Micro Cloud Foundry – Increasing Default Memory Limits

I attended my first SpringOne a few weeks ago in my former hometown Chicago.  It was a very fun event with lots of energy around the Spring community as well as they Groovy and Grails crowd.  Cloud Foundry topics took center stage with many standing-room-only sessions and lots of people coming up to the booth.  All attendees received their very own copy of Micro Cloud Foundry as part of their conference paraphernalia on a USB stick inside the black binder.  Micro Cloud Foundry is a Virtual Machine that lets developers have a complete Cloud Foundry instance on their laptop.  This is great because you can develop locally and be confident that your application will run the same on cloudfoundry.com or another instance.  There are some great resources for getting started with Micro Cloud Foundry including Josh Long’s screencast and a Getting Started guide written by Charles Lee.  Micro Cloud Foundry defaults to a 1GB Virtual Machine, which limits the number of applications and the amount of memory per application to 1GB.  The Java and Spring application profiles default to 512MB, which is only 2 applications with the default settings.  I had a question from someone who walked up to the booth whether the memory limits could be increased.  Since Cloud Foundry guru Dave McCrory was close by I got a tip to simply boost the memory for the VM and  reconfigure using the console menu.  I tried it on my laptop since I’m lucky enough to have 8GB of RAM and it worked well.  Below are the steps.

Just need the punchline?

 

@jambay
jambay got micro #cloudfoundry to use up to 2GB of memory (1GB is default), stop mcf, change vm mem setting, start vm, menu option thanks @mccrory
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The detailed steps

Micro Cloud Foundry has a text based interface, and if you select  “help” you can see the defaults.  There is also a Knowledge Base article describing resource limits on support.cloudfoundry.com.

You can validate your Micro Cloud Foundry VM settings by using the vcap command line interface, here is where I start:

So now you can stop your Micro Cloud Foundry VM, preferably through the text command interface so the VM shuts down properly.  Once the VM has been shutdown, you will be able to edit the memory settings by selecting Processors & RAM as shown below.  You cannot edit the memory settings while the VM is running.

Now change the value from 1024 MB to 2048 MB.

After restarting the VM with the larger memory settings, the Micro Cloud Foundry interface should detect that the memory settings need to be reconfigured and that should be shown with red text, so select that command.

Follow the instructions in the console and when the services finish coming up again a few moments later, you can reissue the “vmc info” command and hopefully see the new higher memory limit in the response.

1st Day at VMware

Today was my 1st day at VMware where I'll be working as a Product Manager on the Cloud Foundry team.  This tweet sums up my first day:

@jambay
jambay today was my first day at #vmware. 1st impressions: exciting, intense, active, great campus, vibrant, nice perks. #cfoundry fires me up.
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I feel like the PaaS space is still very much in it's early days, somewhat like the application server market was in 1999 when I first started writing my first Servlets with WebSphere as a fresh out-of-school IBMer learning Java. VMware has assembled an incredibly talented team over the last few years to work in this area and has been doing lots of hiring lately like this example demonstrates.  In addition to the great people, VMware has a fantastic technology portfolio that is unburdened by a huge legacy middleware business that allows them to think differently and move with much more agility.  Do not misunderstand me, I believe Oracle, IBM, Redhat and other traditional middleware vendors will likely still have success selling traditional middleware in the short and mid-term, but I had to jump at this opportunity to be involved where I think the most innovation is and make my impact on this developing space that I think has great promise.

Thank you to everyone at Oracle for the kind words and emails.  I really appreciated my time there and at BEA Systems, made great friends and learned a lot.  I know that Java EE, Glassfish and WebLogic Server are in great hands and you will continue being successful.

If you want to learn more about what has me so excited about Cloud Foundry, there are several obvious paths.  One great aspect of Cloud Foundry is that it's hosted on github and Apache 2.0 licensed, so it's easy to get and review the code.  You can also download and use the complete package with a Micro Cloud Foundry virtual machine that you can run on a laptop, with a step-by-step example using Java or other languages and frameworks like Ruby.  You can also watch a video or two on youtube if you just want to see more about what it's all about.

Coherence*Web with WebLogic Server Simple Example and Troubleshooting Overview

This blog was originally posted on http://blogs.oracle.com/jamesbayer when I worked for Oracle.

This quick troubleshooting guide covers a basic setup of a simple sample application using Coherence*Web instead of traditional WebLogic Server session replication. I used Coherence 3.6.1.x and WebLogic Server 10.3.4 for when I originally created this example, but the steps should be similar for any Coherence 3.5+ and WebLogic Server release capable of using the Coherence*Web SPI, which include some older releases of WLS, but consider 10.3.1+ as the most well-worn-path.  I apologize for the formatting, which is a bit sloppy compared to my normal blog posts.  This has been in a word doc on my desktop for a long time waiting for when I had time to post it properly.  Given two requests for this in the last week I figured a sloppy blog post was better than not sharing it broadly.

