This is starting to make more sense to me. Can you point me at the
implementation we currently have for the sun orb? Also, what is the
information the socket factory needs from the orb?
-dain
On Sep 8, 2006, at 4:02 PM, Rick McGuire wrote:
Dain Sundstrom wrote:
I'm more confused now... is the ORB aware of the geronimo kernel?
If not, what code is talking to the registry?
Only the socket factory is aware of the geronimo kernel. This is a
pluggable bit of code that is configured by specifying a special
argument on ORB.init(). Both Yoko and the Sun ORB have a similar
facility in that regard. The ORB instantiates an instance of the
specified class and plugs it in as the provider that creates the
sockets used for the connections. The socket factory, once
created, needs some configuration info that's held in the GBean
that created the ORB instance. Unfortunately, there's no way to
pass object references through the interface used to create an ORB
instance...we're limited to string arguments and properties (and
again, I have the same problem with the Sun ORB as well).
Rick
-dain
On Sep 8, 2006, at 3:44 PM, Rick McGuire wrote:
David Jencks wrote:
I don't follow this at all. What gbean is creating the orb? Do
I understand correctly that the ssl info can be in either a
CorbaBean or a CSSBean? Can these gbeans create the socket
factory and whatever needs it get it from them using a reference
from that "X" bean to the CorbaBean/CSSBean? It sounds like
there's a circular dependency but I don't see what the
dependency of the CorbaBean/CSSBean is on.
The ORB instantiates the socket factory, based on arguments
passed in to ORB.init(), so there's no way to get a reference to
the factory after the ORB is created. The ORB instances are
created by the doStart() methods of either a CorbaBean or
CSSBean, which tells the ORB to create a socket factory
instance. The only information I'm able to pass into the socket
factory instance is a single string value. I was passing the
abstract name of the instantiating GBean, which I was then
attempting to retrieve using kernel.getGBean(). Unfortunately,
since the ORB is getting initialized by the bean's doStart()
method, the bean is not yet active, and not retrievable.
I managed to get around this problem by creating a registry in
the class that configures and creates the ORBs. The socket
factory calls back to that registry to retrieve the reference,
and everything works fine from there. This afternoon, I managed
to successfully start the j2ee-corba module using the Yoko ORB.
That means we're successfully launching the transient name
service plus 2 ORBs (one using plain sockets, one using SSL). I
immediately found a problem with stopping the module, but it's
nice to actually report progress!
Rick
thanks
david jencks
On Sep 8, 2006, at 2:25 PM, Dain Sundstrom wrote:
I'm not sure I totally follow this, but is sounds like a
classic circular dependency problem.
To start with using KernelRegistry.getSingleKernel() or looking
up references via getGBean are both highly discouraged. It is
better use either a GBean reference or to pass a reference to
'this' to the corba socket factory in the doStart method (you
should never publish a public 'this' reference from a
constructor).
In this case can we change the socket factory so it has a
create method taking the orb or a create method that takes the
information it extracts from the orb?
-dain
On Sep 8, 2006, at 6:42 AM, Rick McGuire wrote:
I think I've run into a classic chicken-and-egg problem trying
to get yoko hooked into Geronimo.
Let me recap the situation first, and the consensus solution
we came up with earlier. To fully enable the SSL transport
for Yoko, it's necessary to cause Yoko to load a socket
factory object that will be used to sort out what sort of
sockets need to get created for a given connection situation.
This socket factory needs access to information held by the
creating CORBABean or CSSBean object. The socket factory is
enabled by setting an argument on the call to ORB.init() to
identify the name of the socket factory class, and there's an
additional optional argument that can contain a single string
value that's passed to the socket factory's init() method.
So, to hook the socket factory back to the launching CORBABean
or CSSBean object, the socket factory argument value is set to
the abstract name for the associated bean instance, and the
socket factor init() method retrieves the reference using:
Kernel kernel = KernelRegistry.getSingleKernel();
config = (ORBConfiguration)kernel.getGBean(new
AbstractName(new URI(configName)));
I'm getting the ORB launched, the socket factory class is
getting loaded and the init() is failing with the following
exception:
java.lang.IllegalStateException: GBean is not running:
org.apache.geronimo.configs/j2ee-corba/1.2-SNAPSHOT/car?
ServiceModule=org.apache.geronimo.configs/j2ee-corba/1.2-
SNAPSHOT/car,j2eeType=CORBABean,name=Server
In the calling sequence, the ORB is initialized in the
CORBABean or CSSBean doStart() method, so these beans are not
yet in a started state when the socket factory gets
initialized. I'm unable to delay resolution of the bean
because the first actions required of the socket factory occur
before the doStart() methods return.
The best solution I've come up thus far would be to keep a
private registry of the beans in the ORBConfigAdapter class as
static methods, and have the SocketFactory use that to
retrieve the reference. I'd rather not resort to that if
there is a better solution.
Rick
