IBM BPM unable to detect WODM server? - soap

Following the tutorial on
http://bpmwiki.blueworkslive.com/display/samples/Decision+Service+demonstrating+BPM+and+WODM+integration#DecisionServicedemonstratingBPMandWODMintegration-PartI%26nbsp%3B%5C%26nbsp%3BImplementingtheJRulesSolution
I'm able to run the rule app using soapUI and everything works fine. Now, when I try to implement the rule service on BPM, it seems BPM is unable to detect the WODM server.
When I test this using soapUI, the wsdl URL was something like: http://localhost:9081/xxxxxxxx.
Now, when I try to implement this on BPM, I've set the Server location to http://localhost:9081 and SOAP Port to 8881 as shown below:
However, I've failed to login. I'm wondering what SOAP Port actually is and why BPM needs one and soapUI doesn't?
Update:
When I set the SOAP Port to 8881, it's throwing
java.io.IOException: Mismatched serialization UIDs :
Source(RepId RMI:java.lang.Throwable:F...............) =........ whereas Target (RepId RMI:com.ibm.jsse2.util.h:CAAC186..................) = D9CE.........
When I set the SOAP Port to 8880, it's not throwing any errors but there's no ruleset and ruleapp available
When I set the SOAP Port to 8882 and above, it's throwing me
[SOAPException: faultCode=SOAP-ENV; msg=Error opening socket:
java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect; targetException: Connection
refused: connect; targetException=java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Error opening socket:
java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect]

Has your WAS been installed using the default ports or custom ports?
I have got this working using BPM 8.5 and ODM 8.5, but the default SOAP port is 8880 (although I have noticed that you are using port 9081, which implies you might have more than one WAS server installed so its bumped all the port numbers up by one, so this might not be the problem).
The other thing to check is how you have set up the BPM server in the Process App Settings in BPM. The format of the server location should be http://:

BPM need the SOAP port of WODM server to explore what rule app / rule set are available, so that BPM could present a list for you to choose from.
When you call a ruleset in soapUI like following, you have already specified which rule app / rule set to call in the URL.
https://HOST:PORT/DecisionService/ws/ruleapp/ruleset
You may go to WAS admin console to check what's the SOAP port of the server that running WODM.

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FTP over Secure Gateway on Bluemix

We have java application running on bluemix that is supposed to submit some files over FTP to the server located in intranet.
Everything works as expected when executing the application locally, but something goes wrong when the application tries to submit something over the secure gateway.
The Gateway has a destination configured for the port 21. Looking through the logs we can see that the application is able to connect to the server and execute some commands there, but fails when it comes to the file submission (by timeout in case of passive mode and saying that the connection is closed in active)
Passive attempt results:
Active attempt results:
We are able to use the gateway to connect to the external db2 instance successfully.
Is some additional configuration required? Is FTP is possible at all over the Secure Gateway?
This question was also asked on dW Answers at the following URL:https://developer.ibm.com/answers/questions/386433/ftp-over-secure-gateway-on-bluemix.html
As stated in response to that question, SFTP doesn't run over port 21; it runs over port 22.
Answer found at: https://developer.ibm.com/answers/questions/386433/ftp-over-secure-gateway-on-bluemix.html
"you need to define two secure gateway destinations - one for command
port 21 and one for data port, which will depend on your connection
mode."

Java Web application not sending Email on Ubuntu server

My play framework web application sends automatically emails to user using Apache commons email library, everything works fine on my machine, but when I deploy it on an Ubuntu server it is unable to send email.
It throws exceptions like org.apache.commons.mail.EmailException: Sending the email to the following server failed : smtp.googlemail.com:465 (I also tried different configuration with smtp.google.mail port 465,25 and 587 with or without ssl and tls)
and connection timed out.
I starting to believe that is a problem of some configuration of my ubuntu server.
Any suggestion?
If i type ufw status command I receive status disabled.
Thanks
I am going to close this question, because I found the solution. Basically my Server provider (Scaleway) has a security configuration where SMTP is blocked. I asked them to unlock It.

How to connect to a SVC endpoint?

