Send your JMS messages to the Event Delivery Network (EDN) with a simple MDB

If you have read some of my previous articles, you should know that I’m using the SOA Suite on my project as a BPM, based on the coordination of JMS messages.
I naturally went for the solution proposed by Oracle : the JMS adapter. But it took me some time to figure out how to make it work :) The official documentation is complete, but when you need to really implement the concept, it’s often too light.
Then I got it working, as demonstrated in a previous blogpost but it was quite disappointing. In fact, I found it quite strenuous and complex. To me, the need for JCA (and deployment plan)  is not mandatory : I just wanted to KISS (keep it simple & stupid)
Then I started looking for some content on that and I found some interesting stuff on Edwin’s blog & Guido’s blog. But once again, I could not go with a complete implementation. Then I tried several things, tested and finally, I came up with an implementation that was satisfying (and which is used every single day in production).
To keep you from going the same loong path I went, here is my code :

package fr.mbutton.blog.mdb;

import java.io.StringWriter;
import javax.ejb.ActivationConfigProperty;
import javax.ejb.MessageDriven;
import javax.jms.Message;
import javax.jms.MessageListener;
import javax.jms.Queue;
import javax.jms.QueueConnectionFactory;
import javax.jms.TextMessage;
import javax.naming.InitialContext;
import javax.sql.DataSource;
import javax.transaction.UserTransaction;
import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
import javax.xml.transform.OutputKeys;
import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;
import oracle.fabric.blocks.event.BusinessEventConnection;
import oracle.fabric.blocks.event.BusinessEventConnectionFactory;
import oracle.fabric.common.BusinessEvent;
import oracle.integration.platform.blocks.event.BusinessEventBuilder;
import oracle.integration.platform.blocks.event.jms.JmsRemoteBusinessEventConnectionFactory;
import oracle.integration.platform.blocks.event.saq.SAQRemoteBusinessEventConnectionFactory;
import oracle.soa.common.util.XMLUtil;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;


@MessageDriven(mappedName = "your.topic.jndi.name",
   activationConfig = { 
      @ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName = "destinationType", propertyValue = "javax.jms.Topic"),
      @ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName = "acknowledgeMode", propertyValue = "Auto-acknowledge"),
      @ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName = "topicMessagesDistributionMode", propertyValue = "One-Copy-Per-Application") })
public class JMSBridgeToEDN implements MessageListener {

    // EDN JMS environment
    private final String connFactName   = "jms/fabric/EDNConnectionFactory";
    private final String xaConnFactName = "jms/fabric/xaEDNConnectionFactory";
    private final String queueName      = "jms/fabric/EDNQueue";

    public void onMessage(Message message) {
        if (message instanceof TextMessage) {
          TextMessage txt = (TextMessage) message;
          BusinessEventConnection connection = null;
          try {
            // You can choose between two methods : Oracle AQ or JMS
            // Default is Oracle AQ
            connection = getOracleAQConnection ();
            // But you can choose the other one :
            // connection = getWebLogicJMSConnection();
          
            // Publish to EDN
            BusinessEvent event = updateAndConvertBody(txt.getText());
            // System.out.println("Element : " + displayXMLDoc(event.getAsDoc()));
            connection.publishEvent(event, 3); // The number represents message priority (3 = default)
            } catch (Exception e) {
              e.printStackTrace();
            } finally {
              connection.close();
            }
        }
    }

    private BusinessEventConnection getWebLogicJMSConnection () throws Exception {
      InitialContext context = new InitialContext();
      UserTransaction userTransaction = (UserTransaction) context.lookup("javax.transaction.UserTransaction");
      QueueConnectionFactory queueConnectionFactory = ((QueueConnectionFactory)context.lookup(connFactName));
      QueueConnectionFactory xaQueueConnectionFactory = 
        ((QueueConnectionFactory)context.lookup(xaConnFactName));
      Queue jmsQueue = ((Queue)context.lookup(queueName));
    
