Cannot remotely find JNDI resources using InitialContext.

[Gerben Feenstra]

Follow up on this thread: http://www.coderanch.com/t/594339/EJB-JEE/java/JMS-client-only-outside-container

I've got 2 laptops here, running next to eachother, connected to the same network switch. One is running an almost default instance of glassfish 3x, the other is running a client OUTSIDE of the container comprised of only a few lines of code to get a connectionFactory from the Glassfish server.
Running both on the same machine works like a charm now, but when ran on different machines it refuses to connect, and my head-ache is now getting worse by the minute...

Server side:
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Running inside Netbeans IDE 7.2

GlassFish Server version: 3+
JMS Service Type: LOCAL (instead of EMBEDDED)
Created javax.jms.QueueConnectionFactory named "TapServiceConnectionFactory" under JMS Resources.

Glassfish configuration is otherwise untouched (I've fooled around lots, so created a clean glassfish instance for this example):

Startup log:

Launching GlassFish on Felix platform
INFO: Running GlassFish Version: GlassFish Server Open Source Edition 3.1.2.2 (build 5)
INFO: Registered org.glassfish.ha.store.adapter.cache.ShoalBackingStoreProxy for persistence-type = replicated in BackingStoreFactoryRegistry
INFO: Grizzly Framework 1.9.50 started in: 69ms - bound to [0.0.0.0:8080]
INFO: Grizzly Framework 1.9.50 started in: 21ms - bound to [0.0.0.0:4848]
INFO: Grizzly Framework 1.9.50 started in: 36ms - bound to [0.0.0.0:8181]
INFO: Grizzly Framework 1.9.50 started in: 24ms - bound to [0.0.0.0:3700]
INFO: The Admin Console is already installed, but not yet loaded.
INFO: GlassFish Server Open Source Edition 3.1.2.2 (5) startup time : Felix (3,007ms), startup services(1,486ms), total(4,493ms)
INFO: HV000001: Hibernate Validator 4.3.0.Final
INFO: Grizzly Framework 1.9.50 started in: 12ms - bound to [0.0.0.0:8080]
INFO: JMS010: ADDRESSLIST in setJmsServiceProvider: mq://localhost:7676/
INFO: JMS08: JMS Service Connection URL is : mq://localhost:7676/
INFO: MQJMSRA_RA1101: GlassFish MQ JMS Resource Adapter: Version: 4.5.2 Patch 1 (Build 3-d) Compile: Thu Jun 7 10:46:15 PDT 2012
INFO: MQJMSRA_RA1101: GlassFish MQ JMS Resource Adapter starting: broker is LOCAL, connection mode is TCP
INFO: Grizzly Framework 1.9.50 started in: 11ms - bound to [0.0.0.0:8181]
INFO: MQJMSRA_RA1101: GlassFish MQ JMS Resource Adapter Started:LOCAL
INFO: Created EjbThreadPoolExecutor with thread-core-pool-size 16 thread-max-pool-size 32 thread-keep-alive-seconds 60 thread-queue-capacity 2147483647 allow-core-thread-timeout false
INFO: Initiating Jersey application, version 'Jersey: 1.11.1 03/31/2012 06:49 PM'
INFO: REST00001: Listening to REST requests at context: /management/domain
INFO: The Admin Console is already installed, but not yet loaded.
INFO: The Admin Console is starting. Please wait.
INFO: JMX005: JMXStartupService had Started JMXConnector on JMXService URL service:jmx:rmi://localhost:8686/jndi/rmi://localhost:8686/jmxrmi
INFO: WEB0169: Created HTTP listener [http-listener-1] on host/port [0.0.0.0:8080]
INFO: WEB0169: Created HTTP listener [http-listener-2] on host/port [0.0.0.0:8181]
INFO: WEB0169: Created HTTP listener [admin-listener] on host/port [0.0.0.0:4848]
INFO: WEB0171: Created virtual server [server]
INFO: WEB0171: Created virtual server [__asadmin]
INFO: WEB0172: Virtual server [server] loaded default web module []
INFO: SEC1002: Security Manager is OFF.
INFO: SEC1010: Entering Security Startup Service
INFO: SEC1143: Loading policy provider com.sun.enterprise.security.provider.PolicyWrapper.
INFO: SEC1115: Realm [admin-realm] of classtype [com.sun.enterprise.security.auth.realm.file.FileRealm] successfully created.
INFO: SEC1115: Realm [file] of classtype [com.sun.enterprise.security.auth.realm.file.FileRealm] successfully created.
INFO: SEC1115: Realm [certificate] of classtype [com.sun.enterprise.security.auth.realm.certificate.CertificateRealm] successfully created.
INFO: SEC1011: Security Service(s) Started Successfully
INFO: Initializing Mojarra 2.1.6 (SNAPSHOT 20111206) for context ''
INFO: WEB0671: Loading application [__admingui] at [/]
INFO: CORE10010: Loading application __admingui done in 8,732 ms
INFO: The Admin Console application is loaded.

