I have a XPage application where I use JavaMail in one of my managed beans. Currently I have added the jar-file C:\Programme\IBM\Notes\framework\shared\eclipse\plugins\com.ibm.designer.lib.javamail_9.0.0.20130301-1431\lib\mail.jarto the build-path of the manged bean. This works well. But now I want to use a newer version of JavaMail as the Domino server uses version 1.3 but I need version 1.4.x.
I have downloaded the new JavaMail jar-files from Oracle. In Domino Designer (version 9) I add this jar-file to the new design element "Code / Jars" and remove the old jar-files from the build path.
My managed bean is still compiling and running as desired, but if I check the version the bean is using it reports still version 1.3. To check the version number I use the debug property of JavaMail and it's reporting version 1.3 to the domino server console.
Is there a way to tell the domino server to use the jar-files in the application (i.e. the nsf) and not his own? Is there another approach to update the JavaMail version?
The reason I want to use a newer version of JavaMail is as follows: I want to read mails from an imap server with ssl. To avoid the problem of importing ssl-certificates I simply want to trust all hosts. This can be be done via MailSSLSocketFactory, but this is only available since version 1.4.2. Therefore I want to use a newer version of JavaMail.
Another reason I want to use a newer version is as follows: the method "getSortedMessages" of "IMAPFolder" is only available since version 1.4.4. (and so are some other features of JavaMail).
This may be a little too late for you... I think the right approach may be to include the jar file as an OSGi plugin.
I have spent some time to figure out how to do that - and recently succeeded :-) I have described the steps to perform to make this work in two articles. The first is about wrapping a JAR into a plug-in: http://www.dalsgaard-data.eu/blog/wrap-an-existing-jar-file-into-a-plug-in/ - the second is about deployment (and there is a link in the first one).
/John
You can solve the problem by creating an OSGi plug-in that supersedes the one that sports the JavaMail library: com.ibm.designer.lib.javamail.
In order to do that do the following:
Create an OSGi plugin whose id is com.ibm.designer.lib.javamail (Dalsgaard's tutorial on how to do it)
Set its version to a higher number than the one the Domino server is shipped with (to know the version type tell http osgi ss com.ibm.designer.lib.javamail). As of now using 9.0.1.qualifier should be fine
Deploy the plugin either through an update site or by directly copying it under the domino\workspace\applications\eclipse\plugins folder.
Restart the HTTP service. The higher version - the one you created - will now be used
I've got the same problem here, but found a solution. Be warned, this is not the best answer but it will work. Simply download the latest javamail jar here and rename the jar file to 'mail.jar'. Just replace the current file in IBM\Notes\framework\shared\eclipse\plugins\com.ibm.designer.lib.javamail_9.0.0.20130301-1431\lib\mail.jar with this file. Quit the http task and restart it. The code will now work with the latest version.
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I moved to Bolt 4 (from Bolt 3.7) and would like to implement front-end user to give them access to private contents of the website. Previously, I used the extension BoltAuth/Auth, which worked like a charm.
Now in Bolt 4, there is no easy way like in Bolt 3.x to install an extension from the back-end page. I found out I could use composer to do so, but I run in the following problem:
> composer require "boltauth/auth:3.0.1"
[InvalidArgumentException]
Could not find a matching version of package boltauth/auth. Check the package
spelling, your version constraint and that the package is available in a stability
which matches your minimum-stability (stable).
Either I do something wrong, or the extension is not compatible with Bolt 4.1.
Could someone tell me if there is a way to make this extension work? Or alternatives for front-end user management?
EDIT: I'm now using the bolt/users extension as it can be used to add a ROLE_MEMBERS and let users login for the frontend.
Yes, unfortunately the architecture for plugins (mainly driven by the move from Silex to Symfony) changed completely between 3.x and 4.x and it's not really feasible to release new 4.x compatible versions.
So for now there won't likely be updates to BoltAuth. It may be worth joining the Slack community and seeing if any other developers are working on 4.x compatible solutions to the client login scenarios.
I've been trying to work through an issue that developed while attempting to upgrade our testing environment from 12.04 to 14.04 ubuntu on aws. Prior to this, the Package repository version of solr was 1.4.1 which matched our 1.4.1 solrj client integrated with our application.
Changing the base AMI to the 14.04 latest and running our default deploy caused solr 3.6.2 server to be installed. It appears it was accepting our configs without issue, however when our client tried to connect we received different errors:
The first was an unknown custom field, which we traced back to our deployment scripts not moving our schema.xml and solrconfig.xml to /etc/solr/conf/ but keeping it in the base directory.
