[CATALINA] Unknown protocol jndi: && MalformedURLException

[Vincent Harcq <vi...@hubmethods.com>]

Hi,
I come back on a problem expalined in a mail (11 may).
Do you have any news on that one ?

Previous Mail :
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Craig,

> Simon,
>
> I'm going to do some internal checking within Sun on this as
> well -- I've
> only played with RMI a little.  The context class loader
> inside Catalina
> web apps is the class loader for that web application, so
> there might be
> conflicts with RMI's assumptions.
>
> I also have a question -- if the classes of the objects you
> are passing
> are themselves loaded from a parent class loader (i.e. from
> $CATALINA_HOME/lib) instead of the web app class loader, do
> you still have
> to do the marshalling workaround?  I would have expected
> those classes to
> be annotated with a "file:" URL, because they are loaded by a
> class loader
> that uses "file:" URLs for its repository.

I'll try this, but I still expect the context class loader to load the
classes, since the file: url will reflect the host of Catalina, but I'm
already on the RMI server host, so file system is different. Unless I miss
somthing (which is very likely), also RMI here seems to behave not as
espected...
And BTW should't the classes loaded from $CATALINA_HOME/lib have a codebase
annotation in form of an URL and served by a HTTP server (Catalina itself I
think) so that the RMI server can dynamically download these classes in case
of necessity ?
I imagine a situation where I deploy a war on Catalina with some
implementation classes, and a jar on a RMI server with the interface that
the classes in the war implement. The RMI server should be able to download
the classes from Catalina, but to do this the codebase annotation should be
something like http://web_host/dynamic_download_classes/ instead of
jar:file:$CATALINA_HOME/lib/xxx.jar!/, correct ?

Thanks for your attention,

Simon

>
> Craig
>
> On Fri, 11 May 2001, Bordet, Simone wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I encounter the following problem using Catalina 4.0b3-4
> (while it was
> > working with Tomcat 3.2.x).
> > I deploy a war containing a servlet and a javabean. From a
> JSP I invoke the
> > servlet, that creates the javabean, that invoke a remote
> object via RMI
> > calling a method that takes an instance of a parameter
> class as method
> > argument.
> > In the war I have the servlet in a jar under WEB-INF/lib,
> and the javabean,
> > the stub, and parameter classes under WEB-INF/classes.
> > Inside the javabean, I lookup JNDI and obtain a
> java.lang.reflect.Proxy that
> > at the end calls the java.rmi.Remote object passing it the argument.
> >
> > Now, if inside the proxy I call
> RMIClassLoader.getClassAnnotation on the
> > parameter class, I obtain:
> > jndi:/WEB-INF/classes/ jar:jndi:/WEB-INF/lib/xxx.jar!/
> >
> > This class annotation is written to the RMI stream and when
> it comes to the
> > RMI server side, I got the MalformedURLException: unknown
> protocol jndi.
> > Of course the RMI server side does not know how to handle
> the jndi: protocol
> > of Catalina, and it does have the parameter class in its
> classpath. Also,
> > the RMI server does not run with the SecurityManager.
> >
> > Another thing that bothers me is that I expected the
> context classloader to
> > load the class in the RMI server (from its classpath),
> discarding the
> > annotated codebase contained in the RMI stream, but this is
> not the case
> > (but maybe I'm missing something).
> > Furthermore I got a workaround: if I wrap all arguments
> into a wrapper
> > class, and then the wrapper object into a
> java.rmi.MarshalledObject, then
> > the whole rigmarole works, ie the call arrives to the server (since
> > java.rmi.MarshalledObject is not loaded from
> WEB-INF/classes or WEB-INF/lib
> > I have no protocol problems) and then when I call
> MarshalledObject.get() the
> > context classloader loads correctly the classes from the RMI server
> > classpath.
> >
> > Finally this problems happens also when the "RMI server" is
> JBoss, as
> > recently pointed out in the JBoss' mailing list.
> >
> > Any thoughts ?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Simon
> >
>

Re: Tomcat 4 installer - testers needed

[Stephane Bailliez <st...@wanadoo.fr>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Remy Maucherat" <re...@apache.org>

> I spent some time this afternoon trying Nullsoft Installer, and to see
what
> it could do, I wrote an installation script for Tomcat 4.0.
>
> I'd like to get some feedback and testing on the generated installer.
[...]

It's a breeze to install on Win2K.

Congratulation for taking the time to do it Remy, I'm sure that many people
will appreciate this install.

There's somewhat a cosmetic problem for the ASF license display but that's
really no big deal.

Cheers,

Stephane.

Tomcat 4 installer - testers needed

[Remy Maucherat <re...@apache.org>]

Hi all,

I spent some time this afternoon trying Nullsoft Installer, and to see what
it could do, I wrote an installation script for Tomcat 4.0.

I'd like to get some feedback and testing on the generated installer. It
should run on Win9x and up, although I only tested it on Win2k.
(This binary is based on the current CVS tree)
http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-tomcat-4.0/nightly/jakarta-tomcat-4
.0-20010714.exe

Remy