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problem of associating a data source associated with Word mail merge from a java application (OLE communication)

I'm working on a java application that interacts with Word through an OLE library (org.eclipse.swt.ole.win32) to merge documents (mail merge).
the java method which makes it possible to merge has been working for several years without any particular problem.
but recently the data source can no longer be associated with the merge document.
This problem is random (on some workstations it works and on others it doesn't, yet same system configuration)
I have no explicit error reported on the java side
Here is the method that communicates with Word:
public void mergeDocument(File model, File source) throws Exception {
OleAutomation autoMailMerge = null;
LOGGER.log(new Status(IStatus.INFO, pluginID, "Merge d un document"));
LOGGER.log(new Status(IStatus.INFO, pluginID, "fichier modele: " + model.getCanonicalPath()));
LOGGER.log(new Status(IStatus.INFO, pluginID, "fichier source: " + source.getPath()));
openDocumentReadOnly(model);
autoMailMerge = OLEHelper.getAutomationProperty(autoDocument, "MailMerge");
if ((source != null) && (source.exists()) && (!source.isDirectory())) {
OLEHelper.invoke(autoMailMerge, "OpenDataSource", source.getPath());
} else {
throw new MSWordOleInterfaceException(MSWordOleInterfaceCst.MSG_ERROR_EMPTY_SOURCE_PATH
+ ((source == null) ? "null" : source.getPath()));
}
OLEHelper.invoke(autoMailMerge, "Execute");
OleAutomation autoDocumentMerged = getActiveDocument();
closeDocument(autoDocument);
activateDocument(autoDocumentMerged);
autoDocument = autoDocumentMerged;
autoMailMerge.dispose();
}
Merging by hand from Word (associating the data source and merging) works on workstations where the java application does not work.
thanks to the OLE command I validated that it is the data source which is not passed (on a workstation which works I have a return with the name of the source, on one or it does not work the return is empty)
LOGGER.log(new Status(IStatus.INFO, pluginID, "data source name: "
+ OLEHelper.getVariantProperty(autoDataSource, "Name").getString()));
-a temporary solution has been found, by deleting the registry key related to office:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Word\DocumentTemplateCache
but this is only a temporary solution, the problem comes back.

Logging with optional parameters

I have method where I want to add specific logging:
#Slf4j
#Service
public class SomethingService {
public void doSomething(Something data, String comment, Integer limit) {
Long id = saveSomethingToDatabase(data, comment);
boolean sentNotification = doSomething(id);
// ...
// Log what you done.
// Variables that always have important data: data.getName(), id
// Variables that are optional: sentNotification, comment, limit
// (optional means they aren't mandatory, rarely contains essential data, often null, false or empty string).
}
}
I can simply log all:
log.info("Done something '{}' and saved (id {}, sentNotification={}) with comment '{}' and limit {}",
something.getName(), id, sentNotification, comment, limit);
// Done something 'Name of data' and saved (id 23, sentNotification=true) with comment 'Comment about something' and limit 2
But most of the time most of the parameters are irrelevant. With the above I get logs like:
// Done something 'Name of data' and saved (id 23, sentNotification=false) with comment 'null' and limit null
That makes logs hard to read, long and unnecessarily complicated (in most cases other parameters aren't present).
I want to handle all cases with preserving only essential data. Examples:
// Done something 'Name of data' and saved (id 23)
// Done something 'Name of data' and saved (id 23) with comment 'Comment about something'
// Done something 'Name of data' and saved (id 23) with limit 2
// Done something 'Name of data' and saved (id 23) with comment 'Comment about something' and limit 2
// Done something 'Name of data' and saved (id 23, sent notification)
// Done something 'Name of data' and saved (id 23, sent notification) with limit 2
// Done something 'Name of data' and saved (id 23, sent notification) with comment 'Comment about something'
// Done something 'Name of data' and saved (id 23, sent notification) with comment 'Comment about something' and limit 2
I can code it by hand:
String notificationMessage = sentNotification ? ", sent notification" : "";
String commentMessage = comment != null ? String.format(" with comment '%s'", comment) : "";
String limitMessage = "";
if (limit != null) {
limitMessage = String.format("limit %s", limit);
limitMessage = comment != null ? String.format(" and %s", limitMessage) : String.format(" with %s", limitMessage);
}
log.info("Done something '{}' and saved (id {}{}){}{}",
something.getName(), id, notificationMessage, commentMessage, limitMessage);
But it's hard to write, hard to read, complicated and causes errors.
I would like something like specify part of logs.
Example pseudocode:
log.info("Done something '{}' and saved (id {} $notification) $parameters",
something.getName(), id,
$notification: sentNotification ? "sent notification" : "",
$parameters: [comment, limit]);
It should supports optional parameters, replace boolean/condition with given string, supports separating spaces, commas and words with and and.
Maybe are there existing library for this? Or maybe is there at least a simpler way for coding this?
If not, it remains for me nothing else to write my own library for messages to logging. Additionally, this kind of library will provide that all logs would be consistent.
If you don't see a problem with three optional parameters, just imagine there are more (and you can't always pack them into a class - another class layer only for parameter logging cause even more complications).
At the end, I know I can log each action separately. But with this I get many more logs and I won't have the most important information in one place. Other logs are in the debug level, not info.

