Random hiccups with Orion+https
Orion 1.4.7 + https (a test ssl cert from Thawte installed following the instructions at Atlassian site) is causing problems: You get thrown out of the applicaton now and then (randomly it seems). Without https the application works fine. Is Orion's https code buggy (should we use Apache as frontend instead), is there some known problems with some specific browsers etc or what is going on? Regards, Peter
Re: Orion+Linux under heavy load
Would you happen to have more specific info about the reliability issue? Is there any differences between JBoss and Orion? How about running these beasts on UNIX? Is Windows still the fastest optino we have? Cheers, Peter On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 11:29:32AM -0300, Jorge Jimenez C wrote: Don't worry. That problem is already fixed in the latest linux kernel releases. I don't remember exactly release number but you can easily find it. I've made some tests with JBoss and it runs very well. JJ - Original Message - From: Peter Peltonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Orion-Interest [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 7:57 AM Subject: Orion+Linux under heavy load When browsing through JBoss's documentation I found this remark: http://www.jboss.org/online-manual/HTML/ch11s02.html --snip-- Be aware however that JBoss performance is very dependant on the underlying configuration. For example, informal tests show that on the same PC box, it can run twice as fast under Windows 2000 / Sun JVM than under Linux 2.2 / Sun JVM. Linux users probably already know that linux does not support real threads. Under heavy load, JBoss will for example crash with 200 concurrent users under linux, whereas it can handle 1000 of them on the same box with Windows 2000. Of course, if you use Apache or Jetty in front of JBoss to handle the thread pooling, this will not be a problem. --/snip-- How about Orion, has anyone compared Win2k and Linux regarding speed? The last paragraph is really alarming -- is it really so that Linux is not a wise choice as a production platform? Is this why UNIX is so popular in production environments? Or is JBoss just coded poorly? How many users (sessions) can Orion handle, is there a difference in Win2k / Linux / UNIX performance? Cheers, Peter
Orion+Linux under heavy load
When browsing through JBoss's documentation I found this remark: http://www.jboss.org/online-manual/HTML/ch11s02.html --snip-- Be aware however that JBoss performance is very dependant on the underlying configuration. For example, informal tests show that on the same PC box, it can run twice as fast under Windows 2000 / Sun JVM than under Linux 2.2 / Sun JVM. Linux users probably already know that linux does not support real threads. Under heavy load, JBoss will for example crash with 200 concurrent users under linux, whereas it can handle 1000 of them on the same box with Windows 2000. Of course, if you use Apache or Jetty in front of JBoss to handle the thread pooling, this will not be a problem. --/snip-- How about Orion, has anyone compared Win2k and Linux regarding speed? The last paragraph is really alarming -- is it really so that Linux is not a wise choice as a production platform? Is this why UNIX is so popular in production environments? Or is JBoss just coded poorly? How many users (sessions) can Orion handle, is there a difference in Win2k / Linux / UNIX performance? Cheers, Peter
Orion load balancing
Hi, We are planning a production environment for a J2EE application and are now wondering what kind of loads Orion can handle, say in a 2 CPU Intel with 512M RAM system? How many concurrent sessions can a box like that handle? We probably need load balancing and clustering, so I'd like to know your experiences regarding Orion about this? With Orion there comes a loadbalancer.jar, how functioning is this tool? What are my other options (I think Apache could be acting as a front end for the Orion app servers too, right?) and do they offer something that Orion's loadbalancer doesn't? Regards, Peter
Re: orion, ssl and ie
Now I've got some more information on the problem and it seems that there are random mishaps with IE, but the worst case scenario is this combination: https, Netscape 4.4x with iMac (MacOS 9.something)... Strange, as I've never heard anyone complaining about Netscape. But that is a quite old version there, so I'll have to recommend about upgrading first. Regards, Peter
orion, ssl and ie
