How can I get JBoss AS 5 web sessions to be maintained in Infinispan?
Have a look at the source code of JBoss AS 6 and JBoss AS 7, both of which use Infinispan for HTTP sessions. May not be that simple to implement though. Personally, I think your best bet would be to upgrade to JBoss AS 6 or 7.
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I need to setup JBOSS EAP 7 - IBM LDAP connectivity for securing management console access. I am new to JBOSS. I have installed JBOSS EAP 7 and need the users in LDAP to access JBOSS console.
Please guide me for the entire process and setup.
Thanks
Is:
2.4.2. Adding Authentication via LDAP
what you are looking for?
If application server instances reside on different machines ?
I mainly want to know the configurations guide on the jboss eap server side.
I wrote this how-to a while ago on our project wiki: JBoss AS instances in Domain mode with mod_cluster load balancer. Please, check it out and ask away if it didn't help.
I'd like to know if it's possible to secure access to the JMX channel when running JBoss EAP 6 (or WildFly). AFAIK, the only available check is username and password which can be added just for remote connections.
Thanks!
The packaging of JMX has been removed from JBoss EAP due to probable security vulnerabilities, JMX was part of JBoss in their AS versions. I assume that you have deployed the JMX yourself onto your JBoss EAP server. So, definately, you will not get anything from JBoss EAP to secure your JMX access. But yes, you can implement your own username and passwrod authenticaiton.
Hope this helps.
I'm trying to find the best way to grammatically determine if my program is running on Jboss 5 or Jboss 7 (eap-6.1). The ways I've been finding so far are jboss 5 or jboss 7 specific, which doesn't work because the code has to work in both. Tried both solutions from here: How do I programmatically obtain the version in JBoss AS 5.1? and they didn't work. One complained about org.jboss.Main not existing in jboss 7, the other complained aobut not finidng "jmx/rmi/RMIAdaptor".
The only way I can see is to do Class.forName to look for "org.jboss.Version" (should be found if jboss 5) and if that fails, do Class.forName "org.jboss.util.xml.catalog.Version" (jboss 7). But that seems like a terrible idea.
The reason I need to know if the war is running on jboss 5 or 7 is because there are some custom files that are located in different places in both. So it's like "if jboss 5, execute this piece of code, if jboss 7 execute the other.
Ok i just saw what the problem is.
I would suggest you to think about design issues/refactoring of your software.
If you want to provide your software within different environments, seperate your logic from
technology dependencies.
Build facedes and interfaces to meet environmental requironments.
In my oppionen thats much better as to think we must support all integration platforms and support all there versions. This is completely impossible.
So decouple your business logic and offer specific interfaces. These interfaces (adapters) are much simplier to implement and to maintain.
Hope it helps.
UPDATE DUE TO COMMENT.
I think a solution is for servers 4 to 6 is to use
the MBean Server of JBoss to lookup the registered web application
which is associated to the deployed WarFile.
I suggest first to lookup the registered MBean of the web application manually using the JBoss jmx-console. The name of the WebApplication should be found under the capital "web" or "web-deployment" within the jmx-console.
If you found that name you can implement an own jmx based lookup mechanism
to check for that name.
Here is an Tutorial: pretty old but i think it gives you an idea how to do.
There must be more tutorials for this problem:
http://www.theserverside.com/news/1364648/Using-JMX-to-Manage-Web-Applications
Within JBoss 7 i just can give you the hint that its architecture is based on OSGI. So to lookup for other services you should have a look to this mechanism.
In any case you don't have direct access to the file system and the deployment directory
from an application which is deployed within a JEE container, except of
using the mechanisms provided by the container. JNDI Lookup, JMX ManagedBean mechanism, Java Connector Archicture (JCA) (makes no sense in your case)
It's not an answer just an suggestions since the implementations are completely different
One way could be to use the "interceptors" which are executed during bootstrap and before any ejb invocation and there you have access to the invocation context in other words ejb container.
I can't give you any example but this would be an access point to start.
Another accesspoint is to check for system wide JMX Beans by looking through the
Adminstratore console of the JBoss Server.
You can inject JMX Bean state into your application through the Context Mechansim.
Take a look from Version 4 to 6 at the JMX Managed Bean mechanism. The JMX Achitecture is the main concept of JBoss 3 to 6, so at this point you can influence and maintain the JBoss behaviour.
Aditionally i think you have differences from 4 to 6.x version and 7.0 because since
7 it's a completely new architecture. Since 7.0 the JMX architecture doens't exists anymore.
I need to access EJBs deployed in JBoss AS 6, but I am using JBoss AS 7.1.1 Final, which dropped the JNP lookup.
Is it possible to do so, or do I need to downgrade to JBoss AS 6 (upgrading the other server is impossible)?
I've dug through the AS 7 forums and SO, but did not find any references for this..
Thanks in advance!
In general EJB remote communication between two different servers never works.
JBoss is especially known to have a total lack of attention for compatibility. Even a minor difference in version (a minor security update for instance) is already enough to break compatibility. I know for a fact that EJB remoting between JBoss AS 5 and 6 does not work, and I'm pretty sure it doesn't work between 6 and 7.
The root of the problem is that Java EE never specified how remote bean discovery should take place and what the requirements for the client exactly are (one exception is the application client container, which only works in Java SE and is so arcane that almost nobody uses it).
Most vendors use some kind of client jar, which in case of Jboss is nearly the entire server. Because it's nearly the entire server, you can't include it in another server as hundreds if not thousands of classes would clash.
A Jboss employee once started an experiment with an isolating class loader that would load these clients libs isolated from the main server, but as far as I know nobody ever got this to work.