both of these are possible. You can either:
register a component with the Logger to do the work for you
write a wrapper class for your logger to use
I will demonstrate both and explain why I think the second is the better choice. Let's start with that:
Instead of having the Logger own the knowledge of how to format your specific properties, let your code own this responsibility.
For example, rather than logging each parameter, collect them and define their logging separately. See this code:
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
public class LoggingExample {
private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(LoggingExample.class);
public static void main(String[] args) {
LogObject o = new LogObject();
LOGGER.info("{}", o);
o.first = "hello";
LOGGER.info("{}", o);
o.second = "World";
LOGGER.info("{}", o);
o.last = "And finally";
LOGGER.info("{}", o);
}
public static class LogObject {
String first;
String second;
String last;
#Override
public String toString() {
StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();
buffer.append("Log Object: ");
if (first != null) {
buffer.append("First: " + first + " ");
}
if (second != null) {
buffer.append("Second: " + second + " ");
}
if (last != null) {
buffer.append("Second: " + last + " ");
}
return buffer.toString();
}
}
}
We define LogObject as a container and this container implements toString. All Loggers will call toString() on their objects, that is how they figure out what they should print (unless special formatters applied etc).
With this, the log statements print:
11:04:12.465 [main] INFO LoggingExample - Log Object:
11:04:12.467 [main] INFO LoggingExample - Log Object: First: hello
11:04:12.467 [main] INFO LoggingExample - Log Object: First: hello Second: World
11:04:12.467 [main] INFO LoggingExample - Log Object: First: hello Second: World Second: And finally
Advantages:
this works with any Logger. You won't have to implement specifics depending on what you want to use
the knowledge is encapsulated in 1 object that can be easily tested. This should mitigate the error prone formatting problem you stated.
no need for a complex formatter library or implementation
It will make the logging look much nicer and compact in the end. log.info("{}", object);
Disadvantage:
You are required to write the Bean.
Now the same can be achieved using for example a custom Layout. I am using logback, so this is an example for logback.
We may define a Layout that owns the knowledge of what to do with your custom formatting instructions.
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import ch.qos.logback.classic.Level;
import ch.qos.logback.classic.Logger;
import ch.qos.logback.classic.LoggerContext;
import ch.qos.logback.classic.encoder.PatternLayoutEncoder;
import ch.qos.logback.classic.spi.ILoggingEvent;
import ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender;
import ch.qos.logback.core.LayoutBase;
public class LoggingExample2 {
private static final Logger CUSTOM_LOGGER = createLoggerFor("test");
public static void main(String[] args) {
LogObject o = new LogObject();
CUSTOM_LOGGER.info("{}", o);
o.first = "hello";
CUSTOM_LOGGER.info("{}", o);
o.second = "World";
CUSTOM_LOGGER.info("{}", o);
o.last = "And finally";
CUSTOM_LOGGER.info("{}", o);
}
public static class LogObject {
String first;
String second;
String last;
#Override
public String toString() {
StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();
buffer.append("Log Object: ");
if (first != null) {
buffer.append("First: " + first + " ");
}
if (second != null) {
buffer.append("Second: " + second + " ");
}
if (last != null) {
buffer.append("Second: " + last + " ");
}
return buffer.toString();
}
}
public static class ModifyLogLayout extends LayoutBase<ILoggingEvent> {
#Override
public String doLayout(ILoggingEvent event) {
String formattedMessage = event.getFormattedMessage() + "\n";
Object[] args = event.getArgumentArray();
return String.format(formattedMessage, args);
}
}
private static Logger createLoggerFor(String string) {
LoggerContext lc = (LoggerContext) LoggerFactory.getILoggerFactory();
PatternLayoutEncoder ple = new PatternLayoutEncoder();
ple.setPattern("%date %level [%thread] %logger{10} [%file:%line] %msg%n");
ple.setContext(lc);
ple.start();
ConsoleAppender<ILoggingEvent> consoleAppender = new ConsoleAppender<ILoggingEvent>();
consoleAppender.setEncoder(ple);
consoleAppender.setLayout(new ModifyLogLayout());
consoleAppender.setContext(lc);
consoleAppender.start();
Logger logger = (Logger) LoggerFactory.getLogger(string);
logger.addAppender(consoleAppender);
logger.setLevel(Level.DEBUG);
logger.setAdditive(false); /* set to true if root should log too */
return logger;
}
}
I borrowed the Logger instatiation from: Programmatically configure LogBack appender
Note that I have not found a library that can parse the complex expressions that you have listed. I think you may have to write your own implementation.
In my example, i only illustrate how to intercept and modify the message based on the arguments.
Why I would not recommend this unless it is really needed:
the implementation is specific to logback
writing correct formatting is hard ... it will produce more errors than creating a custom object to format
It is harder to test because you literally have unlimited objects that may pass through this (and formatting). Your code must be resilient to this now, and in the future since any developer may add the weirdest things at any time.
The last (unasked) answer:
Why don't you use a json encoder? And then use something like logstash to aggregate (or cloudlwatch, or anything else).
This should solve all your problems.
This is what I have done in the past:
Define 1 bean that you like to log "differently". I call it metadata. This bean can be i.e.
public class MetaHolder {
// map holding key/values
}
This basically just stores all your variables with a key. It allows you to effectively search on these keys, sink them into databases, etc. etc.
In your log, you simply do:
var meta = // create class
meta.put("comment", comment);
// put other properties here
log.info("formatted string", formattedArguments, meta); // meta is always the last arg
In the Layout this can then be converted quite nicely. Because you are no longer logging "human language", there are no "withs" and "in" to replace. Your log will simply be:
{
"time" : "...",
"message" : "...",
"meta" : {
"comment" : "this is a comment"
// no other variables set, so this was it
}
}
And one last (last) one in just pure java, if you wanted that. You could write:
public static void main(String[] args) {
String comment = null;
String limit = "test";
String id = "id";
LOGGER.info(
"{} {} {}",
Optional.ofNullable(comment).map(s -> "The comment " + s).orElse(""),
Optional.ofNullable(limit).map(s -> "The Limit " + s).orElse(""),
Optional.ofNullable(id).map(s -> "The id " + s).orElse(""));
}
Which effectively moves the conditional logic you want in your formatting into Java's Optional.
I find this also is hard to read and test and would still recommend the first solution