For simplicity, we are assuming 2 WebLogic Server managed server instances in a WLS Cluster are running Coherence*Web as storage disabled nodes. The WebLogic Servers will have a simple test web application located here deployed that stores session data on a Coherence cluster with 2 storage enabled cache servers. There are a sequence of steps that help validate that session failover is working properly. Some of these steps are from product documentation, and I've supplemented with my own comments in red. Note that this example will not use Active Cache, which is a way to manage Coherence configuration and Cache Server lifecycle from WebLogic Server. I recommend users understand this example first before adding on Active Cache. More detail on Active Cache including a video is covered in this blog entry http://blogs.oracle.com/jamesbayer/entry/weblogic_server_1034_screencas

2.2.6.2 Configuring EAR-Scoped Cluster Nodes

To use Coherence*Web for session management in EAR-scoped cluster nodes, follow these steps:

1. Use the WebLogic Server Administration Console to deploy the coherence.jar and coherence-web-spi.war files as shared libraries to all of the target servers where the application will be deployed. See "Install a Java EE Library" in Oracle Fusion Middleware Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console Help for more information.

I always recommend using a shared library to include the coherence.jar on the classpath of your application instead of the approach where it is embedded directly inside your application (say in APP-INF/lib or WEB-INF/lib). This way if you patch or upgrade Coherence, the most you need to do is redeploy the coherence.jar shared library and your application. If you use the approach where your application directly embeds coherence.jar inside of it, then you need a new build of your application which updates the embedded coherence.jar, which is typically an undesirable process.

Note: The WLS 10.3.1 Administrative Console will not let you deploy coherence.jar without an error, but you can use the WLST command like:

deploy('coherence','/scratch/jbayer/coherence/lib/coherence.jar', libraryModule='true')

This console deployment issue does not affect WLS 10.3.2+. However, you may note what appears to be an error when deploying coherence.jar, but if you read it closely "Assuming this is a library deployment." you will see that it is not an error, it is a warning and you can proceed with the deployment..

Assuming you are using an EAR, create a library reference to coherence in your sample application. Assuming you have an EAR file with a WAR module inside, then weblogic-application.xml looks like this:

<weblogic-application ...>

...

<library-ref>

<library-name>coherence</library-name>

</library-ref>

...

</weblogic-application>

The above library-ref element will merge the coherence.jar into the APP-INF/lib of the App during the deployment process, which will make Coherence classes EAR scoped.

Quick aside, If you are using a stand-alone WAR file that is not encapsulated inside of an EAR, then instead of using a library reference, you can use an Optional Package approach to refer to the library, which involves creating an entry in the META-INF/manifest.mf of the WAR file like this:

Manifest-Version: 1.0

Class-Path:

Extension-List: coherencejar

coherencejar-Extension-Name: coherence

Note that there must be a newline at the end of the last line with text otherwise it will not work correctly. Unlike the library reference mechanism, the library is not merged into an archive on disk at deployment time, rather it utilizes a Java Optional Package approach to put the coherence.jar on the classpath.

For the WAR modules, have the weblogic.xml use a library reference for the coherence-web-spi.war like this:

<wls:weblogic-web-app ...

<wls:library-ref>

<wls:library-name>coherence-web-spi</wls:library-name>

</wls:library-ref>

</wls:weblogic-web-app>

This will merge the contents of the coherence-web-spi.war with the application's web module.

Now we also have to configure the tangosol-coherence-override.xml file if you want to override default configuration settings. One such setting I like to override is to use Well-Known-Addresses (WKA), which is a unicast approach instead of the default multicast networking that many Network Administrators do not permit. The tangosol-coherence-override.xml file approach will be easier than using -D options on the command line because in WLS there may be multiple web applications using different Coherence configurations, and if you use -D options on the Java command line, then it is the same configuration for all Coherence instances in that JVM without some other tedious intervention. I used the latest release of Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse (OEPE) to create the below configuration file with the Coherence tooling, which will use these two WKA addresses and auto-increment the port the more servers you start (default). I put one copy in the EAR files APP-INF/classes directory and one in $COHERENCE_HOME. You can replace the hostname of adc2101131.us.oracle.com with appropriate hostnames for your systems. Note that the newer versions of Coherence use XSD instead of DTD.

