GlassFish ESB Netbeans Server Starting Issue

Been having a few issue while doing the OpenESB  tutorials http://wiki.open-esb.java.net/Wiki.jsp?page=OpenESBIntroductionTutorial in that the GlashFish server doesn't connect up in Netbeans.

Symptoms:

On the Server's tab in NetBeans you right click start on GlashFish V2, it starts up in the Glassfish Log but you get a time out and the GUI displays the server as not started.  You can also go to the Admin console on http://localhost:4848 and everything looks fine and dandy.

Solution or at least the solution I found:

I seem to have a wierd setup where I mapped localhost to a MS Loopback Adaptor address, however when you ping this in cmd you still get the IP loopback address of 127.0.0.1.  I came to the conclusion that the server is taking the 127.0.0.1 IP and netbeans is resolving it to the MS Loopback address, so I change my host file c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts so that localhost is mapped back to the 127.0.01 IP loopback address.  Hey presto it now seems to work fine.

Manually undeploying a Service Assembly in ServiceMix

Adding this entry mainly as a reference for myself.

The issue is that there is a a maven jbi plug-in deploy job but not an undeploy job which from a configuration management point of view is plain stupid.  Anyway if you have a maven service mix project that you've deployed the service assembly using the maven command:

mvn jbi:projectDeploy

Then you're going to have fun undeploying it as apparently there is no undeploy task see http://www.nabble.com/How-to-undeploy-a-SA-in-serviceMix-td16736845.html or http://markmail.org/message/67pysr5olbq6wazt this can be done in ant (great another technology to use !) or manually by doing:

1. Stop ServiceMix
2. Go to /data/smx/serviceassemblies & delete the service assembly folder
3. Restart ServiceMix

To do this in ant you use the command:

ant -f servicemix-ant-task.xml -Dsm.username=smx -Dsm.password=smx -Dsm.service.assembly.name=NAME_OF_THE_SA undeploy-service-assembly

see http://www.infobean.de/2008/11/how_to_undeploy_a_serviceassem.html

Update:

Instead of using

mvn jbi:projectDeploy -DforceUpdate=true

Clear ServiceMix by stopping ServiceMix, deleting everything in the /data and restarting.  Then just copy the jar from the /target/.jar to the /hotdeploy directory.

Appatently the force update redeploy's artifacts that don't need to be redeployed, see http://cwiki.apache.org/SM/discussion-forums.html#nabble-p21474293

First blog using iBlogger

Here we go, just bought the app at a discounted rate of 59p or $0.99 after scanning the reviews.

It works :-)

[Posted with iBlogger from my iPhone]

Savings products cut

Had a leaflet from Barclays yesterday entitled "Important information about our savings accounts" and was shocked to see that on page 3 they have cut 22 products leaving just 8 remaining.

Now some of this looks like some housekeeping such as removing the postal savings account but I was supprised to see the 30 and 60 day savings disappear, so it looks like it's not just the lending products that are being cut.

Details of the accounts are as follows:

Current range of Savings Accounts (8)

• Active Savings
• e-Savings
• e-Savings Reward
  
• Nest-egg Savings
• Barclays Cash ISA
• Tax Haven ISA
• Children's Savings Account
• BarclayPlus

Accounts no longer available to new savers (22)

• Barclays Easy Saver
• Barclays Flexible Saveings
  
• Barclays Instant Cash Account
  
• Barclays Instant Savings Account
  
• Barclays Openplan Savings
  
• Barclays TESSA-Only ISA
  
• Bonus Saver
• junior BarclaysPlus
• Postal Account
• Baby Postal Account
• Barclays Savings Reserve
  
• Day to Day Savings
• Prime Account
• Regular Savings Account
• Reward Saver
• Savings Builder
• Tax Beater Cash ISA
• Tracker Savings Account
• 30 Day Savings Account
• 60 Day Savings Account
  
• Premier Openplan Savings
• Premier Cash Reserve