We've created a ssl secured site for Orion (1.4.7) with java 1.3.1's keytool. The certificate we use is homemade. There is a problem though: When user accesses our servlets with IE (different 5.x versions) our system kicks the users that are logged in when they click on a single link in our app. Sometimes IE works ok, sometimes it behaves this way. It seems that the problem is worst in IE's running under Mac. There is no problem with Netscape. Any ideas what could be causing this? -- Peter Peltonen Webmaster, Fivetec Solutions Oy Melkonkatu 28 E 00210 Helsinki GSM. +358-40 720 6535 Tel. +358-9-6824 7666 Fax. +358-9-6824 7664 http://www.fivetec.com mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --
increasing JVM's memory limit
With jserv I can configure the maximum memory that the JVM can use with this kind of line in jserv.properties file: wrapper.bin.parameters=-mx128m How do I achieve the same with Orion? Regards, Peter
Re: Creating keystore file from an OpenSSL created cert
Smith Jason wrote: Try reading in the certificate into a byte array and then see if you can convert it the X509 spec. KeyFactory kf = KeyFactory.getInstance(RSA); X509EncodedKeySpec x509spec = new X509EncodedKeySpec(ByteArray); PublicKey pk = kf.generatePublic(x509spec); Maybe you can then write pk to file and try to import again. This sounds rather complicated... As I don't know what is a byte array and how to read a file in it! Shouldn't the X509 cert created with OpenSSL work? Maybe it requires certain information I left out -- I only put my CN and O entries in it? If all you need is a self signed certificate, then you can create that with the java key tool... How do I do that with keytool? I just wasted a day while trying to figureout how to accomplish that with OpenSSL and I wouldn't want to do that again... I've managed to generate a keystore and a csr for my site, but how do I become my own CA with keytool and sign the csr and make it a crt, could someone kindly demonstrate to me? Regards, Peter
Re: Creating keystore file from an OpenSSL created (solved)cert
Well, partially: I still cannot use OpenSSL created certificates, but I managed to create one with keytool (under Linux, I didn't encounter any problems with RSA described in orionsuuport.com). Which was actually a thousand times easier than with OpenSSL. Just reading the man pages did the job :) Cheers, Peter
Creating keystore file from an OpenSSL created cert
I have created and self-signed an X.509 cert with OpenSSL --snip-- root# openssl genrsa -des3 -out mysite.key 1024 root# openssl req -new -key server.key -out mysite.csr root# /usr/local/bin/sign.sh mysite.csr root# # openssl verify -CAfile /etc/ssl/certs/ca.crt mysite.crt /etc/ssl/certs/fivesync.crt: OK --snip-- I then tried to create the keystore file: --snip-- orion]$ keytool -keystore keystore -keyalg RSA -import -trustcacerts -file \ mysite.crt Enter keystore password: TestPass keytool error: java.lang.Exception: Input not an X.509 certificate --snip-- The keytool is from Sun's jdk-1.3.1-fcs package. I've tried it in both Linux and Win2k with the same result. What to do? t: Peter
where to get 1.4.8?
We've encountered this annoying bug featured in bugzilla too: --snip-- I created two simple servlets, Servlet1 Servlet2. One simply creates a link to the other one. When I run the first servlet like so http://host/servlet/com.sequenet.test.servlet.Servlet1 and click on the link to the second servlet Orion simply runs the first servlet again. --snip-- Magnus has commented that this is fixed in the 1.4.8 version: --snip-- --- Additional Comments From Magnus Stenman 2001-04-10 02:04 --- Fixed in 1.4.8, thanks for the report and the testcase! --snip-- Great that the bug has been fixed, but where do I get the 1.4.8 version of Orion? I tried to use the autoupdate, but that didn't help. Cheers, Peter
Re: Orion on Red Hat 6.2
We are running Orion on RH 6.2, too. Here's a simple script we use to
start/stop it:
--snip--
#!/bin/sh
#
# Startup script for the Orion server
#
#chkconfig: 2345 9 91
#description: starts/stops orion app server
#
# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
start)
echo -n "Starting Orion: "
cd /usr/src/orion/
java -jar orion.jar orionlog.txt 21
echo " [ OK ]"
;;
stop)
echo -n "Shutting down Orion: "
cd /usr/src/orion/
java -jar admin.jar ormi://localhost admin password -shutdown force
echo " [ OK ]"
;;
restart)
$0 stop
$0 start
;;
log)
echo -n "Orion log:"
cd /usr/src/orion/
more orionlog.txt
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|log}"
exit 1
esac
exit 0
--snip--
Cheers,
Peter
Thomas Pridham wrote:
I have installed Orion on RH Linux 6.2 and it runs correctly if I start it
from the command line. I have tried to use the startup script from
OrionSupport to have Orion start on a reboot. The script will not execute
(I placed it in /etc/rc.d/init.d). I have changed the script parameters,
checked the script's permissions etc...still no luck. Anyone have any
ideas? What are others using to get Orion running on Linux?