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<!DOCTYPE coherence SYSTEM "coherence-override.dtd">

<coherence>

<cluster-config>

<unicast-listener>

<well-known-addresses>

<socket-address id="2">

<address>adc2101131.us.oracle.com</address>

<port>8090</port>

</socket-address>

<socket-address id="1">

<address>adc2101131.us.oracle.com</address>

<port>8088</port>

</socket-address>

</well-known-addresses>

<address system-property="tangosol.coherence.localhost">adc2101131.us.oracle.com</address>

<port system-property="tangosol.coherence.localport">8088</port>

<port-auto-adjust system-property="tangosol.coherence.localport.adjust">true</port-auto-adjust>

</unicast-listener>

</cluster-config>

</coherence>

Then before you deploy the application to Weblogic Server, you need to setup and start the cache servers. I simply clone $COHERENCE_HOME/bin/cache-server.sh to $COHERENCE_HOME/bin/sessions-cache-server.sh I'll have bolded and highlighted the edits I made....

#!/bin/sh

# This will start a cache server

# specify the Coherence installation directory

COHERENCE_HOME=.

# specify the JVM heap size

MEMORY=512m

if [ ! -f ${COHERENCE_HOME}/bin/session-cache-server.sh ]; then

echo "session-cache-server.sh: must be run from the Coherence installation directory."

exit

fi

if [ -f $JAVA_HOME/bin/java ]; then

JAVAEXEC=$JAVA_HOME/bin/java

else

JAVAEXEC=java

fi

JAVA_OPTS="-Xms$MEMORY -Xmx$MEMORY -Dtangosol.coherence.session.localstorage=true -Dtangosol.coherence.cacheconfig=WEB-INF/classes/session-cache-config.xml -Dtangosol.coherence.override=/scratch/jbayer/coherence/tangosol-coherence-override.xml"

$JAVAEXEC -server -showversion $JAVA_OPTS -cp "$COHERENCE_HOME/lib/coherence.jar:$COHERENCE_HOME/lib/coherence-web-spi.war" com.tangosol.net.DefaultCacheServer $1

Then start two instances of the session-cache-server.sh from the $COHERENCE_HOME directory like this:

bash-3.2$ bin/session-cache-server.sh

Make sure they join the cluster together and see each other by viewing the member list in the output. Here is the output from the first server. Note the highlighted areas in red which show that:

• · the override file we intend is being used

• · the session-cache-config.xml from the coherence-web-spi.war is being used

• · that the protocol specified in the override is being used, in this case WKA mans unicast instead of multicast

• · the distributed sessions service is storage enabled

bash-3.2$ bin/session-cache-server.sh

java version "1.6.0_21"

Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_21-b51)

Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 17.0-b17, mixed mode)

2011-02-15 23:26:56.374/0.580 Oracle Coherence 3.6.1.0 <Info> (thread=main, member=n/a): Loaded operational configuration from "jar:file:/scratch/jbayer/coherence/lib/coherence.jar!/tangosol-coherence.xml"

2011-02-15 23:26:56.379/0.585 Oracle Coherence 3.6.1.0 <Info> (thread=main, member=n/a): Loaded operational overrides from "file:/scratch/jbayer/coherence/tangosol-coherence-override.xml"

2011-02-15 23:26:56.386/0.592 Oracle Coherence 3.6.1.0 <D5> (thread=main, member=n/a): Optional configuration override "/custom-mbeans.xml" is not specified

Oracle Coherence Version 3.6.1.0 Build 19636

Grid Edition: Development mode

Copyright (c) 2000, 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

2011-02-15 23:26:56.760/0.966 Oracle Coherence GE 3.6.1.0 <Info> (thread=main, member=n/a): Loaded cache configuration from "jar:file:/scratch/jbayer/coherence/lib/coherence-web-spi.war!/WEB-INF/classes/session-cache-config.xml"

2011-02-15 23:26:57.257/1.463 Oracle Coherence GE 3.6.1.0 <D4> (thread=main, member=n/a): TCMP bound to /10.229.188.238:8088 using SystemSocketProvider

2011-02-15 23:27:27.613/31.819 Oracle Coherence GE 3.6.1.0 <Info> (thread=Cluster, member=n/a): Created a new cluster with Member(Id=1, Timestamp=2011-02-15 23:26:57.261, Address=10.229.188.238:8088, MachineId=21486, Location=machine:jbayer-vm,process:30802, Role=CoherenceServer, Edition=Grid Edition, Mode=Development, CpuCount=2, SocketCount=2) UID=0x0AE5BCEE0000012E2D5D5EED53EE1F98

2011-02-15 23:27:27.616/31.822 Oracle Coherence GE 3.6.1.0 <Info> (thread=main, member=n/a): Started cluster Name=n/a

WellKnownAddressList(Size=2,

WKA{Address=10.229.188.238, Port=8090}

WKA{Address=10.229.188.238, Port=8088}

)

MasterMemberSet

(

ThisMember=Member(Id=1, Timestamp=2011-02-15 23:26:57.261, Address=10.229.188.238:8088, MachineId=21486, Location=machine:jbayer-vm,process:30802, Role=CoherenceServer)

OldestMember=Member(Id=1, Timestamp=2011-02-15 23:26:57.261, Address=10.229.188.238:8088, MachineId=21486, Location=machine:jbayer-vm,process:30802, Role=CoherenceServer)