How to get an Initial Contex from Wildfly 8

ADDED 7/23.
Many views: Not even a "that's dumb" question in response. Can anyone at least tell me why such an embarrassingly trivial question seems to have no answer anywhere.
Q:
--- Have Wildfly 8 running on local machine localhost:9990.
--- Have a Java program that need's Wildfly's IntialContext.
--- Every reference says use: "Context ctx = new InitialContext(env);"
--- Yet a week of searching turns up no set of properties that returns one.
And no example of a java program that gets one.
Does no one ever do this? Really need help
Original Msg Below
I know many people have asked how to get an Initial context from Wildfly 8. But I have yet to find a simple answer with a simple example.
Therefore, I hope someone can tell my why this doesn’t work.
I start Wildfly with standalone-full.xml
The three sections below have
A - Code summary of my test Class whose only purpose is to secure an Initial Context. (I only removed a lot of printing code that produced the next section.]
B - The Eclipse console output for a failure.
C - Cut and paste code. Just in case anyone can help me get this to work. I’d like to leave behind something the next new WF user can cut and past and run. The only difference from 1 above is that this version has all the static methods I used to format the output. NOTE: I know the comments I inserted about the less than sign sound dumb. BUT ... they are true.
A Code Summary
import java.util.Properties;
import javax.naming.CommunicationException;
import javax.naming.Context;
import javax.naming.InitialContext;
public class JmsTestGetJNDIContext {
//members
final private Properties env = new Properties() {
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
{
/* These are Properties used by a standalone JavaClient to secure a WIldFly InitialContext()*/
put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, "org.jboss.naming.remote.client.InitialContextFactory");
put(Context.PROVIDER_URL,"http-remoting://localhost:9990");
put(Context.SECURITY_PRINCIPAL,"userGLB");
put(Context.SECURITY_CREDENTIALS,"Open");
put("jboss.naming.client.ejb.context", true);
/*The above URL, ID and PW successfully open Wildfly's Admin Console*/
}
};
//constructor
private JmsTestGetJNDIContext (){
/*print "beg"*/
/*print "env"*/
try {
/*print "Requesting InitialContext"*/
Context ctx = new InitialContext(this.env);
/*print "JNDI Context: " + ctx)*/
/*print "end");
} catch (CommunicationException e) {
/* print "You forgot to start WildFly dummy!"*/
} catch (Exception e) {
/* print"caught: " + e.getClass().getName()*/
/*print e.getMessage()*/
/* "end")*/
}
static public void main (String[] args) {
/*print "beg"*/
JmsTestGetJNDIContext client = new JmsTestGetJNDIContext ();
/*print "end"*/
}
}
B - Console Output
JmsTestGetJNDIContext.main () beg
JmsTestGetJNDIContext.<init> () beg
JmsTestGetJNDIContext.<init> () These are Properties used to obtain IntialContext
Key: java.naming.provider.url
Value: http-remoting://localhost:9990
Key: java.naming.factory.initial
Value: org.jboss.naming.remote.client.InitialContextFactory
Key: jboss.naming.client.ejb.context
Value: true
Key: java.naming.security.principal
Value: userGLB
Key: java.naming.security.credentials
Value: Open
JmsTestGetJNDIContext.<init> () Requesting InitialContext
JmsTestGetJNDIContext.<init> () caught: javax.naming.NamingException
JmsTestGetJNDIContext.<init> () Failed to create remoting connection
JmsTestGetJNDIContext.<init> () end
JmsTestGetJNDIContext.main () end
Cut and Paste Code
package org.america3.gotest.xtra;
import java.util.Properties;
import javax.naming.CommunicationException;
import javax.naming.Context;
