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System Issues and Major Malfuctions after Failed hibernation Exit

- by Sarah Seguin

I have a HP G71-340US that went into hibernation mode for a while and when I tried coming out of it, I got an error message: You're computer cannot come out if hibernation . Status: 0xc000009a Info: A fatal error occurred processing the restoration data. File: \hiberfil.sys Any information that was not saved before the computer went into hybernation will be lost enter=continue So I hit continue and it ran soooo super slow it. It was seriously crawling. Finally I gave up and turned it off manually (IE press and hold the button). It's been a week or two since then and EVERY SINGLE TIME I have tried to to do ANYTHING it takes forever. When I say forever, I literally mean takes 5-7 minutes to load the internet, then the page itself, then to click a link, so on so forth. Eventually everything just goes not responding and I have to give up (4-6 HOURS later). I also cannot access my thumb/jump drives once I've managed to load windows. I was going to try runing malware bytes incase of a virus, but it's windows explorer developes errors and goes not responding on me. Currently I'm running scan disk or check disk and like every file is coming back unreadable. I let it run the last 2 hours straight in chkdesk and I'm only at 6 percent with around 500+ errors and still going. Yes, I've taken logs of the errors via cell phone camera and patience. A week or two prior to this happening I had to change our the hard drive due to blunt force trama next to the mouse. OH! Running on Windows 7: ) And I've tried loading the computer in safe mode and it makes absolutely no difference. Any and all help would be appreciated. I really don't know what to do from here and I'm kind of freaking out. I've googled different part of the error and things that I've done/seen and there are so many different answers/topics that I thought it best to just post the questions.

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Why am I getting a Sharepoint error on a simple "hello world" web page?

- by Fetchez la vache

I've been granted admin access to an internal IIS server on which I need to set up a web site. Before doing anything technical I wanted to ensure that I could access the server, but when attempting to access a simple page (that does not refer to Sharepoint) at http://localhost/index.html when logged onto the server directly, I am getting Parser Error Description: An error occurred during the parsing of a resource required to service this request. Please review the following specific parse error details and modify your source file appropriately. Parser Error Message: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.SharePoint' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. Source Error: Line 1: <%@ Assembly Name="Microsoft.SharePoint"%><%@ Application Language="C#" Inherits="Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationRuntime.SPHttpApplication" %> Source File: /global.asax Line: 1 Assembly Load Trace: The following information can be helpful to determine why the assembly 'Microsoft.SharePoint' could not be loaded. WRN: Assembly binding logging is turned OFF. To enable assembly bind failure logging, set the registry value [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion!EnableLog] (DWORD) to 1. Note: There is some performance penalty associated with assembly bind failure logging. To turn this feature off, remove the registry value [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion!EnableLog]. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:2.0.50727.5456; ASP.NET Version:2.0.50727.5456 To be quite honest I know zip about Sharepoint, so why am I getting a sharepoint error on a basic "hello world" html page? Cheers :) Update: I've since supposedly uninstalled Sharepoint, but am still getting this error. Any ideas welcome!

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pgpool2+streaming replication failover on only 2 servers?

- by aneez

I am trying to configure pgpool2 and postgresql 9.1 to handle failover. I currently have streaming replication running, and are using pgpool2 for read-only load balancing. I have 2 servers in my setup, both running postgresql - 1 master and 1 slave. The master is also running pgpool2. My question is how do I configure this setup to handle failover? Specifically in the case that the master crashes, and the slave has to take over and run pgpool2 as well. Most documentation and examples I have been able to find assumes that pgpool2 is running on a separate server and thus "never" crashes. I may or may not be attacking the problem using the wrong tools. In my production setup I have a total of 3 identical servers all in independent locations. The main goal of the setup is to achieve a high uptime. Thus failover should be automatic, and bringing a failed node back up should cause only minimal downtime. I want all 3 nodes to be as close to identical as possible, and be able to run with just 1 or 2 nodes available. And if possible I want to use load balancing to improve performance. If anyone can help me gain some insight into how to do this using my current setup or suggest a different/better setup. Thank you!

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IIS Web Farm Framework servers are automatically set to "unavailable" even when they are healthy... And they never return to the available state!

- by JohannesH

I have 2 web farm configurations, one with 2 member servers and one with 3 member servers. I have health monitoring set up on both farms and the monitoring tool reports all servers as being healthy. However after a while all the servers are marked as being "Unavailable" and "Healthy" in the "Monitoring and Management" screen (in the "Servers" screen they are all listed with "Yes" in the "Ready for Load Balancing" column). Viewing the event log on both the web farm controller or any of farm servers doesn't reveal anything interesting. there are no warnings or errors in the period where the servers became unavailable. There are a couple of informational events about the worker process getting shut down due to inactivity but I don't hope this is the cause since that would mean that the farms will die during the night when the load is low. Am I missing something? EDIT: Btw, I think its very odd that the application pool shuts down on the servers since the health monitoring system is polling an aspx page on each server. Shouldn't that keep them going? EDIT2: Now I've also experienced this problem with the RTW version of Web Farm Framework 2.

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How does everyone set up AWS for PHP with a git workflow while worrying about distributing EC2?

- by Parris

Hello, I have been looking for something like heroku but for php, and after much frustration (and almost finding what I need, but not quite) we decided to just go with AWS without any other abstraction. We are using PHP 5.3 (and CakePHP 1.3), and are currently using git. Ubuntu seems like the easiest way to get both of those on there and we will most likely use that. We aren't really going worry about outgoing email. We are using smtp through gmail, but will most likely switch to some other service eventually. I had 3 questions: 1) I have been looking at Zend Server, and I am not quite sure how that is more beneficial than xampp. Perhaps it is not? 2) I suppose to make the application scale we would need multiple instances of some ec2 ami. Then just duplicate it and such. The question then becomes how do we make sure all EC2 instances are up to date? 3) I understand the concept of load balancing to some degree. I understand that in 1 region you select a bunch of servers and have it load balance across them. The question then becomes well how about world wide? How do I make it so that traffic is directed to the correct ec2 server? I have heard of route 53, and tried signing up for that, but nothing appears in my control panel. Also perhaps it is just a DNS thing with my domain registrar? AHHH... some tutorial would be helpful!

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ZFS & Deduplicating FLAC Data

- by jasongullickson

I'm experimenting with using ZFS to deduplicate a large library of FLAC files. The purpose of this is twofold: Reduce storage utilization Reduce bandwidth needed to sync the library with cloud storage Many of these files are of the same music tracks but from different physical media. This means that for the most part they are the same and usually close to the same size, which makes me think that they should benefit from block-level deduplication. However in my testing I'm not seeing good results. When I create a pool and add three of these tracks (identical songs from different source media) zpool list reports 1.00 dedupe. If I copy all of the files (make exact duplicates of the three) dedupe climbs, so I know that it is enabled and functioning, but it's not finding any duplication in the original collection of files. My first thought was that perhaps some of the variable header data (metadata tags, etc.) might be mis-aligning the bulk of the data in these files (the audio frames) but even making the header data consistent across the three files doesn't seem to have any impact on deduplication. I'm considering taking alternate routes (testing other dedupe filesystems as well as some custom code) but since we're already using ZFS and I like the ZFS replication options, I'd prefer to use ZFS dedupe for this project; but perhaps it's simply not capable of working well with this sort of data. Any feedback regarding tuning that might improve dedupe performance for this sort of dataset, or confirmation that ZFS dedupe is not the right tool for this job are appreciated.

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Windows XP VM on VMWare ESXi 4.1 "pausing" / blocked occasionally

- by FelixD

We have an issue with Windows XP SP3 VMs on VMWare ESXi 4.1.0 (the free version): They sometimes seem to "pause" for several minutes. This happens rarely (maybe once a month per VM, at least noticed only that often), but still is an issue for us. It happens for three different but similar VMs on three pretty different hosts (different hardware). I have the feeling that the "pausing" is not actually the CPU blocking, but probably the harddisks, but not 100% sure. The servers have one IDE disk (C:) and one SCSI (D:) and it might be either of the two. I have seen scheduled tasks simply not starting for up to 9 minutes and then running normally again with normal speed. They were totally blocked. This is not a load issue, the VMWare hosts have average load and the VMs in question already have reserved CPU resources plus high priorities for CPU and disk. The Windows boxes run mainly MySQL, Tomcat, FileZilla server, Cygwin stuff, Java + R applications, VMWare client, Elusiva Terminal Server pro, Nagios client. Not sure if this might be related with any of that software (e.g. Elusiva). Trying to debug this, there was nothing visible in Windows Event log, other logs in C:\Windows, VMWare events etc. Unfortunately the vmware.log file ends with "Log throttled". We found that we ran into 2 VMWare bugs there: The VMWare client writes lots on bogus messages in the vmware.log, which we now disabled (log level error setting) plus the bug that VMWare does not unthrottle the log (at least so far despite VM reboots). I know there is not much guidance and that may also be the reason why I so far didn't find anything related on the web or on ServerFault, but maybe some of this rings a bell with someone? Or please direct me to what more info to post. I hope that the vmware.logs get unthrottled eventually (can't easily restart the hosts at the moment). Thanks for any input!

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IIS Web Farm Framework servers are automatically set to "unavailable" even when they are healthy... And they never return to the available state!

- by JohannesH

I have 2 web farm configurations, one with 2 member servers and one with 3 member servers. I have health monitoring set up on both farms and the monitoring tool reports all servers as being healthy. However after a while all the servers are marked as being "Unavailable" and "Healthy" in the "Monitoring and Management" screen (in the "Servers" screen they are all listed with "Yes" in the "Ready for Load Balancing" column). Viewing the event log on both the web farm controller or any of farm servers doesn't reveal anything interesting. there are no warnings or errors in the period where the servers became unavailable. There are a couple of informational events about the worker process getting shut down due to inactivity but I don't hope this is the cause since that would mean that the farms will die during the night when the load is low. Am I missing something? EDIT: Btw, I think its very odd that the application pool shuts down on the servers since the health monitoring system is polling an aspx page on each server. Shouldn't that keep them going? EDIT2: Now I've also experienced this problem with the RTW version of Web Farm Framework 2.

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Notepad++ FTP best solution

- by yoda

Hi, I use Notepad++ for more than 2 years now, and there's only 1 thing that it needs for me to be perfect: a actually-working-ftp-plugin. It has an ftp plugin, written by someone that meanwhile left the project (by meanwhile I mean a long time ago), and since then nobody had courage to improve it. The problem is that it does't handle connections very well. Sometimes it lost connection with the server and literally "blocks", others don't save the files properly, other only load half of the ftp files, etc etc .. My question is: Is there a way to use ftp and notepad++ (without using its build-in ftp or a ftp client like filezilla)? I've tried using NetDrive, but it gets stuck sometimes (makes the editor crash), and everytime the temporary file is refreshed by windows / NetDrive, it will load the new file without asking and skip the pointer to the end of the file (very very very annoying). In case you know how to make the built-in notepad++ ftp plugin work at 100%, I'd be much more happy! I'd like to have some feedback from you guys :) (I'm using Windows Vista) Thanks in advance!

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Is it possible to ack nagios alerts from the terminal on a remote workstation?

- by cat pants

I have nagios alerts set up to come through jabber with an http link to ack. Is is possible there is a script I can run from a terminal on a remote workstation that takes the hostname as a parameter and acks the alert? ./ack hostname The benefit, while seemingly mundane, is threefold. First, take http load off nagios. Secondly, nagios http pages can take up to 10-20 seconds to load, so I want to save time there. Thirdly, avoiding slower use of mouse + web interface + firefox/other annoyingly slow browser. Ideally, I would like a script bound to a keyboard shortcut that simply acks the most recent alert. Finally, I want to take the inputs from a joystick, buttons and whatnot, and connect one to a big red button bound to the script so I can just ack the most recent nagios alert by hitting the button lol. (It would be rad too if the button had a screen on the enclosure that showed the text of the alert getting acked lol) Make fun of me all you want, but this is actually something that would be useful to me. If I can save five seconds per alert, and I get 200 alerts per day I need to ack, that's saving me 15 minutes a day. And isn't the whole point of the sysadmin to automate what can be automated? Thanks!

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Installing Debian 7.6.0 on Lenovo Y50

- by Girauder

I was trying to install Debian on my new laptop: a Lenovo Y50 64bit running Windows 8. I got together with a friend and installed Debian in his computer first and had no problems. However I've tried to install Debian several times using the AMD64 KDE and netinst versions and accomplished nothing. First try: installed the KDE version. Grub would let me choose which operating system I wanted, but when I selected Debian it would only load the command line. Second try: Reinstalled but this time with the netinst version. I only got a black screen where I could type but nothing else. Third Try. Tried the netinst again. This time after making the partitions I got a message that said that no EFI partition was found. I ignored the message and this time it wouldn't even load Grub. only a command like interface with grub rescue or something. Not once did I get an error during the installation. What am I doing wrong? I assume the problem is I need to make an EFI partition or something like that. So why is it that during the first installations I didn't ask me for that. And if that is indeed the problem, How can I solve it? Update So the installation failed again... as predicted. Here you can find the Disk Management picture. http://postimg.org/image/433cpfkjz/ Please somebody help me. I keep getting the grub rescue thing. secure boot is disabled and legacy support is set first.

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error initializing multiple configuration files

- by lurscher

Hi, during initialization startup on tomcat, the configurations are: 1) a webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml that imports yummy-servlet.xml in contextConfigLocation (although i'm aware that is not required since the servlet-name is yummy it will try to load yummy-servlet.xml by default) 2) a webapp/WEB-INF/yummy-servlet.xml that imports a spring/applicationContext-hibernate.xml file 3) a webapp/WEB-INF/spring/applicationContext-hibernate.xml that imports a applicationContext-dataSource.xml file 4) a webapp/WEB-INF/spring/applicationContext-dataSource.xml i'm getting errors about Failed to import bean definitions from relative location, but the stack trace is not very explicit about exactly what is the problem, i've been looking at these since yesterday and i really don't see any problem on the files my web.xml: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5"> <display-name>hello-spring3-RC1</display-name> <context-param> <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name> <param-value>/WEB-INF/yummy-servlet.xml</param-value> </context-param>   <context-param> <param-name>log4jConfigLocation</param-name> <param-value>classpath:log4j.properties</param-value> </context-param> <listener> <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class> </listener> <servlet> <servlet-name>yummy</servlet-name> <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class> <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>yummy</servlet-name> <url-pattern>*.html</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> <welcome-file-list> <welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file> </welcome-file-list> </web-app> my yummy-servlet.xml: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd"> <import resource="spring/applicationContext-hibernate.xml"/> <context:component-scan base-package="com.mine.web.controllers"/> <bean id="jspViewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver"> <property name="viewClass" value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView"/> <property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/"/> <property name="suffix" value=".jsp"/> </bean> </beans> my applicationContext-hibernate.xml: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context" xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx" xsi:schemaLocation=" http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx.xsd">  <import resource="applicationContext-dataSource.xml"/>   <context:property-placeholder location="classpath:jdbc.properties"/> <context:property-placeholder location="classpath:hibernate.properties"/>  <bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean" p:dataSource-ref="dataSource" p:mappingResources="hello.hbm.xml"> <property name="hibernateProperties"> <props> <prop key="hibernate.dialect">${hibernate.dialect}</prop> <prop key="hibernate.show_sql">${hibernate.show_sql}</prop> <prop key="hibernate.generate_statistics">${hibernate.generate_statistics}</prop> </props> </property> <property name="eventListeners"> <map> <entry key="merge"> <bean class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.support.IdTransferringMergeEventListener"/> </entry> </map> </property> </bean> <bean id="hibernateTemplate" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTemplate"> <property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" /> </bean>  <bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTransactionManager" p:sessionFactory-ref="sessionFactory"/>   <context:annotation-config/>  <tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager"/> <bean id="EntityManager" class="com.mine.persistence.hibernate.HibernateHelloWorldDao"/> </beans> and my applicationContext-dataSource.xml: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context" xmlns:jdbc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc/spring-jdbc.xsd">   <context:property-placeholder location="classpath:jdbc.properties"/> <context:property-placeholder location="classpath:hibernate.properties"/>   <bean id="dataSource" class="com.mchange.v2.c3p0.ComboPooledDataSource" destroy-method="close"> <property name="driverClass" value="${jdbc.driverClassName}"/> <property name="jdbcUrl" value="${jdbc.url}"/> <property name="user" value="${jdbc.username}"/> <property name="password" value="${jdbc.password}"/> <property name="initialPoolSize" value="${hibernate.c3p0.min_size}"/> <property name="minPoolSize" value="${hibernate.c3p0.min_size}"/> <property name="maxPoolSize" value="${jdbc.maxconn}"/> <property name="idleConnectionTestPeriod" value="150"/> <property name="acquireIncrement" value="1"/> <property name="maxStatements" value="0"/> <property name="numHelperThreads" value="5"/> </bean> </beans> and this is the stack trace: 2010-06-13 12:16:33,526 INFO [org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader] - < Root WebApplicationContext: initialization started> 2010-06-13 12:16:33,707 INFO [org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebAppl icationContext] - <Refreshing Root WebApplicationContext: startup date [Sun Jun 13 12:16:33 GMT-05:00 2010]; root of context hierarchy> 2010-06-13 12:16:34,086 INFO [org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefin itionReader] - <Loading XML bean definitions from ServletContext resource [/WEB- INF/yummy-servlet.xml]> 2010-06-13 12:16:34,378 INFO [org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefin itionReader] - <Loading XML bean definitions from URL [jndi:/localhost/protoweb/ WEB-INF/spring/applicationContext-hibernate.xml]> 2010-06-13 12:16:34,473 INFO [org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefin itionReader] - <Loading XML bean definitions from URL [jndi:/localhost/protoweb/ WEB-INF/spring/applicationContext-dataSource.xml]> 2010-06-13 12:16:35,098 ERROR [org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader] - <Context initialization failed> org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.BeanDefinitionParsingException: Configuration problem: Failed to import bean definitions from relative location [spring/applicationContext-hibernate.xml] Offending resource: ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/yummy-servlet.xml]; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Un expected exception parsing XML document from URL [jndi:/localhost/protoweb/WEB-INF/spring/applicationContext-hibernate.xml]; nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.springframework.beans.MutablePropertyValues.add(Ljava/lang/Str ing;Ljava/lang/Object;)Lorg/springframework/beans/MutablePropertyValues; at org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.FailFastProblemReporter.err or(FailFastProblemReporter.java:68) at org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.ReaderContext.error(ReaderC ontext.java:85) at org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.ReaderContext.error(ReaderC ontext.java:76) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentRe ader.importBeanDefinitionResource(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:197) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentRe ader.parseDefaultElement(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:146) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentRe ader.parseBeanDefinitions(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:131) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentRe ader.registerBeanDefinitions(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:91) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.registe rBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:475) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadB eanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:372) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBea nDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:316) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBea nDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:284) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReade r.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:143) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReade r.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:178) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReade r.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:149) at org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.load BeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:125) at org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.load BeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:93) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableApplicationCon text.refreshBeanFactory(AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.java:127) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.obtain FreshBeanFactory(AbstractApplicationContext.java:429) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refres h(AbstractApplicationContext.java:356) at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationCon text(ContextLoader.java:270) at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationConte xt(ContextLoader.java:197) at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitiali zed(ContextLoaderListener.java:47) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContex t.java:3972) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4 467) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase .java:791) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:77 1) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:546) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:905) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:740 ) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:500 ) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1277) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java :321) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(Lifecycl eSupport.java:119) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1053) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:785) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1045) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443 ) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:5 19) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:710 ) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:581) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl. java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAcces sorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:289) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:414) Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Unexp ected exception parsing XML document from URL [jndi:/localhost/protoweb/WEB-INF/ spring/applicationContext-hibernate.xml]; nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchMe thodError: org.springframework.beans.MutablePropertyValues.add(Ljava/lang/String ;Ljava/lang/Object;)Lorg/springframework/beans/MutablePropertyValues; at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadB eanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:394) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBea nDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:316) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBea nDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:284) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReade r.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:143) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReade r.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:178) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentRe ader.importBeanDefinitionResource(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:187) ... 42 more Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.springframework.beans.MutablePropert yValues.add(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/Object;)Lorg/springframework/beans/Muta blePropertyValues; at org.springframework.transaction.config.AnnotationDrivenBeanDefinition Parser.registerTransactionManager(AnnotationDrivenBeanDefinitionParser.java:95) at org.springframework.transaction.config.AnnotationDrivenBeanDefinition Parser.access$0(AnnotationDrivenBeanDefinitionParser.java:94) at org.springframework.transaction.config.AnnotationDrivenBeanDefinition Parser$AopAutoProxyConfigurer.configureAutoProxyCreator(AnnotationDrivenBeanDefi nitionParser.java:121) at org.springframework.transaction.config.AnnotationDrivenBeanDefinition Parser.parse(AnnotationDrivenBeanDefinitionParser.java:79) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.NamespaceHandlerSupport.parse(N amespaceHandlerSupport.java:72) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.pa rseCustomElement(BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.java:1327) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.pa rseCustomElement(BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.java:1317) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentRe ader.parseBeanDefinitions(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:134) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentRe ader.registerBeanDefinitions(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:91) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.registe rBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:475) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadB eanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:372) ... 47 more 06/13/2010 12:16:35 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start SEVERE: Error 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JNI 'problmatic frame' causes JVM to crash

