I have a websphere instance with some ejb's deployed.
How can i find out all the existing JNDI bindings available as part of the websphere instance.
I'm basically validating a feature in our product which gets all the JNDI names available. I'm trying to write the code for implementing the same for my understanding instead of debugging it.
If there is an option in webSphere to get the same that will also suffice for my requirement but I will personally want to write code and try it out.
WebSphere provides the dumpNamespace utility for that. Look at WAS_HOME/bin, you should find it there.
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I would like a recommendation on how to instrument each pipeline call using Elastic APM API on Intershop 7.10.
I want to to create a separate span as described here:
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/apm/agent/java/master/public-api.html#api-span-start-span
(Using try catch block with parent.startSpan())
For now I have tried looking into ICM knowledge base for topics regarding ELK stack (found none) and looked in Component Framework section on how to inject some code around PipelineProcessorImpl.executePipeline or put another pipeline processor implementation through component framewowrk but couldn't find nothing, it seems for now that pipeline processor implementation are not hooked through Component Framework.
General answer is, you should not bother replacing PipelineProcessor with your own implementation. Even for such a seemingly small task of feeding your own monitoring solution.
I (may) have a better solution for you. Haven't tested it though. Have a look at the detailed answer to this intershop question: Adding a servlet to run in Intershop 7.4 application server context
You don't want to add a new servlet but you want to bind a new javax.servlet.Filter implementation that hooks into the Application Server request chain. You can do that the same way as described, but invoke method filter("/servlet/Beehive/*") instead of serve("/servlet/DEMO/*")
I am novices to the field of Identity and Access management.
Till now I know, Sail point has provided the some direct connectors to integrate the known systems like LDAP, HR systems, OIM, Databases..
And sailpoint also provided the support for disconnected applications with the use of Custom connectors.
Here, My question is how to develop a custom connector..?
I do not have jar file provided by sailpoint which contain "AbstractConnector" class.
So that I can write my own class and develop..?
I also so not understand, what to do with that class?(if i have a jar)
How sailpoint will refer to that class..
Do we need to deploy that class to somewhere...
Here I am expecting the complete flow to develop and deploy the custom connector..
If anyone is working please help..
If you unzip your identityiq.war, you'll find a JAR file called WEB-INF/lib/connector-bundle.jar. This is the JAR where you'll find AbstractConnector. Once you've written your connector code, you will need to compile it and bundle it into a JAR file, which you will place into WEB-INF/lib.
Finally, you will need to update the ConnectorRegistry object (under Configuration on the debug screen) to reference the new class, which will make it available as an Application type. If it has custom connection parameters (as most do), you will also need an xhtml page that will be embedded into the Sailpoint UI to prompt the user configuring the Application.
If you have Compass access, they have a whitepaper called Custom Connectors that you will find helpful.
All that said, I encourage you to try to find a way to use an out-of-box connector if possible.
Most of the times it will be better if you use the DelimitedFile connector, you can import a CSV of identity data, and make it work within Sailpoint's workflow. You will be able to map fields, correlate accounts and create multi-valued group memberships rapidly. Of course, this means that Sailpoint will not be connected directly to the application, and you will have to develop a workflow to extract the identities and upload them. But at least, you can integrate without going the Custom Connector way.
I am doing the following:
porting several legacy applications from WebLogic to JBoss EAP 7. Some of the components being ported are EJBs. Others are servlet apps that invoke these EJBs. These EJBs are deployed in ejb-jars. I know that I could wrap this whole thing into a big EAR file but we don't want to do that. The servlets and the EJB jars need to be separately deployable components.
Then there is the logging setup. We are using log4j2 and we want to keep independent of the JBoss logging setup. I have created a JBoss module that contains all the log4j2 jars with the proper dependencies, and logging works.
The servlet runs and logs, invokes the EJBs and they work.
The only problem is how to configure the EJB's logging. In a Web App like the servlet, it's easy, just specify the log4j logging configuration file in web.xml. What's the analog for an ejb jar? I couldn't think of a way.
I tried the following: Add a logger/appender to the configuration of the servlet app for the EJB package and specify a new file. It doesn't work. The new logfile does get created but nothing gets written to the logfile. There should be output, but there isn't, so evidently when the EJB runs, its LogManager is not using the configuration specified in the servlet.
What is the right way for specifying a log4j2 configuration in an EJB deployed in an EJB jar on JBoss EAP7?
I had previously posted in this space a solution involving use of the #postConstruct and #preDestroy methods to initialize and shut down LoggerContext objects.
This plan fell apart when I tried to extend it to stateless session beans. It worked okay for Stateful Beans. Or so I thought. Eventually I found an Oracle document on EJB Restrictions which exposed the weaknesses in what I was doing. My "solution" included a non-final static LoggerContext member of the EJB class. I found a way to make it final, which did allow the stateless case to work. But I was increasingly dissatisfied with my approach. Even in the stateful case, I found issues that might bite me later in a clustered environment.
