Configure JBOSS Using HTTP Port for RMI and JNDI

[roli8200]

Hallo

I've got the job to configure our JBOSS Server to use only the http port 8080 or 80 for transportation of JNDI and RMI communication. We want to set a http reverse proxy in front of the JBOSS Server. How can I configure jboss opening only this 8080 port for all communication also including the jms part.

Kind regards

Roland Käser
Systems Administrator

[jburugupalli]

HI,

The relevant topic is "HTTPInvokers". So serach for this in the documentation and also in the forums and you will get all the informaiton needed. We are successfully using it in the reverse proxy case also.

Have fun,

regards
Jani.

[roli8200]

Many thanks

But i've read all the tutorials and tried all the samples but it doesn't work.

We have a big j2ee application but i cannot use this for testing. I wrote a small hello world bean for the test case which is acessed from a command line client on a other machine which gets the home-interface through jndi and creates a bean which answers with the small hello world method. I can acess JNDI through the http invoker and get successfully the home interface but as soon as i try to create the bean, the stub tries to connect the server via the port 4444 and not via the 8080 http invoker port.

Whats wrong?

Roland Kaeser

[frito]

Sounds like you configured the JNDI to use HttpNamingContextFactory for looking up with HTTP and forgot to configure the proxy binding for your bean in your beans jboss.xml file.

[roli8200]

This sounds very interesting. Please excuse my dumb question: Which proxy bindings. How to configure it?

Many thanks

Roland Kaeser

[frito]

Proxy bindings are configured in conf/standardjboss.xml or the configuration is deployed with your bean using the jboss.xml .

The second way looks like something like that (in jboss.xml):

 <enterprise-beans>
 <session>
 ...
 <invoker-bindings>
 <invoker>
 <invoker-proxy-binding-name>theBinding</invoker-proxy-binding-name>
 </invoker>
 </invoker-bindings>
 </session>
 ...
 </enterprise-beans>

 <invoker-proxy-bindings>
 <invoker-proxy-binding>
 <name>theBinding</name>
 ...
 </invoker-proxy-binding>
 </invoker-proxy-bindings>

Since I didn't use HTTP for EJB invocation for now, you should even take jburugupalli's advice to heart and search the doko and / or search the forum for the right binding configuration.

[roli8200]

Hello

Many thanks for Your advice. But there (standardjboss.xml) are to many config options for me to learn in that short time. Can somebody give me a sample fo the configuration snippet?

Kind regards

Roland Kaeser

[roli8200]

Hello

Eventually my question was not really clear. Can somebody send me a snippet from the standardjboss.xml file which configures this proxy bindings for stateless stateless-rmi-invoker, stateful-rmi-invoker and also the entity-rmi-invoker for the http transport.

Many thanks

Roland Kaeser

[fe2o3]

In your jboss.xml for each bean you want to be exposed via http, add the following. (I do this post compilation during (pre)deployment with some xml-task tasks via ant).

<invoker-bindings> <invoker>
<invoker-proxy-binding-name>stateless-http-invoker</invoker-proxy-binding-name>
</invoker>
</invoker-bindings>

In your jboss.xml of each jboss.xml (or in standardjboss.xml), you have to create the invoker bindings you are now referencing.

<invoker-proxy-binding>
 <name>stateful-http-invoker</name>
 <invoker-mbean>jboss:service=invoker,type=http</invoker-mbean>
 <proxy-factory>org.jboss.proxy.ejb.ProxyFactory</proxy-factory>
 <proxy-factory-config>
 <client-interceptors>
 <home>
 <interceptor>org.jboss.proxy.ejb.HomeInterceptor</interceptor>
 <interceptor>org.jboss.proxy.SecurityInterceptor</interceptor>
 <interceptor>org.jboss.proxy.TransactionInterceptor</interceptor>
 <interceptor>org.jboss.invocation.InvokerInterceptor</interceptor>
 </home>
 <bean>
 <interceptor>org.jboss.proxy.ejb.StatefulSessionInterceptor</interceptor>
 <interceptor>org.jboss.proxy.SecurityInterceptor</interceptor>
 <interceptor>org.jboss.proxy.TransactionInterceptor</interceptor>
 <interceptor>org.jboss.invocation.InvokerInterceptor</interceptor>
 </bean>
 </client-interceptors>
 </proxy-factory-config>
 </invoker-proxy-binding>

 <invoker-proxy-binding>
 <name>stateless-httpHA-invoker</name>
 <invoker-mbean>jboss:service=invoker,type=httpHA</invoker-mbean>
 <proxy-factory>org.jboss.proxy.ejb.ProxyFactoryHA</proxy-factory>
 <proxy-factory-config>
 <client-interceptors>
 <home>
 <interceptor>org.jboss.proxy.ejb.HomeInterceptor</interceptor>
 <interceptor>org.jboss.proxy.SecurityInterceptor</interceptor>
 <interceptor>org.jboss.proxy.TransactionInterceptor</interceptor>
 <interceptor>org.jboss.invocation.InvokerInterceptor</interceptor>
 </home>
 <bean>
 <interceptor>org.jboss.proxy.ejb.StatelessSessionInterceptor</interceptor>
 <interceptor>org.jboss.proxy.SecurityInterceptor</interceptor>
 <interceptor>org.jboss.proxy.TransactionInterceptor</interceptor>
 <interceptor>org.jboss.invocation.InvokerInterceptor</interceptor>
 </bean>
 </client-interceptors>
 </proxy-factory-config>
 </invoker-proxy-binding>