I also tried seaching the Orion mailing list..no luck there either.
Thanks,
Tom Pridham
Software Engineer
Computer Management Consultants
6951 Pistol Range Road
Tampa, FL 33536
http://www.cmctpa.com
http://www.oakscape.com
orion + jbuilder4 -- sapdb?
Thank you for everyone answering my MySQL question. So, it appears that the situation is this, if I want to use Orion + JBuilder4: * PostgreSQL works fine except it isn't able to show tables in JBuilder * MySQL's EJB support doesn't work (and we need that!) * If we want to use Hypersonic we have to stop Orion while updating the db So, the question is, does SapDB work with our combination (has anyone used it with JBuilder and Orion)? I haven't really heard about it before, so how does it compare for example to MySQL and PostgreSQL? Regards, Peter
Re: orion + jbuilder4 -- sapdb?
Randahl Fink Isaksen wrote: Thanks for your recommendation. We've thought about Interbase. I browsed through Borland's web pages which were really not that informative and I got an impression that *development* use with Interbase is free but *production* use would be under commercial license... That was why we didn't consider it at this time. Or was I totally wrong and Interbase is free for all uses? I am just exploring SapDB. Got the RPMs installed and I'm now browsing through the PDF documentation, which is a bit confusing (is there an HTML version somewhere of these docs? Acroread under Linux doesn't behave well with my Netscape). I cannot find a "beginner's tutorial" anywhere, I mean information like how to start / stop the service, how to start the gui and so on. Any help appreciated :) Cheers, Peter Hi Peter I have not read your original post, nor the replies. However, I just wanted to recommend using Interbase. If you want to use Borland JBuilder, it seems obvious to use Borland Interbase aswell - I am not completely up to speed with JBuilder, but I would expect that their own database product would have the best integration with their IDE. We have chosen Interbase because it is an old, high quality, reliable product from Borland. I have absolutely nothing against Postgre or MySQL, but the fact that Borland has released Interbase as a free open source product gives you free access to a database which has been through 15 years of professional development. Now, if anyone can mention a product which beats that I am all ears... In hopes I have not mentioned something, someone else already posted Randahl -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Peter Peltonen Sent: 5. april 2001 10:17 To: Orion-Interest Cc: Jukka-Pekka Naukkarinen; Ilkka Suvanto Subject: orion + jbuilder4 -- sapdb? Thank you for everyone answering my MySQL question. So, it appears that the situation is this, if I want to use Orion + JBuilder4: * PostgreSQL works fine except it isn't able to show tables in JBuilder * MySQL's EJB support doesn't work (and we need that!) * If we want to use Hypersonic we have to stop Orion while updating the db So, the question is, does SapDB work with our combination (has anyone used it with JBuilder and Orion)? I haven't really heard about it before, so how does it compare for example to MySQL and PostgreSQL? Regards, Peter
orion with mysql?