We corrected this issue, and then ran into the following:
'exception: Invalid version or the data in not in 'javabin' format'
This was generated by a wrapper ontop of solrj, but I'll be honest and say I know nothing regarding Solr and that this may be on our end. I've asked our dev team to look at 2 options:
1) enabling: 'server.setParser(new XMLResponseParser());'
Which is the recommendation on the backwards compatibility for an older client.
2) updating our client in the application to 3.6.2
-I know less about the requirements on this.
My fall back is to revert to 1.4.1, but it appears it hasn't been touched since 2011, which makes me hesitant.
Any thoughts / suggestions would be appreciated!
Thanks!
I think the best option is to maintain the same version of Solr and Solrj.
I used for a lot of time Solr 1.4.1 and, while as you said, the most part of it works with newer versions without any problem, actually a lot of things have been changed since 1.4.*
I did your same porting last year, (from 1.4.1 to 3.6.1) and I can confirm you that the 2nd way is the right one: all changes you must do in your client code are just "formal" and very very quick.
Any workaround you could do for being able to communicate with a different version (between Solrj and Solr) is just, as the word says, a "workaround" and it could lead to unexpected (hidden) side-effects later.
I wanted to use the Apache POI classes for Streaming Excel spreadsheets. If I import the log4j-1.2.17.jar file into my Jars in the nsf then no XPages will load.
If I don't I get an error:
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError:
javax/xml/stream/XMLEventFactory.newFactory()Ljavax/xml/stream/XMLEventFactory;
at
org.apache.poi.openxml4j.opc.internal.marshallers.PackagePropertiesMarshaller.<clinit>(PackagePropertiesMarshaller.java:45)
at
java.lang.J9VMInternals.initializeImpl(Native Method)
at
java.lang.J9VMInternals.initialize(J9VMInternals.java:201)
at
Since many third party Java apis seem to use the log4j is there a solution? I think this is the same issue that came up with the web services API in XPages?
Your best course of action is to deploy OpenNTF essentials. It contains the POI classes and quite some ready made wrappers to make your life easier.
Deploy into sever via update site nsf approach and deploy to your designer too
Maybe your error can be from the same reason than in that questions. It's a problem of standard jars which come along with the domino installation.
Using External jar causing Error
Axis 1.4 log4j-1.2.8.jar incompatible with XPages?
Howard, put the jar file on the server as well as your local notes client and open up Java security permissions, I think that should do it. Also check that the version you are importing is compatible with Java version on Domino.
Many sources noted that in Domino 8.5.4/9 should be clean way of starting OSGi bundles on HTTP startup as noted for example here http://lekkimworld.com/2011/07/08/dots_and_automatic_startup_of_bundles.html
Currently I'm still not able to find any documentation about it. Is there some extension point or other configuration that can be used for that?
In Domino 8.5.3 we did ugly hack when bundles pretend to be Dojo libraries and so they started automatically. On one of our Domino 9 test machines this probably causes troubles (every other restart server complains that No Dojo library could be found), so I wanted to cleanup our code.
Bundle is our workflow engine and since it can do some automatic processing we need to start it even when no request comes to server.
The webdav plug-in on OpenNTF has an autostart option. In this case it was linked to the Servlet extension point. That might help. Are you extending Activiti?
We have a liferay portal running on a hosting company, and We want to bring it to our own structure. So, I've downloaded the excellent bitnami stack and loaded it in our vmware server.
I've no experience on liferay whatsoever, all I know its that it uses mysql as database. Is there any docs on how to do it?
Tks!
Use the Liferay's Wiki:
5.0 to 5.1: http://www.liferay.com/community/wiki/-/wiki/Main/Upgrade+Instructions+from+5.0+to+5.1
5.1. to 5.2: http://www.liferay.com/community/wiki/-/wiki/Main/Upgrade+Instructions+from+5.1+to+5.2
I recommend to do a 2-step upgrade since direct upgrade from 5.0 to 5.2 is more troublesome.
There have been reports that it's some work to upgrade older versions to the latest and greatest, so you should be prepared for some efforts.
That said, the way you should go is to backup the previous installation (e.g. all directories, database entries etc) and deploy that on your own server. This installation then is updated to the latest version by installing the latest version and pointing it to the data from the previous installation. During the first startup, liferay will (given sufficient privileges on mysql) update the database structure and everything it needs. Keep your backup ready and test thoroughly if everything is upgraded the way you intended it to be.
Also you need to keep an eye on your customized stuff - if you have portlets or other components that use the liferay api, you might need to upgrade those manually to take changed APIs into account.
Theoretically that should be it. I've heard of people having had some problems with this - but it all depends on your level of customization and utilization of features in liferay.
The liferay folks intend to circumvent this in future with their EE environment, where you get better defined upgrade paths and long term support with minor upgrades to your environment, keeping APIs and database requirements stable. I'd hope that even upgrades between major versions will benefit from this, but have not yet tried it.