import javax.naming.InitialContext;
public class JmsTestGetJNDIContext {
//members
final private Properties env = new Properties() {
/**
* Properties used by a standalone JavaClient to secure
* a WIldFly InitialContext()*/
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
{
put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY,"org.jboss.naming.remote.client.InitialContextFactory");
put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, "http-remoting://localhost:9990");
put(Context.SECURITY_PRINCIPAL, "userGLB");
put(Context.SECURITY_CREDENTIALS, "Open");
// The above URL, ID and PW successfully open Wildfly's Admin Console
put("jboss.naming.client.ejb.context", true);
}
};
//constructor
private JmsTestGetJNDIContext (){/*ignore*/String iAm = JmsTestGetJNDIContext.getIAm(" ", Thread.currentThread().getStackTrace());
P (iAm, "beg");
pProps(iAm, env);
try {
P (sp + iAm, "Requesting InitialContext");
Context ctx = new InitialContext(this.env);
P (sp + iAm, "JNDI Context: " + ctx);
P (sp + iAm, "end");
} catch (CommunicationException e) {
P (sp + iAm, "You forgot to start WildFly dummy!");
} catch (Exception e) {
P (sp + iAm, "caught: " + e.getClass().getName());
P (sp + iAm, e.getMessage());
P (iAm, "end");
}
}
static public void main (String[] args) {/*ignore*/String iAm = JmsTestGetJNDIContext.getIAm("",Thread.currentThread().getStackTrace());
P (iAm, "beg");
JmsTestGetJNDIContext client = new JmsTestGetJNDIContext ();
P (iAm , "end");
}
/*The remaining static methods are just to facilitate printing.
* They are normally in a Untility package I add to my projects.
* I put them here so this code would run for anyone.*/
static private void pProps (String leader, Properties p) {
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer ();
String s = JmsTestGetJNDIContext.padRight(leader, 45, ' ');
s = " " + s + "These are Properties used to obtain IntialContext"+"\n";
sb.append(s);
String skip = "";
for (Object key: p.keySet()) {
sb.append(skip + " " + JmsTestGetJNDIContext.padRight("\""
+ (String)key + "\"", 40, ' ')
+ " \"" + p.get(key) + "\"");
skip = "\n";
}
System.out.println(sb);
}
static private void P (String s, String s2) {
System.out.println(s + s2);
}
static public String getClassMethodName (StackTraceElement[] elements) {
String className = null;
for (int i = 0; i * elements.length; i++]i ) {
/* You need to type in a less than sign for the '*'
* because when I do, the editor will not show any code
* that comes after it.
* I have no idea why, but I've spent over an hour trying,
* and every time I type a less than sign all the following
* code dissappears!*/
className = elements[i].getClassName ();
if (className.startsWith ("org.america3")) {
int end = className.lastIndexOf ('.');
return className.substring (end + 1) + "." + elements[i].getMethodName ();
} else {
continue;
}
}
return "no project method found in elements beginning with org.america3" ;
}
static private String getIAm (String indent, StackTraceElement[] elements) {
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer ();
sb.append(JmsTestGetJNDIContext.getClassMethodName(elements));
sb.append(" ()");
return indent + JmsTestGetJNDIContext.padRight (sb.toString(), 45, ' ') ;
}
static public String padRight(String s, int width, char c){
if (s == null) return "Null String";
if(s.length() ** width){
/* You need to type in a greater than or equal sign for
* the '**'see above.*/
return s;
} else {
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
sb.append (s);
for(int i = 0; i *** (width - s.length()); i++){
/*You need to type in a less than sign the '***'. Again see above*/
sb.append(c);
}
return sb.toString();
}
}
static public String sp = " ";
}