      BusinessEventConnectionFactory factory =
          new JmsRemoteBusinessEventConnectionFactory(queueConnectionFactory,
                                                      xaQueueConnectionFactory,
                                                      jmsQueue,
                                                      userTransaction);
      
      return factory.createBusinessEventConnection();
 
    }
    
    private BusinessEventConnection getOracleAQConnection () throws Exception {
      InitialContext context = new InitialContext();
      UserTransaction userTransaction = (UserTransaction) context.lookup("javax.transaction.UserTransaction");
      
      // Working with both EDN datasources (as seen in class SAQRemoteBusinessEventConnectionFactory)
      DataSource ds = (DataSource) context.lookup("jdbc/EDNDataSource");
      DataSource localTxDs = (DataSource) context.lookup("jdbc/EDNLocalTxDataSource");
      
      BusinessEventConnectionFactory factory = 
        new SAQRemoteBusinessEventConnectionFactory(ds, localTxDs, userTransaction);
      
      return factory.createBusinessEventConnection();
    }

    private BusinessEvent updateAndConvertBody (String body) throws Exception {
      
      // [...]
      
      // Creation of the message to be sent over the EDN
      String TCEvenement = "TCEvenement";
      // A common mistake is to use the namespace of your message : IT'S NOT THE ONE YOU SHOULD USE !
      // You have to provide the namespace of your message as defined IN THE EDL FILE !
      String NameSpace = "http://fr.edf.doaat.coctos/events/edl/EventDefinition";
      BusinessEventBuilder builder = BusinessEventBuilder.newInstance();
      builder.setEventName(new QName(NameSpace, TCEvenement));
      builder.setBody(XMLUtil.parseDocumentFromXMLString(updatedBody).getDocumentElement());
      
      return builder.createEvent();
    }
    
    private String displayXMLDoc (Document doc) throws Exception {
      TransformerFactory transFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
      Transformer transformer = transFactory.newTransformer();
      StringWriter buffer = new StringWriter();
      transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.OMIT_XML_DECLARATION, "yes");
      transformer.transform(new DOMSource(doc), new StreamResult(buffer));
      return buffer.toString();    
    }
}

The method displayXMLDoc is completely optionnal : I used it to help me debug my code but that’s all.
Feel free to improve those codelines, as long as they help you, I’m glad.

Mots clés Technorati : JMS,EDN,MDB,Oracle AQ

Useful links:
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E21764_01/integration.1111/e10231/adptr_jms.htm
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E21764_01/integration.1111/e10224/obe_intro.htm#BABHBGAG
http://guidoschmutz.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/using-the-event-api-to-publish-an-event-to-the-event-delivery-network-edn-the-spring-way/
http://biemond.blogspot.fr/2011/06/configure-en-test-jms-based-edn-in-soa.html

Why is my MDB not reconnecting ?

I have recently encountered a problem I thought fixed for ages : the problem of a JMS consumer which is not reconnecting when the distant queue recovers from a momentary service loss.

As far as I can remember, I guess the first time I noticed that problem was with WebLogic Server 7 !
Now that I’m working with a recent (but not the most recent) version of WLS, I sincerely thought this bug was history …

To sum up the context in which I got that error : we’re using WLS, as the center of our messaging system, and BPEL PM (which has been live for more than a month now, by the way), which is used to coordinate messages (just as WLI did).

And when we had to restart WLS, I could see that no more messages were received by BPEL PM … (and you could think that the main source of the problem comes from the JCA adapter, but it’s not because I bypassed it and created my own JMS Bridge, based on a simple MDB)

So, in this blogpost, I’m going to expose how the error looks like (it’s not that obvious) and what to do to get rid of it.

Context

My project is based on WLS 10.3.4 so that’s the version I’m going to use.

The use case has been voluntarily simplified : it consists in two WLS domains (Producer / Consumer), with only one admin server in each domain.

I’ll create a JMS queue on the Producer domain, and deploy a MDB (obviously connecting to that queue through a foreign JMS server) on the Consumer domain.