ClientSide:
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Simple maven application containing 1 class with a main-method:

import com.sun.enterprise.naming.SerialInitContextFactory;
import java.util.Hashtable;
import javax.jms.Connection;
import javax.jms.ConnectionFactory;
import javax.jms.JMSException;
import javax.jms.MessageProducer;
import javax.jms.Queue;
import javax.jms.Session;
import javax.jms.TextMessage;
import javax.naming.Context;
import javax.naming.InitialContext;

/**
* The SimpleClient class sends several messages to a
* destination.
*/
public class SimpleClient {

/**
* Main method.
*/
public static void main(String[] args) {

Context jndiContext = null;
ConnectionFactory connectionFactory = null;
Connection connection = null;
Session session = null;
Queue queue = null;
MessageProducer messageProducer = null;

try
{
Hashtable properties = new Hashtable(2);

properties.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, "com.sun.enterprise.naming.SerialInitContextFactory");
properties.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, "iiop://172.19.1.25:7676"); // vm://localhost:
properties.put("java.naming.factory.url.pkgs", "com.sun.enterprise.naming");
properties.put("java.naming.factory.state", "com.sun.corba.ee.impl.presentation.rmi.JNDIStateFactoryImpl");

jndiContext = new InitialContext(properties);

connectionFactory = (ConnectionFactory) jndiContext.lookup("TapServiceConnectionFactory");

// Lookup queue
// get MessageProducer
// Send TextMessage
}
catch(Exception ex)
{
System.out.println("Error: " + ex );
}

finally
{
if(connection !=null)
{
try
{
connection.close();
}
catch(JMSException e)
{
System.out.println("Error: " + e );
}
}
}
}
}

POM.XML:

<repositories>
<repository>
<id>Java.Net</id>
<url>http://download.java.net/maven/2/</url>
</repository>
</repositories>

<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.extras</groupId>
<artifactId>glassfish-embedded-all</artifactId>
<version>3.1.1</version>
<type>jar</type>
</dependency>
</dependencies>

This is what happens if my glassfish server is running and the client is started:

run:
org.omg.CORBA.COMM_FAILURE: FINE: IOP00410001: Connection failure: socketType: IIOP_CLEAR_TEXT; hostname: localhost; port: 3700 vmcid: OMG minor code: 1 completed: No
at sun.reflect.GeneratedConstructorAccessor27.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:525)
at com.sun.corba.ee.spi.orbutil.logex.corba.CorbaExtension.makeException(CorbaExtension.java:248)
at com.sun.corba.ee.spi.orbutil.logex.corba.CorbaExtension.makeException(CorbaExtension.java:95)TapServiceConnectionFactory
at com.sun.corba.ee.spi.orbutil.logex.WrapperGenerator.handleFullLogging(WrapperGenerator.java:387)
at com.sun.corba.ee.spi.orbutil.logex.WrapperGenerator.access$400(WrapperGenerator.java:107)
at com.sun.corba.ee.spi.orbutil.logex.WrapperGenerator$2.invoke(WrapperGenerator.java:511)
at com.sun.corba.ee.spi.orbutil.proxy.CompositeInvocationHandlerImpl.invoke(CompositeInvocationHandlerImpl.java:99)
at $Proxy26.connectFailure(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.corba.ee.impl.transport.SocketOrChannelConnectionImpl.<init>(SocketOrChannelConnectionImpl.java:257)
at com.sun.corba.ee.impl.transport.SocketOrChannelConnectionImpl.<init>(SocketOrChannelConnectionImpl.java:270)
at com.sun.corba.ee.impl.transport.SocketOrChannelContactInfoImpl.createConnection(SocketOrChannelContactInfoImpl.java:129)
at com.sun.corba.ee.impl.protocol.CorbaClientRequestDispatcherImpl.beginRequest(CorbaClientRequestDispatcherImpl.java:223)
at com.sun.corba.ee.impl.protocol.CorbaClientDelegateImpl.request(CorbaClientDelegateImpl.java:228)
at com.sun.corba.ee.impl.protocol.CorbaClientDelegateImpl.is_a(CorbaClientDelegateImpl.java:393)
at org.omg.CORBA.portable.ObjectImpl._is_a(ObjectImpl.java:130)
at org.omg.CosNaming.NamingContextHelper.narrow(NamingContextHelper.java:69)
at com.sun.enterprise.naming.impl.SerialContext$ProviderCacheKey.getNameService(SerialContext.java:1241)
at com.sun.enterprise.naming.impl.SerialContext.getRemoteProvider(SerialContext.java:411)
at com.sun.enterprise.naming.impl.SerialContext.getProvider(SerialContext.java:347)
at com.sun.enterprise.naming.impl.SerialContext.lookup(SerialContext.java:504)
at com.sun.enterprise.naming.impl.SerialContext.lookup(SerialContext.java:455)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(InitialContext.java:411)
at nl.tap.service.client.jupiterclientnextgen.SimpleClient.main(SimpleClient.java:71)
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect
at org.glassfish.enterprise.iiop.impl.IIOPSSLSocketFactory.createSocket(IIOPSSLSocketFactory.java:339)
at com.sun.corba.ee.impl.transport.SocketOrChannelConnectionImpl.<init>(SocketOrChannelConnectionImpl.java:242)
... 14 more
Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect
at sun.nio.ch.Net.connect0(Native Method)
at sun.nio.ch.Net.connect(Net.java:364)
at sun.nio.ch.Net.connect(Net.java:356)
at sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.connect(SocketChannelImpl.java:623)
at com.sun.corba.ee.impl.orbutil.ORBUtility.openSocketChannel(ORBUtility.java:110)
at org.glassfish.enterprise.iiop.impl.IIOPSSLSocketFactory.createSocket(IIOPSSLSocketFactory.java:324)
... 15 more
Error: javax.naming.NamingException: Lookup failed for 'TapServiceConnectionFactory' in SerialContext[myEnv={java.naming.factory.initial=com.sun.enterprise.naming.SerialInitContextFactory, java.naming.provider.url=iiop://172.19.1.25:7676, java.naming.factory.state=com.sun.corba.ee.impl.presentation.rmi.JNDIStateFactoryImpl, java.naming.factory.url.pkgs=com.sun.enterprise.naming} [Root exception is javax.naming.NamingException: Unable to acquire SerialContextProvider for SerialContext[myEnv={java.naming.factory.initial=com.sun.enterprise.naming.SerialInitContextFactory, java.naming.provider.url=iiop://172.19.1.25:7676, java.naming.factory.state=com.sun.corba.ee.impl.presentation.rmi.JNDIStateFactoryImpl, java.naming.factory.url.pkgs=com.sun.enterprise.naming} [Root exception is org.omg.CORBA.COMM_FAILURE: FINE: IOP00410001: Connection failure: socketType: IIOP_CLEAR_TEXT; hostname: localhost; port: 3700 vmcid: OMG minor code: 1 completed: No]]

Also not very sure which port to use, 3700 (JMS) or 7676 (IIOPS), however, I've tried both, but both fail.
I'm out of ideas :/

[Ranganathan Kaliyur Mannar]

Can you let us know how you solved your earlier problem? That may provide some pointers.

[Gerben Feenstra]

I found another way to get things working. My initial JNDI-problem however was solved by using...

properties.put("org.omg.CORBA.ORBInitialHost", "<IP>");
properties.put("org.omg.CORBA.ORBInitialPort", "3700");

... instead of setting Context.PROVIDER_URL.

Also, the only way I got things working at all is using a dependency on glassfish-embedded-all, which is a 35MB Jar. Which sounds kind of insane to me, considering I only want to sent simple text-messages to a queue. How hard can that be? Communication with code running outside a container is a major flaw in JEE in my opinion.

Anyways, thanks for the help.
Problems solved, thread closed.