A while ago I also struggled with remote EJBs in my CLI application. I excavated a small example project that I wrote then. It gets an InitialContext and calls a remote EJB named AddBrackets:
import java.util.Properties;
import javax.naming.Context;
import javax.naming.InitialContext;
import javax.naming.NamingException;
import de.dnb.test.ejb.AddBrackets;
public final class Application {
public static void main(String[] args) throws NamingException {
final Properties jndiProperties = initJndiProperties();
final AddBrackets addBrackets = getEjb(jndiProperties);
System.out.println(addBrackets.processText("Hello World"));
}
private static Properties initJndiProperties() {
final Properties jndiProperties = new Properties();
jndiProperties.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY,
"org.jboss.naming.remote.client.InitialContextFactory");
jndiProperties.put("jboss.naming.client.ejb.context", true);
jndiProperties.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, "http-remoting://localhost:8080/");
//jndiProperties.put(Context.SECURITY_PRINCIPAL, "test");
//jndiProperties.put(Context.SECURITY_CREDENTIALS, "test");
return jndiProperties;
}
private static AddBrackets getEjb(Properties jndiProps)
throws NamingException {
final Context jndiContext = new InitialContext(jndiProps);
final String interfaceName = AddBrackets.class.getName();
return (AddBrackets) jndiContext.lookup(
"ejbtest-app-1.0-SNAPSHOT/ejbtest-ejb-1.0-SNAPSHOT/AddBracketsBean!"
+ interfaceName);
}
}
I built this program as a Maven project which had a dependency on
<dependency>
<groupId>org.wildfly</groupId>
<artifactId>wildfly-ejb-client-bom</artifactId>
<version>8.2.1.Final</version>
<type>pom</type>
</dependency>
This dependency brings in Wildfly's remote client EJB implementation and adds the following jars to the class path (links are to Maven Central):
jboss-logging-3.1.4.GA.jar
jboss-marshalling-1.4.9.Final.jar
jboss-marshalling-river-1.4.9.Final.jar
jboss-remoting-4.0.7.Final.jar
jboss-sasl-1.0.4.Final.jar
jboss-ejb-api_3.2_spec-1.0.0.Final.jar
jboss-transaction-api_1.2_spec-1.0.0.Final.jar
xnio-api-3.3.0.Final.jar
xnio-nio-3.3.0.Final.jar
jboss-ejb-client-2.0.1.Final.jar
jboss-remote-naming-2.0.1.Final.jar
wildfly-build-config-8.2.1.Final.jar
I did no special configuration on Wildfly to run this example. I simply downloaded a vanilla Wildfly 8.2.1, unzipped it, set up an admin user with the add-user.sh script and deployed my EJB in an EAR. As you can see above access is granted without a username and a password.
You can find the complete project including the AddBrackets EJB on my bitbucket account.
When I tried to get my head around remote EJBs with Wildfly, I found the article JBoss EAP / Wildfly – Three ways to invoke remote EJBs really helpful. It clearly describes the three different methods to access remote EJBs on Wildfly.