ActualMemberSet=MemberSet(Size=1, BitSetCount=2

Member(Id=1, Timestamp=2011-02-15 23:26:57.261, Address=10.229.188.238:8088, MachineId=21486, Location=machine:jbayer-vm,process:30802, Role=CoherenceServer)

)

RecycleMillis=1200000

RecycleSet=MemberSet(Size=0, BitSetCount=0

)

)

TcpRing{Connections=[]}

IpMonitor{AddressListSize=0}

2011-02-15 23:27:27.665/31.871 Oracle Coherence GE 3.6.1.0 <D5> (thread=Invocation:Management, member=1): Service Management joined the cluster with senior service member 1

2011-02-15 23:27:27.828/32.034 Oracle Coherence GE 3.6.1.0 <D5> (thread=ReplicatedCache:ReplicatedSessionsMisc, member=1): Service ReplicatedSessionsMisc joined the cluster with senior service member 1

2011-02-15 23:27:28.074/32.280 Oracle Coherence GE 3.6.1.0 <D5> (thread=DistributedCache:DistributedSessions, member=1): Service DistributedSessions joined the cluster with senior service member 1

2011-02-15 23:27:28.105/32.311 Oracle Coherence GE 3.6.1.0 <Info> (thread=main, member=1):

Services

(

ClusterService{Name=Cluster, State=(SERVICE_STARTED, STATE_JOINED), Id=0, Version=3.6, OldestMemberId=1}

InvocationService{Name=Management, State=(SERVICE_STARTED), Id=1, Version=3.1, OldestMemberId=1}

ReplicatedCache{Name=ReplicatedSessionsMisc, State=(SERVICE_STARTED), Id=2, Version=3.0, OldestMemberId=1}

PartitionedCache{Name=DistributedSessions, State=(SERVICE_STARTED), LocalStorage=enabled, PartitionCount=257, BackupCount=1, AssignedPartitions=257, BackupPartitions=0}

)

Started DefaultCacheServer...

Here is the output from the second cache server. Note that it shows both servers being part of the cluster now. I'll highlight a few things to look for. Notably, the same configuration values are used as the previous cluster and that this time the member id is 2 and at the end this node asks the member 1 for some partitions.

bash-3.2$ bin/session-cache-server.sh

java version "1.6.0_21"

Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_21-b51)

Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 17.0-b17, mixed mode)

2011-02-15 23:34:51.856/0.251 Oracle Coherence 3.6.1.0 <Info> (thread=main, member=n/a): Loaded operational configuration from "jar:file:/scratch/jbayer/coherence/lib/coherence.jar!/tangosol-coherence.xml"

2011-02-15 23:34:51.861/0.256 Oracle Coherence 3.6.1.0 <Info> (thread=main, member=n/a): Loaded operational overrides from "file:/scratch/jbayer/coherence/tangosol-coherence-override.xml"

2011-02-15 23:34:51.866/0.261 Oracle Coherence 3.6.1.0 <D5> (thread=main, member=n/a): Optional configuration override "/custom-mbeans.xml" is not specified

Oracle Coherence Version 3.6.1.0 Build 19636

Grid Edition: Development mode

Copyright (c) 2000, 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

2011-02-15 23:34:52.147/0.542 Oracle Coherence GE 3.6.1.0 <Info> (thread=main, member=n/a): Loaded cache configuration from "jar:file:/scratch/jbayer/coherence/lib/coherence-web-spi.war!/WEB-INF/classes/session-cache-config.xml"

2011-02-15 23:34:52.500/0.895 Oracle Coherence GE 3.6.1.0 <D4> (thread=main, member=n/a): TCMP bound to /10.229.188.238:8090 using SystemSocketProvider

2011-02-15 23:35:16.251/24.646 Oracle Coherence GE 3.6.1.0 <Info> (thread=Cluster, member=n/a): This Member(Id=2, Timestamp=2011-02-15 23:35:16.04, Address=10.229.188.238:8090, MachineId=21486, Location=machine:jbayer-vm,process:31080, Role=CoherenceServer, Edition=Grid Edition, Mode=Development, CpuCount=2, SocketCount=2) joined cluster with senior Member(Id=1, Timestamp=2011-02-15 23:34:45.487, Address=10.229.188.238:8088, MachineId=21486, Location=machine:jbayer-vm,process:31060, Role=CoherenceServer, Edition=Grid Edition, Mode=Development, CpuCount=2, SocketCount=2)

2011-02-15 23:35:16.270/24.665 Oracle Coherence GE 3.6.1.0 <D5> (thread=Cluster, member=n/a): Member 1 joined Service Cluster with senior member 1

2011-02-15 23:35:16.270/24.665 Oracle Coherence GE 3.6.1.0 <D5> (thread=Cluster, member=n/a): Member 1 joined Service Management with senior member 1

