We have published a project that could be interesting for some people, if you are interested, please read the nex short FAQ and let us know your opinion.


Short FAQ:

What is BOBS?

BOBS is the effort to create and interface for Baan to be connected to other applications at a similar way that baan open world does but with a low cost and still being effective.


What is the BOBS license?

BOBS ha a GPL license, so feel free to use as you want, just accept the GPL license.

Where can i get more information about BOBS?

Please go to the next link:

BaanOleBrokerServer Home (http://www.baanboard.com/node/1736)

And feel free to post any idea or question in this forum.

I cannot comment on the intrinsic merits of BOBS but I am very happy to see a Baan add-on being released as Open Source Software! Well done Carlos!

Thank you Patrick.

I hope many people use BOBS to help their companies and they help to optimize BOBS too.


Carlos Kassab

I have updated BOBS due to minor bug fixes:

- The warning email was allways being sending when disconecting a session and it was being sending to the incorrect mailbox.

Note. If your have tested BOBS, i would like to hear from your experience, just drop me an email to carlos.kassab AT gmail dot com


Thank you

Carlos Kassab

Carlos,

First of all let me congratulate you for your efforts in writing a open source connectivity for BaaN.

I downloaded your zip files (both binaries and source) and extracted the binary files and followed your instructions in the BOBSFAQ.html file. Now, when I try to start the BOBS server (BaaNOleBrokerServer.exe) I get the following error.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Files\Baan\lib\user\baantwobsp.bwc Configuration file not found. Please verify the correct file name.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

I know that I have the baantwobsp.bwc file (which is the default) in the “c:\Program Files\Baan\lib\user” folder. I have double checked it. Not sure what the problem is.

Thanks,
NS

Carlos,

First of all let me congratulate you for your efforts in writing a open source connectivity for BaaN.

I downloaded your zip files (both binaries and source) and extracted the binary files and followed your instructions in the BOBSFAQ.html file. Now, when I try to start the BOBS server (BaaNOleBrokerServer.exe) I get the following error.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Files\Baan\lib\user\baantwobsp.bwc Configuration file not found. Please verify the correct file name.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

I know that I have the baantwobsp.bwc file (which is the default) in the “c:\Program Files\Baan\lib\user” folder. I have double checked it. Not sure what the problem is.

Thanks,
NS

r_nagu,

Thank you for your congratulations i hope more people use it and help BOBS to have more features.

I think the problem is that you installed the baan client in "Program Files", please install baan client in c:\baan or any other folder that does not have blank spaces. I have seen some different problems when you install baan client in a folder with blank spaces.

And please, let me know if it resolved your problem.

Carlos Kassab

Thanks for getting back.

I uninstalled BW client and installed it under C:\Baan. Now when I try to start the BOBS server, I get the following error message:

-------------------------------------------------------
Can not start BaaN Ole Broker Service:
The requested address is not valid in its context
-------------------------------------------------------

Thanks,
NS

Thanks for getting back.

I uninstalled BW client and installed it under C:\Baan. Now when I try to start the BOBS server, I get the following error message:

-------------------------------------------------------
Can not start BaaN Ole Broker Service:
The requested address is not valid in its context
-------------------------------------------------------

Thanks,
NS
r_nagu,

It seems baan was started succesfully, if you have a firewall active where BOBS is installed, please first check your firewall is not blocking the port where BOBS is listening.

AND if it does not work, in order i can help you, could you please post the next:
1.- What is the Operating system where you are installing BOBS? and do you have all patches? for windows,
2.- .NET 2.0 was succesfully installed?
3.- What is your BaaN version?
4.- Have you set correcly the default connection to baan?, rigth clicking with the mouse and setting the default?

5.- Please post too your BOBS config file "BaaNOleBrokerServer.config"



Carlos Kassab

Carlos,
I have no firewall and see below for the information you asked for.

1. Windows XP and patches are up-to-date.
2. .NET 2.0 framework is installed and working.
3. BaaN IVc (BW client version is B40c.75).
4. I have set the default connection to BaaN.
5. See the attached for the config file. (the serverIP address is been changed in the attached file but I have the real IP address in the config file that I am using).

Thanks,
NS

Carlos,
I have no firewall and see below for the information you asked for.

1. Windows XP and patches are up-to-date.
2. .NET 2.0 framework is installed and working.
3. BaaN IVc (BW client version is B40c.75).
4. I have set the default connection to BaaN.
5. See the attached for the config file. (the serverIP address is been changed in the attached file but I have the real IP address in the config file that I am using).