According to your own answer the following jars are on your classpath:
jboss-remote-naming-1.0.7.final.jar
jboss-logging.jar
xnio-api-3.0.7.ga.jar
jboss-remoting-3.jar
jboss-ejb-client-1.0.19.final.jar
You write that the application throws the following exception:
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError:
org.jboss.remoting3.Remoting.createEndpoint(Ljava/lang/String;Lorg/xnio/OptionMap;)Lorg/jboss/remoting3/Endpoint;]
This exception is thrown when org.jboss.naming.remote.client.EndpointCache which is part of the jboss-remote-naming jar tries to call Remoting.createEndpoint() which is contained in the jboss-remoting jar.
As you explain in your answer the reason for this is that the Remoting class declares a 3-parameter version of the createEndpoint() method while the EndpointCache class tries to call a 2-parameter version which does not exist.
I checked the commit histories and declared dependencies of the jboss-remote-naming and the jboss-remoting projects to find out what is going wrong there. This is what I found out:
The 2-parameter version of createEndpoint() was only added in version 3.2 of jboss-remoting. The pom.xml for jboss-remote-naming-1.0.7.final says it depends on jboss-remoting 3.2.7.GA.
As there is no version number on your jboss-remoting-3.jar, I guess it is an older version. You should be able to check this by looking for a pom.xml in META-INF folder of your jboss-remoting-3.jar. This should contain the version number.
To solve your problem, I suggest to replace your jboss-remoting-3.jar with jboss-remoting-3.2.7ga.jar or to use the set of jars I listed in my other answer.

I’ve decided the problem isn’t coding or the JNDI InititialContext Properties.
I mean the fatal error is a NoSuchMethodError. Therefore, as I confirmed in the WildFly server logs, my main method never even tries to connect.
Here’s what I think explains the real problem.
And I think it explains why there are so many calls for help with this error:
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError:
org.jboss.remoting3.Remoting.createEndpoint(Ljava/lang/String;Lorg/xnio/OptionMap;)Lorg/jboss/remoting3/Endpoint;]
Also why none of those calls for help ever get a conclusive answer. Just people suggesting different jars.
And since all those answers fixed on jars, this is how I tested the Build Path I was using:
First I removed all jars from the Build Path. Then I ran my one line main program till all ClassNotFoundException were gone.
First Error
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
org.jboss.naming.remote.client.InitialContextFactory]
Added jboss-remote-naming-1.0.7.final.jar to class path
Next Error
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
org/jboss/logging/Logger
Added jboss-logging.jar
Next Error
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
org/xnio/Options
Added xnio-api-3.0.7.ga.jar
Next Error
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
org/jboss/remoting3/spi/ConnectionProviderFactory
Added jboss-remoting-3.jar
Next Error
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
org/jboss/ejb/client/EJBClientContextIdentifier
Added jboss-ejb-client-1.0.19.final.jar
FATAL ERROR (note: All NoClassDefFoundError have been cleared)
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError:
org.jboss.remoting3.Remoting.createEndpoint(Ljava/lang/String;Lorg/xnio/OptionMap;)Lorg/jboss/remoting3/Endpoint;]
Then I used Eclipse’s Project Explorer to verify:
That jboss-remoting3.jar has the org.jboss.remoting3.Remoting Class. It does. That’s why there is no NoClassDefFoundError left above.
And verified it had this method:
public Endpoint createEndpoint (String, Executor, OptionMap) note: 3 parameters.
BUT the above Error indicates something is calling:
public Endpoint createEndpoint (String, OptionMap) note: 2 parameters.
That’s why the program throws a NoSuchMethodError. It is looking for a 2 paramater version of org.jboss.remoting3.Remoting.createEndpoint(). And the Remoting Class I have only has a 3 parameter version.`
I know this sounds impossible but the only thing I can think is there is an inconsistency in the Java API???
Clearly something is calling org.jboss.remoting3.Remoting.createEndpoint with 2 parameters.
But my org.jboss.remoting3.Remoting Class only has a 3 parameter version of the createEndpoint() Method.
So I’m going to clean this all up and repost a question asking how to explain the existence of a Class calling for a 2 paramter org.jboss.remoting3.Remoting.createEndpoint Method when I have a jar whose org.jboss.remoting3.Remoting only offers a 3-parameter.

