Maximo Authentication

When user login to maximo, Maximo has its own way on doing authentication process. Well, i think its bad. Why do i say so? maximo does have flag for toggling purpose between lookup to db or LDAP and akin. but, it seems that its no use.

Here is the way maximo doing some authentication.

Maximo doing lookup against the db first, if there is no result of looking up the db, then the process will lookup to the ldap. But, before doing lookup, it will see the flag of "useAppServerSecurity". If it is true, then its going to find the ldap for the entered user.

There is a few thing on my mind regarding this process.

1. the process is not efficient. Why? because maximo will lookup the db before lookup to the others. If it has a flag, then why dont use the flag for toggling purpose.
2. if user wants to migrate, then user should migrate all the user in maxuser to the repository of choice.

deploy weblogic using maven2

I tried to deploy my app into weblogic app server using maven2. Yes, there are a few ways. You can use cargo and weblogic maven plugin. I just tried to use the simple 1 which is the cargo plugin. It seems that this plugin has a problem on the repo. I got so many problem of redirection problem (as the maven2 has a problem on doing redirection once the repository is moved to another server). This gave me a problem of the metadata in my local repository. It seems to many things to do and I just gave up on dealing with this plugin.

Having such problem on the cargo plugin. I try to use weblogic plugin as in the following:
http://mojo.codehaus.org/weblogic-maven-plugin

The following are the steps that I go through to get my app deployed onto my weblogic.
1. Insert the following piece of xml code onto the settings.xml. Insert the following configuration:

weblogic
https://nexus.codehaus.org/content/repositories/releases



weblogic
https://nexus.codehaus.org/content/repositories/releases


2. Insert the following piece of xml code into


org.apache.maven.plugins
maven-war-plugin
2.0.2


org.codehaus.mojo
weblogic-maven-plugin
2.9.1


deploy

deploy
start




mpl-web
${wls.adminServerHostName}
${wls.adminServerPort}
t3
${wls.userId}
${wls.password}
true
true
false
false
${wls.targetname}
true



weblogic
wlfullclient
${weblogic.version}


weblogic
com.bea.core.descriptor.wl
1.1.0.0




3. As you might see on the above configuration that the plugin needs 2 weblogic's plugins. Those are wlfullclient and com.bea.core.descriptor.wl. I just need to install the manually. You can find artifact com.bea.core.descriptor.wl in the directory of /modules. While the other artifact is a merged of all the jar files which located in the /wlserver_10.3/server/lib. So that, you can get the files simply do the following steps:
a. go to the mentioned directory.
b. execute the following command to merge all jars:

java -jar ../../../modules/com.bea.core.jarbuilder_X.X.X.X.jar

java -jar wlfullclient.jar

4. Create the war package of your app by executing the following command: mvn package
I use maven-war-plugin version 2.0.2 to package my application as the default version seems to have a problem.

5. Deploy the app to a running weblogic (Ensure that the weblogic server is running). Take a note that I am using a remote deployment instead of local one even the app server is on my local.
Execute the following command the get it deployed.
mvn weblogic:deploy

An internal error occurred during: "Starting Oracle WebLogic Server 10gR3 at". java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.w3c.dom.Node.getTextContent()Ljava/la

An internal error occurred during: "Starting Oracle WebLogic Server 10gR3 at".

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.w3c.dom.Node.getTextContent()Ljava/lang/String;

its been quite long, i have not been blogging as the work load in my new company is so freakin heavy. Well, just want to share up some small thing but its very annoying and noisy. Well, here is the story behind this error.

Previously, I had a problem on using BIRT on Maximo. and it seems that the problem is caused by some incompatible library. After googling around, I found out that a few people experiencing the same problem as me even not specifically for the use in BIRT and Maximo.

Then, I followed what the suggestion told me to. Yet, the result is not as what I had expected. It does not work at all. Seeing that this problem took too much of time and also the due date of the project is quite close, then I was moving forward to deal with another stuff. The day after, I got my PC restarted and then I got the problem as the above. After troubleshooting the problem, I found out that the problem relies on the endorsed method which I took to sort out the problem of maximo and BIRT.

Rolling back all the changes, will give back your eclipse to normal.

The path does not contain a valid WebLogic Server install

Its been a while for not blogging. huehue... now im working in a different company and different business. Most of the time, I deal a lot with weblogic and etc. Alright, the first time dealing this application server with eclipse, I have a problem saying a non existence of home directory as in the title of this blog.

Upon googling around, I found out some discussion about this message. We need to point eclipse to some part of the directory of weblogic which is /weblogic81 or whatever version that maybe another user uses. Well, as most of the beginner, many people will not be aware of bea home and bea installation directory (I havent tried to differ between bea home and bea installation directory). Anyway, it is sorted out by pointing the explained-above directory.