Given a URL that ends with .svc and that is supposed to run a SOAP web service, how can I get some data from it?
I tried:
to access it via a web browser
to access it via the Python's library Zeep
to access it via the Microsoft utilitary svcutil.exe
In all cases, I get a timeout error:
Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 10060] A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time.
Does it mean that the web service does not work, or that I do things the wrong way?
Importantly - there is a big distinction between "service not active" (and by that I mean no listener on port 80), and "port not open in firewall".
If the problem were simply that you didn't have a service listening on port 80, you would have gotten something like "connection reset" or "connection rejected" as an error.
Instead, you appear to have gotten a timeout, which implies that either the SYN from the client doesn't reach the server, or the SYN/ACK from the server doesn't reach the client. [ You could verify this by doing a packet capture for port 80 on both client and server ]
I would be tempted to check any firewall in front of the server to see that it's letting port 80 traffic through from your client.
Diagnosing Connectivity Issues
Without more details it is difficult to say, but given your timeout error:
Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 10060] A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time.
This indicates a network connectivity error at the TCP level, so it is likely web service is not active on the port your are using (default of 80 for http, 443 for https).
In a comment you said you pinged the URL and it responded normally - I assume this means you pinged the hostname. If this is responding normally it means the server is active, but that doesn't tell you anything about the availability of the web service on that server.
telnet %hostname% %port%
where %port% is 80 for http or 443 for https, or something else if there is a port number in the URL you are using (e.g. http://somehost.somewhere.com:port/path.scv)
If ping works and telnet does not connect, then the service is not active.
I suspect this is the case. If the service was active and it was simply that you requesting the data incorrectly, I believe you'd get a different error message - e.g. a valid HTTP response with status code 500 or 404 or similar.
Getting Data from a Web Service
As to your original question as to how to get data from it - once you verify that the service is active, the method to get the data will depend on the specification of the service - i.e.:
which HTTP methods (GET, POST, etc.) does it support
what parameters it requires
what format it requires the parameters in
are the parameters in the query string or POST body.
To interact with a web service there are many command line tools that can be used, as well as the options you have tried, including:
POSTMan Google Chrome Plugin
curl
wget
In windows Powershell, the Invoke-WebRequest
Getting Data from a SOAP Web Service
As you have said it is a SOAP web service, if you have the URL for the wsdl, you can often interract with it using Powershell SOAP WebService Proxies.
The wsdl location varies, but is often at a URL that looks something like.
http://host/path.svc?wsdl
http://host/path.svc/?wsdl
http://host/path/?wsdl
Also if it's configured correctly, just loading the URL in a browser will present a page with a link to the wsdl.
The general idea is:
$URI="http://hostname/path.svc?wsdl"
$Proxy = New-WebserviceProxy $URI –Namespace X
$Proxy | get-member -MemberType Method
This will return a list of methods on the proxy that you can invoke as powershell methods. Any types defined in the wsdl that are needed for arguments, or returned from methods will be available within the namespace X. Invoking the methods will proxy the request to the service, taking care of serializing parameters and serializing results into powershell objects.

getting SocketTimeoutException while using smack 4.1.2 in android to connect to my ejabberd server