Normally, everything should go according to plan. Then I’m going to restart the “Producer” domain. The behavior I’m expecting is that I should see some error messages from the “Consumer” domain, but when the distant server is back up & running, I’d like my MDB to reconnect and the error messages to stop flooding my logs.

Problem

First of all, if you’re trying to reproduce the problem yourself, please note that you may change the console cookie name if you don’t want to end up with a logout each time you click on a link in the other console. And you could also unable the on-demand deployment for the console.

Producer domain setup

First of all, I’ve got to create the JMS structure, composed of :

• a JMS server
• a JMS module, with a sub-deployment aiming at the previously created JMS server
• a connection factory (JNDI name : fr.mbutton.blog.jms.cf)
• and finally a jms queue (JNDI name : fr.mbutton.blog.jms.queue)

That being done, I will check if everything is theoretically callable from the outside, by checking the JNDI tree.

If not, you can untarget / retarget your JMS server, or restart your server. Anyway, make sure you have both your objects visible in the JNDI tree.

Consumer domain setup

Once you first domain is set up, we have to configure the foreign JMS server, and deploy our MDB.
Note : in order to be able to better understand what’s going on behind the scene, add the two options (where you want, as long as it is taken into account) :

-Dweblogic.debug.DebugEjbMdbConnection=true
-Dweblogic.StdoutDebugEnabled=true

I’ve set up a foreign server, connecting on “t3://localhost:7001”, with a foreign connection factory and foreign jms destination.

Name	Local JNDI	Distant JNDI
ForeignQueue	blog.foreign.queue	fr.mbutton.blog.jms.queue
ForeignConnectionFactory	blog.foreign.cf	fr.mbutton.blog.jms.cf

Note : I chosed to have a different local JNDI name for you not to mix up the domains, but I generally chose the same name.

Everything normally went fine, once again, by checking the JNDI tree, you will be sure :



If a exclamation point is visible near your ressources, it proves that something is not right. Double check your configuration.

Then, I created a MDB, thanks to NetBeans and since I configured my IDE to work with WLS, it should automatically propose the queue I defined, but it doesn’t work with foreign destination. It doesn’t matter : you may even skip the assistant and annotate yourself your pojo !

import javax.ejb.ActivationConfigProperty;
package fr.mbutton.blog.jms;
import javax.ejb.MessageDriven;
import javax.jms.Message;
import javax.jms.MessageListener;
/**
 * @author Maxence
 */
@MessageDriven(mappedName = "blog.foreign.queue", activationConfig = {
    @ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName = "acknowledgeMode", propertyValue = "Auto-acknowledge"),
    @ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName = "destinationType", propertyValue = "javax.jms.Queue")
})
public class NewMessageBean implements MessageListener {
    
    @Override
    public void onMessage(Message message) {
        System.out.println("A message has been received");
    }
}

Package your MDB so that you can deploy it on your server.

Once deployed, check that everything is normal in the “Monitoring” view :





Connection Status should be “Connected” and status “running”.

You should see, thanks to the two options we added before, some messages in your logs :

+++++++++++  Got JMSConnection ++++++++++
<17/04/2012#10:15:45.853#+0200> <Info> <EJB> <BEA-010060> <The Message-Driven EJB: NewMessageBean has connected/reconnected to the JMS destination: blog.foreign.queue.>
<17/04/2012#10:15:45.885#+0200> <Debug> <EjbMdbConnection> <BEA-000000> <[MDConnectionManager] MDB NotificationSender: State = CONNECTED>
<17/04/2012#10:15:45.886#+0200> <Debug> <EjbMdbConnection> <BEA-000000> <[MDConnectionManager] MDB NotificationSender: State = CONNECTED>
<17/04/2012#10:15:45.887#+0200> <Debug> <EjbMdbConnection> <BEA-000000> <[MDConnectionManager] MDB NotificationSender: State = UNDEPLOYING>
<17/04/2012#10:15:45.887#+0200> <Debug> <EjbMdbConnection> <BEA-000000> <[JMSConnectionPoller] disconnect is called>
<17/04/2012#10:15:45.887#+0200> <Debug> <EjbMdbConnection> <BEA-000000> <[MDConnectionManager] MDB NotificationSender: State = UNDEPLOYING>
<17/04/2012#10:15:45.888#+0200> <Debug> <EjbMdbConnection> <BEA-000000> <[MDConnectionManager] MDB NotificationSender: State = UNDEPLOYED>
<17/04/2012#10:15:45.986#+0200> <Debug> <EjbMdbConnection> <BEA-000000> <[MDConnectionManager] MDB TaskNotificationSender: State = CONNECTED>
<17/04/2012#10:15:45.986#+0200> <Debug> <EjbMdbConnection> <BEA-000000> <[JMSConnectionPoller]