Thanks,
NS
Hi r_nagu,

I understand that Windows XP firewall is inactive?, it sounds strange to me but just confirm it.

I saw in your config file that you only changed the IP address on the server, it seems that the problem is with WinSocks; i found this in a forum with the same error "The requested address is not valid in its context" in a .NET app:
This is may be because the IP is not a valid IP on your computer, or maybe the port is binded to another application.

I suggest you use the ip address 127.0.0.1(just to confirm the ip is the problem, BOBS must work with any IP address) and try to start the server; if it does not work, change the port to 32002 and restart BOBS.

Please let me know what happened.

Carlos Kassab

Carlos,
That’s it. My IP address was the one creating problems. I should have checked it first. After I specified the correct IP address, it stated working. I was able to start the server and also write/query data using the sample client program.

Now I was just trying to see how this would behave in a read/write extensive situation. I opened up four instances of the client and started to write data from all four clients. It did perform very well during first round but during the second turn and subsequent turns, the client hangs and would take few seconds to unfreeze and perform the actions.

Other than that it works great and again congratulations on your effort.

Thanks,
NS

Carlos,
That’s it. My IP address was the one creating problems. I should have checked it first. After I specified the correct IP address, it stated working. I was able to start the server and also write/query data using the sample client program.

Now I was just trying to see how this would behave in a read/write extensive situation. I opened up four instances of the client and started to write data from all four clients. It did perform very well during first round but during the second turn and subsequent turns, the client hangs and would take few seconds to unfreeze and perform the actions.

Other than that it works great and again congratulations on your effort.

Thanks,
NS

Hi r_nagu,

I hope you can use BOBS in some application and give some feedback and improve the project if posible.

regards

Carlos Kassab

Hi all,

I have uploaded a new file, it is a howto write an ASP .NET app to access BaaN using BOBS.

I have been seeing that when using with baan IV, some times the baan client is slow executing the apps(as r_nagu noted before), when using in a web environment can not be easy to see it, maybe here we do not have nothing to do if somebody knows what to do in order to do the client faster, please let me know.

Regards

Carlos Kassab

Hi Carlos, all

First, thanks very much Carlos for doing and sharing BOBS. I guess it can open new perspectives for BaaN users.

I finally succeeded to run the server after some probs. On first attemps, when i run BOBS, it was hanging for a while and send msg:

Can not start BaaN service:System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80080005): Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {00000000-4000-11CE-AAA8-00608C50C597} failed due to the following error: 80080005.

The prob was the class name in my default bwc file that wasn't "Baan4.Application" but "Baan4.application.ovi"

Now that it's same value in BOBS and in my bwc file, server runs fine.

I would like now to use BOBS in OpenOffice macros (OOo Basic), but i've no clue how to do... If one of you knows, it will be great help for me.

Olivier

Hi Carlos, all

First, thanks very much Carlos for doing and sharing BOBS. I guess it can open new perspectives for BaaN users.

I finally succeeded to run the server after some probs. On first attemps, when i run BOBS, it was hanging for a while and send msg:

Can not start BaaN service:System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80080005): Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {00000000-4000-11CE-AAA8-00608C50C597} failed due to the following error: 80080005.

The prob was the class name in my default bwc file that wasn't "Baan4.Application" but "Baan4.application.ovi"

Now that it's same value in BOBS and in my bwc file, server runs fine.

I would like now to use BOBS in OpenOffice macros (OOo Basic), but i've no clue how to do... If one of you knows, it will be great help for me.

Olivier


Hi Olivier,

You are wellcome, I am glad you are spending time with BOBS, i hope BOBS help you to solve your problems.

Virtually BOBS can connect from any other language that can deal with sockets.


I am not a developer of OpenOffice Basic.

I have been looking how you can do the connection to BOBS and i found the next information:

1.- It seems that the actual versions of openoffice have problems with sockets, according to this topic:
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?p=68632

The good news here is that it seems it is resolved in 2.0.4 version of openoffice, but you will need to know how to develop a program using tcp/ip sockets connection with openoffice basic.