- by HJED

Hi I'm using JNI to access the exiv2 library (written in C++) in Java and I'm getting a weird runtime error in the JNI code. I've tried using various -Xms and -Xmx options, but that seems to have no affect. I've also tried running this code on JDK1.7.0 with the same result. # A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment: # # SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007ff31807757f, pid=4041, tid=140682078746368 # # JRE version: 6.0_20-b20 # Java VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (19.0-b09 mixed mode linux-amd64 ) # Derivative: IcedTea6 1.9.2 # Distribution: Ubuntu 10.10, package 6b20-1.9.2-0ubuntu2 # Problematic frame: # V [libjvm.so+0x42757f] # # If you would like to submit a bug report, please include # instructions how to reproduce the bug and visit: # https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-6/ # --------------- T H R E A D --------------- Current thread (0x000000000190d000): JavaThread "main" [_thread_in_Java, id=4043, stack(0x00007ff319447000,0x00007ff319548000)] siginfo:si_signo=SIGSEGV: si_errno=0, si_code=1 (SEGV_MAPERR), si_addr=0x0000000000000024 Registers: ... Register to memory mapping: RAX=0x0000000000000002 0x0000000000000002 is pointing to unknown location RBX=0x000000000190db90 0x000000000190db90 is pointing to unknown location RCX=0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 is pointing to unknown location RDX=0x00007ff3195463f8 0x00007ff3195463f8 is pointing into the stack for thread: 0x000000000190d000 "main" prio=10 tid=0x000000000190d000 nid=0xfcb runnable [0x0000000000000000] java.lang.Thread.State: RUNNABLE RSP=0x00007ff319546270 0x00007ff319546270 is pointing into the stack for thread: 0x000000000190d000 "main" prio=10 tid=0x000000000190d000 nid=0xfcb runnable [0x0000000000000000] java.lang.Thread.State: RUNNABLE RBP=0x00007ff319546270 0x00007ff319546270 is pointing into the stack for thread: 0x000000000190d000 "main" prio=10 tid=0x000000000190d000 nid=0xfcb runnable [0x0000000000000000] java.lang.Thread.State: RUNNABLE RSI=0x0000000000000024 0x0000000000000024 is pointing to unknown location RDI=0x00007ff3195463e0 0x00007ff3195463e0 is pointing into the stack for thread: 0x000000000190d000 "main" prio=10 tid=0x000000000190d000 nid=0xfcb runnable [0x0000000000000000] java.lang.Thread.State: RUNNABLE R8 =0x000000000190d000 "main" prio=10 tid=0x000000000190d000 nid=0xfcb runnable [0x0000000000000000] java.lang.Thread.State: RUNNABLE R9 =0x000000000190db88 0x000000000190db88 is pointing to unknown location R10=0x00007ff319546300 0x00007ff319546300 is pointing into the stack for thread: 0x000000000190d000 "main" prio=10 tid=0x000000000190d000 nid=0xfcb runnable [0x0000000000000000] java.lang.Thread.State: RUNNABLE R11=0x0000000000000002 0x0000000000000002 is pointing to unknown location R12=0x000000000190d000 "main" prio=10 tid=0x000000000190d000 nid=0xfcb runnable [0x0000000000000000] java.lang.Thread.State: RUNNABLE R13=0x00007ff319546560 0x00007ff319546560 is pointing into the stack for thread: 0x000000000190d000 "main" prio=10 tid=0x000000000190d000 nid=0xfcb runnable [0x0000000000000000] java.lang.Thread.State: RUNNABLE R14=0x00007ff3195463e0 0x00007ff3195463e0 is pointing into the stack for thread: 0x000000000190d000 "main" prio=10 tid=0x000000000190d000 nid=0xfcb runnable [0x0000000000000000] java.lang.Thread.State: RUNNABLE R15=0x0000000000000003 0x0000000000000003 is pointing to unknown location Top of Stack: (sp=0x00007ff319546270) ... Instructions: (pc=0x00007ff31807757f) 0x00007ff31807756f: e2 03 48 03 57 58 31 c9 48 8b 32 48 85 f6 74 03 0x00007ff31807757f: 48 8b 0e 48 89 0a 8b 77 68 83 c0 01 39 f0 7c d1 Stack: [0x00007ff319447000,0x00007ff319548000], sp=0x00007ff319546270, free space=1020k Native frames: (J=compiled Java code, j=interpreted, Vv=VM code, C=native code) V [libjvm.so+0x42757f] V [libjvm.so+0x42866b] V [libjvm.so+0x4275c8] V [libjvm.so+0x4331bd] V [libjvm.so+0x44e5c7] C [libExiff2-binding.so+0x1f16] _ZN7JNIEnv_15CallVoidMethodAEP8_jobjectP10_jmethodIDPK6jvalue+0x40 C [libExiff2-binding.so+0x1b96] _Z8loadIPTCSt8auto_ptrIN5Exiv25ImageEEPKcP7JNIEnv_P8_jobject+0x2ba C [libExiff2-binding.so+0x1d3f] _Z7getVarsPKcP7JNIEnv_P8_jobject+0x176 C [libExiff2-binding.so+0x1de7] Java_photo_exiv2_Exiv2MetaDataStore_impl_1loadFromExiv+0x4b j photo.exiv2.Exiv2MetaDataStore.impl_loadFromExiv(Ljava/lang/String;Lphoto/exiv2/Exiv2MetaDataStore;)V+0 j photo.exiv2.Exiv2MetaDataStore.loadFromExiv2()V+9 j photo.exiv2.Exiv2MetaDataStore.loadData()V+1 j photo.exiv2.Exiv2MetaDataStore.<init>(Lphoto/ImageFile;)V+10 j test.Main.main([Ljava/lang/String;)V+76 v ~StubRoutines::call_stub V [libjvm.so+0x428698] V [libjvm.so+0x4275c8] V [libjvm.so+0x432943] V [libjvm.so+0x447f91] C [java+0x3495] JavaMain+0xd75 --------------- P R O C E S S --------------- Java Threads: ( => current thread ) 0x00007ff2c4027800 JavaThread "Low Memory Detector" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=4060, stack(0x00007ff2c9052000,0x00007ff2c9153000)] 0x00007ff2c4025000 JavaThread "CompilerThread1" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=4059, stack(0x00007ff2c9153000,0x00007ff2c9254000)] 0x00007ff2c4022000 JavaThread "CompilerThread0" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=4058, stack(0x00007ff2c9254000,0x00007ff2c9355000)] 0x00007ff2c401f800 JavaThread "Signal Dispatcher" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=4057, stack(0x00007ff2c9355000,0x00007ff2c9456000)] 0x00007ff2c4001000 JavaThread "Finalizer" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=4056, stack(0x00007ff2c994d000,0x00007ff2c9a4e000)] 0x0000000001984000 JavaThread "Reference Handler" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=4055, stack(0x00007ff2c9a4e000,0x00007ff2c9b4f000)] =>0x000000000190d000 JavaThread "main" [_thread_in_Java, id=4043, stack(0x00007ff319447000,0x00007ff319548000)] Other Threads: 0x000000000197d800 VMThread [stack: 0x00007ff2c9b4f000,0x00007ff2c9c50000] [id=4054] 0x00007ff2c4032000 WatcherThread [stack: 0x00007ff2c8f51000,0x00007ff2c9052000] [id=4061] VM state:not at safepoint (normal execution) VM Mutex/Monitor currently owned by a thread: None Heap PSYoungGen total 18432K, used 316K [0x00007ff2fed30000, 0x00007ff3001c0000, 0x00007ff313730000) eden space 15808K, 2% used [0x00007ff2fed30000,0x00007ff2fed7f0b8,0x00007ff2ffca0000) from space 2624K, 0% used [0x00007ff2fff30000,0x00007ff2fff30000,0x00007ff3001c0000) to space 2624K, 0% used [0x00007ff2ffca0000,0x00007ff2ffca0000,0x00007ff2fff30000) PSOldGen total 42240K, used 0K [0x00007ff2d5930000, 0x00007ff2d8270000, 0x00007ff2fed30000) object space 42240K, 0% used [0x00007ff2d5930000,0x00007ff2d5930000,0x00007ff2d8270000) PSPermGen total 21248K, used 2827K [0x00007ff2cb330000, 0x00007ff2cc7f0000, 0x00007ff2d5930000) object space 21248K, 13% used [0x00007ff2cb330000,0x00007ff2cb5f2f60,0x00007ff2cc7f0000) Dynamic libraries: 00400000-00409000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 141899 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java 00608000-00609000 r--p 00008000 08:03 141899 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java 00609000-0060a000 rw-p 00009000 08:03 141899 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java 01904000-019ad000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap] ... 7ff2c820c000-7ff2c8232000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 917704 /lib/libexpat.so.1.5.2 7ff2c8232000-7ff2c8432000 ---p 00026000 08:03 917704 /lib/libexpat.so.1.5.2 7ff2c8432000-7ff2c8434000 r--p 00026000 08:03 917704 /lib/libexpat.so.1.5.2 7ff2c8434000-7ff2c8435000 rw-p 00028000 08:03 917704 /lib/libexpat.so.1.5.2 7ff2c8435000-7ff2c844a000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 917708 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 7ff2c844a000-7ff2c8649000 ---p 00015000 08:03 917708 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 7ff2c8649000-7ff2c864a000 r--p 00014000 08:03 917708 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 7ff2c864a000-7ff2c864b000 rw-p 00015000 08:03 917708 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 7ff2c864b000-7ff2c8733000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 134995 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.14 7ff2c8733000-7ff2c8932000 ---p 000e8000 08:03 134995 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.14 7ff2c8932000-7ff2c893a000 r--p 000e7000 08:03 134995 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.14 7ff2c893a000-7ff2c893c000 rw-p 000ef000 08:03 134995 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.14 7ff2c893c000-7ff2c8951000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7ff2c8951000-7ff2c8af3000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 134599 /usr/lib/libexiv2.so.6.0.0 7ff2c8af3000-7ff2c8cf2000 ---p 001a2000 08:03 134599 /usr/lib/libexiv2.so.6.0.0 7ff2c8cf2000-7ff2c8d0f000 r--p 001a1000 08:03 134599 /usr/lib/libexiv2.so.6.0.0 7ff2c8d0f000-7ff2c8d10000 rw-p 001be000 08:03 134599 /usr/lib/libexiv2.so.6.0.0 7ff2c8d10000-7ff2c8d23000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7ff2c8d42000-7ff2c8d45000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 800718 /home/hjed/libExiff2-binding.so 7ff2c8d45000-7ff2c8f44000 ---p 00003000 08:03 800718 /home/hjed/libExiff2-binding.so 7ff2c8f44000-7ff2c8f45000 r--p 00002000 08:03 800718 /home/hjed/libExiff2-binding.so 7ff2c8f45000-7ff2c8f46000 rw-p 00003000 08:03 800718 /home/hjed/libExiff2-binding.so 7ff2c8f46000-7ff2c8f49000 r--s 0000f000 08:03 141333 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/ext/pulse-java.jar 7ff2c8f49000-7ff2c8f51000 r--s 00066000 08:03 408472 /usr/share/java/gnome-java-bridge.jar ... 7ff2ca559000-7ff2ca55b000 r--s 0001d000 08:03 141354 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/plugin.jar 7ff2ca55b000-7ff2ca560000 r--s 00044000 08:03 141353 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/netx.jar 7ff2ca560000-7ff2ca592000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7ff2ca592000-7ff2ca720000 r--s 038af000 08:03 141833 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/rt.jar ... 7ff31673b000-7ff316742000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 141867 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/libzip.so 7ff316742000-7ff316941000 ---p 00007000 08:03 141867 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/libzip.so 7ff316941000-7ff316942000 r--p 00006000 08:03 141867 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/libzip.so 7ff316942000-7ff316943000 rw-p 00007000 08:03 141867 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/libzip.so 7ff316943000-7ff31694f000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 921396 /lib/libnss_files-2.12.1.so 7ff31694f000-7ff316b4e000 ---p 0000c000 08:03 921396 /lib/libnss_files-2.12.1.so 7ff316b4e000-7ff316b4f000 r--p 0000b000 08:03 921396 /lib/libnss_files-2.12.1.so 7ff316b4f000-7ff316b50000 rw-p 0000c000 08:03 921396 /lib/libnss_files-2.12.1.so 7ff316b50000-7ff316b5a000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 921398 /lib/libnss_nis-2.12.1.so 7ff316b5a000-7ff316d59000 ---p 0000a000 08:03 921398 /lib/libnss_nis-2.12.1.so 7ff316d59000-7ff316d5a000 r--p 00009000 08:03 921398 /lib/libnss_nis-2.12.1.so 7ff316d5a000-7ff316d5b000 rw-p 0000a000 08:03 921398 /lib/libnss_nis-2.12.1.so 7ff316d5b000-7ff316d63000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 921393 /lib/libnss_compat-2.12.1.so 7ff316d63000-7ff316f62000 ---p 00008000 08:03 921393 /lib/libnss_compat-2.12.1.so 7ff316f62000-7ff316f63000 r--p 00007000 08:03 921393 /lib/libnss_compat-2.12.1.so 7ff316f63000-7ff316f64000 rw-p 00008000 08:03 921393 /lib/libnss_compat-2.12.1.so 7ff316f64000-7ff316f6c000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 141869 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/native_threads/libhpi.so 7ff316f6c000-7ff31716b000 ---p 00008000 08:03 141869 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/native_threads/libhpi.so 7ff31716b000-7ff31716c000 r--p 00007000 08:03 141869 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/native_threads/libhpi.so 7ff31716c000-7ff31716d000 rw-p 00008000 08:03 141869 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/native_threads/libhpi.so 7ff31716d000-7ff317184000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 921392 /lib/libnsl-2.12.1.so 7ff317184000-7ff317383000 ---p 00017000 08:03 921392 /lib/libnsl-2.12.1.so 7ff317383000-7ff317384000 r--p 00016000 08:03 921392 /lib/libnsl-2.12.1.so 7ff317384000-7ff317385000 rw-p 00017000 08:03 921392 /lib/libnsl-2.12.1.so 7ff317385000-7ff317387000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7ff317387000-7ff3173b2000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 141850 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/libjava.so 7ff3173b2000-7ff3175b1000 ---p 0002b000 08:03 141850 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/libjava.so 7ff3175b1000-7ff3175b2000 r--p 0002a000 08:03 141850 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/libjava.so 7ff3175b2000-7ff3175b5000 rw-p 0002b000 08:03 141850 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/libjava.so 7ff3175b5000-7ff3175c3000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 141866 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/libverify.so 7ff3175c3000-7ff3177c2000 ---p 0000e000 08:03 141866 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/libverify.so 7ff3177c2000-7ff3177c4000 r--p 0000d000 08:03 141866 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/libverify.so 7ff3177c4000-7ff3177c5000 rw-p 0000f000 08:03 141866 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/libverify.so 7ff3177c5000-7ff3177cc000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 921405 /lib/librt-2.12.1.so 7ff3177cc000-7ff3179cb000 ---p 00007000 08:03 921405 /lib/librt-2.12.1.so 7ff3179cb000-7ff3179cc000 r--p 00006000 08:03 921405 /lib/librt-2.12.1.so 7ff3179cc000-7ff3179cd000 rw-p 00007000 08:03 921405 /lib/librt-2.12.1.so 7ff3179cd000-7ff317a4f000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 921390 /lib/libm-2.12.1.so 7ff317a4f000-7ff317c4e000 ---p 00082000 08:03 921390 /lib/libm-2.12.1.so 7ff317c4e000-7ff317c4f000 r--p 00081000 08:03 921390 /lib/libm-2.12.1.so 7ff317c4f000-7ff317c50000 rw-p 00082000 08:03 921390 /lib/libm-2.12.1.so 7ff317c50000-7ff3184c4000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 141871 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/server/libjvm.so 7ff3184c4000-7ff3186c3000 ---p 00874000 08:03 141871 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/server/libjvm.so 7ff3186c3000-7ff318739000 r--p 00873000 08:03 141871 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/server/libjvm.so 7ff318739000-7ff318754000 rw-p 008e9000 08:03 141871 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/server/libjvm.so 7ff318754000-7ff31878d000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7ff31878d000-7ff318907000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 921385 /lib/libc-2.12.1.so 7ff318907000-7ff318b06000 ---p 0017a000 08:03 921385 /lib/libc-2.12.1.so 7ff318b06000-7ff318b0a000 r--p 00179000 08:03 921385 /lib/libc-2.12.1.so 7ff318b0a000-7ff318b0b000 rw-p 0017d000 08:03 921385 /lib/libc-2.12.1.so 7ff318b0b000-7ff318b10000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7ff318b10000-7ff318b12000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 921388 /lib/libdl-2.12.1.so 7ff318b12000-7ff318d12000 ---p 00002000 08:03 921388 /lib/libdl-2.12.1.so 7ff318d12000-7ff318d13000 r--p 00002000 08:03 921388 /lib/libdl-2.12.1.so 7ff318d13000-7ff318d14000 rw-p 00003000 08:03 921388 /lib/libdl-2.12.1.so 7ff318d14000-7ff318d18000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 141838 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/jli/libjli.so 7ff318d18000-7ff318f17000 ---p 00004000 08:03 141838 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/jli/libjli.so 7ff318f17000-7ff318f18000 r--p 00003000 08:03 141838 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/jli/libjli.so 7ff318f18000-7ff318f19000 rw-p 00004000 08:03 141838 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/jli/libjli.so 7ff318f19000-7ff318f31000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 921401 /lib/libpthread-2.12.1.so 7ff318f31000-7ff319130000 ---p 00018000 08:03 921401 /lib/libpthread-2.12.1.so 7ff319130000-7ff319131000 r--p 00017000 08:03 921401 /lib/libpthread-2.12.1.so 7ff319131000-7ff319132000 rw-p 00018000 08:03 921401 /lib/libpthread-2.12.1.so 7ff319132000-7ff319136000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7ff319136000-7ff31914c000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 917772 /lib/libz.so.1.2.3.4 7ff31914c000-7ff31934c000 ---p 00016000 08:03 917772 /lib/libz.so.1.2.3.4 7ff31934c000-7ff31934d000 r--p 00016000 08:03 917772 /lib/libz.so.1.2.3.4 7ff31934d000-7ff31934e000 rw-p 00017000 08:03 917772 /lib/libz.so.1.2.3.4 7ff31934e000-7ff31936e000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 921379 /lib/ld-2.12.1.so 7ff319387000-7ff319391000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7ff319391000-7ff319447000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7ff319447000-7ff31944a000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 7ff31944a000-7ff31954d000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7ff319562000-7ff31956a000 rw-s 00000000 08:03 1966453 /tmp/hsperfdata_hjed/4041 7ff31956a000-7ff31956b000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7ff31956b000-7ff31956c000 r--p 00000000 00:00 0 7ff31956c000-7ff31956e000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7ff31956e000-7ff31956f000 r--p 00020000 08:03 921379 /lib/ld-2.12.1.so 7ff31956f000-7ff319570000 rw-p 00021000 08:03 921379 /lib/ld-2.12.1.so 7ff319570000-7ff319571000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7fff0fb03000-7fff0fb24000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack] 7fff0fbff000-7fff0fc00000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso] ffffffffff600000-ffffffffff601000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vsyscall] VM Arguments: jvm_args: -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 java_command: test.Main Launcher Type: SUN_STANDARD Environment Variables: PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games USERNAME=hjed LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/server:/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64:/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/../lib/amd64 SHELL=/bin/bash DISPLAY=:0.0 Signal Handlers: SIGSEGV: [libjvm.so+0x712700], sa_mask[0]=0x7ffbfeff, sa_flags=0x10000004 SIGBUS: [libjvm.so+0x712700], sa_mask[0]=0x7ffbfeff, sa_flags=0x10000004 SIGFPE: [libjvm.so+0x5d4020], sa_mask[0]=0x7ffbfeff, sa_flags=0x10000004 SIGPIPE: [libjvm.so+0x5d4020], sa_mask[0]=0x7ffbfeff, sa_flags=0x10000004 SIGXFSZ: [libjvm.so+0x5d4020], sa_mask[0]=0x7ffbfeff, sa_flags=0x10000004 SIGILL: [libjvm.so+0x5d4020], sa_mask[0]=0x7ffbfeff, sa_flags=0x10000004 SIGUSR1: SIG_DFL, sa_mask[0]=0x00000000, sa_flags=0x00000000 SIGUSR2: [libjvm.so+0x5d3730], sa_mask[0]=0x00000004, sa_flags=0x10000004 SIGHUP: [libjvm.so+0x5d61a0], sa_mask[0]=0x7ffbfeff, sa_flags=0x10000004 SIGINT: SIG_IGN, sa_mask[0]=0x00000000, sa_flags=0x00000000 SIGTERM: [libjvm.so+0x5d61a0], sa_mask[0]=0x7ffbfeff, sa_flags=0x10000004 SIGQUIT: [libjvm.so+0x5d61a0], sa_mask[0]=0x7ffbfeff, sa_flags=0x10000004 --------------- S Y S T E M --------------- OS:Ubuntu 10.10 (maverick) uname:Linux 2.6.35-24-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 2 02:41:37 UTC 2010 x86_64 libc:glibc 2.12.1 NPTL 2.12.1 rlimit: STACK 8192k, CORE 0k, NPROC infinity, NOFILE 1024, AS infinity load average:0.25 0.16 0.21 /proc/meminfo: MemTotal: 4048200 kB MemFree: 1230476 kB Buffers: 589572 kB Cached: 911132 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 1321712 kB Inactive: 1202272 kB Active(anon): 1023852 kB Inactive(anon): 7168 kB Active(file): 297860 kB Inactive(file): 1195104 kB Unevictable: 64 kB Mlocked: 64 kB SwapTotal: 7065596 kB SwapFree: 7065596 kB Dirty: 632 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 1023368 kB Mapped: 145832 kB Shmem: 7728 kB Slab: 111136 kB SReclaimable: 66316 kB SUnreclaim: 44820 kB KernelStack: 3824 kB PageTables: 27736 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB WritebackTmp: 0 kB CommitLimit: 9089696 kB Committed_AS: 2378396 kB VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB VmallocUsed: 332928 kB VmallocChunk: 34359397884 kB HardwareCorrupted: 0 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 HugePages_Surp: 0 Hugepagesize: 2048 kB DirectMap4k: 67136 kB DirectMap2M: 4118528 kB CPU:total 8 (4 cores per cpu, 2 threads per core) family 6 model 26 stepping 5, cmov, cx8, fxsr, mmx, sse, sse2, sse3, ssse3, sse4.1, sse4.2, popcnt, ht Memory: 4k page, physical 4048200k(1230476k free), swap 7065596k(7065596k free) vm_info: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (19.0-b09) for linux-amd64 JRE (1.6.0_20-b20), built on Dec 10 2010 19:45:55 by "buildd" with gcc 4.4.5 time: Sat Jan 1 14:12:27 2011 elapsed time: 0 seconds The java code is: ... public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) { ... ImageFile img = new ImageFile(System.getProperty("user.home") + "/PC100001.JPG"); Exiv2MetaDataStore e = new Exiv2MetaDataStore(img); Iterator<Entry<String, String>> i = e.entrySet().iterator(); while (i.hasNext()) { Entry<String, String> entry = i.next(); System.out.println(entry.getKey() + ":" + entry.getValue()); } //if you switch this print statment with the while loop you get the same error. // System.out.print(e.toString()); } } and /** NB: MetaDataStore is an abstract class that extends HashMap<String,String> */ public class Exiv2MetaDataStore extends MetaDataStore{ ... private final ImageFile F; /** * Creates an meta data store from an ImageFile using Exiv2 * this calls loadData(); * @param f */ public Exiv2MetaDataStore(ImageFile f) { F = f; loadData(); } ... @Override protected void loadData() { loadFromExiv2(); } ... private void loadFromExiv2() { impl_loadFromExiv(F.getAbsolutePath(), this); } private native void impl_loadFromExiv(String path, Exiv2MetaDataStore str); //this method called by the C++ code public void exiv2_reciveElement(String key, String value) { super.put(key,value); } static { Runtime.getRuntime().load("/home/hjed/libExiff2-binding.so"); } } C++ code: #include <exif.hpp> #include <image.hpp> #include <iptc.hpp> #include <exiv2/exiv2.hpp> #include <exiv2/error.hpp> #include <iostream> #include <iomanip> #include <cassert> void loadIPTC(Exiv2::Image::AutoPtr image, const char * path, JNIEnv * env, jobject obj) { Exiv2::IptcData &iptcData = image->iptcData(); //load method jclass cls = env->GetObjectClass(obj); jmethodID mid = env->GetMethodID(cls, "exiv2_reciveElement", "(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/String;)V"); //is there any IPTC data AND check that method exists if (iptcData.empty() | (mid == NULL)) { std::string error(path); error += ": failed loading IPTC data, there may not be any data"; } else { Exiv2::IptcData::iterator end = iptcData.end(); for (Exiv2::IptcData::iterator md = iptcData.begin(); md != end; ++md) { jvalue values[2]; const char* key = md->key().c_str(); values[0].l = env->NewStringUTF(key); md->value().toString().c_str(); const char* value = md->typeName(); values[2].l = env->NewStringUTF(value); //If I replace the code for values[2] with the commented out code I get the same error. //const char* type = md->typeName(); //values[2].l = env->NewStringUTF(type); env->CallVoidMethodA(obj, mid, values); } } } void getVars(const char* path, JNIEnv * env, jobject obj) { //Load image Exiv2::Image::AutoPtr image = Exiv2::ImageFactory::open(path); assert(image.get() != 0); image->readMetadata(); //Load IPTC data loadIPTC(image, path, env, obj); } JNIEXPORT void JNICALL Java_photo_exiv2_Exiv2MetaDataStore_impl_1loadFromExiv(JNIEnv * env, jobject obj, jstring path, jobject obj2) { const char* path2 = env->GetStringUTFChars(path, NULL); getVars(path2, env, obj); env->ReleaseStringUTFChars(path, path2); } I've searched for a fix for this, but I can't find one. I don't have much experience using C++ so if I've made an obvious mistake in the C code I apologies. Thanks for any help, HJED P.S. This is my first post on this site and I wasn't sure how much of the code I needed to show. Sorry if I've put to much up.