Just for fun, let’s send a message : you can send it in many ways, but I’m a fan of Hermes JMS :)




Then you can check your message has been received by checking the monitoring of your MDB …



… or more simply, check your server logs :



Okay, everything works just fine (fortunately).

Now shut down the server from the “Producer” domain.

The MDB monitoring now indicates that :




And in the logs, you should see some error messages, such as :

####<15/06/2012#14:53:30.638#+0000> <Debug> <EjbMdbConnection> <localhost> <AdminServer> <[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '0' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'> <weblogic> <> <> <1339772010638> <BEA-000000> <[MDConnectionManager] MDB NewMessageBean: State = UNDEPLOYED>
####<15/06/2012#14:53:30.638#+0000> <Debug> <EjbMdbConnection> <localhost> <AdminServer> <[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '0' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'> <weblogic> <> <> <1339772010638> <BEA-000000> <[MDConnectionManager] MDB NewMessageBean: State = UNDEPLOYED>
####<15/06/2012#14:55:21.736#+0000> <Warning> <EJB> <localhost> <AdminServer> <[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '0' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'> <<anonymous>> <> <> <1339772121736> <BEA-010061> <The Message-Driven EJB: NewMessageBean is unable to connect to the JMS destination: blog.foreign.queue. The Error was:
java.lang.SecurityException: [Security:090398]Invalid Subject: principals=[weblogic, Administrators]
        at weblogic.security.service.SecurityServiceManager.seal(SecurityServiceManager.java:833)
        at weblogic.security.service.IdentityUtility.authenticatedSubjectToIdentity(IdentityUtility.java:30)
        at weblogic.security.service.RoleManager.getRoles(RoleManager.java:183)
        at weblogic.security.service.AuthorizationManager.isAccessAllowed(AuthorizationManager.java:375)
        at weblogic.jndi.internal.ServerNamingNode.checkPermission(ServerNamingNode.java:442)
        at weblogic.jndi.internal.ServerNamingNode.checkLookup(ServerNamingNode.java:423)
        at weblogic.jndi.internal.ServerNamingNode.lookupHere(ServerNamingNode.java:180)
        at weblogic.jndi.internal.BasicNamingNode.lookup(BasicNamingNode.java:206)
        at weblogic.jndi.internal.WLEventContextImpl.lookup(WLEventContextImpl.java:254)
        at weblogic.jndi.internal.WLContextImpl.lookup(WLContextImpl.java:411)
        at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(InitialContext.java:392)
        at weblogic.jms.common.CDS$2.run(CDS.java:486)
        at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.java:363)
        at weblogic.jms.common.CrossDomainSecurityManager.runAs(CrossDomainSecurityManager.java:131)
        at weblogic.jms.common.CDS.lookupDestination(CDS.java:480)
        at weblogic.jms.common.CDS.lookupDDAndCalloutListener(CDS.java:345)
        at weblogic.jms.common.CDS.ddLookup(CDS.java:1393)
        at weblogic.jms.common.CDS.access$600(CDS.java:41)
        at weblogic.jms.common.CDS$DDLookupTimerListener.timerExpired(CDS.java:1267)
        at weblogic.timers.internal.TimerImpl.run(TimerImpl.java:273)
        at weblogic.work.SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl$WorkAdapterImpl.run(SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl.java:528)
        at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:207)
        at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:176)

At first, I was completely surprised by that stack ! What in the world have CDS (Cross Domain Security) and security to do with my MDB reconnection ?