At this moment i have a lot of work to do and i can not to test this, but if you follow the same rules that in the C# client example it must works, the steps are:


a) Connection: Create a socket connection to the server, following the basic instructions.
b) Send the client id text: ClientID = "otdslsdllbobsts|bobstest.end( )|" + DateTime.Now + "\r\n";

c) Wait that BOBS answer with an OK text:
if (ReceivedData != "OK")
{
m_processState = STATE.DISCONNECT;
if not received ok, you are not connected.
}

If you received OK, now you are connected and you can send and receive data to/from the BOBS

sample in C#:
clientSocket.Send(Encoding.Default.GetBytes(BaaNCommand));
size = clientSocket.Receive(data);

Remember allways to close the connection in the next way:

first, sending the next text:
clientSocket.Send(Encoding.Default.GetBytes("[EOS]\r\n"));
size = clientSocket.Receive(data);

C# is waiting to receive data but do not use this data. you must cath all exceptions, i do not know if openoffice basic handle the exceptions.

If you continue with this development, post your questions in this forum in order i can help you and others can see a way to connect to BOBS from OpenOffice.

Regards

Carlos Kassab

Hi Carlos,

Many thanks for your reply and sorry for late answer, but i also have a lot to do.
I will wait for 2.0.4 (it is soon) and then I will try your proposal.

Olivier

Hello,

we are planning to use BOBS with an e-Commerce site and it should be possible to communicate with different back-end systems based on Baan. BOBS uses the default client connection. Is it possible in some way to select a different connection at run-time with no user interaction? This would perfectly cover our needs...

Thanks for replies

Try to specify here:

BaanIVObj = new Baan4.Baan4Class();

or

BaanVObj = new Baan.BwCOleAutomationServerClass();

At the the moment i do not have access to a testing environment.

Please post your results in this forum.

Regards

Carlos Kassab

Hi Carlos,

Can you please explain in a few words, what are the next few rows for?

private void open_connection()
{
String ClientID = "otdslsdllbobsts|bobstest.end( )|" + DateTime.Now + "\r\n";
// The firs part(before the first pipe) is the dll name, in the midle is the end function when running
// an API session, and at the end, just the time


I assume bobstest.end( ) is a dll function, which should exist in Baan, in dll tdslsdllbobsts. But what is it for, and why it is necessary to build up the connection? Can it be left out, and build up connection without this function.

Kind regards,
Gabor

Carlos,

Will your broker for BAAN also work with INFOR Open SOA?
Your open source solution may become very popular among BAAN customers because in the next 12 - 24 months INFOR is going to put a lot of emphasis on their Open SOA initiative to expose all of their products and integrate them seamlessly via a middleware platform.

Good work by the way!

Hi Guys...

I have some questions about bobs...

What About BOBS Security?

does it have security implemented?

what are the security mechanisms used?


is it enough secure to avoid injection to baan?



Thank you all and hope you to answer asap...

i really need this badly.

Diego Ricardo Rojas
dereck66 at hotmail dot com

Hi Diego,

Initially BOBS has only been thought as service, not much thinking in security.

Anyway, it is supposed that you will have BOBS Working in your internal network, so implement security inside BOBS was not a first aim of the project.

I do not have had much time to continue developing BOBS in order to to injection tests or check security risks, if you could provide help doing it, it would be good.

Regards

Carlos Kassab

Hi Carlos,

Where can I download BOBS? I got this message
You do not have the right permissions to view the page you are trying to reach.

Hi,

The BOBS pages can now be found here: http://www.baanboard.com/node/1736. I also corrected the post in Carlos' original post.

Hi,

I got this error when i start the server. oh I am using the new BaanLN client.

Can not start BaaN service:System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80040154): Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {00000000-4000-11CE-AAA8-00608C50C597} failed due to the following error: 80040154.
at BaaNOleBrokerServer.Form1.StartServer_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e) in E:\ckg\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\BaaNOleBrokerServer\BaaNOleBrokerServer\Form1.cs:line 119

Hi,

I got this error when i start the server. oh I am using the new BaanLN client.

Can not start BaaN service:System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80040154): Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {00000000-4000-11CE-AAA8-00608C50C597} failed due to the following error: 80040154.
at BaaNOleBrokerServer.Form1.StartServer_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e) in E:\ckg\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\BaaNOleBrokerServer\BaaNOleBrokerServer\Form1.cs:line 119

Hi,

It seems you got this message when you click the button to start the service, is it correct?

Did you install .NET runtime 2.0?

You need to install The BaaN Client software, did you install it?, BaaN IV or BaaN V?