Is it possible to use MySQL with Orion? Does it need a db-schema of it's own? We tried to use PostgreSQL but JBuilder4 didn't cope with it very well (JBuilder isn't able to show Postgre's tables). We also tried Hypersonic, but it seems that when both Orion and JBuilder communicate with the db the db gets confused. At least the changes we make in JBuilder don't get updated. Any ideas about a good open-source db that would work with both Orion and JBuilder would be appreciated! Regards, Peter
How to upgrade Xalan / Xerces?
I want to upgrade Xalan and Xerces to newer versions that comes with JAXP found at http://java.sun.com/xml? Do I just overwrite the .jar files? Regards, Peter
CLASSPATH setup
I'm a beginner with Orion and Java setup with Linux. I would like to know if I have setup my system correctly. I have installed the following on my RedHat 6.2 system: postgresql-jdbc-7.0.2-2 jdk-1.2.2 j2sdkee-1.2.1 orion-1.4.5 For everything work right, I should have the CLASSPATH variable setup right, yes? I am a bit confused where to setup it, actually. Java 2 SDK Enterprise Edition - Reading the j2sdkee-1.2.1 installation instructions I added the postgres jdbc-driver to the J2EE_CLASSPATH variable in /usr/local/java/j2sdkee1.2.1/bin/userconfig.sh: --snip-- J2EE_CLASSPATH=/usr/src/j2sdkee1.2.1/lib/j2ee.jar:/usr/src/j2sdkee1.2.1/lib/system/jdbc7.0-1.2.jar export J2EE_CLASSPATH --snip-- I tried running the userconfig.sh script but nothing seems to happen. My J2EE_CLASSPATH variable did not appear to be existing when I ran echo. So, when is this file read, then? And what does this warning mean (quoted from the installation instructions): "Note: You should remove the driver .jar files from the CLASSPATH environment variable." So, what is the relation with J2EE_CLASSPATH and CLASSPATH? In my setup (see below) J2EE_CLASSPATH is included in CLASSPATH, is this wrong? /etc/profile As running usreconfig.sh did nothing, I configured the variables I needed in /etc/profile. In my /etc/profile reads: --snip-- JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/java/jdk1.2.2 J2EE_CLASSPATH=/usr/src/j2sdkee1.2.1/lib/system/jdbc7.0-1.2.jar CLASSPATH=$JAVA_HOME:$J2EE_CLASSPATH export JAVA_HOME J2EE_CLASSPATH CLASSPATH --snip-- So, my current setup is this: [peter@cayman orion]$ echo $CLASSPATH /usr/local/java/jdk1.2.2:/usr/src/j2sdkee1.2.1/lib/system/jdbc7.0-1.2.jar [peter@cayman orion]$ echo $JAVA_HOME /usr/local/java/jdk1.2.2 [peter@cayman orion]$ echo $J2EE_CLASSPATH /usr/src/j2sdkee1.2.1/lib/system/jdbc7.0-1.2.jar Is this alright? Am I missing something etc.? Regards, Peter
posting a message to the orion mailing list
I got this reply while trying to send a message to the list. What's up, am I sending my mails to the wrong address while trying to reach the Orion Server's Mailing List? I sent the message to the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, Peter -- the bounce i received: Subject: Your message concerning CLASSPATH setup Date:Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:03:25 +0100 From:mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Peter Peltonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The person you have tried to contact is no longer employed at Netch Technologies. You may wish to contact us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead, or visit us on the web, http://www.netch.se/ . This message is probably caused by one of the following recipient adresses: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you feel this message is in error, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] to get in touch with the mail administrator. regards, /netch/ The original message follows: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Feb 23 14:03:24 2001Received: from ernst-hugo.netch.se (IDENT:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [194.16.2.10]) by atwood.netch.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA00629 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:03:23 +0100 Received: from druid.evermind.net (IDENT:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [195.58.126.196]) by ernst-hugo.netch.