Resolution

I then open a case to the Oracle support and together, we found a similar issue which had been resolved thanks to a patch (I love when there’s a patch !).

That patch is “PIEF” in case you need it. I applied it and … nothing. I triple-checked that is had been taken into account, and yes it was …

Note : To play with patches, you can take a look on my previous blopost.

<Jun 13, 2012 11:52:54 AM UTC> <Notice> <WebLogicServer> <BEA-000365> <Server state changed to STARTING>
<Jun 13, 2012 11:52:54 AM UTC> <Info> <WorkManager> <BEA-002900> <Initializing self-tuning thread pool>
<13/06/2012#11:52:54.645#+0000> <Info> <WebLogicServer> <BEA-000214> <WebLogic Server "AdminServer" version:
WebLogic Server Temporary Patch for 11733525 Thu Feb 17 12:22:04 IST 2011
WebLogic Server Temporary Patch for BUG8268373 Wed May 04 11:35:00 IST 2011
WebLogic Server 10.3.4.0.1 PSU Patch for Bug11677325 Mon Apr 11 15:38:05 IST 2011
WebLogic Server Temporary Patch for 9923849 Mon Aug 09 15:28:06 MDT 2010
WebLogic Server 10.3.4.0  Fri Dec 17 20:47:33 PST 2010 1384255  Copyright (c) 1995, 2009, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.>

Well, I thought and thought and couldn’t stop thinking about the stack which was dealing with security & CDS.

As I’m a bit lazy when dealing with a proper CDS configuration, I first came with the easiest solution : domain trust.

I then entered the same password on both domains in the dedicated field (Domain > Security > General > Advanced > Credential)





I re-tested and … VICTORY ! It solves my problem !

Now, when I restart the server from the “producer” domain, the MDB disconnects & reconnects like it should have from the beginning !