What I now come to believe is that I should not do what I was trying to do.
I can't even imagine the complexity of what a static final LoggerContext would look like if an EJB were distributed to another machine in the cluster. Objects like LoggerContext don't belong as members, static or not, of container-managed objects like EJBs.
It's not even clear that EJBs are the right implementation technology for what I am trying to build. My use cases are not really transactional so the case for EJB implementation is not strong so one possible path leads away from EJBs altogether.
The real message is that if EJBs or other container-managed components are indicated, it's probably best to use the container-provided logging system. I like log4j2, but until JBoss supports it, it's best to stick with container-provided log4j1 or some other framework.
I'm moving from IBM RAD 8 / WAS 7.0 to IBM RAD 9 / WAS 8.5. Liberty Profile. There's a plenty of configuration things such as URLs and namespace bindings.
I've found an information that WSADMIN is not working for Liberty Profile. I haven't found, however, the information, how to access similar functionality as in wsadmin/jython, for example for creating URLs, namespace bindings, etc.?
How to script such things under WebSphere Liberty Profile?
I'll try to address a few things that are implied by your use of wsadmin. I may be overshooting, but I hope this helps:
WSADMIN applies only to the full WebSphere Application Server. jython scripting for the Liberty profile is possible, though you're basically performing JMX operations on a server. Here is something to get started with: https://www.ibmdw.net/wasdev/docs/creating-remote-jmx-connections-with-jython/
There is no way to reconfigure a Liberty profile server via a JMX operation, however. All server configuration (or reconfiguration) is done by editing the server configuration file (either manually with an editor of your choice, via the eclipse tools, or with a script that modifies your XML).
The Liberty profile does not support CORBA or CORBA namespaces (corbaloc or corbaname), or remote EJBs. Liberty profile servers also are not part of the cell/node topology of full profile servers. Instead, Liberty profile servers form collectives, as described here:
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v8r5/topic/com.ibm.websphere.wlp.core.doc/ae/cwlp_collective_arch.html
You can add strings to JNDI using the jndiEntry element in your server configuration as described here: http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v8r5/topic/com.ibm.websphere.wlp.core.doc/ae/twlp_dep_jndi.html
Information about configuring datasources (I am guessing at what you might need URLs and namespace bindings for) is here (see also the subtopics): http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v8r5/topic/com.ibm.websphere.wlp.core.doc/ae/twlp_dep_configuring_ds.html.
The easiest way is to edit the XML directly or using a script in the language of your choice. The idea is that the config is simple enough wsadmin is no longer needed - it's intended to be human readable and human maintainable. You can import XML snippets if you have repeated config elements you want to share similar elements across multiple servers, or create the same config elements multiple times.
I have a Java EE web application (WebSphere 7). The code looks up EJBs on the app server by doing JDNI look ups.
In my development environment (Eclipse / IBM RAD), the EAR project is called customerEAR, so the JNDI lookup is like this:
ejblocal:customerEAR.ear/customerEJB.jar/CustomerService#com.mydomain.service.CustomerServiceLocal
But when the EAR is deployed on the production application server, the lookup fails and the log file states that the EJB is available at:
ejblocal:server1-dev-customerEAR.ear/customerEJB.jar/CustomerService#com.mydomain.service.CustomerServiceLocal
It's possible that the guy deploying the EAR to the server is actually renaming the EAR file from customerEAR.ear to server1-dev-customerEAR.jar -- or maybe WebSphere is renaming stuff on deployment? I can't get hold of the deployment guy to find out for sure.
But, regardless, my question is:
Is there a cleaner way to do the lookup of the EJBs? Like, by using a shorter lookup name, or a "relative path" instead of the "full path"?
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated, thanks!
Rob
You can define a name for your remote EJB using annotations in your bean class or define it in ejb-jar.xml.
#Stateless(mappedName = "TestBean")
#Remote(TestBeanRemote.class)
public class TestBean implements TestBeanRemote
{
//...
}
Lookup on client:
TestBeanRemote testBeanRemote = (TestBeanRemote)new InitialContext().lookup("TestBean");
If you don't use "mappedName" some Application Servers add some suffix to your Bean name to autogenerate a name. So better use "mappedName" to define it server independent.
If you want shorter names, create an ibm-ejb-jar-bnd.xml and specify a binding rather than leaving it to the product to generate an unambiguous one. See the section entitled "Binding file Example 1".
Depending on whether or not you have multiple EJBs implementing your interface, you can also use "short form" bindings. See the section entitled "Default binding pattern".
Since the deployment guy insists on renaming my EAR before deploying it, I managed to get this to work, I managed to get it working by shortening this:
ejblocal:customerEAR.ear/customerEJB.jar/CustomerService#com.mydomain.service.CustomerServiceLocal
to this:
ejblocal:com.mydomain.service.CustomerServiceLocal