If you continue having trouble starting BOBS, please post more information about your environment and the steps you are following to start BOBS.

I hope it helps you.

Regards

Carlos Kassab

Hi,

i am using .net 3.5 and BaanLN client.

Thanks.

Hi,

i am using .net 3.5 and BaanLN client.

Thanks.

In which moment do you get the error?, if you get it when click the button to activate the server, I think the problem is that you are using BaaN LN, BOBS has been tested using baan IV and BaaN V, you will need to compile BOBS using a BaaN LN Client.

Regards

Carlos Kassab

I deleted all BaanIV objects.
Now it is working with BaanLN client, BOBS Server is running and my BaanLN client is activated in my system tray.
I have a question. How to fire SQL statements directly to Baan database to retrieve data?

I deleted all BaanIV objects.
Now it is working with BaanLN client, BOBS Server is running and my BaanLN client is activated in my system tray.
I have a question. How to fire SQL statements directly to Baan database to retrieve data?

Hi,

It is not posible to send sql command directly to the database at this moment, what i am thinking is that may be you can create a dynamic sql satement and pass this value as an argument for a dll and the dll must return the resulst ins a pipe separated file.

What about using the odllsql_query object.

Hi Carlos,

Can you please explain in a few words, what are the next few rows for?

private void open_connection()
{
String ClientID = "otdslsdllbobsts|bobstest.end( )|" + DateTime.Now + "\r\n";
// The firs part(before the first pipe) is the dll name, in the midle is the end function when running
// an API session, and at the end, just the time


Kind regards,
Gabor

Hello Carlos, first of all great job, I'm just got hired to help out in the Baan development project of my employer.

Regarding this post, I'm getting an error when I click the search button on the example app: "Can't read session or object (otdslsdllbobsts) in object ottstpoledaemon"

Any help?

Thanks

Hi Carlos,

Can you please explain in a few words, what are the next few rows for?

private void open_connection()
{
String ClientID = "otdslsdllbobsts|bobstest.end( )|" + DateTime.Now + "\r\n";
// The firs part(before the first pipe) is the dll name, in the midle is the end function when running
// an API session, and at the end, just the time


Kind regards,
Gabor

Hello Carlos, first of all great job, I'm just got hired to help out in the Baan development project of my employer.

Regarding this post, I'm getting an error when I click the search button on the example app: "Can't read session or object (otdslsdllbobsts) in object ottstpoledaemon"

Any help?

Thanks

Hello Carlos, first of all great job, I'm just got hired to help out in the Baan development project of my employer.

Regarding this post, I'm getting an error when I click the search button on the example app: "Can't read session or object (otdslsdllbobsts) in object ottstpoledaemon"

Any help?

Thanks

It is because you do not have created the dll tdslsdllbobsts

What about using the odllsql_query object.

I never tryed, please try it and tell us how it was.

Thank you

I am using odllsql_query now. And I call the Baan object directly from ASP.NET. There are some restriction like other user cannot call the Baan function via the web, unless you assign a user with high access level in the IIS server.

I am using odllsql_query now. And I call the Baan object directly from ASP.NET. There are some restriction like other user cannot call the Baan function via the web, unless you assign a user with high access level in the IIS server.

Hi,

Coul you please post your solution in order all of we can benefit of this?.

Thank you

Carlos,

Will your broker for BAAN also work with INFOR Open SOA?
Your open source solution may become very popular among BAAN customers because in the next 12 - 24 months INFOR is going to put a lot of emphasis on their Open SOA initiative to expose all of their products and integrate them seamlessly via a middleware platform.

Good work by the way!

Hi Edwin,

I would want to have information of infor open SOA to know how to integrate BOBS with infor open SOA.

Do you have some information that could help me?.

Thank you in advance for your response.

Carlos Kassab

It is because you do not have created the dll tdslsdllbobsts

Thanks for the reply, can you tell me how to create the DLL???

Thanks for the reply, can you tell me how to create the DLL???

Hi,

It is dificult for me to tell you here how to create the dll, please refer to a baan developer.

Carols,
great solution, thank you.
I have question about licensing, you did mention its a GPL license, is it GPL 2 license? that means we can package this solution in our product.
Please reply.

Thanks

Carols,
great solution, thank you.
I have question about licensing, you did mention its a GPL license, is it GPL 2 license? that means we can package this solution in our product.
Please reply.

