Hi friends,

I’m trying to develop in Infor ERP LN FP7 through Application Studio 8.7. I was connected to the development environment but the administrator installed solutions and apparently did some modifications to the system and now I can´t get connected. My problem is that I can´t configure the Development Connection Point.
In the window Window/Preferences in the option Infor ERP Connectivity Preferences I configure the connection point using and existing BWC file but when I try to ping I get the following error:

“Ping failed: Connection creation failed – createManagedConnection(External Activation) failed –Connect failed with host:serverlnfp7 and port:11600”

serverlnfp7 is the name of my server but I don´t kwon where the port number comes from.
Another change that was made in the system is that before we use rexec as protocol and now we use BaaNLogin, but I don´t know if that matters.
I would really appreciate your help,

Thanks.

It seems that your admin changed something that no socket connections to the server are allowed. It may be handy to activated JCA logging (level INFO or DEBUG) and write it to a file (see Preferences Infor ERP LN Connection Preferences > Log configuration) and also the "trace backend" in the connection point. For the latter you will get logging on the server in $BSE/log.

The log file gives the following information, with debug level:


2012-01-12 10:47:39,604 INFO [JCAPlugin] start()
2012-01-12 10:47:39,604 DEBUG [ConnectionFactoryImpl] ConnectionFactoryImpl(ManagedConnectionFactory, ConnectionManager)
2012-01-12 10:47:39,635 DEBUG [ConnectionFactoryImpl] getConnection((ConnectionSpec)
2012-01-12 10:47:39,635 INFO [ConnectionPointsManager] Filename not found (connectionpoints.xml)
2012-01-12 10:47:39,635 INFO [ConnectionManagerImpl] allocateConnection()
2012-01-12 10:47:39,635 INFO [ConnectionManagerImpl] Allocate a new connection
2012-01-12 10:47:39,635 DEBUG [ManagedConnectionFactoryImpl] createManagedConnection((Subject),(ConnectionRequestInfo))
2012-01-12 10:47:39,635 INFO [ManagedConnectionFactoryImpl] External Activation detected, activation string = 'EA:ProjectServer'
2012-01-12 10:47:39,635 INFO [ExternalActivationImpl] Start server for activationType 'EA:ProjectServer', using OLE-Automation via BW (parseExecFunction)
2012-01-12 10:47:39,651 INFO [ExternalActivationImpl] Create OleClientSite for progID 'Baan.Application.NovatechLNFP7Local'
2012-01-12 10:47:42,349 INFO [ExternalActivationImpl] Create OleAutomation for programID 'Baan.Application.NovatechLNFP7Local'
2012-01-12 10:47:42,396 INFO [ExternalActivationImpl] Hostname from CPP: ''
2012-01-12 10:47:42,396 INFO [ExternalActivationImpl] Returned URI 'tcp://serverlnfp7:11600'
2012-01-12 10:47:42,396 INFO [ManagedConnectionFactoryImpl] Returned reference from External Activation = 'tcp://serverlnfp7:11600'
2012-01-12 10:47:42,396 DEBUG [SocketSessionLayer] Enter: connect()
2012-01-12 10:47:42,396 DEBUG [SocketSessionLayer] Enter: close()
2012-01-12 10:47:42,396 DEBUG [SocketSessionLayer] Leave: close()
2012-01-12 10:48:03,441 ERROR [ManagedConnectionFactoryImpl] createManagedConnection --> exception
com.infor.erpln.protocol.BaanConnectionException: Connect failed with host:serverlnfp7 and port: 11600
at com.infor.erpln.protocol.SocketSessionLayer.doConnect(Unknown Source)
at com.infor.erpln.protocol.SocketSessionLayer.connect(Unknown Source)
at com.infor.erpln.jca.ManagedConnectionFactoryImpl.createManagedConnection(Unknown Source)
at com.infor.erpln.jca.ConnectionManagerImpl.allocateConnection(Unknown Source)
at com.infor.erpln.jca.ConnectionFactoryImpl.getConnection(Unknown Source)
at com.infor.erpln.jca.connectivity.JCAPlugin.getConnection(JCAPlugin.java:355)
at com.infor.erpln.jca.connectivity.JCAPlugin.getBdeManager(JCAPlugin.java:367)
at com.infor.erpln.jca.connectivity.JCAPlugin.getBdeManager(JCAPlugin.java:215)
at com.infor.fourglstudio.connectivity.proxy.core.RequestMessage.initializeStaticConnection(RequestMessage.java:121)
at com.infor.fourglstudio.connectivity.proxy.ProjectServerConnection.<init>(ProjectServerConnection.java:24)
at com.infor.projectserver.ui.internal.ListProjectsHavingNoTask.<init>(ListProjectsHavingNoTask.java:28)
at com.infor.projectserver.ui.views.SwpContentProvider.listEmptyProjects(SwpContentProvider.java:85)
at com.infor.projectserver.ui.views.SwpContentProvider.initialize(SwpContentProvider.java:75)