<22/06/2012#06:20:20.593#+0000> <Debug> <EjbMdbConnection> <BEA-000000> <[JMSConnectionPoller] ** JMS Failure detected on destination:blog.foreign.queue. The exception was: weblogic.jms.common.LostServerException: java.lang.Exception: weblogic.rjvm.PeerGoneException: ; nested exception is:
        weblogic.utils.net.SocketResetException
Nested exception: java.lang.Exception: weblogic.rjvm.PeerGoneException: ; nested exception is:
        weblogic.utils.net.SocketResetException
Nested exception: weblogic.rjvm.PeerGoneException: ; nested exception is:
        weblogic.utils.net.SocketResetException
Nested exception: weblogic.utils.net.SocketResetException>
<22/06/2012#06:20:20.595#+0000> <Debug> <EjbMdbConnection> <BEA-000000> <[MDConnectionManager] MDB NewMessageBean: State = UNDEPLOYED>
<22/06/2012#06:20:20.595#+0000> <Debug> <EjbMdbConnection> <BEA-000000> <[MDConnectionManager] MDB NewMessageBean: State = UNDEPLOYED>
<22/06/2012#06:22:59.778#+0000> <Warning> <EJB> <BEA-010061> <The Message-Driven EJB: NewMessageBean is unable to connect to the JMS destination: blog.foreign.queue. The Error was:
javax.naming.CommunicationException [Root exception is java.net.ConnectException: t3://127.0.0.1:7001: Destination unreachable; nested exception is:
        java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused; No available router to destination]
        at weblogic.jndi.internal.ExceptionTranslator.toNamingException(ExceptionTranslator.java:40)
        at weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactoryDelegate.toNamingException(WLInitialContextFactoryDelegate.java:788)
        at weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactoryDelegate.getInitialContext(WLInitialContextFactoryDelegate.java:366)
        at weblogic.jndi.Environment.getContext(Environment.java:315)
        at weblogic.jndi.Environment.getContext(Environment.java:285)
        at weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactory.getInitialContext(WLInitialContextFactory.java:117)
        at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getInitialContext(NamingManager.java:667)
        at javax.naming.InitialContext.getDefaultInitCtx(InitialContext.java:288)
        at javax.naming.InitialContext.init(InitialContext.java:223)
        at javax.naming.InitialContext.<init>(InitialContext.java:197)
        at weblogic.deployment.jms.ForeignOpaqueReference.getReferent(ForeignOpaqueReference.java:182)
        at weblogic.jndi.internal.WLNamingManager.getObjectInstance(WLNamingManager.java:96)
        at weblogic.jndi.internal.ServerNamingNode.resolveObject(ServerNamingNode.java:377)
        at weblogic.jndi.internal.BasicNamingNode.resolveObject(BasicNamingNode.java:856)
        at weblogic.jndi.internal.BasicNamingNode.lookup(BasicNamingNode.java:209)
        at weblogic.jndi.internal.BasicNamingNode.lookup(BasicNamingNode.java:214)
        at weblogic.jndi.internal.BasicNamingNode.lookup(BasicNamingNode.java:214)
        at weblogic.jndi.internal.WLEventContextImpl.lookup(WLEventContextImpl.java:254)
        at weblogic.jndi.internal.WLContextImpl.lookup(WLContextImpl.java:411)
        at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(InitialContext.java:392)
        at weblogic.jms.common.CDS$2.run(CDS.java:486)
        at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.java:363)
        at weblogic.jms.common.CrossDomainSecurityManager.runAs(CrossDomainSecurityManager.java:131)
        at weblogic.jms.common.CDS.lookupDestination(CDS.java:480)
        at weblogic.jms.common.CDS.lookupDDAndCalloutListener(CDS.java:345)
        at weblogic.jms.common.CDS.ddLookup(CDS.java:1393)
        at weblogic.jms.common.CDS.access$600(CDS.java:41)
        at weblogic.jms.common.CDS$DDLookupTimerListener.timerExpired(CDS.java:1267)
        at weblogic.timers.internal.TimerImpl.run(TimerImpl.java:273)
        at weblogic.work.SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl$WorkAdapterImpl.run(SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl.java:528)
        at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:207)
        at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:176)
Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: t3://127.0.0.1:7001: Destination unreachable; nested exception is:
        java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused; No available router to destination
        at weblogic.rjvm.RJVMFinder.findOrCreateInternal(RJVMFinder.java:216)
        at weblogic.rjvm.RJVMFinder.findOrCreate(RJVMFinder.java:170)
        at weblogic.rjvm.ServerURL.findOrCreateRJVM(ServerURL.java:153)
        at weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactoryDelegate$1.run(WLInitialContextFactoryDelegate.java:345)
        at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.java:363)
        at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(SecurityManager.java:146)
        at weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactoryDelegate.getInitialContext(WLInitialContextFactoryDelegate.java:340)
        ... 29 more
Caused by: java.rmi.ConnectException: Destination unreachable; nested exception is:
        java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused; No available router to destination
        at weblogic.rjvm.ConnectionManager.bootstrap(ConnectionManager.java:470)
        at weblogic.rjvm.ConnectionManager.bootstrap(ConnectionManager.java:321)
        at weblogic.rjvm.RJVMManager.findOrCreateRemoteInternal(RJVMManager.java:254)
        at weblogic.rjvm.RJVMManager.findOrCreate(RJVMManager.java:197)
        at weblogic.rjvm.RJVMFinder.findOrCreateRemoteServer(RJVMFinder.java:238)
        at weblogic.rjvm.RJVMFinder.findOrCreateRemoteCluster(RJVMFinder.java:316)
        at weblogic.rjvm.RJVMFinder.findOrCreateInternal(RJVMFinder.java:205)
        ... 35 more

[ ... ] And when the server is back online

+++++++++++  Got JMSConnection ++++++++++

<22/06/2012#06:23:16.320#+0000> <Debug> <EjbMdbConnection> <BEA-000000> <[MDConnectionManager] MDB NewMessageBean: State = CONNECTED>
<22/06/2012#06:23:16.320#+0000> <Debug> <EjbMdbConnection> <BEA-000000> <[JMSConnectionPoller]