Thanks

Yes, you can package the solution in your product, see an extract of the license from the sources:

*This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify

*it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

*the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or

*(at your option) any later version.

Regards
Carlos Kassab

I am really very late to check this post , but really great work , congratulations.
I was looking for similar thing for jsp and I happened to see your post .

Regards,
Niraj

I downloaded the source and trying to run it. When I click on the start server I get the error
"Can not start BaaN service:System.InvalidCastException: Unable to cast COM object of type 'Baan4.Baan4Class' to interface type 'Baan4.IDispatchBaan4'. This operation failed because the QueryInterface call on the COM component for the interface with IID '{00000002-4000-11CE-AAA8-00608C50C597}' failed due to the following error: No such interface supported (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80004002 (E_NOINTERFACE))."


I am running it out of VS8 with baan B40C.67.

Hi Carlos,

I’m currently working at Ness Australia which has Baan B40c.043 and i’d like to connect to it using your broker.
I tried your program and it gave me “Can not start BaaN service:System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80080005): Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {00000000-4000-11CE-AAA8-00608C50C597} failed due to the following error: 80080005.”

Baan also gave me BW Message Fatal Error : no DsNprogId specified. I couldn’t find any reference on this.

Apparently not many people having this problem. I have baan client installed on my Vista box (maybe this is the problem?) and i use the most highest admin username and password. On my vb.net application, i have imported the reference from BW.tlb and i got Baan4 namespace listed on the References view.

Can you please point me to the right direction on how to fix this?


Thanks,

Michael.

Hi Carlos,

I’m currently working at Ness Australia which has Baan B40c.043 and i’d like to connect to it using your broker.
I tried your program and it gave me “Can not start BaaN service:System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80080005): Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {00000000-4000-11CE-AAA8-00608C50C597} failed due to the following error: 80080005.”

Baan also gave me BW Message Fatal Error : no DsNprogId specified. I couldn’t find any reference on this.

Apparently not many people having this problem. I have baan client installed on my Vista box (maybe this is the problem?) and i use the most highest admin username and password. On my vb.net application, i have imported the reference from BW.tlb and i got Baan4 namespace listed on the References view.

Can you please point me to the right direction on how to fix this?


Thanks,

Michael.

Hi Michael,

I do not have tested BOBS under Vista since Vista has not been an operating system used in companies nor have the environment to test it.

Anyways i think the problem with vista is the permission system, this operating system is always asking you authorization to execute certain tasks.

I would install BOBS over XP or maybe over Windows 7.

Other thing is to see what version of the .NET runtime you have.

I hope it helps you to resolve your problem.

Regards

Hi Carlos,

Thanks for the quick reply.
I managed to make it work in one only computer which is our Account Manager's computer that has Windows XP and .net 3.5.
But when i tried it in another computer having the same windows and .net, didn't work. Vista is not the problem. I cannot use his computer for this purpose.

Maybe i missed something from when i installed the Baan client?

I'm also guessing maybe there are settings that are set up on his computer but he isnt aware of? Because he used to upload and download data from Baan to Excel using the VBA like the samples that came with Baan client.


Mike.

I've reinstalled Baan client and there was not really other options on it. Just one option at the beginning: interface only, interface and logic, and full install. I could only select interface only since the interface and logic needs baan username. Is this the one that i missed? I also tried adding User DSN connected to Baan SQL Server database with no luck.


Thanks,

Michael.

I've reinstalled Baan client and there was not really other options on it. Just one option at the beginning: interface only, interface and logic, and full install. I could only select interface only since the interface and logic needs baan username. Is this the one that i missed? I also tried adding User DSN connected to Baan SQL Server database with no luck.


Thanks,

Michael.

Michael,

Sorry for the late reply.

Please check your BOBS configuration file:BaaNOleBrokerServer.config

<configuration xmlns="http://tempuri.org/projects.xsd">
<project>
<projectName>ServerConfig</projectName>
<projectSettings>
<add key="ServerIP" value="127.0.0.1" />
<add key="ServerPort" value="32001" />
<add key="PathForFiles" value="C:\BaaNOleBroker\" />
<add key="ConnectionTimeOut" value="90" />
<add key="BaaNVersion" value="IV" />
</projectSettings>
</project>
<project>
<projectName>BaaNConfig</projectName>
<projectSettings>
<add key="BaaNConnection" value="Baan.Application" />
</projectSettings>
</project>
</configuration>

To set the value of BaaNConnection, go to the baan client config, in the automation tab and copy the vale to your BOBS configuration file.