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Problem with cometd and jetty 6 / 7

- by Ceilingfish

Hi chaps, I'm trying to get started with cometd (http://cometd.org/) and jetty 6 or 7, but I seem to be having problems. I've got an ant script that packages my code up into a war with the cometd 1.1.1 binaries and jetty binaries that are appropriate to the version of jetty I deploy the war to (so 7.1.2.v20100523 binaries when I deploy to jetty 7.1.2.v20100523 and 6.1.24 when I deploy to 6.1.24). I first tried getting a setup with version 7.1.2.v20100523, but when I tried to deploy I got a very long stack trace sample of which is: 2010-05-26 15:32:12.906:WARN::Problem processing jar entry org/eclipse/jetty/util/MultiPartOutputStream.class java.io.IOException: Invalid resource at org.eclipse.jetty.util.resource.URLResource.getInputStream(URLResource.java:204) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.resource.JarResource.getInputStream(JarResource.java:113) at org.eclipse.jetty.annotations.AnnotationParser$2.processEntry(AnnotationParser.java:575) at org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.JarScanner.matched(JarScanner.java:152) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.PatternMatcher.matchPatterns(PatternMatcher.java:82) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.PatternMatcher.match(PatternMatcher.java:64) at org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.JarScanner.scan(JarScanner.java:75) at org.eclipse.jetty.annotations.AnnotationParser.parse(AnnotationParser.java:587) at org.eclipse.jetty.annotations.AbstractConfiguration.parseWebInfLib(AbstractConfiguration.java:107) at org.eclipse.jetty.annotations.AnnotationConfiguration.configure(AnnotationConfiguration.java:68) at org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.startContext(WebAppContext.java:992) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doStart(ContextHandler.java:579) at org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.doStart(WebAppContext.java:381) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:55) at org.eclipse.jetty.deploy.bindings.StandardStarter.processBinding(StandardStarter.java:36) at org.eclipse.jetty.deploy.AppLifeCycle.runBindings(AppLifeCycle.java:182) at org.eclipse.jetty.deploy.DeploymentManager.requestAppGoal(DeploymentManager.java:497) at org.eclipse.jetty.deploy.DeploymentManager.addApp(DeploymentManager.java:135) at org.eclipse.jetty.deploy.providers.ScanningAppProvider$1.fileChanged(ScanningAppProvider.java:77) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.Scanner.reportChange(Scanner.java:490) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.Scanner.reportDifferences(Scanner.java:355) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.Scanner.scan(Scanner.java:306) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.Scanner$1.run(Scanner.java:258) at java.util.TimerThread.mainLoop(Timer.java:512) at java.util.TimerThread.run(Timer.java:462) 2010-05-26 15:32:12.907:WARN::Problem processing jar entry org/eclipse/jetty/util/MultiPartWriter.class java.io.IOException: Invalid resource at org.eclipse.jetty.util.resource.URLResource.getInputStream(URLResource.java:204) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.resource.JarResource.getInputStream(JarResource.java:113) at org.eclipse.jetty.annotations.AnnotationParser$2.processEntry(AnnotationParser.java:575) at org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.JarScanner.matched(JarScanner.java:152) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.PatternMatcher.matchPatterns(PatternMatcher.java:82) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.PatternMatcher.match(PatternMatcher.java:64) at org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.JarScanner.scan(JarScanner.java:75) at org.eclipse.jetty.annotations.AnnotationParser.parse(AnnotationParser.java:587) at org.eclipse.jetty.annotations.AbstractConfiguration.parseWebInfLib(AbstractConfiguration.java:107) at org.eclipse.jetty.annotations.AnnotationConfiguration.configure(AnnotationConfiguration.java:68) at org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.startContext(WebAppContext.java:992) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doStart(ContextHandler.java:579) at org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.doStart(WebAppContext.java:381) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:55) at org.eclipse.jetty.deploy.bindings.StandardStarter.processBinding(StandardStarter.java:36) at org.eclipse.jetty.deploy.AppLifeCycle.runBindings(AppLifeCycle.java:182) at org.eclipse.jetty.deploy.DeploymentManager.requestAppGoal(DeploymentManager.java:497) at org.eclipse.jetty.deploy.DeploymentManager.addApp(DeploymentManager.java:135) at org.eclipse.jetty.deploy.providers.ScanningAppProvider$1.fileChanged(ScanningAppProvider.java:77) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.Scanner.reportChange(Scanner.java:490) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.Scanner.reportDifferences(Scanner.java:355) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.Scanner.scan(Scanner.java:306) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.Scanner$1.run(Scanner.java:258) at java.util.TimerThread.mainLoop(Timer.java:512) at java.util.TimerThread.run(Timer.java:462) 2010-05-26 15:32:12.907:WARN::Problem processing jar entry org/eclipse/jetty/util/Attributes.class java.io.IOException: Invalid resource at org.eclipse.jetty.util.resource.URLResource.getInputStream(URLResource.java:204) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.resource.JarResource.getInputStream(JarResource.java:113) at org.eclipse.jetty.annotations.AnnotationParser$2.processEntry(AnnotationParser.java:575) at org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.JarScanner.matched(JarScanner.java:152) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.PatternMatcher.matchPatterns(PatternMatcher.java:82) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.PatternMatcher.match(PatternMatcher.java:64) at org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.JarScanner.scan(JarScanner.java:75) at org.eclipse.jetty.annotations.AnnotationParser.parse(AnnotationParser.java:587) at org.eclipse.jetty.annotations.AbstractConfiguration.parseWebInfLib(AbstractConfiguration.java:107) at org.eclipse.jetty.annotations.AnnotationConfiguration.configure(AnnotationConfiguration.java:68) at org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.startContext(WebAppContext.java:992) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doStart(ContextHandler.java:579) at org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.doStart(WebAppContext.java:381) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:55) at org.eclipse.jetty.deploy.bindings.StandardStarter.processBinding(StandardStarter.java:36) at org.eclipse.jetty.deploy.AppLifeCycle.runBindings(AppLifeCycle.java:182) at org.eclipse.jetty.deploy.DeploymentManager.requestAppGoal(DeploymentManager.java:497) at org.eclipse.jetty.deploy.DeploymentManager.addApp(DeploymentManager.java:135) at org.eclipse.jetty.deploy.providers.ScanningAppProvider$1.fileChanged(ScanningAppProvider.java:77) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.Scanner.reportChange(Scanner.java:490) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.Scanner.reportDifferences(Scanner.java:355) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.Scanner.scan(Scanner.java:306) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.Scanner$1.run(Scanner.java:258) at java.util.TimerThread.mainLoop(Timer.java:512) at java.util.TimerThread.run(Timer.java:462) Seemed to go through all the jetty binaries and complain about each class file. When I tried to deploy to 6.1.24 I got org.mortbay.util.MultiException[java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/eclipse/jetty/util/ajax/JSON$Source, java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/eclipse/jetty/util/thread/ThreadPool] at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.initialize(ServletHandler.java:656) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.Context.startContext(Context.java:140) at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.startContext(WebAppContext.java:1250) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.doStart(ContextHandler.java:517) at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.doStart(WebAppContext.java:467) at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:50) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerCollection.doStart(HandlerCollection.java:152) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.doStart(ContextHandlerCollection.java:156) at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:50) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerCollection.doStart(HandlerCollection.java:152) at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:50) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.doStart(HandlerWrapper.java:130) at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.doStart(Server.java:224) at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:50) at org.mortbay.xml.XmlConfiguration.main(XmlConfiguration.java:985) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.mortbay.start.Main.invokeMain(Main.java:194) at org.mortbay.start.Main.start(Main.java:534) at org.mortbay.start.Main.start(Main.java:441) at org.mortbay.start.Main.main(Main.java:119) My web.xml looks like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" version="2.5"> <servlet> <servlet-name>cometd</servlet-name> <servlet-class>org.cometd.server.continuation.ContinuationCometdServlet</servlet-class> <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>cometd</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/cometd/*</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> <servlet> <servlet-name>initializer</servlet-name> <servlet-class>uk.co.dubit.nexus.comet.BayeuxInitializer</servlet-class> <load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup> </servlet>  </web-app> note cross origin filter is commented out. The class didn't seem to exist when I tried to run on 6.1.24 (which as far as I understand is the correct behaviour, yes?). Sorry for the noob question but does anyone know what I'm doing wrong here? Regards, Tom

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Error with JSF2 and RichFaces

- by Miguel Ping

Hi, I'm trying to use RichFaces on a working JSF2 application. I incorporated the RichFaces jars, changed the web.xml but got the following error: 17:49:13,097 SEVERE [javax.enterprise.resource.webcontainer.jsf.application] Error Rendering View[/login.xhtml]: java.lang.NullPointerExcept ion at com.sun.faces.application.ApplicationImpl.createComponent(ApplicationImpl.java:936) at com.sun.faces.facelets.tag.jsf.CompositeComponentTagHandler.createComponent(CompositeComponentTagHandler.java:154) at com.sun.faces.facelets.tag.jsf.ComponentTagHandlerDelegateImpl.createComponent(ComponentTagHandlerDelegateImpl.java:311) at com.sun.faces.facelets.tag.jsf.ComponentTagHandlerDelegateImpl.apply(ComponentTagHandlerDelegateImpl.java:145) at javax.faces.view.facelets.DelegatingMetaTagHandler.apply(DelegatingMetaTagHandler.java:114) at javax.faces.view.facelets.CompositeFaceletHandler.apply(CompositeFaceletHandler.java:91) at javax.faces.view.facelets.DelegatingMetaTagHandler.applyNextHandler(DelegatingMetaTagHandler.java:120) at com.sun.faces.facelets.tag.jsf.ComponentTagHandlerDelegateImpl.apply(ComponentTagHandlerDelegateImpl.java:204) at javax.faces.view.facelets.DelegatingMetaTagHandler.apply(DelegatingMetaTagHandler.java:114) at javax.faces.view.facelets.CompositeFaceletHandler.apply(CompositeFaceletHandler.java:91) at com.sun.faces.facelets.compiler.NamespaceHandler.apply(NamespaceHandler.java:86) at javax.faces.view.facelets.CompositeFaceletHandler.apply(CompositeFaceletHandler.java:91) at com.sun.faces.facelets.compiler.EncodingHandler.apply(EncodingHandler.java:75) at com.sun.faces.facelets.impl.DefaultFacelet.include(DefaultFacelet.java:301) at com.sun.faces.facelets.impl.DefaultFacelet.include(DefaultFacelet.java:360) at com.sun.faces.facelets.impl.DefaultFacelet.include(DefaultFacelet.java:339) at com.sun.faces.facelets.impl.DefaultFaceletContext.includeFacelet(DefaultFaceletContext.java:191) at com.sun.faces.facelets.tag.ui.CompositionHandler.apply(CompositionHandler.java:149) at com.sun.faces.facelets.compiler.NamespaceHandler.apply(NamespaceHandler.java:86) at com.sun.faces.facelets.compiler.EncodingHandler.apply(EncodingHandler.java:75) at com.sun.faces.facelets.impl.DefaultFacelet.apply(DefaultFacelet.java:145) at com.sun.faces.application.view.FaceletViewHandlingStrategy.buildView(FaceletViewHandlingStrategy.java:716) at com.sun.faces.application.view.FaceletViewHandlingStrategy.renderView(FaceletViewHandlingStrategy.java:351) at com.sun.faces.application.view.MultiViewHandler.renderView(MultiViewHandler.java:126) at org.ajax4jsf.application.ViewHandlerWrapper.renderView(ViewHandlerWrapper.java:100) at org.ajax4jsf.application.AjaxViewHandler.renderView(AjaxViewHandler.java:176) at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.RenderResponsePhase.execute(RenderResponsePhase.java:127) at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.Phase.doPhase(Phase.java:101) at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.render(LifecycleImpl.java:139) at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:313) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:336) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:242) at org.ajax4jsf.webapp.BaseXMLFilter.doXmlFilter(BaseXMLFilter.java:206) at org.ajax4jsf.webapp.BaseFilter.handleRequest(BaseFilter.java:290) at org.ajax4jsf.webapp.BaseFilter.processUploadsAndHandleRequest(BaseFilter.java:388) at org.ajax4jsf.webapp.BaseFilter.doFilter(BaseFilter.java:515) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:274) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:242) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:734) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.processRequest(ApplicationDispatcher.java:541) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doForward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:479) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.forward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:407) at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.FormAuthenticator.forwardToLoginPage(FormAuthenticator.java:318) at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.FormAuthenticator.authenticate(FormAuthenticator.java:243) at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:559) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.JaccContextValve.invoke(JaccContextValve.java:95) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.process(SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.java:126) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.invoke(SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.java:70) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.jca.CachedConnectionValve.invoke(CachedConnectionValve.java:158) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:368) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:872) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:653) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:951) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) It seems that some jars are missing, but I cannot seem to find this cause. The above error is the only thing that the log spits out. Here's web.xml: <context-param> <param-name>javax.faces.FACELETS_LIBRARIES</param-name> <param-value>/WEB-INF/faces-validator-tags/general.taglib.xml; /WEB-INF/faces-converter-tags/general.converter.taglib.xml </param-value> </context-param>  <context-param> <param-name>javax.faces.DISABLE_FACELET_JSF_VIEWHANDLER</param-name> <param-value>true</param-value> </context-param> <context-param> <param-name>org.richfaces.SKIN</param-name> <param-value>blueSky</param-value> </context-param>  <context-param> <param-name>org.richfaces.CONTROL_SKINNING</param-name> <param-value>enable</param-value> </context-param> <context-param> <param-name>javax.faces.STATE_SAVING_METHOD</param-name> <param-value>server</param-value> </context-param> <context-param> <param-name>org.richfaces.SKIN</param-name> <param-value>blueSky</param-value> </context-param> <context-param> <param-name>org.richfaces.CONTROL_SKINNING</param-name> <param-value>enable</param-value> </context-param> <filter> <display-name>RichFaces Filter</display-name> <filter-name>richfaces</filter-name> <filter-class>org.ajax4jsf.Filter</filter-class> </filter> <filter-mapping> <filter-name>richfaces</filter-name> <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name> <dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher> <dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher> <dispatcher>INCLUDE</dispatcher> </filter-mapping> <listener> <listener-class>com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener</listener-class> </listener>  <servlet> <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name> <servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class> <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup> </servlet>  <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name> <url-pattern>*.jsf</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> <login-config> <auth-method>FORM</auth-method> <form-login-config> <form-login-page>/login.jsf</form-login-page> <form-error-page>/loginError.jsf</form-error-page> </form-login-config> </login-config> <error-page> <exception-type>java.lang.Throwable</exception-type> <location>/errors/error.jsf</location> </error-page>

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how would you debug this javascript problem?

