Re: Registry trouble in a cluster

James Carman wrote:

It's a thread local variable.  So, it's only set for the calling thread (the
webapp's startup thread).  I think the thread local is what's messing it up.

On 5/18/07, Hugo Palma <hugo.m.palma@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> But the setServiceSerializationSupport method is called from the startup
> method of RegistryInfrastructureImpl. So, it should be initialized as soon
> as the Tapestry servlet creates the registry right ?
>
> Actually, i just realized i have load-on-startup=0 in the tapestry
> servlet. This could be the thing that keeps the ServiceSerializationSupport
> from getting set in the other cluster node. Or not ?
>
> On 5/18/07, James Carman <james@carmanconsulting.com> wrote:
> >
> > Here's the code:
> >
> >     private static final ThreadLocal _threadLocal = new ThreadLocal();
> >
> >     /**
> >      * Returns the previously stored SSS.
> >      *
> >      * @throws ApplicationRuntimeException
> >
> >
> >      *             if no SSS has been stored.
> >      */
> >     public static ServiceSerializationSupport getServiceSerializationSupport()
> >     {
> >         ServiceSerializationSupport result = null;
> >
> >         WeakReference reference = (WeakReference) _threadLocal.get();
> >
> >
> >         if (reference != null)
> >             result = (ServiceSerializationSupport) reference.get();
> >
> >         if (result == null)
> >             throw new ApplicationRuntimeException(SerMessages.noSupportSet
> > ());
> >
> >
> >         return result;
> >     }
> >
> >     /**
> >      * Stores the SSS instance for later access; if an existing SSS is already stored, then an error
> >      * is logged (should be just one SSS per class loader).
> >
> >
> >      */
> >
> >     public static void setServiceSerializationSupport(
> >             ServiceSerializationSupport serviceSerializationSupport)
> >     {
> >         WeakReference reference = new WeakReference(serviceSerializationSupport);
> >
> >
> >
> >         _threadLocal.set(reference);
> >
> >     }
> >
> >
> > It's not initialized because it probably hasn't serialized anything yet
> > for that specific thread on the other server.  That's the scenario I am
> > imagining after looking at that code.   Come to think of it, this could
> > actually happen on the same server if serialization hasn't occurred for that
> > request thread.  So, server affinity may not solve all your problems.  I
> > didn't write this particular piece of code, so I hope I am reading it
> > correctly (I think I am).
> >
> > On 5/18/07, Hugo Palma < hugo.m.palma@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I think we'll be able to use server affinity, still this shouldn't be
> > > required.
> > > I still don't understand why is ServiceSerializationSupport not
> > > getting initialized in one of the cluster nodes.
> > >
> > > That's right, Tapestry is handling all the serialization stuff.
> > >
> > > On 5/18/07, James Carman < james@carmanconsulting.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Can you use server affinity for your application?  Basically,
> > > > HiveMind looks for a thread local variable to be set to deserialize your
> > > > service proxies.  The variable gets set on the initial server where the
> > > > session is serialized first, but it's not set on the other server where it's
> > > > deserialized.  I'm assuming Tapestry is doing this behind the scenes for you
> > > > and you have no control over what gets serialized?
> > > >
> > > > On 5/18/07, Hugo Palma < hugo.m.palma@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm getting the following exception all over the logs in a
> > > > > clustered environment :
> > > > >
> > > > > org.apache.hivemind.ApplicationRuntimeException: The
> > > > > ServiceSerializationSupport instance has not been set; this indicates that
> > > > > the HiveMind Registry has not been created within this JVM.
> > > > >
> > > > > The application seems to work ok, but we are also having some
> > > > > session replication problems with the same application that might be related
> > > > > to this issue also.
> > > > > Any ideas about might be causing this would be great. I'm using
> > > > > hivemind-1.1.1.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
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