2011-02-15 23:35:16.270/24.665 Oracle Coherence GE 3.6.1.0 <D5> (thread=Cluster, member=n/a): Member 1 joined Service ReplicatedSessionsMisc with senior member 1

2011-02-15 23:35:16.270/24.665 Oracle Coherence GE 3.6.1.0 <D5> (thread=Cluster, member=n/a): Member 1 joined Service DistributedSessions with senior member 1

2011-02-15 23:35:16.273/24.668 Oracle Coherence GE 3.6.1.0 <Info> (thread=main, member=n/a): Started cluster Name=n/a

WellKnownAddressList(Size=2,

WKA{Address=10.229.188.238, Port=8088}

WKA{Address=10.229.188.238, Port=8090}

)

MasterMemberSet

(

ThisMember=Member(Id=2, Timestamp=2011-02-15 23:35:16.04, Address=10.229.188.238:8090, MachineId=21486, Location=machine:jbayer-vm,process:31080, Role=CoherenceServer)

OldestMember=Member(Id=1, Timestamp=2011-02-15 23:34:45.487, Address=10.229.188.238:8088, MachineId=21486, Location=machine:jbayer-vm,process:31060, Role=CoherenceServer)

ActualMemberSet=MemberSet(Size=2, BitSetCount=2

Member(Id=1, Timestamp=2011-02-15 23:34:45.487, Address=10.229.188.238:8088, MachineId=21486, Location=machine:jbayer-vm,process:31060, Role=CoherenceServer)

Member(Id=2, Timestamp=2011-02-15 23:35:16.04, Address=10.229.188.238:8090, MachineId=21486, Location=machine:jbayer-vm,process:31080, Role=CoherenceServer)

)

RecycleMillis=1200000

RecycleSet=MemberSet(Size=0, BitSetCount=0

)

)

TcpRing{Connections=[1]}

IpMonitor{AddressListSize=0}

2011-02-15 23:35:16.321/24.716 Oracle Coherence GE 3.6.1.0 <D5> (thread=Invocation:Management, member=2): Service Management joined the cluster with senior service member 1

2011-02-15 23:35:16.429/24.825 Oracle Coherence GE 3.6.1.0 <D5> (thread=ReplicatedCache:ReplicatedSessionsMisc, member=2): Service ReplicatedSessionsMisc joined the cluster with senior service member 1

2011-02-15 23:35:16.618/25.013 Oracle Coherence GE 3.6.1.0 <D5> (thread=DistributedCache:DistributedSessions, member=2): Service DistributedSessions joined the cluster with senior service member 1

2011-02-15 23:35:16.648/25.043 Oracle Coherence GE 3.6.1.0 <Info> (thread=main, member=2):

Services

(

ClusterService{Name=Cluster, State=(SERVICE_STARTED, STATE_JOINED), Id=0, Version=3.6, OldestMemberId=1}

InvocationService{Name=Management, State=(SERVICE_STARTED), Id=1, Version=3.1, OldestMemberId=1}

ReplicatedCache{Name=ReplicatedSessionsMisc, State=(SERVICE_STARTED), Id=2, Version=3.0, OldestMemberId=1}

PartitionedCache{Name=DistributedSessions, State=(SERVICE_STARTED), LocalStorage=enabled, PartitionCount=257, BackupCount=1, AssignedPartitions=0, BackupPartitions=0}

)

Started DefaultCacheServer...

2011-02-15 23:35:16.657/25.052 Oracle Coherence GE 3.6.1.0 <D4> (thread=DistributedCache:DistributedSessions, member=2): Asking member 1 for 128 primary partitions

If the cluster has formed well, then we are ready to deploy the application to WebLogic Server. Deploy CWebTestApp.ear (assuming you have the correct values for APP-INF/classes/tangosol-coherence-override.xml inside of it and see if it activates and joins the cluster. Here is output from one of the two managed servers in the WLS cluster. Your output may vary to a degree.

<Feb 16, 2011 12:12:02 AM PST> <Notice> <WebLogicServer> <BEA-000360> <Server started in RUNNING mode>

<Feb 16, 2011 12:13:09 AM PST> <Warning> <Munger> <BEA-2156203> <A version attribute was not found in element application in the deployment descriptor in /scratch/jbayer/wls1034/user_projects/domains/base_domain/servers/ManagedServer_2/stage/CWebTestApp/CWebTestApp.ear/META-INF/application.xml. A version attribute is required, but this version of the Weblogic Server will assume that the JEE5 is used. Future versions of the Weblogic Server will reject descriptors that do not specify the JEE version.>