- by pedalpete

I've been travelling and developing for the past few weeks. The site I'm developing was running well. Then, the other day, i connected to a network and the page 'looked' fine, but it turns out the javascript wasn't running. I checked firebug, and there were no errors, as I was suspecting that maybe a script didn't load (I'm using the google api for jQuery and jQuery UI, as well as loading google maps api and fbconnect). I would suspect that if the issue was with one of these pages not loading I would get an error, and yet there was nothing. Thinking maybe i didn't connect properly or something, i reconnected to the network and even restarted my computer, as well as trying to run the local version. I got nothing. The local version not running also hinted to me that it was the loading of an external javascript which caused the problem. I let it pass as something strange with that one network. Unfortunately now I'm 100s of miles away. Today my brother sent me an e-mail that the network he was on at the airport wouldn't load my page. Same issue. Everything is laid out properly, and part of the layout is set in Javascript, so clearly javascript is running. he too got no errors. Of course, he got on his plane, and now he is no longer at the airport. Now the site works on his computer (and i haven't changed anything). How on earth would you go about figuring out what happened in this situation? That is two of maybe 12 or so networks. But I have no idea how i would find a network that doesn't work (and living in a small town, it could be difficult for me to find a network that doesn't work). Any ideas? The site is still in Dev, so I'd rather not post a link just yet (but could in a few days). What I can see not working is the javascript functions which are called on load, and on click. So i do think it is a javascript issue, but no errors. This wouldn't be as HUGE an issue if I could find and sit on one of these networks, but I can't. So what would you do? EDIT ---------------------------------------------------------- the first function(s - their linked) that doesn't get called is below. I've cut the code of at the .ajax call as the call wasn't being made. function getResultsFromForm(){ jQuery('form#filterList input.button').hide(); var searchAddress=jQuery('form#filterList input#searchTxt').val(); if(searchAddress=='' || searchAddress=='<?php echo $searchLocation; ?>'){ mapShow(20, -40, 0, 'areaMap', 2); jQuery('form#filterList input.button').show(); return; } if (GBrowserIsCompatible()) { var geo = new GClientGeocoder(); geo.setBaseCountryCode(cl.address.country); geo.getLocations(searchAddress, function (result) { if(!result.Placemark && searchAddress!='<?php echo $searchLocation; ?>'){ jQuery('span#addressNotFound').text('<?php echo $addressNotFound; ?>').slideDown('slow'); jQuery('form#filterList input.button').show(); } else { jQuery('span#addressNotFound').slideUp('slow').empty(); jQuery('span#headerLocal').text(searchAddress); var date = new Date(); date.setTime(date.getTime() + (8 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000)); jQuery.cookie('address', searchAddress, { expires: date}); var accuracy= result.Placemark[0].AddressDetails.Accuracy; var lat = result.Placemark[0].Point.coordinates[1]; var long = result.Placemark[0].Point.coordinates[0]; lat=parseFloat(lat); long=parseFloat(long); var getTab=jQuery('div#tabs div#active').attr('class'); jQuery('div#tabs').show(); loadForecast(lat, long, getTab, 'true', 0); var zoom=zoomLevel(); mapShow(lat, long, accuracy, 'areaMap', zoom ); } }); } } function zoomLevel(){ var zoomarray= new Array(); zoomarray=jQuery('span.viewDist').attr('id'); zoomarray=zoomarray.split("-"); var zoom=zoomarray[1]; if(zoom==''){ zoom=5; } zoom=parseFloat(zoom); return(zoom); } function loadForecast(lat, long, type, loadForecast, page){ jQuery('div#holdForecast').empty(); var date = new Date(); var d = date.getDate(); var day = (d < 10) ? '0' + d : d; var m = date.getMonth() + 1; var month = (m < 10) ? '0' + m : m; var year='2009'; toDate=year+'-'+month+'-'+day; var genre=jQuery('span.genreblock span#updateGenre').html(); var numDays=''; var numResults=''; var range=jQuery('span.viewDist').attr('id'); var dateRange = jQuery('.updateDate').attr('id'); jQuery('div#holdShows ul.showList').html('<li class="show"><div class="showData"><center><img src="../hwImages/loading.gif"/></center></div></li>'); jQuery('div#holdShows ul.'+type+'List').livequery(function(){ jQuery.ajax({ type: "GET", url: "processes/formatShows.php", data: "output=&genre="+genre+"&numResults="+numResults+"&date="+toDate+"&dateRange="+dateRange+"&range="+range+"&lat="+lat+"&long="+long+'&page='+page, success: function(response){ EDIT 2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please keep in mind that the problem is not that I can't load the site, the site works fine on most connections, but there are times when the site doesn't work, and no errors are thrown, and nothing changes. My brother couldn't run it earlier today while I had no problems, so it was something to do with his location/network. HOWEVER, the page loads, he had a connection, it was his first time visiting the site, so nothing could have been cashed. Same with when I had the issue a few days before. I didn't change anything, and I got to a different network and everything worked fine.

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No bean named 'springSecurityFilterChain' is defined

- by michaeljackson4ever

When configs are loaded, I get the error SEVERE: Exception starting filter springSecurityFilterChain org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No bean named 'springSecurityFilterChain' is defined My sec-config: <http use-expressions="true" access-denied-page="/error/casfailed.html" entry-point-ref="headerAuthenticationEntryPoint"> <intercept-url pattern="/" access="permitAll"/>  <intercept-url pattern="/index.html" access="hasAnyRole('ROLE_USER')"/> <intercept-url pattern="/history.html" access="hasAnyRole('ROLE_USER')"/> <intercept-url pattern="/absence.html" access="hasAnyRole('ROLE_USER')"/> <intercept-url pattern="/search.html" access="hasAnyRole('ROLE_USER')"/> <intercept-url pattern="/employees.html" access="hasAnyRole('ROLE_USER')"/> <intercept-url pattern="/employee.html" access="hasAnyRole('ROLE_USER')"/> <intercept-url pattern="/contract.html" access="hasAnyRole('ROLE_USER')"/> <intercept-url pattern="/myforms.html" access="hasAnyRole('HLO','OPISK')"/> <intercept-url pattern="/vacationmsg.html" access="hasAnyRole('ROLE_USER')"/> <intercept-url pattern="/redirect.jsp" filters="none" /> <intercept-url pattern="/error/**" filters="none" /> <intercept-url pattern="/layout/**" filters="none" /> <intercept-url pattern="/js/**" filters="none" /> <intercept-url pattern="/**" access="isAuthenticated()" />   <custom-filter ref="ssoHeaderAuthenticationFilter" before="CAS_FILTER"/>  </http> <authentication-manager alias="authenticationManager"> <authentication-provider ref="doNothingAuthenticationProvider"/> </authentication-manager> <beans:bean id="doNothingAuthenticationProvider" class="com.nixu.security.sso.web.DoNothingAuthenticationProvider"/> <beans:bean id="ssoHeaderAuthenticationFilter" class="com.nixu.security.sso.web.HeaderAuthenticationFilter"> <beans:property name="groups"> <beans:map> <beans:entry key="cn=lake,ou=confluence,dc=utu,dc=fi" value="ROLE_ADMIN"/> </beans:map> </beans:property> </beans:bean> <beans:bean id="headerAuthenticationEntryPoint" class="com.nixu.security.sso.web.HeaderAuthenticationEntryPoint"/> And web.xml <context-param> <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name> <param-value> /WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml /WEB-INF/sec-config.xml /WEB-INF/idm-config.xml /WEB-INF/ldap-config.xml </param-value> </context-param> <display-name>KeyCard</display-name> <context-param> <param-name>webAppRootKey</param-name> <param-value>KeyCardAppRoot</param-value> </context-param> <context-param> <param-name>log4jConfigLocation</param-name> <param-value>/WEB-INF/log4j.properties</param-value> </context-param>  <filter> <filter-name>characterEncodingFilter</filter-name> <filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter</filter-class> <init-param> <param-name>encoding</param-name> <param-value>UTF-8</param-value> </init-param> <init-param> <param-name>forceEncoding</param-name> <param-value>true</param-value> </init-param> </filter> <filter> <filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name> <filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy</filter-class> </filter> <filter-mapping> <filter-name>characterEncodingFilter</filter-name> <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern> </filter-mapping> <filter-mapping> <filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name> <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern> </filter-mapping> <listener> <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class> </listener> <listener> <listener-class>org.springframework.web.util.Log4jConfigListener</listener-class> </listener> <listener>  <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.request.RequestContextListener</listener-class> </listener> <listener> <listener-class>org.springframework.security.web.session.HttpSessionEventPublisher</listener-class> </listener>  <servlet> <servlet-name>KeyCard</servlet-name> <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class> <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup> </servlet> <servlet> <servlet-name>tiles</servlet-name> <servlet-class>org.apache.tiles.web.startup.TilesServlet</servlet-class> <init-param> <param-name> org.apache.tiles.impl.BasicTilesContainer.DEFINITIONS_CONFIG </param-name> <param-value> /WEB-INF/tilesViewContext.xml </param-value> </init-param> <load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>KeyCard</servlet-name> <url-pattern>*.html</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> <session-config> <session-timeout> 120 </session-timeout> </session-config> <welcome-file-list> <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file> </welcome-file-list>  </web-app> What's wrong?

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CCNet 1.6 Conditional Plugin Help Needed!

- by Mike M

Hi all, I cannot get the conditional plugin to work that has been added to CCNet as of version 1.6 - clicky. I am running the latest version of CCNet (1.6.7258.1) and have the following code in my ccnet.config: <project name="9iCompile"> <sourcecontrol type="svn"> <trunkUrl>http://bis-build:81/svn/Oracle/oas_forms/COPEN</trunkUrl> <workingDirectory>C:\OAS\COPEN</workingDirectory> <username>*</username> <password>*</password> <executable>C:\Program Files\VisualSVN\bin\svn.exe</executable> </sourcecontrol> <conditional> <conditions> <compareCondition> <value1>$[ProjectType]</value1> <value2>copen</value2> <evaluation>equal</evaluation> <ignoreCase>true</ignoreCase> </compareCondition> </conditions> <tasks> <nant> <executable>C:\Program Files\nant-0.85\bin\nant.exe</executable> <baseDirectory>C:\OAS</baseDirectory> <buildFile>Oracle9i_Automation_v2.build</buildFile> <targetList> <target>build</target> </targetList> </nant> </tasks> </conditional>  <parameters> <selectParameter name="ProjectType"> <description>The type of project to operate on.</description> <allowedValues> <value name="COPEN">copen</value> <value name="BCS">bcs</value> <value name="FCDD">fcdd</value> </allowedValues> </parameters> <security type="defaultProjectSecurity" defaultRight="Deny"> <permissions> <rolePermission name="Developers" ref="Developers"/> <rolePermission name="Accepters" ref="Accepters"/> <rolePermission name="Releasers" ref="Releasers"/> <rolePermission name="Administrators" ref="Administrators"/> </permissions> </security> </project> The CCNet server crashes whenever I try to run this config though with the following output: [14:ERROR] Exception: Unused node detected: <conditional> <conditions> <compareCondition> <value1>$[ProjectType]</value1> <value2>copen</value2> <evaluation>equal</evaluation> <ignoreCase>true</ignoreCase> </compareCondition> </conditions> <tasks> <nant> <executable>C:\Program Files\nant-0.85\bin\nant.exe</executable> <baseDirectory>C:\OAS</baseDirectory> <buildFile>Oracle9i_Automation_v2.build</buildFile> <targetList> <target>build</target> </targetList> </nant> </tasks> </conditional> ---------- ThoughtWorks.CruiseControl.Core.Config.ConfigurationException: Unused node detected: <conditional> <conditions> <compareCondition> <value1>$[ProjectType]</value1> <value2>copen</value2> <evaluation>equal</evaluation> <ignoreCase>true</ignoreCase> </compareCondition> </conditions> <tasks> <nant> <executable>C:\Program Files\nant-0.85\bin\nant.exe</executable> <baseDirectory>C:\OAS</baseDirectory> <buildFile>Oracle9i_Automation_v2.build</buildFile> <targetList> <target>build</target> </targetList> </nant> </tasks> </conditional> at ThoughtWorks.CruiseControl.Core.Config.NetReflectorConfigurationReader.DefaultErrorProcesser.ProcessError(String message) at ThoughtWorks.CruiseControl.Core.Config.NetReflectorConfigurationReader.<>c__DisplayClass1.<Read>b__0(InvalidNodeEventArgs args) at Exortech.NetReflector.InvalidNodeEventHandler.Invoke(InvalidNodeEventArgsargs) at Exortech.NetReflector.NetReflectorTypeTable.OnInvalidNode(InvalidNodeEventArgs args) at Exortech.NetReflector.XmlTypeSerialiser.HandleUnusedNode(NetReflectorTypeTable table, XmlNode orphan) at Exortech.NetReflector.XmlTypeSerialiser.ReadMembers(XmlNode node, Object instance, NetReflectorTypeTable table) at Exortech.NetReflector.XmlTypeSerialiser.Read(XmlNode node, NetReflectorTypeTable table) at Exortech.NetReflector.NetReflectorReader.Read(XmlNode node) at ThoughtWorks.CruiseControl.Core.Config.NetReflectorConfigurationReader.Read(XmlDocument document, IConfigurationErrorProcesser errorProcesser) at ThoughtWorks.CruiseControl.Core.Config.DefaultConfigurationFileLoader.Load(FileInfo configFile) at ThoughtWorks.CruiseControl.Core.Config.FileConfigurationService.Load() at ThoughtWorks.CruiseControl.Core.Config.FileWatcherConfigurationService.Load() at ThoughtWorks.CruiseControl.Core.Config.CachingConfigurationService.Load() at ThoughtWorks.CruiseControl.Core.CruiseServer.Restart() at ThoughtWorks.CruiseControl.Core.Config.ConfigurationUpdateHandler.Invoke() at ThoughtWorks.CruiseControl.Core.Config.FileWatcherConfigurationService.HandleConfigurationFileChanged(Object source, FileSystemEventArgs args) ---------- Can someone please help?? I have no idea what I'm doing wrong here or if this is a bug :( I have also posted on the ccnet-user group several days ago but have not received any response :(

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Python - pickling fails for numpy.void objects

- by I82Much

>>> idmapfile = open("idmap", mode="w") >>> pickle.dump(idMap, idmapfile) >>> idmapfile.close() >>> idmapfile = open("idmap") >>> unpickled = pickle.load(idmapfile) >>> unpickled == idMap False idMap[1] {1537: (552, 1, 1537, 17.793827056884766, 3), 1540: (4220, 1, 1540, 19.31205940246582, 3), 1544: (592, 1, 1544, 18.129131317138672, 3), 1675: (529, 1, 1675, 18.347782135009766, 3), 1550: (4048, 1, 1550, 19.31205940246582, 3), 1424: (1528, 1, 1424, 19.744396209716797, 3), 1681: (1265, 1, 1681, 19.596025466918945, 3), 1560: (3457, 1, 1560, 20.530569076538086, 3), 1690: (477, 1, 1690, 17.395542144775391, 3), 1691: (554, 1, 1691, 13.446117401123047, 3), 1436: (3010, 1, 1436, 19.596025466918945, 3), 1434: (3183, 1, 1434, 19.744396209716797, 3), 1441: (3570, 1, 1441, 20.589576721191406, 3), 1435: (476, 1, 1435, 19.640911102294922, 3), 1444: (527, 1, 1444, 17.98480224609375, 3), 1478: (1897, 1, 1478, 19.596025466918945, 3), 1575: (614, 1, 1575, 19.371648788452148, 3), 1586: (2189, 1, 1586, 19.31205940246582, 3), 1716: (3470, 1, 1716, 19.158674240112305, 3), 1590: (2278, 1, 1590, 19.596025466918945, 3), 1463: (991, 1, 1463, 19.31205940246582, 3), 1594: (1890, 1, 1594, 19.596025466918945, 3), 1467: (1087, 1, 1467, 19.31205940246582, 3), 1596: (3759, 1, 1596, 19.744396209716797, 3), 1602: (3011, 1, 1602, 20.530569076538086, 3), 1547: (490, 1, 1547, 17.994071960449219, 3), 1605: (658, 1, 1605, 19.31205940246582, 3), 1606: (1794, 1, 1606, 16.964881896972656, 3), 1719: (1826, 1, 1719, 19.596025466918945, 3), 1617: (583, 1, 1617, 11.894925117492676, 3), 1492: (3441, 1, 1492, 20.500667572021484, 3), 1622: (3215, 1, 1622, 19.31205940246582, 3), 1628: (2761, 1, 1628, 19.744396209716797, 3), 1502: (1563, 1, 1502, 19.596025466918945, 3), 1632: (1108, 1, 1632, 15.457141876220703, 3), 1468: (3779, 1, 1468, 19.596025466918945, 3), 1642: (3970, 1, 1642, 19.744396209716797, 3), 1518: (612, 1, 1518, 18.570245742797852, 3), 1647: (854, 1, 1647, 16.964881896972656, 3), 1650: (2099, 1, 1650, 20.439058303833008, 3), 1651: (540, 1, 1651, 18.552841186523438, 3), 1653: (613, 1, 1653, 19.237197875976563, 3), 1532: (537, 1, 1532, 18.885730743408203, 3)} >>> unpickled[1] {1537: (64880, 1638, 56700, -1.0808743559293829e+18, 152), 1540: (64904, 1638, 0, 0.0, 0), 1544: (54472, 1490, 0, 0.0, 0), 1675: (6464, 1509, 0, 0.0, 0), 1550: (43592, 1510, 0, 0.0, 0), 1424: (43616, 1510, 0, 0.0, 0), 1681: (0, 0, 0, 0.0, 0), 1560: (400, 152, 400, 2.1299736657737219e-43, 0), 1690: (408, 152, 408, 2.7201111331839077e+26, 34), 1435: (424, 152, 61512, 1.0122952080313192e-39, 0), 1436: (400, 152, 400, 20.250289916992188, 3), 1434: (424, 152, 62080, 1.0122952080313192e-39, 0), 1441: (400, 152, 400, 12.250144958496094, 3), 1691: (424, 152, 42608, 15.813941955566406, 3), 1444: (400, 152, 400, 19.625289916992187, 3), 1606: (424, 152, 42432, 5.2947192852601414e-22, 41), 1575: (400, 152, 400, 6.2537390010262572e-36, 0), 1586: (424, 152, 42488, 1.0122601755697111e-39, 0), 1716: (400, 152, 400, 6.2537390010262572e-36, 0), 1590: (424, 152, 64144, 1.0126357235581501e-39, 0), 1463: (400, 152, 400, 6.2537390010262572e-36, 0), 1594: (424, 152, 32672, 17.002994537353516, 3), 1467: (400, 152, 400, 19.750289916992187, 3), 1596: (424, 152, 7176, 1.0124003054161436e-39, 0), 1602: (400, 152, 400, 18.500289916992188, 3), 1547: (424, 152, 7000, 1.0124003054161436e-39, 0), 1605: (400, 152, 400, 20.500289916992188, 3), 1478: (424, 152, 42256, -6.0222748507426518e+30, 222), 1719: (400, 152, 400, 6.2537390010262572e-36, 0), 1617: (424, 152, 16472, 1.0124283313854301e-39, 0), 1492: (400, 152, 400, 6.2537390010262572e-36, 0), 1622: (424, 152, 35304, 1.0123190301052127e-39, 0), 1628: (400, 152, 400, 6.2537390010262572e-36, 0), 1502: (424, 152, 63152, 19.627988815307617, 3), 1632: (400, 152, 400, 19.375289916992188, 3), 1468: (424, 152, 38088, 1.0124213248931084e-39, 0), 1642: (400, 152, 400, 6.2537390010262572e-36, 0), 1518: (424, 152, 63896, 1.0127436235399031e-39, 0), 1647: (400, 152, 400, 6.2537390010262572e-36, 0), 1650: (424, 152, 53424, 16.752857208251953, 3), 1651: (400, 152, 400, 19.250289916992188, 3), 1653: (424, 152, 50624, 1.0126497365427934e-39, 0), 1532: (400, 152, 400, 6.2537390010262572e-36, 0)} The keys come out fine, the values are screwed up. I tried same thing loading file in binary mode; didn't fix the problem. Any idea what I'm doing wrong? Edit: Here's the code with binary. Note that the values are different in the unpickled object. >>> idmapfile = open("idmap", mode="wb") >>> pickle.dump(idMap, idmapfile) >>> idmapfile.close() >>> idmapfile = open("idmap", mode="rb") >>> unpickled = pickle.load(idmapfile) >>> unpickled==idMap False >>> unpickled[1] {1537: (12176, 2281, 56700, -1.0808743559293829e+18, 152), 1540: (0, 0, 15934, 2.7457842047810522e+26, 108), 1544: (400, 152, 400, 4.9518498821046956e+27, 53), 1675: (408, 152, 408, 2.7201111331839077e+26, 34), 1550: (456, 152, 456, -1.1349175514578289e+18, 152), 1424: (432, 152, 432, 4.5939047815653343e-40, 11), 1681: (408, 152, 408, 2.1299736657737219e-43, 0), 1560: (376, 152, 376, 2.1299736657737219e-43, 0), 1690: (376, 152, 376, 2.1299736657737219e-43, 0), 1435: (376, 152, 376, 2.1299736657737219e-43, 0), 1436: (376, 152, 376, 2.1299736657737219e-43, 0), 1434: (376, 152, 376, 2.1299736657737219e-43, 0), 1441: (376, 152, 376, 2.1299736657737219e-43, 0), 1691: (376, 152, 376, 2.1299736657737219e-43, 0), 1444: (376, 152, 376, 2.1299736657737219e-43, 0), 1606: (25784, 2281, 376, -3.2883343074537754e+26, 34), 1575: (24240, 2281, 376, 2.1299736657737219e-43, 0), 1586: (24240, 2281, 376, 2.1299736657737219e-43, 0), 1716: (24240, 2281, 376, -3.0093091599657311e-35, 26), 1590: (24240, 2281, 376, 2.1299736657737219e-43, 0), 1463: (24240, 2281, 376, 2.1299736657737219e-43, 0), 1594: (24240, 2281, 376, -4123208450048.0, 196), 1467: (25784, 2281, 376, 2.1299736657737219e-43, 0), 1596: (25784, 2281, 376, 2.1299736657737219e-43, 0), 1602: (25784, 2281, 376, -5.9963281433905448e+26, 76), 1547: (25784, 2281, 376, -218106240.0, 139), 1605: (25784, 2281, 376, -3.7138649803377281e+27, 56), 1478: (376, 152, 376, 2.1299736657737219e-43, 0), 1719: (25784, 2281, 376, 2.1299736657737219e-43, 0), 1617: (25784, 2281, 376, -1.4411779941597184e+17, 237), 1492: (25784, 2281, 376, 2.8596493694487798e-30, 80), 1622: (25784, 2281, 376, 184686084096.0, 93), 1628: (1336, 152, 1336, 3.1691839245470052e+29, 179), 1502: (1272, 152, 1272, -5.2042207205116645e-17, 99), 1632: (1208, 152, 1208, 2.1299736657737219e-43, 0), 1468: (1144, 152, 1144, 2.1299736657737219e-43, 0), 1642: (1080, 152, 1080, 2.1299736657737219e-43, 0), 1518: (1016, 152, 1016, 4.0240902787680023e+35, 145), 1647: (952, 152, 952, -985172619034624.0, 237), 1650: (888, 152, 888, 12094787289088.0, 66), 1651: (824, 152, 824, 2.1299736657737219e-43, 0), 1653: (760, 152, 760, 0.00018310768064111471, 238), 1532: (696, 152, 696, 8.8978061885676389e+26, 125)} OK I've isolated the problem, but don't know why it's so. First, apparently what I'm pickling are not tuples (though they look like it), but instead numpy.void types. Here is a series to illustrate the problem. first = run0.detections[0] >>> first (1, 19, 1578, 82.637763977050781, 1) >>> type(first) <type 'numpy.void'> >>> firstTuple = tuple(first) >>> theFile = open("pickleTest", "w") >>> pickle.dump(first, theFile) >>> theTupleFile = open("pickleTupleTest", "w") >>> pickle.dump(firstTuple, theTupleFile) >>> theFile.close() >>> theTupleFile.close() >>> first (1, 19, 1578, 82.637763977050781, 1) >>> firstTuple (1, 19, 1578, 82.637764, 1) >>> theFile = open("pickleTest", "r") >>> theTupleFile = open("pickleTupleTest", "r") >>> unpickledTuple = pickle.load(theTupleFile) >>> unpickledVoid = pickle.load(theFile) >>> type(unpickledVoid) <type 'numpy.void'> >>> type(unpickledTuple) <type 'tuple'> >>> unpickledTuple (1, 19, 1578, 82.637764, 1) >>> unpickledTuple == firstTuple True >>> unpickledVoid == first False >>> unpickledVoid (7936, 1705, 56700, -1.0808743559293829e+18, 152) >>> first (1, 19, 1578, 82.637763977050781, 1)