I am trying to connect to ejabberd server using smack API 4.1.2 (no asmack) on android device. while running smackClient program , I am getting below error
java.net.SocketTimeOutException:Failed to connect to abc.example.com/182.*.*.* (on port 5222) after 30000ms,'abc.example.com:5222' failed because java.net.ConnectionException: Failed to connect to abc.example.com/182.*.*.* (on port 5222) after 30000ms
Connection to same ejabberd server using same android device is working fine using xmpp clients like xabber. so Issue is surely with client code I have written. Below is the snippet of my code
XMPPTCPConnectionConfiguration config = XMPPTCPConnectionConfiguration.builder()
.setUsernameAndPassword(userName, password)
.setServiceName("abc.example.com")
.setSecurityMode(ConnectionConfiguration.SecurityMode.disabled)
.setSendPresence(true)
.build();
connection = new XMPPTCPConnection(config);
connection.connect();
connection.login(userName, password);
I am missing something in my client code that xabber is having so xabber connection is working from same device using same credential.
Please help
Hard to tell without real IP and names in your example. However, my best guess would be about how the address to your IP server is resolved.
There seems to be discrepancy in your example with server (example.com) and service name in your code (abc.example.com).
My guess it that your client is attempting to connect to another machine that the one the XMPP server is running on.
So, here are the things to check when you have issues with a server not replying:
Check how the address of the domain is resolved. You may need to specify another machine name that the domain. If this is a test domain, there is possibly not a DNS setup, so you may even need to specify server IP (while still configuring the client to use an XMPP domain, that's two different things).
In client, log the IP you are trying to connect to, to make sure this is the one where the server is running.
If server is not on the main domain server, you may even need to do DNS SRV record queries for XMPP C2S service.
For me , it took hours to find the solution.
I forget to turnoff the VPN application(Express VPN) .Network tunneling was the root cause .
And change the Network protocol version properties as below ,
Choose the 1st option (Obtain DNS server address automatically).
My experience: I used following code
DomainBareJid xmppServiceDomain = JidCreate.domainBareFrom("desktop-urvfr83");
//DomainBareJid xmppServiceDomain = JidCreate.domainBareFrom("192.168.1.3");
InetAddress addr = InetAddress.getByName("192.168.1.3");
XMPPTCPConnectionConfiguration config = XMPPTCPConnectionConfiguration.builder()
.setUsernameAndPassword("alir", "111111")
.setHostAddress(addr)
.setResource("phonn")
.setXmppDomain(xmppServiceDomain)
.setSecurityMode(ConnectionConfiguration.SecurityMode.disabled)
.setPort(5222)
.build();
but it could not connect and produced timeout connection exception. When I disabled windows firewall it worked correctly and connected.

Swing Client - EJB2 lookup over HTTP in JBoss 5.1

I have a swing client which connects to my ejb2 application deployed in JBoss 5.1. There is a particular requirement from Customer to make it available on internet.
The deployment architecture is as follows,
swing_client --> extranet_ip |firewall | --> iis7_machine --> jboss5.1_machine.
jndi properties in client is as follows
Context.PROVIDER_URL=http://extranet_ip:9180/invoker/JNDIFactory
Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY=org.jboss.naming.HttpNamingContextFactory
This configuration works fine when the client is inside intranet. But it does not work in internet (extranet).
When I tried initially I got the error 'Connection refused'
After seeing some posts in various forums, I changed the file server\deploy\http-invoker.sar\META-INF\jboss-service.xml, to reflect the extranet_ip in invokerURL.
Aftet this I am getting the following error.
org.jboss.remoting.CannotConnectException: Can not get connection to server. Problem establishing socket connection for InvokerLocator [socket://10.200.1.193:4546/?dataType=invocation&enableTcpNoDelay=true&marshaller=org.jboss.invocation.unified.marshall.InvocationMarshaller&unmarshaller=org.jboss.invocation.unified.marshall.InvocationUnMarshaller]
Where 10.200.1.193 is the intranet IP address of JBoss Server machine.
I tried changing the trasport parameter in remoting-jboss-beans.xml to http, but at that time client is not working in both intranet and extranet.
Please anybody suggest a way forward for this issue. Or is there any other way to implement RMI over Http in JBoss?
Update: As a solution, I had to change my deployment architecture as follows.
swing_client --> extranet_ip |firewall | --> jboss5.1_machine
where the JBoss Application Server will be directly exposed through firewall. Then update clientConnectAddress in the remoting-jboss-beans.xml to the extranet IP. Also open the ports 8080 & 4446 in the firewall for this address.
This way the swing client is working if I use the jnid properties as follows.
Context.PROVIDER_URL : http://extranet_ip:8080/invoker/JNDIFactory
Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY : org.jboss.naming.HttpNamingContextFactory
But still looking for a solution where there is no need to open any non-standard ports and no need to expose the Application Server directly.
After a long struggle I found a solution for my issue. The solution was to change EJB container's invoker type to http in standardjboss.xml. When the invoker is http, it will use the settings in http-invoker.sar for remote binding.