The open-source application server WildFly from which the RedHat owned JBoss application server is derived is one of the most used Java application server lately. This is caused by the strong market consolidation that is happening that caused the Java application server environment to become very restricted. Basically the only open-source enterprise grade Java application… Read More »
The following is a very quick guide on how to set up a EasyRSA certificate based authentication of SoapUI API client to connect to a WebService based API that runs on JBoss or WildFly. Generate a local CA with EasyRSA Download and install easy-rsa – https://github.com/OpenVPN/easy-rsa Go to the installation folder and change the following… Read More »
WebLogic application server has its share of mind boggling error messages the same as its competition like WebSphere or JBoss. For some weird reason my servers (WebLogic version of a JVM instance) all dies and entered the weird state of “INCOMPATIBLE STATE”. Of course the author of that state label forgot to mention “incompatible with… Read More »
There is a known issue that when you upgrade from Windows 7 Pro to Windows 10 Pro directly you may end up with your only user changed from administrator to guest. This is what happened to me on one of the family laptops. Of course you end up with a stupid useless machine on which… Read More »
When using XA data sources with Websphere and Oracle we must grant to the Oracle user rights to perform XA recovery. STEP 1: Create an XA datasource AdminTask.createJDBCProvider(‘[-scope Node=’+ node +’,Server=’+serverName +’ -databaseType Oracle -providerType “Oracle JDBC Driver” -implementationType “XA data source” -name “‘+jdbcXAProviderName +'” -description “Oracle JDBC Driver (XA)” -classpath [${ORACLE_JDBC_DRIVER_PATH}/ojdbc7.jar ] -nativePath “”… Read More »
When running a Websphere Application server instance in a docker container, if the Service Integration Bus (SIB) is defined to store all the messages and data in an external database there is an issue caused by the way the bus is created. When the SIB is initialized the given name depends on the hostname of… Read More »
Nginx can be used very nicely to aggregate resources after the same fronted by using it as a proxy. I want my set-up to be like: URL1: https://blog.voina.org -> nas1 hosted wordpress URL2: https://blog.voina.org/store -> nas2 hosted store with URL https://nas/store URL3: https://blog.voina.org/doc -> nas4 hosted wiki with URL https://nas4/wiki How can we do this… Read More »
There are some hidden dependencies of running oracle database in a docker container under Fedora/CentOS/RedHat Linux. STEP 1: Kernel parameters Because the Oracle engine from the Docker container uses in fact the kernel of the host machine we cannot escape the need to set up some kernel parameters on the host. On the host machine… Read More »
There is an annoying issue with a Jboss EAP 7 Docker container I am using. After 3 deploys of my ear package I hit the “java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Metaspace” issue. According to RedHat Solution 2038983 this is a known issue caused by: Root Cause The Metaspace is being exhausted. Either it is undersized, or there is a… Read More »
A very important release announced in a post on the Oracle blog. Java SE support for Docker CPU and memory limits In short: “As of Java SE 8u131, and in JDK 9, the JVM is Docker-aware with respect to Docker CPU limits transparently.” SET 1: If -XX:ParalllelGCThreads, or -XX:CICompilerCount are not specified as command line… Read More »