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Upgrading from TFS 2010 RC to TFS 2010 RTM done

- by Martin Hinshelwood

Today is the big day, with the Launch of Visual Studio 2010 already done in Asia, and rolling around the world towards us, we are getting ready for the RTM (Released). We have had TFS 2010 in Production for nearly 6 months and have had only minimal problems. Update 12th April 2010 – Added Scott Hanselman’s tweet about the MSDN download release time. SSW was the first company in the world outside of Microsoft to deploy Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server to production, not once, but twice. I am hoping to make it 3 in a row, but with all the hype around the new version, and with it being a production release and not just a go-live, I think there will be a lot of competition. Developers: MSDN will be updated with #vs2010 downloads and details at 10am PST *today*! @shanselman - Scott Hanselman Same as before, we need to Uninstall 2010 RC and install 2010 RTM. The installer will take care of all the complexity of actually upgrading any schema changes. If you are upgrading from TFS 2008 to TFS2010 you can follow our Rules To Better TFS 2010 Migration and read my post on our successes. We run TFS 2010 in a Hyper-V virtual environment, so we have the advantage of running a snapshot as well as taking a DB backup. Done - Snapshot the hyper-v server Microsoft does not support taking a snapshot of a running server, for very good reason, and Brian Harry wrote a post after my last upgrade with the reason why you should never snapshot a running server. Done - Uninstall Visual Studio Team Explorer 2010 RC You will need to uninstall all of the Visual Studio 2010 RC client bits that you have on the server. Done - Uninstall TFS 2010 RC Done - Install TFS 2010 RTM Done - Configure TFS 2010 RTM Pick the Upgrade option and point it at your existing “tfs_Configuration” database to load all of the existing settings Done - Upgrade the SharePoint Extensions Upgrade Build Servers (Pending) Test the server The back out plan, and you should always have one, is to restore the snapshot. Upgrading to Team Foundation Server 2010 – Done The first thing you need to do is off the TFS server and then log into the Hyper-v server and create a snapshot. Figure: Make sure you turn the server off and delete all old snapshots before you take a new one I noticed that the snapshot that was taken before the Beta 2 to RC upgrade was still there. You should really delete old snapshots before you create a new one, but in this case the SysAdmin (who is currently tucked up in bed) asked me not to. I guess he is worried about a developer messing up his server Turn your server on and wait for it to boot in anticipation of all the nice shiny RTM’ness that is coming next. The upgrade procedure for TFS2010 is to uninstal the old version and install the new one. Figure: Remove Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server RC from the system. Figure: Most of the heavy lifting is done by the Uninstaller, but make sure you have removed any of the client bits first. Specifically Visual Studio 2010 or Team Explorer 2010. Once the uninstall is complete, this took around 5 minutes for me, you can begin the install of the RTM. Running the 64 bit OS will allow the application to use more than 2GB RAM, which while not common may be of use in heavy load situations. Figure: It is always recommended to install the 64bit version of a server application where possible. I do not think it is likely, with SharePoint 2010 and Exchange 2010 and even Windows Server 2008 R2 being 64 bit only, I do not think there will be another release of a server app that is 32bit. You then need to choose what it is you want to install. This depends on how you are running TFS and on how many servers. In our case we run TFS and the Team Foundation Build Service (controller only) on out TFS server along with Analysis services and Reporting Services. But our SharePoint server lives elsewhere. Figure: This always confuses people, but in reality it makes sense. Don’t install what you do not need. Every extra you install has an impact of performance. If you are integrating with SharePoint you will need to run this install on every Front end server in your farm and don’t forget to upgrade your Build servers and proxy servers later. Figure: Selecting only Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Team Foundation Build Services (TFBS) It is worth noting that if you have a lot of builds kicking off, and hence a lot of get operations against your TFS server, you can use a proxy server to cache the source control on another server in between your TFS server and your build servers. Figure: Installing Microsoft .NET Framework 4 takes the most time. Figure: Now run Windows Update, and SSW Diagnostic to make sure all your bits and bobs are up to date. Note: SSW Diagnostic will check your Power Tools, Add-on’s, Check in Policies and other bits as well. Configure Team Foundation Server 2010 – Done Now you can configure the server. If you have no key you will need to pick “Install a Trial Licence”, but it is only £500, or free with a MSDN subscription. Anyway, if you pick Trial you get 90 days to get your key. Figure: You can pick trial and add your key later using the TFS Server Admin. Here is where the real choices happen. We are doing an Upgrade from a previous version, so I will pick Upgrade the same as all you folks that are using the RC or TFS 2008. Figure: The upgrade wizard takes your existing 2010 or 2008 databases and upgraded them to the release. Once you have entered your database server name you can click “List available databases” and it will show what it can upgrade. Figure: Select your database from the list and at this point, make sure you have a valid backup. At this point you have not made ANY changes to the databases. At this point the configuration wizard will load configuration from your existing database if you have one. If you are upgrading TFS 2008 refer to Rules To Better TFS 2010 Migration. Mostly during the wizard the default values will suffice, but depending on the configuration you want you can pick different options. Figure: Set the application tier account and Authentication method to use. We use NTLM to keep things simple as we host our TFS server externally for our remote developers. Figure: Setting your TFS server URL’s to be the remote URL’s allows the reports to be accessed without using VPN. Very handy for those remote developers. Figure: Detected the existing Warehouse no problem. Figure: Again we love green ticks. It gives us a warm fuzzy feeling. Figure: The username for connecting to Reporting services should be a domain account (if you are on a domain that is). Figure: Setup the SharePoint integration to connect to your external SharePoint server. You can take the option to connect later. You then need to run all of your readiness checks. These check can save your life! it will check all of the settings that you have entered as well as checking all the external services are configures and running properly. There are two reasons that TFS 2010 is so easy and painless to install where previous version were not. Microsoft changes the install to two steps, Install and configuration. The second reason is that they have pulled out all of the stops in making the install run all the checks necessary to make sure that once you start the install that it will complete. if you find any errors I recommend that you report them on http://connect.microsoft.com so everyone can benefit from your misery. Figure: Now we have everything setup the configuration wizard can do its work. Figure: Took a while on the “Web site” stage for some point, but zipped though after that. Figure: last wee bit. TFS Needs to do a little tinkering with the data to complete the upgrade. Figure: All upgraded. I am not worried about the yellow triangle as SharePoint was being a little silly Exception Message: TF254021: The account name or password that you specified is not valid. (type TfsAdminException) Exception Stack Trace: at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Management.Controls.WizardCommon.AccountSelectionControl.TestLogon(String connectionString) at System.ComponentModel.BackgroundWorker.WorkerThreadStart(Object argument) [Info @16:10:16.307] Benign exception caught as part of verify: Exception Message: TF255329: The following site could not be accessed: http://projects.ssw.com.au/. The server that you specified did not return the expected response. Either you have not installed the Team Foundation Server Extensions for SharePoint Products on this server, or a firewall is blocking access to the specified site or the SharePoint Central Administration site. For more information, see the Microsoft Web site (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=161206). (type TeamFoundationServerException) Exception Stack Trace: at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client.SharePoint.WssUtilities.VerifyTeamFoundationSharePointExtensions(ICredentials credentials, Uri url) at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Admin.VerifySharePointSitesUrl.Verify() Inner Exception Details: Exception Message: TF249064: The following Web service returned an response that is not valid: http://projects.ssw.com.au/_vti_bin/TeamFoundationIntegrationService.asmx. This Web service is used for the Team Foundation Server Extensions for SharePoint Products. Either the extensions are not installed, the request resulted in HTML being returned, or there is a problem with the URL. Verify that the following URL points to a valid SharePoint Web application and that the application is available: http://projects.ssw.com.au. If the URL is correct and the Web application is operating normally, verify that a firewall is not blocking access to the Web application. (type TeamFoundationServerInvalidResponseException) Exception Data Dictionary: ResponseStatusCode = InternalServerError I’ll look at SharePoint after, probably the SharePoint box just needs a restart or a kick If there is a problem with SharePoint it will come out in testing, But I will definatly be passing this on to Microsoft. Upgrading the SharePoint connector to TFS 2010 You will need to upgrade the Extensions for SharePoint Products and Technologies on all of your SharePoint farm front end servers. To do this uninstall the TFS 2010 RC from it in the same way as the server, and then install just the RTM Extensions. Figure: Only install the SharePoint Extensions on your SharePoint front end servers. TFS 2010 supports both SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010. Figure: When you configure SharePoint it uploads all of the solutions and templates. Figure: Everything is uploaded Successfully. Figure: TFS even remembered the settings from the previous installation, fantastic. Upgrading the Team Foundation Build Servers to TFS 2010 Just like on the SharePoint servers you will need to upgrade the Build Server to the RTM. Just uninstall TFS 2010 RC and then install only the Team Foundation Build Services component. Unlike on the SharePoint server you will probably have some version of Visual Studio installed. You will need to remove this as well. (Coming Soon) Connecting Visual Studio 2010 / 2008 / 2005 and Eclipse to TFS2010 If you have developers still on Visual Studio 2005 or 2008 you will need do download the respective compatibility pack: Visual Studio Team System 2005 Service Pack 1 Forward Compatibility Update for Team Foundation Server 2010 Visual Studio Team System 2008 Service Pack 1 Forward Compatibility Update for Team Foundation Server 2010 If you are using Eclipse you can download the new Team Explorer Everywhere install for connecting to TFS. Get your developers to check that you have the latest version of your applications with SSW Diagnostic which will check for Service Packs and hot fixes to Visual Studio as well. Technorati Tags: TFS,TFS2010,TFS 2010,Upgrade

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Installing SharePoint 2010 and PowerPivot for SharePoint on Windows 7

- by smisner

Many people like me want (or need) to do their business intelligence development work on a laptop. As someone who frequently speaks at various events or teaches classes on all subjects related to the Microsoft business intelligence stack, I need a way to run multiple server products on my laptop with reasonable performance. Once upon a time, that requirement meant only that I had to load the current version of SQL Server and the client tools of choice. In today's post, I'll review my latest experience with trying to make the newly released Microsoft BI products work with a Windows 7 operating system.The entrance of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 into the BI stack complicated matters and I started using Virtual Server to establish a "suitable" environment. As part of the team that delivered a lot of education as part of the Yukon pre-launch activities (that would be SQL Server 2005 for the uninitiated), I was working with four - yes, four - virtual servers. That was a pretty brutal workload for a 2GB laptop, which worked if I was very, very careful. It could also be a finicky and unreliable configuration as I learned to my dismay at one TechEd session several years ago when I had to reboot a very carefully cached set of servers just minutes before my session started. Although it worked, it came back to life very, very slowly much to the displeasure of the audience. They couldn't possibly have been less pleased than me.At that moment, I resolved to get the beefiest environment I could afford and consolidate to a single virtual server. Enter the 4GB 64-bit laptop to preserve my sanity and my livelihood. Likewise, for SQL Server 2008, I managed to keep everything within a single virtual server and I could function reasonably well with this approach.Now we have SQL Server 2008 R2 plus Office SharePoint Server 2010. That means a 64-bit operating system. Period. That means no more Virtual Server. That means I must use Hyper-V or another alternative. I've heard alternatives exist, but my few dabbles in this area did not yield positive results. It might have been just me having issues rather than any failure of those technologies to adequately support the requirements.My first run at working with the new BI stack configuration was to set up a 64-bit 4GB laptop with a dual-boot to run Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V. However, I was generally not happy with running Windows Server 2008 R2 on my laptop. For one, I couldn't put it into sleep mode, which is helpful if I want to prepare for a presentation beforehand and then walk to the podium without the need to hold my laptop in its open state along the way (my strategy at the TechEd session long, long ago). Secondly, it was finicky with projectors. I had issues from time to time and while I always eventually got it to work, I didn't appreciate those nerve-wracking moments wondering whether this would be the time that it wouldn't work.Somewhere along the way, I learned that it was possible to load SharePoint 2010 in a Windows 7 which piqued my interest. I had just acquired a new laptop running Windows 7 64-bit, and thought surely running the BI stack natively on my laptop must be better than running Hyper-V. (I have not tried booting to Hyper-V VHD yet, but that's on my list of things to try so the jury of one is still out on this approach.) Recently, I had to build up a server with the RTM versions of SQL Server 2008 R2 and Sharepoint Server 2010 and decided to follow suit on my Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit laptop. The process is slightly different, but I'm happy to report that it IS possible, although I had some fits and starts along the way.DISCLAIMER: These products are NOT intended to be run in production mode on the Windows 7 operating system. The configuration described in this post is strictly for development or learning purposes and not supported by Microsoft. If you have trouble, you will NOT get help from them. I might be able to help, but I provide no guarantees of my ability or availablity to help. I won't provide the step-by-step instructions in this post as there are other resources that provide these details, but I will provide an overview of my approach, point you to the relevant resources, describe some of the problems I encountered, and explain how I addressed those problems to achieve my desired goal.Because my goal was not simply to set up SharePoint Server 2010 on my laptop, but specifically PowerPivot for SharePoint, I started out by referring to the installation instructions at the PowerPiovt-Info site, but mainly to confirm that I was performing steps in the proper sequence. I didn't perform the steps in Part 1 because those steps are applicable only to a server operating system which I am not running on my laptop. Then, the instructions in Part 2, won't work exactly as written for the same reason. Instead, I followed the instructions on MSDN, Setting Up the Development Environment for SharePoint 2010 on Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008. In general, I found the following differences in installation steps from the steps at PowerPivot-Info:You must copy the SharePoint installation media to the local drive so that you can edit the config.xml to allow installation on a Windows client.You also have to manually install the prerequisites. The instructions provides links to each item that you must manually install and provides a command-line instruction to execute which enables required Windows features.I will digress for a moment to save you some grief in the sequence of steps to perform. I discovered later that a missing step in the MSDN instructions is to install the November CTP Reporting Services add-in for SharePoint. When I went to test my SharePoint site (I believe I tested after I had a successful PowerPivot installation), I ran into the following error: Could not load file or assembly 'RSSharePointSoapProxy, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. I was rather surprised that Reporting Services was required. Then I found an article by Alan le Marquand, Working Together: SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services Integration in SharePoint 2010,that instructed readers to install the November add-in. My first reaction was, "Really?!?" But I confirmed it in another TechNet article on hardware and software requirements for SharePoint Server 2010. It doesn't refer explicitly to the November CTP but following the link took me there. (Interestingly, I retested today and there's no longer any reference to the November CTP. Here's the link to download the latest and greatest Reporting Services Add-in for SharePoint Technologies 2010.) You don't need to download the add-in anymore if you're doing a regular server-based installation of SharePoint because it installs as part of the prerequisites automatically.When it was time to start the installation of SharePoint, I deviated from the MSDN instructions and from the PowerPivot-Info instructions:On the Choose the installation you want page of the installation wizard, I chose Server Farm.On the Server Type page, I chose Complete.At the end of the installation, I did not run the configuration wizard.Returning to the PowerPivot-Info instructions, I tried to follow the instructions in Part 3 which describe installing SQL Server 2008 R2 with the PowerPivot option. These instructions tell you to choose the New Server option on the Setup Role page where you add PowerPivot for SharePoint. However, I ran into problems with this approach and got installation errors at the end.It wasn't until much later as I was investigating an error that I encountered Dave Wickert's post that installing PowerPivot for SharePoint on Windows 7 is unsupported. Uh oh. But he did want to hear about it if anyone succeeded, so I decided to take the plunge. Perseverance paid off, and I can happily inform Dave that it does work so far. I haven't tested absolutely everything with PowerPivot for SharePoint but have successfully deployed a workbook and viewed the PowerPivot Management Dashboard. I have not yet tested the data refresh feature, but I have installed. Continue reading to see how I accomplished my objective.I unintalled SQL Server 2008 R2 and started again. I had different problems which I don't recollect now. However, I uninstalled again and approached installation from a different angle and my next attempt succeeded. The downside of this approach is that you must do all of the things yourself that are done automatically when you install PowerPivot as a new server. Here are the steps that I followed:Install SQL Server 2008 R2 to get a database engine instance installed.Run the SharePoint configuration wizard to set up the SharePoint databases.In Central Administration, create a Web application using classic mode authentication as per a TechNet article on PowerPivot Authentication and Authorization.Then I followed the steps I found at How to: Install PowerPivot for SharePoint on an Existing SharePoint Server. Especially important to note - you must launch setup by using Run as administrator. I did not have to manually deploy the PowerPivot solution as the instructions specify, but it's good to know about this step because it tells you where to look in Central Administration to confirm a successful deployment.I did spot some incorrect steps in the instructions (at the time of this writing) in How To: Configure Stored Credentials for PowerPivot Data Refresh. Specifically, in the section entitled Step 1: Create a target application and set the credentials, both steps 10 and 12 are incorrect. They tell you to provide an actual Windows user name and password on the page where you are simply defining the prompts for your application in the Secure Store Service. To add the Windows user name and password that you want to associate with the application - after you have successfully created the target application - you select the target application and then click Set credentials in the ribbon.Lastly, I followed the instructions at How to: Install Office Data Connectivity Components on a PowerPivot server. However, I have yet to test this in my current environment.I did have several stops and starts throughout this process and edited those out to spare you from reading non-essential information. I believe the explanation I have provided here accurately reflect the steps I followed to produce a working configuration. If you follow these steps and get a different result, please let me know so that together we can work through the issue and correct these instructions. I'm sure there are many other folks in the Microsoft BI community that will appreciate the ability to set up the BI stack in a Windows 7 environment for development or learning purposes. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!