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA18816; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:03:23 +0100 Received: from druid.evermind.net (IDENT:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [195.58.126.196]) by druid.evermind.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA17563; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:32:44 -0100 Received: from mandy.eunet.fi (mandy.eunet.fi [193.66.1.129]) by paladin.evermind.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA07702 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 15:24:20 -0500 Received: from mail.fivetec.com (net130.fivetec.com [193.65.111.130]) by mandy.eunet.fi (8.9.3/8.9.3-KJN-spamaway) with SMTP id OAA15525 for [EMAIL PROTECTED] (origin [EMAIL PROTECTED]); Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:26:45 +0200 (EET) Received: (qmail 15483 invoked from network); 23 Feb 2001 12:26:54 - Received: from net190.fivetec.com (HELO fivetec.com) (@193.65.111.190) by net130.fivetec.com with SMTP; 23 Feb 2001 12:26:54 - Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:26:44 +0200 From: Peter Peltonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Fivetec Solutions Oy X-Mailer: Orion ListServer X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Orion-Interest [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: CLASSPATH setup Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: Orion-Interest [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm a beginner with Orion and Java setup with Linux. I would like to know if I have setup my system correctly. I have installed the following on my RedHat 6.2 system: postgresql-jdbc-7.0.2-2 jdk-1.2.2 j2sdkee-1.2.1 orion-1.4.5 For everything work right, I should have the CLASSPATH variable setup right, yes? I am a bit confused where to setup it, actually. Java 2 SDK Enterprise Edition - Reading the j2sdkee-1.2.1 installation instructions I added the postgres jdbc-driver to the J2EE_CLASSPATH variable in /usr/local/java/j2sdkee1.2.1/bin/userconfig.sh: --snip-- J2EE_CLASSPATH=/usr/src/j2sdkee1.2.1/lib/j2ee.jar:/usr/src/j2sdkee1.2.1/lib/system/jdbc7.0-1.2.jar export J2EE_CLASSPATH --snip-- I tried running the userconfig.sh script but nothing seems to happen. My J2EE_CLASSPATH variable did not appear to be existing when I ran echo. So, when is this file read, then? And what does this warning mean (quoted from the installation instructions): "Note: You should remove the driver .jar files from the CLASSPATH environment variable." So, what is the relation with J2EE_CLASSPATH and CLASSPATH? In my setup (see below) J2EE_CLASSPATH is included in CLASSPATH, is this wrong? /etc/profile As running usreconfig.sh did nothing, I configured the variables I needed in /etc/profile. In my /etc/profile reads: --snip-- JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/java/jdk1.2.2 J2EE_CLASSPATH=/usr/src/j2sdkee1.2.1/lib/system/jdbc7.0-1.2.jar CLASSPATH=$JAVA_HOME:$J2EE_CLASSPATH export JAVA_HOME J2EE_CLASSPATH CLASSPATH --snip-- So, my current setup is this: [peter@cayman orion]$ echo $CLASSPATH /usr/local/java/jdk1.2.2:/usr/src/j2sdkee1.2.1/lib/system/jdbc7.0-1.2.jar [peter@cayman orion]$ echo $JAVA_HOME /usr/local/java/jdk1.2.2 [peter@cayman orion]$ echo $J2EE_CLASSPATH /usr/src/j2sdkee1.2.1/lib/system/jdbc7.0-1.2.jar Is this alright? Am I missing something etc.? Regards, Peter
restarting orion
When I give the command "java -jar admin.jar ormi://localhost:90 admin mypassword -restart" I get the error message: Error: javax.naming.NamingException: Lookup error: java.io.StreamCorruptedException: Caught EOFException while reading the stream header; nested exception is: java.io.StreamCorruptedException: Caught EOFException while reading the stream header Here's some background of my fresh installation: I've installed Orion 1.4.5 on RedHat Linux 6.2 that has j2sdkee-1_2_1 and jdk1.2.2 installed on it. I followed the instructions in Installation Guide and unpacked Orion to /usr/src/orion as root. I ran the command "java -jar orion.jar -install" which asked for an admin password. I gave it a one. I started Orion with "java -jar orion.jar". I tried and I can access the server with my web browser. What's wrong, why won't my Orion restart? Regards, Peter