<Feb 16, 2011 12:13:09 AM PST> <Warning> <Munger> <BEA-2156203> <A version attribute was not found in element application in the deployment descriptor in /scratch/jbayer/wls1034/user_projects/domains/base_domain/servers/ManagedServer_2/tmp/_WL_user/CWebTestApp/sapbbg/META-INF/application.xml. A version attribute is required, but this version of the Weblogic Server will assume that the JEE5 is used. Future versions of the Weblogic Server will reject descriptors that do not specify the JEE version.>

2011-02-16 00:13:10.175/115.554 Oracle Coherence 3.6.1.0 <Info> (thread=[STANDBY] ExecuteThread: '5' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)', member=n/a): Loaded operational configuration from "zip:/scratch/jbayer/wls1034/user_projects/domains/base_domain/servers/ManagedServer_2/stage/coherence/3.6.1.0@3.6.1.0/coherence.jar!/tangosol-coherence.xml"

2011-02-16 00:13:10.190/115.568 Oracle Coherence 3.6.1.0 <Info> (thread=[STANDBY] ExecuteThread: '5' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)', member=n/a): Loaded operational overrides from "zip:/scratch/jbayer/wls1034/user_projects/domains/base_domain/servers/ManagedServer_2/stage/coherence/3.6.1.0@3.6.1.0/coherence.jar!/tangosol-coherence-override-dev.xml"

2011-02-16 00:13:10.191/115.569 Oracle Coherence 3.6.1.0 <Info> (thread=[STANDBY] ExecuteThread: '5' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)', member=n/a): Loaded operational overrides from "file:/scratch/jbayer/wls1034/user_projects/domains/base_domain/servers/ManagedServer_2/tmp/_WL_user/CWebTestApp/sapbbg/APP-INF/classes/tangosol-coherence-override.xml"

2011-02-16 00:13:10.197/115.575 Oracle Coherence 3.6.1.0 <D5> (thread=[STANDBY] ExecuteThread: '5' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)', member=n/a): Optional configuration override "/custom-mbeans.xml" is not specified

Oracle Coherence Version 3.6.1.0 Build 19636

Grid Edition: Development mode

Copyright (c) 2000, 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

2011-02-16 00:13:10.391/115.769 Oracle Coherence GE 3.6.1.0 <Info> (thread=[STANDBY] ExecuteThread: '5' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)', member=n/a): Loaded cache configuration from "file:/scratch/jbayer/wls1034/user_projects/domains/base_domain/servers/ManagedServer_2/tmp/_WL_user/coherence-web-spi/4yxuqd/WEB-INF/classes/session-cache-config.xml"

<Feb 16, 2011 12:13:10 AM PST> <Warning> <WorkManager> <BEA-002919> <Unable to find a WorkManager with name wm/CoherenceWorkManager. Dispatch policy wm/CoherenceWorkManager will map to the default WorkManager for the application CWebTestApp>

2011-02-16 00:13:10.681/116.059 Oracle Coherence GE 3.6.1.0 <D5> (thread=[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '0' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)', member=n/a):

Clustered Session Cache Name=session-storage

Local Session Cache Name=local-session-storage

Local Session Attribute Cache Name=local-attribute-storage

Death Certificate Cache Name=session-death-certificates

SessionDistributionController Class Name=

AttributeScopeController Class Name=com.tangosol.coherence.servlet.AbstractHttpSessionCollection$ApplicationScopeController

Maximum Session Inactive Seconds=3600

Session ID Character Length=52

Session Locking Enforced=false

Member Session Locking Enforced=false

Application Session Locking Enforced=false

Thread Session Locking Enforced=false

Session Get Lock Timeout=300

Suspect Attribute Detection=false

Strict "Servlet Specification" Exception Handling=true

Sticky Session Ownership=false

Sticky Session Ownership Service Name=SessionOwnership

Assume Session Locality for Reaping=false

Parallel Session Reaping=true

Allow Local Attributes=false

Use Default Session ID Decoding=true

Use Default Session ID Encoding=false

Session Expiry Filter Factory=

2011-02-16 00:13:11.256/116.634 Oracle Coherence GE 3.6.1.0 <Warning> (thread=[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '0' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)', member=n/a): PreferredUnicastUdpSocket failed to set receive buffer size to 1428 packets (1.99MB); actual size is 25%, 357 packets (512KB). Consult your OS documentation regarding increasing the maximum socket buffer size. Proceeding with the actual value may cause sub-optimal performance.

