Load properties into application based on Weblogic managed server - soap

I have this requirement - I have several managed servers running on my Weblogic (version 12.x). There are multiple machines as well.
Machine 1: Managed server 1, 2
Machine 2: Managed server 3, 4
I have a spring-boot based application (war) that is deployed across all managed servers. It has both an MDB (to read messages from JMS queue), and a SOAP Webservice.
The queue that it is reading messages from is however targeted/deployed only on a few managed servers - 1 and 3.
Now, I don't want my application to fail or start complaining when it doesn't find the queue on managed servers 2 and 4. Hence, I wish to load my MDB based on a property/configuration specific to managed server.
Is there any way to achieve this?

You could add a custom System property to the server start parameters of server 2 and 4 in the admin console, ie: "-DignoreMDB=1" and read that using a System.getProperty("ignoreMDB") != null call. Note that you need to restart the nodemanager first and your managed servers second to get modification to the server start parameters active.

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looking for current example of MDB consuming messages from remote queue in Wildfly 10

I have a Wildfly 10 instance which defines a queue, publishes to that queue as well as receives from that queue via an MDB.
That has been have accomplished.
Now I want to add a second Wildfly 10 instance, running on another machine, which will also receive messages from that same (remote) queue defined in the first instance.
I've spent 2 days looking for a current example of how to do this.
There are tons of questions, and some outdated answers.
It seems like the one of the most trivial things to expect from a Q implementation, yet i cannot find any example.
Would someone please refer me to a good and current example (Wildlfy 10) of what needs to be done as far as annotation of the MDB, configuration of the standalone-full.xml, and and security requirements?
I looked into a similar scenario and I had as well trouble to find good documentation.
There are several ways to connect JMS-Queues together:
JMS core bridges
JMS bridges
Connections to a remote server (using a remote connector or properties directly in your MDB).
JMS-Clustering
… ?
I created a demo project at Github which uses "JMS-Bridges" to forward messages to another server. The project also uses remote connections to listen to messages of a remote server. The readme explains step by step how I would configure "Wildfly 10" servers that they use the same destination for JMS messages.
The best source of information concerning this topic seems to be the Messaging documentation of the Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 which is as well valid for Wildfly 10.

How to run my own instance of freegeoip on my own server

I'm evelauting using thie service. http://www.freegeoip.net/ & i quote the text below.
The freegeoip web server is free and open source so if the public service limit is a problem for you, download it and run your own instance
The public service limit of 10,000 queries per hour by default might or might not be a problem for me, so i just want to take the safe route early enough by downloading it and running my own instance.
However, i have zero experience on deploying such a server. Does any one here have or know of a walk-through that can get me started deploying my won instance. Can i host this server on windows or my own instance must be hosted on a linux server?
My site is hosted in IIS on windows.

Is This MSDTC configuration Issue?

It seems I am running into the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC) related issue.
SCENARIO
I am using TransactionScope and with in the single scope it hits two different databases on different servers (for instance, DB_A running Windows Server 2003 and DB_B running Windows Server 2008). One database is accessed using Entity Framework 4.0 and another using normal ADO.NET APIs.
When I run the application from my development machine (running WinXP) it commits and rollbacks both the connections accurately. But when I run the application, deployed on another server (for instance WAS_A running Windows Server 2003) it commits correctly but in case of exception is doesn't roll back the database activities on both the servers.
I thought it would be the MSDTC configuration issue on the WAS_A. So I went to the MSDTC -> Security Configuration and checked all the available options (as I did previously on other machines). But still I am facing the same issue.
Looking for your expert advices. :)
I believe that you need to look into Enabling Transaction Flow. Specifically, take a look at how one may error and the other complete as described in TransactionScope and WCF Services:
an error in a second WCF service call was NOT rolling back the changes made in a previous WCF service call...
In order to create an ambient transaction in your client and ensure that it is used by your WCF services...
The article then details the following steps:
Configure Your Binding with transactionFlow
Decorate Your Interface with [TransactionFlow(TransactionFlowOption)]
Decorate Your Method with [OperationBehavior(TransactionScopeRequired)]
Optionally update your Connection Strings with Transaction Binding*
*Note: This is optional in my opinion.

how to achieve session replication in jboss 7

I have made two standalone jboss 7 instances and I am able to load balance them using mod_jk.
Now, I would like to implement session replication in my app.
I have searched the internet and found that adding <distributable/> tag to web.xml would enable the session replication. Unfortunately, it is not working for me.
For instance: If I start both my jboss instances, run my application and shutdown the instance where session is created, the second node(instance) creates a new session.
As a result, the session data is lost and I have to log again into my application.
Could any one please explain to me the configuration that is required in jboss 7 for session replication to work ?

What is the reason for using of Service Binder while running multiple JBoss (JBoss 4.2)

I found couple of tutorials how to run multiple instances of JBoss on the same machine.
All of them mention uncommenting Service Binder and having separate service-binding.xml files for each server.
The question is why it's done like that? Is there any reason except adding additional layer of indirection?
It looks the same could be done by modification of ports in jboss-service.xml for each server. The only restriction would be that there won't be easy way to switch which instance of JBoss uses which set of ports.
You are right with modifying the ports in jboss-service.xml. This is the straightforward and genuine way to change the ports.
Unfortunately, ports are not only defined in that file, but also in other places like jboss-web's configuration etc.
Catching all those places can be error prone.
So the idea was to have a central file (service-binding.xml) that lives in the root of a server installation. You basically copy the 'default' config to server1, server2 etc and then via command line pass in the server name when starting so that the correct port-offset for all of the services is taken from service-bindings.xml and applied to the resulting runtime configuration.
JBossAS 7 takes this concept one step further to the ServiceBindingGroups, where the base ports are defined on a domain level and then per server you pick a basic group + just a port offset by name, so that there is even less work needed than in as4