at com.infor.projectserver.ui.views.ProjectServerView.createPartControl(ProjectServerView.java:115)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ViewReference.createPartHelper(ViewReference.java:367)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ViewReference.createPart(ViewReference.java:226)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPartReference.getPart(WorkbenchPartReference.java:595)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage$ActivationList.setActive(WorkbenchPage.java:4212)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage$18.runWithException(WorkbenchPage.java:3271)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.StartupThreading$StartupRunnable.run(StartupThreading.java:31)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.RunnableLock.run(RunnableLock.java:35)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Synchronizer.runAsyncMessages(Synchronizer.java:134)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runAsyncMessages(Display.java:3885)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:3506)
at org.eclipse.ui.application.WorkbenchAdvisor.openWindows(WorkbenchAdvisor.java:803)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench$28.runWithException(Workbench.java:1384)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.StartupThreading$StartupRunnable.run(StartupThreading.java:31)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.RunnableLock.run(RunnableLock.java:35)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Synchronizer.runAsyncMessages(Synchronizer.java:134)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runAsyncMessages(Display.java:3885)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:3506)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runUI(Workbench.java:2316)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.access$4(Workbench.java:2221)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench$5.run(Workbench.java:500)
at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:332)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Workbench.java:493)
at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(PlatformUI.java:149)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.application.IDEApplication.start(IDEApplication.java:113)
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.EclipseAppHandle.run(EclipseAppHandle.java:194)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.runApplication(EclipseAppLauncher.java:110)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.start(EclipseAppLauncher.java:79)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:368)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:179)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:559)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:514)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1311)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:1287)


Does it mean anything to you?

I also have looked in $BSE/log but I don't find anything useful.

When I create a different Connection Point for example ProjectServer I can select another activation type. If I select BaanLogin it works fine but if I change the activation type for the same Connection Point to BW it crashes. The strange thing is that the BWC file uses BaanLogin too. And the problem is that Develoment Connection Point nedds BW connection type.

About the sockets, do you know a way to test JCA sockets and find problems about that?

Thanks for help

BW connects to port 7150 by default voor BaanLogin and 512 for rexec. The problem is not that BW cannot connect in your case. BW and a bshell are started during the ping, otherwise you would not have come so far. But then Application Studio tries to communicate with that bshell via port 11600 (for which the bshell started a listener), but AS cannot connect to that port. So, it seems that your admin configured something at firewall level that socket connections to those ports are not allowed.

JaapJD you are right, the problem was the firewall. When the admin change the used protocol from rexec to BaanLogin he gave access just for the login process (7150) port but when developing in Application Studio you need extra ports like 11600. It is important to mention that 11600 is not the only port used so what I did is create an input rule in the firewall to allowed the range 11000-12000 because I don´t know exactly the range of necessary ports.

Thank you so much.

Application Studio starts at 11600 and increases the port number for other users.