Problem with transaction server port allocation config in jbossts-properties.xml (5.1.0.GA)

[sughosh]

Hi,

We are using JBoss 5.1.0.GA for deploying our application on the mainframe environment.

The problem is that in a secure environment, we need to control the port assignment for the transaction service - so we went ahead and changed the value of the property "com.arjuna.ats.internal.arjuna.utils.SocketProcessIdPort" to a port number of our choice (from the default value of "0").

<property

            name="com.arjuna.ats.internal.arjuna.utils.SocketProcessIdPort" value="0"/>

                                        changed to

<property

            name="com.arjuna.ats.internal.arjuna.utils.SocketProcessIdPort" value="28084"/>

(in the jbossts-properties.xml file).

Unfortunately, even after changing this value, the port number which was being assigned is a random one only. We also verified that port 28084 is free, and was ready to be assigned/used.

Can someone help us out on this - by explaning why does changing the property value in the jbossts-properties.xml doesnt have any effect on the random port assignment?

Thanks & Regards,

Suman.

[tomjenkinson]

Hi Suman,

Are you sure you change the correct jbossts-properties.xml? iirc in AS5 that file appears in multiple profiles.

Tom

[jhalliday]

The version in deploy/transaction-jboss-beans.xml is overriding it. Edit that instead.

[sughosh]

Thanks Jonathan, it works now!

[sughosh]

Can you also tell me where I will configure the property SocketProcessIdMaxPorts which was earlier configured in jbossts-properties.xml? I could not find the property in transaction-jboss-beans.xml.

[jhalliday]

Only certain properties are overridden in the beans file. The rest still flow through from the properties.xml file.

[sughosh]

Thanks again, Jonathan!