2011-02-16 00:13:11.257/116.635 Oracle Coherence GE 3.6.1.0 <D4> (thread=[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '0' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)', member=n/a): TCMP bound to /10.229.188.238:8094 using SystemSocketProvider

2011-02-16 00:13:11.595/116.973 Oracle Coherence GE 3.6.1.0 <Info> (thread=Cluster, member=n/a): Failed to satisfy the variance: allowed=16, actual=45

2011-02-16 00:13:11.596/116.974 Oracle Coherence GE 3.6.1.0 <Info> (thread=Cluster, member=n/a): Increasing allowable variance to 19

2011-02-16 00:13:11.944/117.322 Oracle Coherence GE 3.6.1.0 <Info> (thread=Cluster, member=n/a): This Member(Id=10, Timestamp=2011-02-16 00:13:11.72, Address=10.229.188.238:8094, MachineId=21486, Location=machine:jbayer-vm,process:32763, Role=WeblogicServer, Edition=Grid Edition, Mode=Development, CpuCount=2, SocketCount=2) joined cluster with senior Member(Id=1, Timestamp=2011-02-15 23:34:45.487, Address=10.229.188.238:8088, MachineId=21486, Location=machine:jbayer-vm,process:31060, Role=CoherenceServer, Edition=Grid Edition, Mode=Development, CpuCount=2, SocketCount=2)

2011-02-16 00:13:11.997/117.375 Oracle Coherence GE 3.6.1.0 <D5> (thread=Cluster, member=n/a): Member(Id=2, Timestamp=2011-02-15 23:35:16.04, Address=10.229.188.238:8090, MachineId=21486, Location=machine:jbayer-vm,process:31080, Role=CoherenceServer) joined Cluster with senior member 1

2011-02-16 00:13:11.999/117.377 Oracle Coherence GE 3.6.1.0 <D5> (thread=Cluster, member=n/a): Member(Id=9, Timestamp=2011-02-16 00:13:11.687, Address=10.229.188.238:8092, MachineId=21486, Location=machine:jbayer-vm,process:32676, Role=WeblogicServer) joined Cluster with senior member 1

2011-02-16 00:13:12.044/117.422 Oracle Coherence GE 3.6.1.0 <D5> (thread=Cluster, member=n/a): Member 1 joined Service Cluster with senior member 1

2011-02-16 00:13:12.045/117.424 Oracle Coherence GE 3.6.1.0 <D5> (thread=Cluster, member=n/a): Member 1 joined Service Management with senior member 1

2011-02-16 00:13:12.046/117.424 Oracle Coherence GE 3.6.1.0 <D5> (thread=Cluster, member=n/a): Member 1 joined Service ReplicatedSessionsMisc with senior member 1

2011-02-16 00:13:12.046/117.424 Oracle Coherence GE 3.6.1.0 <D5> (thread=Cluster, member=n/a): Member 1 joined Service DistributedSessions with senior member 1

2011-02-16 00:13:12.046/117.424 Oracle Coherence GE 3.6.1.0 <D5> (thread=Cluster, member=n/a): Member 2 joined Service Cluster with senior member 1

2011-02-16 00:13:12.046/117.424 Oracle Coherence GE 3.6.1.0 <D5> (thread=Cluster, member=n/a): Member 2 joined Service Management with senior member 1

2011-02-16 00:13:12.046/117.424 Oracle Coherence GE 3.6.1.0 <D5> (thread=Cluster, member=n/a): Member 2 joined Service ReplicatedSessionsMisc with senior member 1

2011-02-16 00:13:12.046/117.424 Oracle Coherence GE 3.6.1.0 <D5> (thread=Cluster, member=n/a): Member 2 joined Service DistributedSessions with senior member 1

2011-02-16 00:13:12.087/117.465 Oracle Coherence GE 3.6.1.0 <Info> (thread=[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '0' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)', member=n/a): Started cluster Name=n/a

WellKnownAddressList(Size=2,

WKA{Address=10.229.188.238, Port=8088}

WKA{Address=10.229.188.238, Port=8090}

)

MasterMemberSet

(

ThisMember=Member(Id=10, Timestamp=2011-02-16 00:13:11.72, Address=10.229.188.238:8094, MachineId=21486, Location=machine:jbayer-vm,process:32763, Role=WeblogicServer)

OldestMember=Member(Id=1, Timestamp=2011-02-15 23:34:45.487, Address=10.229.188.238:8088, MachineId=21486, Location=machine:jbayer-vm,process:31060, Role=CoherenceServer)

ActualMemberSet=MemberSet(Size=4, BitSetCount=2

Member(Id=1, Timestamp=2011-02-15 23:34:45.487, Address=10.229.188.238:8088, MachineId=21486, Location=machine:jbayer-vm,process:31060, Role=CoherenceServer)

Member(Id=2, Timestamp=2011-02-15 23:35:16.04, Address=10.229.188.238:8090, MachineId=21486, Location=machine:jbayer-vm,process:31080, Role=CoherenceServer)

Member(Id=9, Timestamp=2011-02-16 00:13:11.687, Address=10.229.188.238:8092, MachineId=21486, Location=machine:jbayer-vm,process:32676, Role=WeblogicServer)

Member(Id=10, Timestamp=2011-02-16 00:13:11.72, Address=10.229.188.238:8094, MachineId=21486, Location=machine:jbayer-vm,process:32763, Role=WeblogicServer)