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Silverlight for Windows Embedded tutorial (step 4)

- by Valter Minute

I’m back with my Silverlight for Windows Embedded tutorial. Sorry for the long delay between step 3 and step 4, the MVP summit and some work related issue prevented me from working on the tutorial during the last weeks. In our first, second and third tutorial steps we implemented some very simple applications, just to understand the basic structure of a Silverlight for Windows Embedded application, learn how to handle events and how to operate on images. In this third step our sample application will be slightly more complicated, to introduce two new topics: list boxes and custom control. We will also learn how to create controls at runtime. I choose to explain those topics together and provide a sample a bit more complicated than usual just to start to give the feeling of how a “real” Silverlight for Windows Embedded application is organized. As usual we can start using Expression Blend to define our main page. In this case we will have a listbox and a textblock. Here’s the XAML code: <UserControl xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" x:Class="ListDemo.Page" Width="640" Height="480" x:Name="ListPage" xmlns:ListDemo="clr-namespace:ListDemo"> <Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="White"> <ListBox Margin="19,57,19,66" x:Name="FileList" SelectionChanged="Filelist_SelectionChanged"/> <TextBlock Height="35" Margin="19,8,19,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" TextWrapping="Wrap" x:Name="CurrentDir" Text="TextBlock" FontSize="20"/> </Grid> </UserControl> In our listbox we will load a list of directories, starting from the filesystem root (there are no drives in Windows CE, the filesystem has a single root named “\”). When the user clicks on an item inside the list, the corresponding directory path will be displayed in the TextBlock object and the subdirectories of the selected branch will be shown inside the list. As you can see we declared an event handler for the SelectionChanged event of our listbox. We also used a different font size for the TextBlock, to make it more readable. XAML and Expression Blend allow you to customize your UI pretty heavily, experiment with the tools and discover how you can completely change the aspect of your application without changing a single line of code! Inside our ListBox we want to insert the directory presenting a nice icon and their name, just like you are used to see them inside Windows 7 file explorer, for example. To get this we will define a user control. This is a custom object that will behave like “regular” Silverlight for Windows Embedded objects inside our application. First of all we have to define the look of our custom control, named DirectoryItem, using XAML: <UserControl xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008" xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006" mc:Ignorable="d" x:Class="ListDemo.DirectoryItem" Width="500" Height="80"> <StackPanel x:Name="LayoutRoot" Orientation="Horizontal"> <Canvas Width="31.6667" Height="45.9583" Margin="10,10,10,10" RenderTransformOrigin="0.5,0.5"> <Canvas.RenderTransform> <TransformGroup> <ScaleTransform/> <SkewTransform/> <RotateTransform Angle="-31.27"/> <TranslateTransform/> </TransformGroup> </Canvas.RenderTransform> <Rectangle Width="31.6667" Height="45.8414" Canvas.Left="0" Canvas.Top="0.116943" Stretch="Fill"> <Rectangle.Fill> <LinearGradientBrush StartPoint="0.142631,0.75344" EndPoint="1.01886,0.75344"> <LinearGradientBrush.RelativeTransform> <TransformGroup> <SkewTransform CenterX="0.142631" CenterY="0.75344" AngleX="19.3128" AngleY="0"/> <RotateTransform CenterX="0.142631" CenterY="0.75344" Angle="-35.3436"/> </TransformGroup> </LinearGradientBrush.RelativeTransform> <LinearGradientBrush.GradientStops> <GradientStop Color="#FF7B6802" Offset="0"/> <GradientStop Color="#FFF3D42C" Offset="1"/> </LinearGradientBrush.GradientStops> </LinearGradientBrush> </Rectangle.Fill> </Rectangle> <Rectangle Width="29.8441" Height="43.1517" Canvas.Left="0.569519" Canvas.Top="1.05249" Stretch="Fill"> <Rectangle.Fill> <LinearGradientBrush StartPoint="0.142632,0.753441" EndPoint="1.01886,0.753441"> <LinearGradientBrush.RelativeTransform> <TransformGroup> <SkewTransform CenterX="0.142632" CenterY="0.753441" AngleX="19.3127" AngleY="0"/> <RotateTransform CenterX="0.142632" CenterY="0.753441" Angle="-35.3437"/> </TransformGroup> </LinearGradientBrush.RelativeTransform> <LinearGradientBrush.GradientStops> <GradientStop Color="#FFCDCDCD" Offset="0.0833333"/> <GradientStop Color="#FFFFFFFF" Offset="1"/> </LinearGradientBrush.GradientStops> </LinearGradientBrush> </Rectangle.Fill> </Rectangle> <Rectangle Width="29.8441" Height="43.1517" Canvas.Left="0.455627" Canvas.Top="2.28036" Stretch="Fill"> <Rectangle.Fill> <LinearGradientBrush StartPoint="0.142631,0.75344" EndPoint="1.01886,0.75344"> <LinearGradientBrush.RelativeTransform> <TransformGroup> <SkewTransform CenterX="0.142631" CenterY="0.75344" AngleX="19.3128" AngleY="0"/> <RotateTransform CenterX="0.142631" CenterY="0.75344" Angle="-35.3436"/> </TransformGroup> </LinearGradientBrush.RelativeTransform> <LinearGradientBrush.GradientStops> <GradientStop Color="#FFCDCDCD" Offset="0.0833333"/> <GradientStop Color="#FFFFFFFF" Offset="1"/> </LinearGradientBrush.GradientStops> </LinearGradientBrush> </Rectangle.Fill> </Rectangle> <Rectangle Width="29.8441" Height="43.1517" Canvas.Left="0.455627" Canvas.Top="1.34485" Stretch="Fill"> <Rectangle.Fill> <LinearGradientBrush StartPoint="0.142631,0.75344" EndPoint="1.01886,0.75344"> <LinearGradientBrush.RelativeTransform> <TransformGroup> <SkewTransform CenterX="0.142631" CenterY="0.75344" AngleX="19.3128" AngleY="0"/> <RotateTransform CenterX="0.142631" CenterY="0.75344" Angle="-35.3436"/> </TransformGroup> </LinearGradientBrush.RelativeTransform> <LinearGradientBrush.GradientStops> <GradientStop Color="#FFCDCDCD" Offset="0.0833333"/> <GradientStop Color="#FFFFFFFF" Offset="1"/> </LinearGradientBrush.GradientStops> </LinearGradientBrush> </Rectangle.Fill> </Rectangle> <Rectangle Width="26.4269" Height="45.8414" Canvas.Left="0.227798" Canvas.Top="0" Stretch="Fill"> <Rectangle.Fill> <LinearGradientBrush StartPoint="0.142631,0.75344" EndPoint="1.01886,0.75344"> <LinearGradientBrush.RelativeTransform> <TransformGroup> <SkewTransform CenterX="0.142631" CenterY="0.75344" AngleX="19.3127" AngleY="0"/> <RotateTransform CenterX="0.142631" CenterY="0.75344" Angle="-35.3436"/> </TransformGroup> </LinearGradientBrush.RelativeTransform> <LinearGradientBrush.GradientStops> <GradientStop Color="#FF7B6802" Offset="0"/> <GradientStop Color="#FFF3D42C" Offset="1"/> </LinearGradientBrush.GradientStops> </LinearGradientBrush> </Rectangle.Fill> </Rectangle> <Rectangle Width="1.25301" Height="45.8414" Canvas.Left="1.70862" Canvas.Top="0.116943" Stretch="Fill" Fill="#FFEBFF07"/> </Canvas> <TextBlock Height="80" x:Name="Name" Width="448" TextWrapping="Wrap" VerticalAlignment="Center" FontSize="24" Text="Directory"/> </StackPanel> </UserControl> As you can see, this XAML contains many graphic elements. Those elements are used to design the folder icon. The original drawing has been designed in Expression Design and then exported as XAML. In Silverlight for Windows Embedded you can use vector images. This means that your images will look good even when scaled or rotated. In our DirectoryItem custom control we have a TextBlock named Name, that will be used to display….(suspense)…. the directory name (I’m too lazy to invent fancy names for controls, and using “boring” intuitive names will make code more readable, I hope!). Now that we have some XAML code, we may execute XAML2CPP to generate part of the aplication code for us. We should then add references to our XAML2CPP generated resource file and include in our code and add a reference to the XAML runtime library to our sources file (you can follow the instruction of the first tutorial step to do that), To generate the code used in this tutorial you need XAML2CPP ver 1.0.1.0, that is downloadable here: http://geekswithblogs.net/WindowsEmbeddedCookbook/archive/2010/03/08/xaml2cpp-1.0.1.0.aspx We can now create our usual simple Win32 application inside Platform Builder, using the same step described in the first chapter of this tutorial (http://geekswithblogs.net/WindowsEmbeddedCookbook/archive/2009/10/01/silverlight-for-embedded-tutorial.aspx). We can declare a class for our main page, deriving it from the template that XAML2CPP generated for us: class ListPage : public TListPage<ListPage> { ... } We will see the ListPage class code in a short time, but before we will see the code of our DirectoryItem user control. This object will be used to populate our list, one item for each directory. To declare a user control things are a bit more complicated (but also in this case XAML2CPP will write most of the “boilerplate” code for use. To interact with a user control you should declare an interface. An interface defines the functions of a user control that can be called inside the application code. Our custom control is currently quite simple and we just need some member functions to store and retrieve a full pathname inside our control. The control will display just the last part of the path inside the control. An interface is declared as a C++ class that has only abstract virtual members. It should also have an UUID associated with it. UUID means Universal Unique IDentifier and it’s a 128 bit number that will identify our interface without the need of specifying its fully qualified name. UUIDs are used to identify COM interfaces and, as we discovered in chapter one, Silverlight for Windows Embedded is based on COM or, at least, provides a COM-like Application Programming Interface (API). Here’s the declaration of the DirectoryItem interface: class __declspec(novtable,uuid("{D38C66E5-2725-4111-B422-D75B32AA8702}")) IDirectoryItem : public IXRCustomUserControl { public: virtual HRESULT SetFullPath(BSTR fullpath) = 0; virtual HRESULT GetFullPath(BSTR* retval) = 0; }; The interface is derived from IXRCustomControl, this will allow us to add our object to a XAML tree. It declares the two functions needed to set and get the full path, but don’t implement them. Implementation will be done inside the control class. The interface only defines the functions of our control class that are accessible from the outside. It’s a sort of “contract” between our control and the applications that will use it. We must support what’s inside the contract and the application code should know nothing else about our own control. To reference our interface we will use the UUID, to make code more readable we can declare a #define in this way: #define IID_IDirectoryItem __uuidof(IDirectoryItem) Silverlight for Windows Embedded objects (like COM objects) use a reference counting mechanism to handle object destruction. Every time you store a pointer to an object you should call its AddRef function and every time you no longer need that pointer you should call Release. The object keeps an internal counter, incremented for each AddRef and decremented on Release. When the counter reaches 0, the object is destroyed. Managing reference counting in our code can be quite complicated and, since we are lazy (I am, at least!), we will use a great feature of Silverlight for Windows Embedded: smart pointers.A smart pointer can be connected to a Silverlight for Windows Embedded object and manages its reference counting. To declare a smart pointer we must use the XRPtr template: typedef XRPtr<IDirectoryItem> IDirectoryItemPtr; Now that we have defined our interface, it’s time to implement our user control class. XAML2CPP has implemented a class for us, and we have only to derive our class from it, defining the main class and interface of our new custom control: class DirectoryItem : public DirectoryItemUserControlRegister<DirectoryItem,IDirectoryItem> { ... } XAML2CPP has generated some code for us to support the user control, we don’t have to mind too much about that code, since it will be generated (or written by hand, if you like) always in the same way, for every user control. But knowing how does this works “under the hood” is still useful to understand the architecture of Silverlight for Windows Embedded. Our base class declaration is a bit more complex than the one we used for a simple page in the previous chapters: template <class A,class B> class DirectoryItemUserControlRegister : public XRCustomUserControlImpl<A,B>,public TDirectoryItem<A,XAML2CPPUserControl> { ... } This class derives from the XAML2CPP generated template class, like the ListPage class, but it uses XAML2CPPUserControl for the implementation of some features. This class shares the same ancestor of XAML2CPPPage (base class for “regular” XAML pages), XAML2CPPBase, implements binding of member variables and event handlers but, instead of loading and creating its own XAML tree, it attaches to an existing one. The XAML tree (and UI) of our custom control is created and loaded by the XRCustomUserControlImpl class. This class is part of the Silverlight for Windows Embedded framework and implements most of the functions needed to build-up a custom control in Silverlight (the guys that developed Silverlight for Windows Embedded seem to care about lazy programmers!). We have just to initialize it, providing our class (DirectoryItem) and interface (IDirectoryItem). Our user control class has also a static member: protected: static HINSTANCE hInstance; This is used to store the HINSTANCE of the modules that contain our user control class. I don’t like this implementation, but I can’t find a better one, so if somebody has good ideas about how to handle the HINSTANCE object, I’ll be happy to hear suggestions! It also implements two static members required by XRCustomUserControlImpl. The first one is used to load the XAML UI of our custom control: static HRESULT GetXamlSource(XRXamlSource* pXamlSource) { pXamlSource->SetResource(hInstance,TEXT("XAML"),IDR_XAML_DirectoryItem); return S_OK; } It initializes a XRXamlSource object, connecting it to the XAML resource that XAML2CPP has included in our resource script. The other method is used to register our custom control, allowing Silverlight for Windows Embedded to create it when it load some XAML or when an application creates a new control at runtime (more about this later): static HRESULT Register() { return XRCustomUserControlImpl<A,B>::Register(__uuidof(B), L"DirectoryItem", L"clr-namespace:DirectoryItemNamespace"); } To register our control we should provide its interface UUID, the name of the corresponding element in the XAML tree and its current namespace (namespaces compatible with Silverlight must use the “clr-namespace” prefix. We may also register additional properties for our objects, allowing them to be loaded and saved inside XAML. In this case we have no permanent properties and the Register method will just register our control. An additional static method is implemented to allow easy registration of our custom control inside our application WinMain function: static HRESULT RegisterUserControl(HINSTANCE hInstance) { DirectoryItemUserControlRegister::hInstance=hInstance; return DirectoryItemUserControlRegister<A,B>::Register(); } Now our control is registered and we will be able to create it using the Silverlight for Windows Embedded runtime functions. But we need to bind our members and event handlers to have them available like we are used to do for other XAML2CPP generated objects. To bind events and members we need to implement the On_Loaded function: virtual HRESULT OnLoaded(__in IXRDependencyObject* pRoot) { HRESULT retcode; IXRApplicationPtr app; if (FAILED(retcode=GetXRApplicationInstance(&app))) return retcode; return ((A*)this)->Init(pRoot,hInstance,app); } This function will call the XAML2CPPUserControl::Init member that will connect the “root” member with the XAML sub tree that has been created for our control and then calls BindObjects and BindEvents to bind members and events to our code. Now we can go back to our application code (the code that you’ll have to actually write) to see the contents of our DirectoryItem class: class DirectoryItem : public DirectoryItemUserControlRegister<DirectoryItem,IDirectoryItem> { protected: WCHAR fullpath[_MAX_PATH+1]; public: DirectoryItem() { *fullpath=0; } virtual HRESULT SetFullPath(BSTR fullpath) { wcscpy_s(this->fullpath,fullpath); WCHAR* p=fullpath; for(WCHAR*q=wcsstr(p,L"\\");q;p=q+1,q=wcsstr(p,L"\\")) ; Name->SetText(p); return S_OK; } virtual HRESULT GetFullPath(BSTR* retval) { *retval=SysAllocString(fullpath); return S_OK; } }; It’s pretty easy and contains a fullpath member (used to store that path of the directory connected with the user control) and the implementation of the two interface members that can be used to set and retrieve the path. The SetFullPath member parses the full path and displays just the last branch directory name inside the “Name” TextBlock object. As you can see, implementing a user control in Silverlight for Windows Embedded is not too complex and using XAML also for the UI of the control allows us to re-use the same mechanisms that we learnt and used in the previous steps of our tutorial. Now let’s see how the main page is managed by the ListPage class. class ListPage : public TListPage<ListPage> { protected: // current path TCHAR curpath[_MAX_PATH+1]; It has a member named “curpath” that is used to store the current directory. It’s initialized inside the constructor: ListPage() { *curpath=0; } And it’s value is displayed inside the “CurrentDir” TextBlock inside the initialization function: virtual HRESULT Init(HINSTANCE hInstance,IXRApplication* app) { HRESULT retcode; if (FAILED(retcode=TListPage<ListPage>::Init(hInstance,app))) return retcode; CurrentDir->SetText(L"\\"); return S_OK; } The FillFileList function is used to enumerate subdirectories of the current dir and add entries for each one inside the list box that fills most of the client area of our main page: HRESULT FillFileList() { HRESULT retcode; IXRItemCollectionPtr items; IXRApplicationPtr app; if (FAILED(retcode=GetXRApplicationInstance(&app))) return retcode; // retrieves the items contained in the listbox if (FAILED(retcode=FileList->GetItems(&items))) return retcode; // clears the list if (FAILED(retcode=items->Clear())) return retcode; // enumerates files and directory in the current path WCHAR filemask[_MAX_PATH+1]; wcscpy_s(filemask,curpath); wcscat_s(filemask,L"\\*.*"); WIN32_FIND_DATA finddata; HANDLE findhandle; findhandle=FindFirstFile(filemask,&finddata); // the directory is empty? if (findhandle==INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) return S_OK; do { if (finddata.dwFileAttributes&=FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY) { IXRListBoxItemPtr listboxitem; // add a new item to the listbox if (FAILED(retcode=app->CreateObject(IID_IXRListBoxItem,&listboxitem))) { FindClose(findhandle); return retcode; } if (FAILED(retcode=items->Add(listboxitem,NULL))) { FindClose(findhandle); return retcode; } IDirectoryItemPtr directoryitem; if (FAILED(retcode=app->CreateObject(IID_IDirectoryItem,&directoryitem))) { FindClose(findhandle); return retcode; } WCHAR fullpath[_MAX_PATH+1]; wcscpy_s(fullpath,curpath); wcscat_s(fullpath,L"\\"); wcscat_s(fullpath,finddata.cFileName); if (FAILED(retcode=directoryitem->SetFullPath(fullpath))) { FindClose(findhandle); return retcode; } XAML2CPPXRValue value((IXRDependencyObject*)directoryitem); if (FAILED(retcode=listboxitem->SetContent(&value))) { FindClose(findhandle); return retcode; } } } while (FindNextFile(findhandle,&finddata)); FindClose(findhandle); return S_OK; } This functions retrieve a pointer to the collection of the items contained in the directory listbox. The IXRItemCollection interface is used by listboxes and comboboxes and allow you to clear the list (using Clear(), as our function does at the beginning) and change its contents by adding and removing elements. This function uses the FindFirstFile/FindNextFile functions to enumerate all the objects inside our current directory and for each subdirectory creates a IXRListBoxItem object. You can insert any kind of control inside a list box, you don’t need a IXRListBoxItem, but using it will allow you to handle the selected state of an item, highlighting it inside the list. The function creates a list box item using the CreateObject function of XRApplication. The same function is then used to create an instance of our custom control. The function returns a pointer to the control IDirectoryItem interface and we can use it to store the directory full path inside the object and add it as content of the IXRListBox item object, adding it to the listbox contents. The listbox generates an event (SelectionChanged) each time the user clicks on one of the items contained in the listbox. We implement an event handler for that event and use it to change our current directory and repopulate the listbox. The current directory full path will be displayed in the TextBlock: HRESULT Filelist_SelectionChanged(IXRDependencyObject* source,XRSelectionChangedEventArgs* args) { HRESULT retcode; IXRListBoxItemPtr listboxitem; if (!args->pAddedItem) return S_OK; if (FAILED(retcode=args->pAddedItem->QueryInterface(IID_IXRListBoxItem,(void**)&listboxitem))) return retcode; XRValue content; if (FAILED(retcode=listboxitem->GetContent(&content))) return retcode; if (content.vType!=VTYPE_OBJECT) return E_FAIL; IDirectoryItemPtr directoryitem; if (FAILED(retcode=content.pObjectVal->QueryInterface(IID_IDirectoryItem,(void**)&directoryitem))) return retcode; content.pObjectVal->Release(); content.pObjectVal=NULL; BSTR fullpath=NULL; if (FAILED(retcode=directoryitem->GetFullPath(&fullpath))) return retcode; CurrentDir->SetText(fullpath); wcscpy_s(curpath,fullpath); FillFileList(); SysFreeString(fullpath); return S_OK; } }; The function uses the pAddedItem member of the XRSelectionChangedEventArgs object to retrieve the currently selected item, converts it to a IXRListBoxItem interface using QueryInterface, and then retrives its contents (IDirectoryItem object). Using the GetFullPath method we can get the full path of our selected directory and assing it to the curdir member. A call to FillFileList will update the listbox contents, displaying the list of subdirectories of the selected folder. To build our sample we just need to add code to our WinMain function: int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPTSTR lpCmdLine, int nCmdShow) { if (!XamlRuntimeInitialize()) return -1; HRESULT retcode; IXRApplicationPtr app; if (FAILED(retcode=GetXRApplicationInstance(&app))) return -1; if (FAILED(retcode=DirectoryItem::RegisterUserControl(hInstance))) return retcode; ListPage page; if (FAILED(page.Init(hInstance,app))) return -1; page.FillFileList(); UINT exitcode; if (FAILED(page.GetVisualHost()->StartDialog(&exitcode))) return -1; return 0; } This code is very similar to the one of the WinMains of our previous samples. The main differences are that we register our custom control (you should do that as soon as you have initialized the XAML runtime) and call FillFileList after the initialization of our ListPage object to load the contents of the root folder of our device inside the listbox. As usual you can download the full sample source code from here: http://cid-9b7b0aefe3514dc5.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/.Public/ListBoxTest.zip