Here is your obligatory "that's a dumb question." Does the wildfly remote quickstart github repo answer the question for you? Their code, from RemoteEJB.java
final Hashtable<String, String> jndiProperties = new Hashtable<>();
jndiProperties.put(Context.URL_PKG_PREFIXES, "org.jboss.ejb.client.naming");
final Context context = new InitialContext(jndiProperties);
return (RemoteCalculator) context.lookup("ejb:/ejb-remote-server-side/CalculatorBean!" + RemoteCalculator.class.getName());

How to collect directory listing along with each file CRC checksum?

I use the following command to get dir listing in nix(Linux, AIX, Sunos, HPUX) platforms
Command
ls -latr
Ouput
drwxr-xr-x 2 ricky support 4096 Aug 29 11:59 lib
-rwxrwxrwx 1 ricky support 924 Aug 29 12:00 initservice.sh
cksum command is used for getting CRC checksum.
How can the CRC Checksum be appended after each file something (including directory listing too) like below, maintaining the below format in these nix(Linux, AIX, Sunos, HPUX) platforms?
drwxr-xr-x 2 ricky support 4096 Aug 29 11:59 lib
-rwxrwxrwx 1 ricky support 924 Aug 29 12:00 initservice.sh 4287252281
Update Note : No third party application, I am using java/Groovy to parse the output ultimately into a given format which forms a xml using groovy XmlSlurper (XML's get generated around 5MB sized)
"permission","hardlink","owner","group","fsize","month","date","time","filename","checksum"
All Suggestions are welcome! :)
Update with my code
But here I am calculating md5hex which gives a similar output as md5sum command from linux. So it's no longer cksum as I cannot use jacksum bcz of some licensing issue :(
class CheckSumCRC32 {
public def getFileListing(String file){
def dir = new File(file)
def filename = null
def md5sum = null
def filesize = null
def lastmodified = null
def lastmodifiedDate = null
def lastmodifiedTime = null
def permission = null
Format formatter = null
def list=[]
if(dir.exists()){
dir.eachFileRecurse (FileType.FILES) { fname ->
list << fname
}
list.each{fileob->
try{
md5sum=getMD5CheckSum(fileob.toString())
filesize=fileob.length()+"b"
lastmodified=new Date(fileob.lastModified())
lastmodifiedDate=lastmodified.format('dd/MM/yyyy')
formatter=new SimpleDateFormat("hh:mm:ss a")
lastmodifiedTime=formatter.format(lastmodified)
permission=getReadPermissions(fileob)+getWritePermissions(fileob)+getExecutePermissions(fileob)
filename=getRelativePath("E:\\\\temp\\\\recurssive\\\\",fileob.toString())
println "$filename, $md5sum, $lastmodifiedDate, $filesize, $permission, $lastmodifiedDate, $lastmodifiedTime "
}
catch(IOException io){
println io
}
catch(FileNotFoundException fne){
println fne
}
catch(Exception e){
println e
}
}
}
}
public def getReadPermissions(def file){
String temp="-"
if(file.canRead())temp="r"
return temp
}
public def getWritePermissions(def file){
String temp="-"
if(file.canWrite())temp="w"
return temp
}
public def getExecutePermissions(def file){
String temp="-"
if(file.canExecute())temp="x"
return temp
}
public def getRelativePath(def main, def file){""
return file.toString().replaceAll(main, "")
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
CheckSumCRC32 crc = new CheckSumCRC32();
crc.getFileListing("E:\\temp\\recurssive")
}
}
Output
release.zip, 25f995583144bebff729086ae6ec0eb2, 04/06/2012, 6301510b, rwx, 04/06/2012, 02:46:32 PM
file\check\release-1.0.zip, 3cc0f2b13778129c0cc41fb2fdc7a85f, 18/07/2012, 11786307b, rwx, 18/07/2012, 04:13:47 PM
file\Dedicated.mp3, 238f793f0b80e7eacf5fac31d23c65d4, 04/05/2010, 4650908b, rwx, 04/05/2010, 10:45:32 AM
but still I need a way to calculate hardlink, owner & group. I searched on the net it looks like java7 has this capability & I am stuck with java6. Any help?