Conclusion

So as you can see, the problem is annoying, but the solution is not that hard to implement, as long as you know what to do. If you have any problem, I strongly suggest that you open a case to the Oracle Support. You could even find some traces of my case ;)

But if you have the chance to run one of the latest versions (WLS 10.3.5 and up), everything should be fine for you ! (I successfully tested it myself)

Mots clés Technorati : MDB,Reconnection,Foreign server,SecurityException,Invalid Subject

BSU & OPatch commands

Just a little reminder, because I’m fed up with being forced to look for them everytime I have to work with patches …

BSU

Listing all the current applied patches

[admin@machine bsu]$ ./bsu.sh -view -status=applied -prod_dir=yourBEAHome/wlserver_10.3/

ProductName: WebLogic Server
ProductVersion: 10.3 MP4
Components: WebLogic Server/Core Application Server,WebLogic Server/Admi
nistration Console,WebLogic Server/Configuration Wizard and
Upgrade Framework,WebLogic Server/Web 2.0 HTTP Pub-Sub Serve
r,WebLogic Server/WebLogic SCA,WebLogic Server/WebLogic JDBC
Drivers,WebLogic Server/WebLogic Web Server Plugins,WebLogi
c Server/UDDI and Xquery Support,WebLogic Server/Workshop Co
de Completion Support
BEAHome: yourBEAHome
ProductHome: yourBEAHome/wlserver_10.3
PatchSystemDir: yourBEAHome/utils/bsu
PatchDir: yourBEAHome/patch_wls1034
Profile: Default
DownloadDir: yourBEAHome/utils/bsu/cache_dir
JavaVersion: 1.6.0_21
JavaVendor: Sun

Patch ID: QWG8 (9923849)
Patch ID: Q8SV (11677325)
Patch ID: LCYX (BUG8268373)
Patch ID: PIEF (11733525)

Removing patch PIEF

[admin@machine bsu]$ ./bsu.sh -remove -patchlist=PIEF -prod_dir=yourBEAHome/wlserver_10.3/ Checking for conflicts..
No conflict(s) detected

Removing Patch ID: PIEF.
Result: Success

Re-installing patch PIEF

[admin@machine bsu]$ ./bsu.sh -install -patchlist=PIEF -prod_dir=yourBEAHome/wlserver_10.3/ Checking for conflicts..
No conflict(s) detected

Installing Patch ID: PIEF.
Result: Success

Get an old BEA Patch

In My Oracle Support, choose the tab "Patches & Updates" and enter the patch ID. Then you should be proposed to download the patch.

OPatch

Pre-requisites

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B28359_01/em.111/b31207/oui7_opatch.htm

The OPatch utility requires the following environment:

• The Oracle home environment variable (ORACLE_HOME) must point to a valid Oracle home directory and match the value used during installation of the Oracle home directory.
  
• JRE version 1.4 or higher, Java commands for Windows, and ar, cp, fuser, and make commands for UNIX must be made available.
  
• The library path must be set correctly for Oracle Real Application Clusters environments. OPatch uses some APIs to detect if the system is a Real Application Clusters system. Ensure that the library path is set correctly as follows:
  

  For Solaris:
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH = $ORACLE_HOME/lib32:$ORACLE_HOME/lib
  
  For HP-UX:
  SHLIB_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib32:/usr/lib

  
  

Listing applied patches

yourBEAHome/soa/OPatch/opatch lsinventory -jre yourBEAHome/jdk1.6_64

Apply a patch

yourBEAHome/soa/OPatch/opatch apply -jre yourBEAHome/jdk1.6_64

Uninstall a patch

yourBEAHome/soa/OPatch/opatch rollback -id 13986504 -jre yourBEAHome/jdk1.6_64

Mots clés Technorati : BSU,OPatch,Oracle Support,Patches