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Installing SharePoint 2010 and PowerPivot for SharePoint on Windows 7

- by smisner

Many people like me want (or need) to do their business intelligence development work on a laptop. As someone who frequently speaks at various events or teaches classes on all subjects related to the Microsoft business intelligence stack, I need a way to run multiple server products on my laptop with reasonable performance. Once upon a time, that requirement meant only that I had to load the current version of SQL Server and the client tools of choice. In today's post, I'll review my latest experience with trying to make the newly released Microsoft BI products work with a Windows 7 operating system. The entrance of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 into the BI stack complicated matters and I started using Virtual Server to establish a "suitable" environment. As part of the team that delivered a lot of education as part of the Yukon pre-launch activities (that would be SQL Server 2005 for the uninitiated), I was working with four - yes, four - virtual servers. That was a pretty brutal workload for a 2GB laptop, which worked if I was very, very careful. It could also be a finicky and unreliable configuration as I learned to my dismay at one TechEd session several years ago when I had to reboot a very carefully cached set of servers just minutes before my session started. Although it worked, it came back to life very, very slowly much to the displeasure of the audience. They couldn't possibly have been less pleased than me. At that moment, I resolved to get the beefiest environment I could afford and consolidate to a single virtual server. Enter the 4GB 64-bit laptop to preserve my sanity and my livelihood. Likewise, for SQL Server 2008, I managed to keep everything within a single virtual server and I could function reasonably well with this approach. Now we have SQL Server 2008 R2 plus Office SharePoint Server 2010. That means a 64-bit operating system. Period. That means no more Virtual Server. That means I must use Hyper-V or another alternative. I've heard alternatives exist, but my few dabbles in this area did not yield positive results. It might have been just me having issues rather than any failure of those technologies to adequately support the requirements. My first run at working with the new BI stack configuration was to set up a 64-bit 4GB laptop with a dual-boot to run Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V. However, I was generally not happy with running Windows Server 2008 R2 on my laptop. For one, I couldn't put it into sleep mode, which is helpful if I want to prepare for a presentation beforehand and then walk to the podium without the need to hold my laptop in its open state along the way (my strategy at the TechEd session long, long ago). Secondly, it was finicky with projectors. I had issues from time to time and while I always eventually got it to work, I didn't appreciate those nerve-wracking moments wondering whether this would be the time that it wouldn't work. Somewhere along the way, I learned that it was possible to load SharePoint 2010 in a Windows 7 which piqued my interest. I had just acquired a new laptop running Windows 7 64-bit, and thought surely running the BI stack natively on my laptop must be better than running Hyper-V. (I have not tried booting to Hyper-V VHD yet, but that's on my list of things to try so the jury of one is still out on this approach.) Recently, I had to build up a server with the RTM versions of SQL Server 2008 R2 and Sharepoint Server 2010 and decided to follow suit on my Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit laptop. The process is slightly different, but I'm happy to report that it IS possible, although I had some fits and starts along the way. DISCLAIMER: These products are NOT intended to be run in production mode on the Windows 7 operating system. The configuration described in this post is strictly for development or learning purposes and not supported by Microsoft. If you have trouble, you will NOT get help from them. I might be able to help, but I provide no guarantees of my ability or availablity to help. I won't provide the step-by-step instructions in this post as there are other resources that provide these details, but I will provide an overview of my approach, point you to the relevant resources, describe some of the problems I encountered, and explain how I addressed those problems to achieve my desired goal. Because my goal was not simply to set up SharePoint Server 2010 on my laptop, but specifically PowerPivot for SharePoint, I started out by referring to the installation instructions at the PowerPiovt-Info site, but mainly to confirm that I was performing steps in the proper sequence. I didn't perform the steps in Part 1 because those steps are applicable only to a server operating system which I am not running on my laptop. Then, the instructions in Part 2, won't work exactly as written for the same reason. Instead, I followed the instructions on MSDN, Setting Up the Development Environment for SharePoint 2010 on Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008. In general, I found the following differences in installation steps from the steps at PowerPivot-Info: You must copy the SharePoint installation media to the local drive so that you can edit the config.xml to allow installation on a Windows client. You also have to manually install the prerequisites. The instructions provides links to each item that you must manually install and provides a command-line instruction to execute which enables required Windows features. I will digress for a moment to save you some grief in the sequence of steps to perform. I discovered later that a missing step in the MSDN instructions is to install the November CTP Reporting Services add-in for SharePoint. When I went to test my SharePoint site (I believe I tested after I had a successful PowerPivot installation), I ran into the following error: Could not load file or assembly 'RSSharePointSoapProxy, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. I was rather surprised that Reporting Services was required. Then I found an article by Alan le Marquand, Working Together: SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services Integration in SharePoint 2010,that instructed readers to install the November add-in. My first reaction was, "Really?!?" But I confirmed it in another TechNet article on hardware and software requirements for SharePoint Server 2010. It doesn't refer explicitly to the November CTP but following the link took me there. (Interestingly, I retested today and there's no longer any reference to the November CTP. Here's the link to download the latest and greatest Reporting Services Add-in for SharePoint Technologies 2010.) You don't need to download the add-in anymore if you're doing a regular server-based installation of SharePoint because it installs as part of the prerequisites automatically. When it was time to start the installation of SharePoint, I deviated from the MSDN instructions and from the PowerPivot-Info instructions: On the Choose the installation you want page of the installation wizard, I chose Server Farm. On the Server Type page, I chose Complete. At the end of the installation, I did not run the configuration wizard. Returning to the PowerPivot-Info instructions, I tried to follow the instructions in Part 3 which describe installing SQL Server 2008 R2 with the PowerPivot option. These instructions tell you to choose the New Server option on the Setup Role page where you add PowerPivot for SharePoint. However, I ran into problems with this approach and got installation errors at the end. It wasn't until much later as I was investigating an error that I encountered Dave Wickert's post that installing PowerPivot for SharePoint on Windows 7 is unsupported. Uh oh. But he did want to hear about it if anyone succeeded, so I decided to take the plunge. Perseverance paid off, and I can happily inform Dave that it does work so far. I haven't tested absolutely everything with PowerPivot for SharePoint but have successfully deployed a workbook and viewed the PowerPivot Management Dashboard. I have not yet tested the data refresh feature, but I have installed. Continue reading to see how I accomplished my objective. I unintalled SQL Server 2008 R2 and started again. I had different problems which I don't recollect now. However, I uninstalled again and approached installation from a different angle and my next attempt succeeded. The downside of this approach is that you must do all of the things yourself that are done automatically when you install PowerPivot as a new server. Here are the steps that I followed: Install SQL Server 2008 R2 to get a database engine instance installed. Run the SharePoint configuration wizard to set up the SharePoint databases. In Central Administration, create a Web application using classic mode authentication as per a TechNet article on PowerPivot Authentication and Authorization. Then I followed the steps I found at How to: Install PowerPivot for SharePoint on an Existing SharePoint Server. Especially important to note - you must launch setup by using Run as administrator. I did not have to manually deploy the PowerPivot solution as the instructions specify, but it's good to know about this step because it tells you where to look in Central Administration to confirm a successful deployment. I did spot some incorrect steps in the instructions (at the time of this writing) in How To: Configure Stored Credentials for PowerPivot Data Refresh. Specifically, in the section entitled Step 1: Create a target application and set the credentials, both steps 10 and 12 are incorrect. They tell you to provide an actual Windows user name and password on the page where you are simply defining the prompts for your application in the Secure Store Service. To add the Windows user name and password that you want to associate with the application - after you have successfully created the target application - you select the target application and then click Set credentials in the ribbon. Lastly, I followed the instructions at How to: Install Office Data Connectivity Components on a PowerPivot server. However, I have yet to test this in my current environment. I did have several stops and starts throughout this process and edited those out to spare you from reading non-essential information. I believe the explanation I have provided here accurately reflect the steps I followed to produce a working configuration. If you follow these steps and get a different result, please let me know so that together we can work through the issue and correct these instructions. I'm sure there are many other folks in the Microsoft BI community that will appreciate the ability to set up the BI stack in a Windows 7 environment for development or learning purposes. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!

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How to improve performance of map that loads new overlay images

- by anthonysomerset

I have inherited a website to maintain that uses a html map overlaying a real map to link specific countries to specific pages. previously it loaded the default map image, then with some javascript it would change the image src to an image with that particular country in a different colour on mouseover and reset the image source back to the original image on mouse out to make maintenance (adding new countries) easier i made the initial map a background image by utilising some CSS for the div tag, and then created new images for each country which only had that countries hightlight so that the images remain fairly small. this works great but theres one issue which is particularly noticeable on slower internet connections when you hover over a country if you dont have the image file in your browser cache or downloaded it wont load the image unless you hover over another country and then back onto the first country - i guess this is due to the image having to manually be downloaded on first hover. My question: is it possible to force the load of these extra images AFTER the page and all the other assets have finished loading so that this behaviour is all but eliminated? the html code for the MAP is as follows: <div class="gtmap"><img id="Image-Maps_6200909211657061" src="<?php echo cdnhttpsCheck(); ?>assets/wmap/a-guided-tours-map-blank.png" usemap="#Image-Maps_6200909211657061" alt="We offer Guided Motorcycle Tours all around the world" width="615" height="296" /> <map id="_Image-Maps_6200909211657061" name="Image-Maps_6200909211657061"> <area shape="poly" coords="511,134,532,107,542,113,520,141" href="/guided-motorcycle-tours-japan/" alt="Guided Japan Motorcycle Tours" title="Japan" onmouseover="if(document.images) document.getElementById('Image-Maps_6200909211657061').src='<?php echo cdnhttpsCheck(); ?>assets/wmap/a-guided-tours-map-japan.png';" onmouseout="if(document.images) document.getElementById('Image-Maps_6200909211657061').src='<?php echo cdnhttpsCheck(); ?>assets/wmap/a-guided-tours-map-blank.png';" /> <area shape="poly" coords="252,61,266,58,275,64,262,68" href="/guided-motorcycle-tour.php?iceland-motorcycle-adventure-39" alt="Guided Iceland Motorcycle Tours" title="Iceland" onmouseover="if(document.images) document.getElementById('Image-Maps_6200909211657061').src='<?php echo cdnhttpsCheck(); ?>assets/wmap/a-guided-tours-map-iceland.png';" onmouseout="if(document.images) document.getElementById('Image-Maps_6200909211657061').src='<?php echo cdnhttpsCheck(); ?>assets/wmap/a-guided-tours-map-blank.png';" /> <area shape="poly" coords="587,246,597,256,577,279,568,270" href="/guided-motorcycle-tour.php?new-zealand-south-island-adventure-10" alt="New Zealand Guided Motorcycle Tours" title="New Zealand" onmouseover="if(document.images) document.getElementById('Image-Maps_6200909211657061').src='<?php echo cdnhttpsCheck(); ?>assets/wmap/a-guided-tours-map-nz.png';" onmouseout="if(document.images) document.getElementById('Image-Maps_6200909211657061').src='<?php echo cdnhttpsCheck(); ?>assets/wmap/a-guided-tours-map-blank.png';" /> <area shape="poly" coords="418,133,412,145,412,154,421,178,430,180,430,166,443,154,443,145,438,144,433,142,430,138,431,130,430,129,425,128" href="/guided-motorcycle-tours-india/" alt="India Guided Motorcycle Tours" title="India" onmouseover="if(document.images) document.getElementById('Image-Maps_6200909211657061').src='<?php echo cdnhttpsCheck(); ?>assets/wmap/a-guided-tours-map-india.png';" onmouseout="if(document.images) document.getElementById('Image-Maps_6200909211657061').src='<?php echo cdnhttpsCheck(); ?>assets/wmap/a-guided-tours-map-blank.png';" /> <area shape="poly" coords="460,152,466,149,474,165,470,171,466,161" href="/guided-motorcycle-tours-laos/" alt="Laos Guided Motorcycle Tours" title="Laos" onmouseover="if(document.images) document.getElementById('Image-Maps_6200909211657061').src='<?php echo cdnhttpsCheck(); ?>assets/wmap/a-guided-tours-map-laos.png';" onmouseout="if(document.images) document.getElementById('Image-Maps_6200909211657061').src='<?php echo cdnhttpsCheck(); ?>assets/wmap/a-guided-tours-map-blank.png';" /> <area shape="poly" coords="468,179,475,166,468,152,475,152,482,169" href="/guided-motorcycle-tour.php?indochina-motorcycle-adventure-tour-32" onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/internal-links/guided-tours/map/vietnam');" alt="Vietnam Guided Motorcycle Tours" title="Vietnam" onmouseover="if(document.images) document.getElementById('Image-Maps_6200909211657061').src='<?php echo cdnhttpsCheck(); ?>assets/wmap/a-guided-tours-map-viet.png';" onmouseout="if(document.images) document.getElementById('Image-Maps_6200909211657061').src='<?php echo cdnhttpsCheck(); ?>assets/wmap/a-guided-tours-map-blank.png';" /> <area shape="poly" coords="330,239,337,235,347,226,352,233,351,243,344,250,335,253,327,255,323,249,322,242,323,241" href="/guided-motorcycle-tours-southafrica/" alt="South Africa Guided Motorcycle Tours" title="South Africa" onmouseover="if(document.images) document.getElementById('Image-Maps_6200909211657061').src='<?php echo cdnhttpsCheck(); ?>assets/wmap/a-guided-tours-map-sa.png';" onmouseout="if(document.images) document.getElementById('Image-Maps_6200909211657061').src='<?php echo cdnhttpsCheck(); ?>assets/wmap/a-guided-tours-map-blank.png';" /> <area shape="poly" coords="290,77,293,86,298,96,286,102,285,97,285,89,282,84,282,79" href="/guided-motorcycle-tour.php?great-britain-isle-of-man-scotland-wales-uk-18" alt="United Kingdom" title="United Kingdom Guided Motorcycle Tours" onmouseover="if(document.images) document.getElementById('Image-Maps_6200909211657061').src='<?php echo cdnhttpsCheck(); ?>assets/wmap/a-guided-tours-map-uk.png';" onmouseout="if(document.images) document.getElementById('Image-Maps_6200909211657061').src='<?php echo cdnhttpsCheck(); ?>assets/wmap/a-guided-tours-map-blank.png';" /> <area shape="poly" coords="357,118,368,118,369,126,345,129,338,125,338,117,342,115,348,116" href="/guided-motorcycle-tour.php?explore-turkey-adventure-45" alt="Turkey" title="Turkey Guided Motorcycle Tours" onmouseover="if(document.images) document.getElementById('Image-Maps_6200909211657061').src='<?php echo cdnhttpsCheck(); ?>assets/wmap/a-guided-tours-map-turkey.png';" onmouseout="if(document.images) document.getElementById('Image-Maps_6200909211657061').src='<?php echo cdnhttpsCheck(); ?>assets/wmap/a-guided-tours-map-blank.png';" /> <area shape="poly" coords="206,95,193,101,185,101,178,106,165,111,157,109,147,105,134,103,121,103,107,103,96,103,86,104,81,99,77,91,70,83,62,79,60,72,61,64,59,57,60,51,71,50,83,49,95,50,107,54,117,53,129,47,137,36,148,37,163,38,177,44,187,54,195,60,184,72,191,80,200,87" href="/guided-motorcycle-tours-canada/" alt="Guided Canada Motorcycle Tours" title="Canada" onmouseover="if(document.images) document.getElementById('Image-Maps_6200909211657061').src='<?php echo cdnhttpsCheck(); ?>assets/wmap/a-guided-tours-map-canada.png';" onmouseout="if(document.images) document.getElementById('Image-Maps_6200909211657061').src='<?php echo cdnhttpsCheck(); ?>assets/wmap/a-guided-tours-map-blank.png';" /> <area shape="poly" coords="61,75,60,62,60,55,59,44,51,44,43,43,36,42,28,43,23,48,17,51,15,62,19,74,27,79,19,83,16,93,35,83,43,77,50,75,55,75" href="/guided-motorcycle-tours-alaska/" alt="Guided Alaska Motorcycle Tours" title="Alaska" onmouseover="if(document.images) document.getElementById('Image-Maps_6200909211657061').src='<?php echo cdnhttpsCheck(); ?>assets/wmap/a-guided-tours-map-alaska.png';" onmouseout="if(document.images) document.getElementById('Image-Maps_6200909211657061').src='<?php echo cdnhttpsCheck(); ?>assets/wmap/a-guided-tours-map-blank.png';" /> <area shape="poly" coords="82,101,99,101,133,101,148,105,161,110,172,106,187,100,180,113,171,122,165,131,159,149,147,141,137,140,129,147,120,141,112,138,103,137,93,132,86,122,86,112,86,106" href="/guided-motorcycle-tours-usa/" alt="USA Guided Motorcycle Tours" title="USA" onmouseover="if(document.images) document.getElementById('Image-Maps_6200909211657061').src='<?php echo cdnhttpsCheck(); ?>assets/wmap/a-guided-tours-map-usa.png';" onmouseout="if(document.images) document.getElementById('Image-Maps_6200909211657061').src='<?php echo cdnhttpsCheck(); ?>assets/wmap/a-guided-tours-map-blank.png';" /> <area shape="poly" coords="178,225,180,214,175,208,174,204,178,198,174,193,167,192,157,199,158,204,164,211,167,218" href="/guided-motorcycle-tour.php?peru-machu-picchu-adventure-25" alt="Peru Guided Motorcycle Tours" title="Peru" onmouseover="if(document.images) document.getElementById('Image-Maps_6200909211657061').src='<?php echo cdnhttpsCheck(); ?>assets/wmap/a-guided-tours-map-peru.png';" onmouseout="if(document.images) document.getElementById('Image-Maps_6200909211657061').src='<?php echo cdnhttpsCheck(); ?>assets/wmap/a-guided-tours-map-blank.png';" /> <area shape="poly" coords="172,226,169,239,166,256,166,267,164,279,171,277,174,262,175,250,179,234,180,225,176,224" href="/guided-motorcycle-tours-chile/" alt="Guided Chile Motorcycle Tours" title="Chile" onmouseover="if(document.images) document.getElementById('Image-Maps_6200909211657061').src='<?php echo cdnhttpsCheck(); ?>assets/wmap/a-guided-tours-map-chile.png';" onmouseout="if(document.images) document.getElementById('Image-Maps_6200909211657061').src='<?php echo cdnhttpsCheck(); ?>assets/wmap/a-guided-tours-map-blank.png';" /> <area shape="poly" coords="199,260,194,261,187,265,184,276,183,296,170,292,168,282,174,270,174,257,177,245,180,230,190,228,205,237,199,245" href="/guided-motorcycle-tours-argentina/" alt="Guided Argentina Motorcycle Tours" title="Argentina" onmouseover="if(document.images) document.getElementById('Image-Maps_6200909211657061').src='<?php echo cdnhttpsCheck(); ?>assets/wmap/a-guided-tours-map-arg.png';" onmouseout="if(document.images) document.getElementById('Image-Maps_6200909211657061').src='<?php echo cdnhttpsCheck(); ?>assets/wmap/a-guided-tours-map-blank.png';" /> </map> </div> The <?php echo cdnhttpsCheck(); ?> is just a site specific function that gets the correct web domain/url from a config file to load resources from CDN where possible (eg all non HTTPS requests) We are loading Jquery at the bottom of the HTML if anybody wonders why it is missing from the code snippet for reference, the page with the map in question is found here: http://www.motoquest.com/guided-motorcycle-tours/

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Building a better mouse-trap – Improving the creation of XML Message Requests using Reflection, XML & XSLT