Take a look at http://www.jonelo.de/java/jacksum/index.html - it is reported to provide cksum - compatible CRC32 checksums.
BTW, I tried using java.util.zip.CRC32 to calculate checksums, and it gives a different value than cksum does, so must use a slightly different algorithm.
EDIT: I tried jacksum, and it works, but you have to tell it to use the 'cksum' algorithm - apparently that is different from crc32, which jacksum also supports.

Well, you could run the command, then, for each line, run the cksum and append it to the line.
I did the following:
dir = "/home/will"
"ls -latr $dir".execute().in.eachLine { line ->
// let's omit the first line, which starts with "total"
if (line =~ /^total/) return
// for directories, we just print the line
if (line =~ /^d/)
{
println line
}
else
{
// for files, we split the line by one or more spaces and join
// the last pieces to form the filename (there must be a better
// way to do this)
def fileName = line.split(/ {1,}/)[8..-1].join("")
// now we get the first part of the cksum
def cksum = "cksum $dir/$fileName".execute().in.text.split(/ {1,}/)[0]
// concat the result to the original line and print it
println "$line $cksum"
}
}
Special attention to my "there must be a better way to do this".

Remove timestamp from GWT logger

I'd like to remove the timestamp from GWT logging output on the console.
What's the simplest way to do this? Ideally, in the .gwt.xml configuration would be great.
Here is an example output currently with the timestamp:
Wed Mar 21 08:23:57 EDT 2012 Job
FINE: Job: 'updater': end
EDIT: I am only interested in the client side.

This logging capability is not really configurable. You need to write your own formatter:
call this at the beginning of onModuleLoad():
Handler[] handlers = Logger.getLogger("").getHandlers();
for(Handler h : handlers){
h.setFormatter(new MyCustomLogFormatter());
}
And here is an example of a formatter:
public class MyCustomLogFormatter extends TextLogFormatter{
private static DateTimeFormat timeFormat = DateTimeFormat.getFormat("HH:mm:ss.SSS");
public MyCustomLogFormatter() {
super(true);
}
#Override
public String format(LogRecord event) {
StringBuilder message = new StringBuilder();
message.append(getRecordInfo(event, " "));
message.append(event.getMessage());
message.append(getStackTraceAsString(event.getThrown(), "\n", "\t"));
return message.toString();
}
#Override
protected String getRecordInfo(LogRecord event, String newline) {
Date date = new Date(event.getMillis());
StringBuilder s = new StringBuilder();
s.append(timeFormat.format(date));
s.append(" GWT ");
s.append(event.getLevel().getName());
String loggerName = event.getLoggerName();
String[] split = loggerName.split("\\.");
s.append(" ");
s.append(split[split.length-1]);
s.append(newline);
s.append(": ");
return s.toString();
}
}
More: http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/doc/latest/DevGuideLogging.html

The accepted answer shows how to customize GWT log messages. The example is longer than necessary, though. In case anyone wants to just remove the timestamp (the original question), here is a shorter snippet:
Handler[] handlers = Logger.getLogger("").getHandlers();
for (Handler h : handlers) {
h.setFormatter(new TextLogFormatter(false) {
#Override
public String format(LogRecord event) {
return event.getLoggerName() + ": " +
event.getLevel().getName() + ": " +
event.getMessage();
}
});
}
Watch out for the "gotcha" of doing this in the constructor of a singleton dependency-injected class---you want to make sure GWT has had the chance to actually add handlers to the logger first.

It uses the same pattern config as log4j, see here: http://code.google.com/p/gwt-log/wiki/GettingStarted#Control_the_format_of_your_log_messages
In the gwt-log wiki it says:
Server side logging automatically detects Apache log4j, falling back
to JDK 1.4 logging
As there is a "FINE" log level in your post, it should be the second case. Either include Log4J in your classpath or check "logging.properties" from your current jdr/jre-conf directory.