirks to what otherwise should have
> > been
> > > > >> a transparent process. I have encountered another roadblock in which
> > > > >> the application presents the following exception when trying to
> > access
> > > > >> the login page:
>
> > > > >> Unexpected RuntimeException
> > > > >> Root cause:org.webical.web.app.WebicalWebAplicationException: Could
> > > > >> not retrieve application settings for user: jag     at
>
> > org.webical.web.app.WebicalSession.getUserSettings(WebicalSession.java:
> > > > >> 158)     at org.webical.web.app.WebicalSession.getUserSettings
> > > > >> (WebicalSession.java:232)     at
> > > > >> org.webical.web.component.calendar.CalendarPanel.<init>
> > > > >> (CalendarPanel.java:142)     at
> > org.webical.web.pages.BasePage$8.<init>
> > > > >> (BasePage.java:343)
>
> > > > >> ...
>
> > > > >> I believe this is due to the fact that the application is still
> > > > >> compiling in development mode (hence is performing the bootstrap of
> > > > >> the development configuration). I read the pom.xml profiles and
> > tried
> > > > >> to utilize the -Denv=build switch but it then will complain that the
> > > > >> "maven.test.skip=true" switch is not a valid profile or task. I
> > wonder
> > > > >> why if I just specify the -D switch it will let me disable the tests
> > > > >> just fine but with the -Devn=build switch it will not.
>
> > > > >> On Sep 1, 10:56 am, Ivo van Dongen<[email protected]>  wrote:
>
> > > > >>> Hi,
>
> > > > >>> Good to hear you're making progress. Hope you'll get there.>  At
> > first I
>
> > > > >>>> was a little confused by the command typos so for future reference
> > to
> > > > >>>> anyone reading, the command I used was:
>
> > > > >>>> mvn -D maven.test.skip=true package
>
> > > > >>> Strange. They weren't really typos. Don't know what went wrong
> > there.
> > > > >>> Thanks for the correction.>  I know that my development methodology
> > is not what
>
> > > > >>>> Webical intends but changing the database type doesn't seem to be
> > as
> > > > >>>> seamless.
>
> > > > >>> I thought it would be less involved indeed. I've changed around the
> > > > >>> settings a bit in the past (postgress, derby and hsqldb) and that
> > went
> > > > >>> without any effort beside changing the configuration a bit. I
> > didn't
> > > > >>> think that oracle had so much quirks. But I haven't really made use
> > of
> > > > >>> it since version 8 or so.>  Perhaps someone could point me in the
> > right direction as to what I
>
> > > > >>>> would need to change depending on the
>
> ...
>
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