- by paulschapman

Introduction The way I previously created messages to send to the GovTalk service I used the XMLDocument to create the request. While this worked it left a number of problems; not least that for every message a special function would need to created. This is OK for the short term but the biggest cost in any software project is maintenance and this would be a headache to maintain. So the following is a somewhat better way of achieving the same thing. For the purposes of this article I am going to be using the CompanyNumberSearch request of the GovTalk service – although this technique would work for any service that accepted XML. The C# functions which send and receive the messages remain the same. The magic sauce in this is the XSLT which defines the structure of the request, and the use of objects in conjunction with reflection to provide the content. It is a bit like Sweet Chilli Sauce added to Chicken on a bed of rice. So on to the Sweet Chilli Sauce The Sweet Chilli Sauce The request to search for a company based on it’s number is as follows; <GovTalkMessage xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/CM/envelope http://xmlgw.companieshouse.gov.uk/v1-0/schema/Egov_ch-v2-0.xsd" xmlns="http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/CM/envelope" xmlns:dsig="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#" xmlns:gt="http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/schemas/govtalk/core" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" > <EnvelopeVersion>1.0</EnvelopeVersion> <Header> <MessageDetails> <Class>NumberSearch</Class> <Qualifier>request</Qualifier> <TransactionID>1</TransactionID> </MessageDetails> <SenderDetails> <IDAuthentication> <SenderID>????????????????????????????????</SenderID> <Authentication> <Method>CHMD5</Method> <Value>????????????????????????????????</Value> </Authentication> </IDAuthentication> </SenderDetails> </Header> <GovTalkDetails> <Keys/> </GovTalkDetails> <Body> <NumberSearchRequest xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://xmlgw.companieshouse.gov.uk/v1-0/schema/NumberSearch.xsd"> <PartialCompanyNumber>99999999</PartialCompanyNumber> <DataSet>LIVE</DataSet> <SearchRows>1</SearchRows> </NumberSearchRequest> </Body> </GovTalkMessage> This is the XML that we send to the GovTalk Service and we get back a list of companies that match the criteria passed A message is structured in two parts; The envelope which identifies the person sending the request, with the name of the request, and the body which gives the detail of the company we are looking for. The Chilli What makes it possible is the use of XSLT to define the message – and serialization to convert each request object into XML. To start we need to create an object which will represent the contents of the message we are sending. However there is a common properties in all the messages that we send to Companies House. These properties are as follows SenderId – the id of the person sending the message SenderPassword – the password associated with Id TransactionId – Unique identifier for the message AuthenticationValue – authenticates the request Because these properties are unique to the Companies House message, and because they are shared with all messages they are perfect candidates for a base class. The class is as follows; using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Web; using System.Security.Cryptography; using System.Text; using System.Text.RegularExpressions; using Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ServiceRuntime; namespace CompanyHub.Services { public class GovTalkRequest { public GovTalkRequest() { try { SenderID = RoleEnvironment.GetConfigurationSettingValue("SenderId"); SenderPassword = RoleEnvironment.GetConfigurationSettingValue("SenderPassword"); TransactionId = DateTime.Now.Ticks.ToString(); AuthenticationValue = EncodePassword(String.Format("{0}{1}{2}", SenderID, SenderPassword, TransactionId)); } catch (System.Exception ex) { throw ex; } } /// <summary> /// returns the Sender ID to be used when communicating with the GovTalk Service /// </summary> public String SenderID { get; set; } /// <summary> /// return the password to be used when communicating with the GovTalk Service /// </summary> public String SenderPassword { get; set; } // end SenderPassword /// <summary> /// Transaction Id - uses the Time and Date converted to Ticks /// </summary> public String TransactionId { get; set; } // end TransactionId /// <summary> /// calculate the authentication value that will be used when /// communicating with /// </summary> public String AuthenticationValue { get; set; } // end AuthenticationValue property /// <summary> /// encodes password(s) using MD5 /// </summary> /// <param name="clearPassword"></param> /// <returns></returns> public static String EncodePassword(String clearPassword) { MD5CryptoServiceProvider md5Hasher = new MD5CryptoServiceProvider(); byte[] hashedBytes; UTF32Encoding encoder = new UTF32Encoding(); hashedBytes = md5Hasher.ComputeHash(ASCIIEncoding.Default.GetBytes(clearPassword)); String result = Regex.Replace(BitConverter.ToString(hashedBytes), "-", "").ToLower(); return result; } } } There is nothing particularly clever here, except for the EncodePassword method which hashes the value made up of the SenderId, Password and Transaction id. Each message inherits from this object. So for the Company Number Search in addition to the properties above we need a partial number, which dataset to search – for the purposes of the project we only need to search the LIVE set so this can be set in the constructor and the SearchRows. Again all are set as properties. With the SearchRows and DataSet initialized in the constructor. public class CompanyNumberSearchRequest : GovTalkRequest, IDisposable { /// <summary> /// /// </summary> public CompanyNumberSearchRequest() : base() { DataSet = "LIVE"; SearchRows = 1; } /// <summary> /// Company Number to search against /// </summary> public String PartialCompanyNumber { get; set; } /// <summary> /// What DataSet should be searched for the company /// </summary> public String DataSet { get; set; } /// <summary> /// How many rows should be returned /// </summary> public int SearchRows { get; set; } public void Dispose() { DataSet = String.Empty; PartialCompanyNumber = String.Empty; DataSet = "LIVE"; SearchRows = 1; } } As well as inheriting from our base class, I have also inherited from IDisposable – not just because it is just plain good practice to dispose of objects when coding, but it gives also gives us more versatility when using the object. There are four stages in making a request and this is reflected in the four methods we execute in making a call to the Companies House service; Create a request Send a request Check the status If OK then get the results of the request I’ve implemented each of these stages within a static class called Toolbox – which also means I don’t need to create an instance of the class to use it. When making a request there are three stages; Get the template for the message Serialize the object representing the message Transform the serialized object using a predefined XSLT file. Each of my templates I have defined as an embedded resource. When retrieving a resource of this kind we have to include the full namespace to the resource. In making the code re-usable as much as possible I defined the full ‘path’ within the GetRequest method. requestFile = String.Format("CompanyHub.Services.Schemas.{0}", RequestFile); So we now have the full path of the file within the assembly. Now all we need do is retrieve the assembly and get the resource. asm = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly(); sr = asm.GetManifestResourceStream(requestFile); Once retrieved So this can be returned to the calling function and we now have a stream of XSLT to define the message. Time now to serialize the request to create the other side of this message. // Serialize object containing Request, Load into XML Document t = Obj.GetType(); ms = new MemoryStream(); serializer = new XmlSerializer(t); xmlTextWriter = new XmlTextWriter(ms, Encoding.ASCII); serializer.Serialize(xmlTextWriter, Obj); ms = (MemoryStream)xmlTextWriter.BaseStream; GovTalkRequest = Toolbox.ConvertByteArrayToString(ms.ToArray()); First off we need the type of the object so we make a call to the GetType method of the object containing the Message properties. Next we need a MemoryStream, XmlSerializer and an XMLTextWriter so these can be initialized. The object is serialized by making the call to the Serialize method of the serializer object. The result of that is then converted into a MemoryStream. That MemoryStream is then converted into a string. ConvertByteArrayToString This is a fairly simple function which uses an ASCIIEncoding object found within the System.Text namespace to convert an array of bytes into a string. public static String ConvertByteArrayToString(byte[] bytes) { System.Text.ASCIIEncoding enc = new System.Text.ASCIIEncoding(); return enc.GetString(bytes); } I only put it into a function because I will be using this in various places. The Sauce When adding support for other messages outside of creating a new object to store the properties of the message, the C# components do not need to change. It is in the XSLT file that the versatility of the technique lies. The XSLT file determines the format of the message. For the CompanyNumberSearch the XSLT file is as follows; <?xml version="1.0"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:template match="/"> <GovTalkMessage xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/CM/envelope http://xmlgw.companieshouse.gov.uk/v1-0/schema/Egov_ch-v2-0.xsd" xmlns="http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/CM/envelope" xmlns:dsig="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#" xmlns:gt="http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/schemas/govtalk/core" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" > <EnvelopeVersion>1.0</EnvelopeVersion> <Header> <MessageDetails> <Class>NumberSearch</Class> <Qualifier>request</Qualifier> <TransactionID> <xsl:value-of select="CompanyNumberSearchRequest/TransactionId"/> </TransactionID> </MessageDetails> <SenderDetails> <IDAuthentication> <SenderID><xsl:value-of select="CompanyNumberSearchRequest/SenderID"/></SenderID> <Authentication> <Method>CHMD5</Method> <Value> <xsl:value-of select="CompanyNumberSearchRequest/AuthenticationValue"/> </Value> </Authentication> </IDAuthentication> </SenderDetails> </Header> <GovTalkDetails> <Keys/> </GovTalkDetails> <Body> <NumberSearchRequest xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://xmlgw.companieshouse.gov.uk/v1-0/schema/NumberSearch.xsd"> <PartialCompanyNumber> <xsl:value-of select="CompanyNumberSearchRequest/PartialCompanyNumber"/> </PartialCompanyNumber> <DataSet> <xsl:value-of select="CompanyNumberSearchRequest/DataSet"/> </DataSet> <SearchRows> <xsl:value-of select="CompanyNumberSearchRequest/SearchRows"/> </SearchRows> </NumberSearchRequest> </Body> </GovTalkMessage> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> The outer two tags define that this is a XSLT stylesheet and the root tag from which the nodes are searched for. The GovTalkMessage is the format of the message that will be sent to Companies House. We first set up the XslCompiledTransform object which will transform the XSLT template and the serialized object into the request to Companies House. xslt = new XslCompiledTransform(); resultStream = new MemoryStream(); writer = new XmlTextWriter(resultStream, Encoding.ASCII); doc = new XmlDocument(); The Serialize method require XmlTextWriter to write the XML (writer) and a stream to place the transferred object into (writer). The XML will be loaded into an XMLDocument object (doc) prior to the transformation. // create XSLT Template xslTemplate = Toolbox.GetRequest(Template); xslTemplate.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin); templateReader = XmlReader.Create(xslTemplate); xslt.Load(templateReader); I have stored all the templates as a series of Embedded Resources and the GetRequestCall takes the name of the template and extracts the relevent XSLT file. /// <summary> /// Gets the framwork XML which makes the request /// </summary> /// <param name="RequestFile"></param> /// <returns></returns> public static Stream GetRequest(String RequestFile) { String requestFile = String.Empty; Stream sr = null; Assembly asm = null; try { requestFile = String.Format("CompanyHub.Services.Schemas.{0}", RequestFile); asm = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly(); sr = asm.GetManifestResourceStream(requestFile); } catch (Exception) { throw; } finally { asm = null; } return sr; } // end private static stream GetRequest We first take the template name and expand it to include the full namespace to the Embedded Resource I like to keep all my schemas in the same directory and so the namespace reflects this. The rest is the default namespace for the project. Then we get the currently executing assembly (which will contain the resources with the call to GetExecutingAssembly() ) Finally we get a stream which contains the XSLT file. We use this stream and then load an XmlReader with the contents of the template, and that is in turn loaded into the XslCompiledTransform object. We convert the object containing the message properties into Xml by serializing it; calling the Serialize() method of the XmlSerializer object. To set up the object we do the following; t = Obj.GetType(); ms = new MemoryStream(); serializer = new XmlSerializer(t); xmlTextWriter = new XmlTextWriter(ms, Encoding.ASCII); We first determine the type of the object being transferred by calling GetType() We create an XmlSerializer object by passing the type of the object being serialized. The serializer writes to a memory stream and that is linked to an XmlTextWriter. Next job is to serialize the object and load it into an XmlDocument. serializer.Serialize(xmlTextWriter, Obj); ms = (MemoryStream)xmlTextWriter.BaseStream; xmlRequest = new XmlTextReader(ms); GovTalkRequest = Toolbox.ConvertByteArrayToString(ms.ToArray()); doc.LoadXml(GovTalkRequest); Time to transform the XML to construct the full request. xslt.Transform(doc, writer); resultStream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin); request = Toolbox.ConvertByteArrayToString(resultStream.ToArray()); So that creates the full request to be sent to Companies House. Sending the request So far we have a string with a request for the Companies House service. Now we need to send the request to the Companies House Service. Configuration within an Azure project There are entire blog entries written about configuration within an Azure project – most of this is out of scope for this article but the following is a summary. Configuration is defined in two files within the parent project *.csdef which contains the definition of configuration setting. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <ServiceDefinition name="OnlineCompanyHub" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ServiceHosting/2008/10/ServiceDefinition"> <WebRole name="CompanyHub.Host"> <InputEndpoints> <InputEndpoint name="HttpIn" protocol="http" port="80" /> </InputEndpoints> <ConfigurationSettings> <Setting name="DiagnosticsConnectionString" /> <Setting name="DataConnectionString" /> </ConfigurationSettings> </WebRole> <WebRole name="CompanyHub.Services"> <InputEndpoints> <InputEndpoint name="HttpIn" protocol="http" port="8080" /> </InputEndpoints> <ConfigurationSettings> <Setting name="DiagnosticsConnectionString" /> <Setting name="SenderId"/> <Setting name="SenderPassword" /> <Setting name="GovTalkUrl"/> </ConfigurationSettings> </WebRole> <WorkerRole name="CompanyHub.Worker"> <ConfigurationSettings> <Setting name="DiagnosticsConnectionString" /> </ConfigurationSettings> </WorkerRole> </ServiceDefinition> Above is the configuration definition from the project. What we are interested in however is the ConfigurationSettings tag of the CompanyHub.Services WebRole. There are four configuration settings here, but at the moment we are interested in the second to forth settings; SenderId, SenderPassword and GovTalkUrl The value of these settings are defined in the ServiceDefinition.cscfg file; <?xml version="1.0"?> <ServiceConfiguration serviceName="OnlineCompanyHub" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ServiceHosting/2008/10/ServiceConfiguration"> <Role name="CompanyHub.Host"> <Instances count="2" /> <ConfigurationSettings> <Setting name="DiagnosticsConnectionString" value="UseDevelopmentStorage=true" /> <Setting name="DataConnectionString" value="UseDevelopmentStorage=true" /> </ConfigurationSettings> </Role> <Role name="CompanyHub.Services"> <Instances count="2" /> <ConfigurationSettings> <Setting name="DiagnosticsConnectionString" value="UseDevelopmentStorage=true" /> <Setting name="SenderId" value="UserID"/> <Setting name="SenderPassword" value="Password"/> <Setting name="GovTalkUrl" value="http://xmlgw.companieshouse.gov.uk/v1-0/xmlgw/Gateway"/> </ConfigurationSettings> </Role> <Role name="CompanyHub.Worker"> <Instances count="2" /> <ConfigurationSettings> <Setting name="DiagnosticsConnectionString" value="UseDevelopmentStorage=true" /> </ConfigurationSettings> </Role> </ServiceConfiguration> Look for the Role tag that contains our project name (CompanyHub.Services). Having configured the parameters we can now transmit the request. This is done by ‘POST’ing a stream of XML to the Companies House servers. govTalkUrl = RoleEnvironment.GetConfigurationSettingValue("GovTalkUrl"); request = WebRequest.Create(govTalkUrl); request.Method = "POST"; request.ContentType = "text/xml"; writer = new StreamWriter(request.GetRequestStream()); writer.WriteLine(RequestMessage); writer.Close(); We use the WebRequest object to send the object. Set the method of sending to ‘POST’ and the type of data as text/xml. Once set up all we do is write the request to the writer – this sends the request to Companies House. Did the Request Work Part I – Getting the response Having sent a request – we now need the result of that request. response = request.GetResponse(); reader = response.GetResponseStream(); result = Toolbox.ConvertByteArrayToString(Toolbox.ReadFully(reader)); The WebRequest object has a GetResponse() method which allows us to get the response sent back. Like many of these calls the results come in the form of a stream which we convert into a string. Did the Request Work Part II – Translating the Response Much like XSLT and XML were used to create the original request, so it can be used to extract the response and by deserializing the result we create an object that contains the response. Did it work? It would be really great if everything worked all the time. Of course if it did then I don’t suppose people would pay me and others the big bucks so that our programmes do not a) Collapse in a heap (this is an area of memory) b) Blow every fuse in the place in a shower of sparks (this will probably not happen this being real life and not a Hollywood movie, but it was possible to blow the sound system of a BBC Model B with a poorly coded setting) c) Go nuts and trap everyone outside the airlock (this was from a movie, and unless NASA get a manned moon/mars mission set up unlikely to happen) d) Go nuts and take over the world (this was also from a movie, but please note life has a habit of being of exceeding the wildest imaginations of Hollywood writers (note writers – Hollywood executives have no imagination and judging by recent output of that town have turned plagiarism into an art form). e) Freeze in total confusion because the cleaner pulled the plug to the internet router (this has happened) So anyway – we need to check to see if our request actually worked. Within the GovTalk response there is a section that details the status of the message and a description of what went wrong (if anything did). I have defined an XSLT template which will extract these into an XML document. <?xml version="1.0"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:ev="http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/CM/envelope" xmlns:gt="http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/schemas/govtalk/core" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <xsl:template match="/"> <GovTalkStatus xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"> <Status> <xsl:value-of select="ev:GovTalkMessage/ev:Header/ev:MessageDetails/ev:Qualifier"/> </Status> <Text> <xsl:value-of select="ev:GovTalkMessage/ev:GovTalkDetails/ev:GovTalkErrors/ev:Error/ev:Text"/> </Text> <Location> <xsl:value-of select="ev:GovTalkMessage/ev:GovTalkDetails/ev:GovTalkErrors/ev:Error/ev:Location"/> </Location> <Number> <xsl:value-of select="ev:GovTalkMessage/ev:GovTalkDetails/ev:GovTalkErrors/ev:Error/ev:Number"/> </Number> <Type> <xsl:value-of select="ev:GovTalkMessage/ev:GovTalkDetails/ev:GovTalkErrors/ev:Error/ev:Type"/> </Type> </GovTalkStatus> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> Only thing different about previous XSL files is the references to two namespaces ev & gt. These are defined in the GovTalk response at the top of the response; xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/CM/envelope http://xmlgw.companieshouse.gov.uk/v1-0/schema/Egov_ch-v2-0.xsd" xmlns="http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/CM/envelope" xmlns:dsig="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#" xmlns:gt="http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/schemas/govtalk/core" If we do not put these references into the XSLT template then the XslCompiledTransform object will not be able to find the relevant tags. Deserialization is a fairly simple activity. encoder = new ASCIIEncoding(); ms = new MemoryStream(encoder.GetBytes(statusXML)); serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(GovTalkStatus)); xmlTextWriter = new XmlTextWriter(ms, Encoding.ASCII); messageStatus = (GovTalkStatus)serializer.Deserialize(ms); We set up a serialization object using the object type containing the error state and pass to it the results of a transformation between the XSLT above and the GovTalk response. Now we have an object containing any error state, and the error message. All we need to do is check the status. If there is an error then we can flag an error. If not then we extract the results and pass that as an object back to the calling function. We go this by guess what – defining an XSLT template for the result and using that to create an Xml Stream which can be deserialized into a .Net object. In this instance the XSLT to create the result of a Company Number Search is; <?xml version="1.0" encoding="us-ascii"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:ev="http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/CM/envelope" xmlns:sch="http://xmlgw.companieshouse.gov.uk/v1-0/schema" exclude-result-prefixes="ev"> <xsl:template match="/"> <CompanySearchResult xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"> <CompanyNumber> <xsl:value-of select="ev:GovTalkMessage/ev:Body/sch:NumberSearch/sch:CoSearchItem/sch:CompanyNumber"/> </CompanyNumber> <CompanyName> <xsl:value-of select="ev:GovTalkMessage/ev:Body/sch:NumberSearch/sch:CoSearchItem/sch:CompanyName"/> </CompanyName> </CompanySearchResult> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> and the object definition is; using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Web; namespace CompanyHub.Services { public class CompanySearchResult { public CompanySearchResult() { CompanyNumber = String.Empty; CompanyName = String.Empty; } public String CompanyNumber { get; set; } public String CompanyName { get; set; } } } Our entire code to make calls to send a request, and interpret the results are; String request = String.Empty; String response = String.Empty; GovTalkStatus status = null; fault = null; try { using (CompanyNumberSearchRequest requestObj = new CompanyNumberSearchRequest()) { requestObj.PartialCompanyNumber = CompanyNumber; request = Toolbox.CreateRequest(requestObj, "CompanyNumberSearch.xsl"); response = Toolbox.SendGovTalkRequest(request); status = Toolbox.GetMessageStatus(response); if (status.Status.ToLower() == "error") { fault = new HubFault() { Message = status.Text }; } else { Object obj = Toolbox.GetGovTalkResponse(response, "CompanyNumberSearchResult.xsl", typeof(CompanySearchResult)); } } } catch (FaultException<ArgumentException> ex) { fault = new HubFault() { FaultType = ex.Detail.GetType().FullName, Message = ex.Detail.Message }; } catch (System.Exception ex) { fault = new HubFault() { FaultType = ex.GetType().FullName, Message = ex.Message }; } finally { } Wrap up So there we have it – a reusable set of functions to send and interpret XML results from an internet based service. The code is reusable with a little change with any service which uses XML as a transport mechanism – and as for the Companies House GovTalk service all I need to do is create various objects for the result and message sent and the relevent XSLT files. I might need minor changes for other services but something like 70-90% will be exactly the same.

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