)

RecycleMillis=1200000

RecycleSet=MemberSet(Size=0, BitSetCount=0

)

)

TcpRing{Connections=[9]}

IpMonitor{AddressListSize=0}

2011-02-16 00:13:12.199/117.577 Oracle Coherence GE 3.6.1.0 <D5> (thread=Invocation:Management, member=10): Service Management joined the cluster with senior service member 1

2011-02-16 00:13:12.234/117.612 Oracle Coherence GE 3.6.1.0 <D5> (thread=Cluster, member=10): Member 9 joined Service Management with senior member 1

2011-02-16 00:13:12.478/117.856 Oracle Coherence GE 3.6.1.0 <D5> (thread=DistributedCache:DistributedSessions, member=10): Service DistributedSessions joined the cluster with senior service member 1

2011-02-16 00:13:12.560/117.938 Oracle Coherence GE 3.6.1.0 <D5> (thread=Cluster, member=10): Member 9 joined Service DistributedSessions with senior member 1

2011-02-16 00:13:12.618/117.996 Oracle Coherence GE 3.6.1.0 <Info> (thread=[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '0' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)', member=10): Configured session model "SplitHttpSessionCollection":

Clustered Session Cache Name=session-storage

Local Session Cache Name=local-session-storage

Local Session Attribute Cache Name=local-attribute-storage

Death Certificate Cache Name=session-death-certificates

SessionDistributionController Class Name=

AttributeScopeController Class Name=com.tangosol.coherence.servlet.AbstractHttpSessionCollection$ApplicationScopeController

Maximum Session Inactive Seconds=3600

Session ID Character Length=52

Session Locking Enforced=false

Member Session Locking Enforced=false

Application Session Locking Enforced=false

Thread Session Locking Enforced=false

Session Get Lock Timeout=300

Suspect Attribute Detection=false

Strict "Servlet Specification" Exception Handling=true

Sticky Session Ownership=false

Sticky Session Ownership Service Name=SessionOwnership

Assume Session Locality for Reaping=false

Parallel Session Reaping=true

Allow Local Attributes=false

Use Default Session ID Decoding=true

Use Default Session ID Encoding=false

Session Expiry Filter Factory=

2011-02-16 00:13:12.723/118.101 Oracle Coherence GE 3.6.1.0 <Info> (thread=[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '0' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)', member=10): Registering HttpSessionManager(ServetContext=ServletContextWrapper (2.5)

SessionHelper!=null

MajorVersion=2

MinorVersion=5

Clustered=false

ServletContext (wrapped)=weblogic.servlet.internal.session.CoherenceWebServletContextWrapper@1bc1ecee

AttributeMap=null

Oracle Coherence 3.6.1.0) using object name "type=HttpSessionManager,nodeId=10,appId=CWebTestAppcounter"

If so, now try invoking the index.jsp of the counter context path. If both managed servers on are the same hostname, then the same cookie will be sent by the browser (ports differences are ignored by browsers when sending cookies), and you should see the counter increment by 1 when you have the same session. If your WLS servers happen to have different IP addresses or hostnames, then you will have to use a load balancer. More on that later.

To see if Coherence is really being used for session state, kill all the WLS JVM(s) (not the Coherence session cache servers!). Hit refresh in your browser. Both servers should be down. Keep the browser sessions open.

Now restart the WLS managed servers. Since the browser is open, the session reference is still in your browser cookie. When WLS servers are started again and you can refresh the page, the count should pick up where you left off and not start over.

Now you can try the load balancer such as Apache or the simple one included with coherence. In this case I'm going to have the simple load balancer on port 8080 and refer to the managed servers on ports 8001/8002 respectively.

java -cp coherence.jar com.tangosol.net.LoadBalancer adc2101131:8080 adc2101131:8001 adc2101131:8002

Now I should be able to hit the load balancer directly on port 8080. Using the same browser session, I see that the cookie is still valid.

Plus I see that the output from the simple load balancer shows me going to both servers, therefore we observe that the simple Coherence load balancer is not sticky. Below is an example of that output:

routing to 10.229.188.238:8002

routing to 10.229.188.238:8001

Now you should be able to stop one WLS managed server and refresh and still get a valid result. If you refresh several times the LoadBalancer output should have something like this in the System.Out showing that it failed to connect to the server you stopped.

*** could not connect to 10.229.188.238:8002; java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused

Then stop the other WLS managed server. Refresh using the proxy address and there should be a failure to connect from the browser. Then restart the managed server you stopped first and the session should recover.

This marks the end of the basic Coherence*Web with WebLogic Server example. For more information, I recommend reading the Coherence*Web documentation and turning on the JMX reporting features of Coherence and using a tool like JConsole to explore the MBeans for Coherence*Web.