I hope this helps

Good Morning:

Some one had installed BOBS using LN?.

It work?.

thanks for the reply.

Just recompile BOBS using baan LN client and libraries, it must work.

Thanks for the reply , the BOBS is working fine for LN.

but it's possible to made BOBs a service?.

is posible that when i turn on the server BOBs automatic start?.

It's possible that the start bottom of the BOBS was automatic?.

if someone made this please may send me the advices to do?.

thanks

Thanks for the reply , the BOBS is working fine for LN.

but it's possible to made BOBs a service?.

is posible that when i turn on the server BOBs automatic start?.

It's possible that the start bottom of the BOBS was automatic?.

if someone made this please may send me the advices to do?.

thanks

Hi,

For sure we can do BOBS starts automatically and as service but we need to customize BOBS.

For now BOBS is a software sa is but, i can do the customization charging some consultant hours in development.

You can call me to this number: +52 1 33 32 00 60 97

Hi,

can you tell me how concurrent calls are handled? I mean: what happens if a service is called but a previous one is still being processed?

Hi,

Can you please tell me from where i can download BaaN Ole Broker Server?
I have tried following link
http://www.baanboard.com/twiki/bin/view/Infodevel/BaanOleBrokerServer
but it says forbidden.
can any one please help me out?
Thx in advance,

With Regards,
Dhaval Sanghvi

Did you try this link here (http://www.baanboard.com/node/1736). I got to it from the very first post in this thread.

Hi,

Can you please tell me from where i can download BaaN Ole Broker Server?
I have tried following link
http://www.baanboard.com/twiki/bin/view/Infodevel/BaanOleBrokerServer
but it says forbidden.
can any one please help me out?
Thx in advance,

With Regards,
Dhaval Sanghvi

Hi Dhaval,

The correct link is:

http://www.baanboard.com/node/1736

Regards.

Carlos Kassab

Can we have the same for ERP Ln 6.1 (FP2, FP7)? Which will help us more.

Please update me

Regards,
Rajendra Prasad A

Can we have the same for ERP Ln 6.1 (FP2, FP7)? Which will help us more.

Please update me

Regards,
Rajendra Prasad A

Hi Rajendra,

off course we can have the same for ERP Ln 6.1 but, i need access to an ERP Ln 6.1 server and i think it can be done better with Open SOA.

Regards

Carlos Kassab

Hi,

The BOB server is running fine and doing superb .
But we have a new scenario as below .

Suppose two users tries to run the same report and wants data from different baan server,then how the BOB server should be configured .Whether the current version of BOB is supporting this multi server connectivity feature or we have to do some code change at dotnet level.

Kindly reply at the earliest possible .we are eagerly waiting any idea/suggestons .

Regards
Haraprasad

Dear Carlos please reply to my below thread

http://www.baanboard.com/baanboard/showthread.php?p=180667#post180667

Hi,

The BOB server is running fine and doing superb .
But we have a new scenario as below .

Suppose two users tries to run the same report and wants data from different baan server,then how the BOB server should be configured .Whether the current version of BOB is supporting this multi server connectivity feature or we have to do some code change at dotnet level.

Kindly reply at the earliest possible .we are eagerly waiting any idea/suggestons .

Regards
Haraprasad

Hi Haraprasad,

At this moment i do not have the environment to test your scenario but, i think you should start two instances of BOBS, just set a different port in file BaaNOleBrokerServer.config:

<add key="ServerPort" value="32001" />

I hope this helps you.

Regards

Do someone knows about the usability of BOBS with MK-Manufacturing (previously ManMan/X) software ?

Hello All, Did anybody encountered any issue while downloading the Zip and ppt file? Every time i try to do it, it returns me an error that the files are corrupted and cannot be repaired as well.

Regards,
Abattoir

They work fine for me. You might try using some other extractor like 7zip. Not sure about the ppt. But it works fine for me.

ckassab,

Thanks a lot for your kindly great ideas on this tool.
I am currently working on it for testing, it seems everything perfect.
Only one thing, in the dll, I had return message in multibyte string, however, in the client (whatever in winform or asp.net website), it always return unreadable string.

Do you have any ideas on it?
I am not sure about the Interop.Baan.dll support the mutibyte string or not.

Thanks.
Jeffers