OGSA-DAI Frequently Asked Questions
Table of Contents
Concepts
Deployment
- When building an OGSA-DAI 3 or 4.0 Axis WAR file or an OGSA-DAI 4.1 binary release the build fails when inserting a servlet
- When deploying OGSA-DAI 3 Axis services the build fails at deployServices
- How to configure OGSA-DAI 3 GT with transport-level security
- When deploying a resource I get a warning about a JAR directory not being found
- How to deploy OGSA-DAI 3 Axis on to Windows Vista
- How to handle Axis JAR conflicts
Usage - general
- The server says I need to contact the server administrator or deployer
- My request/workflow completed with an error
- The server says my resource is unknown but I know it's available and has been correctly configured
- The request status says my resource is unknown
- The server says an activity I'm trying to use is unknown
- The server says an activity class is unknown
- I get a server-side error concerning a resource I don't recognise
- Running a client throws a No Action headerexception
- Running a client gives a DataRequestExecutionResource unknown or not found exception
- When using the client toolkit I get an error about an unconnected pipe
- How to get a resource properties document
- What happens if the client times out during a synchronous request
- I get an "Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalAccessError: tried to access field..." error
- I get an error about a signature or decryption being invalid when using OGSA-DAI GT and security
- How are client toolkit activity methods chosen and why do they seem inconsistent
- My client toolkit runs out of sockets. Can I do anything about it?
Usage - databases
- A MySQL-related request completes with an error
- There are problems with MySQL dates of form 00-00-00
- An SQL Server request complains about a static cursor cache
- There are problems with Oracle and org.oracle.TIMESTAMP objects
Development
- How to display status information about an activity in a workflow via its client proxy
- What is the relation between data types and tuple types in column meta data?
- How to choose between different DRERs if a server exposes more than one
- How to generate your own client-side stubs for OGSA-DAI services
- How to setup Eclipse to build OGSA-DAI from CVS (deprecated)
- How to solve the problem of CLASSPATHs being too long for Windows/DOS
- WSDL, Apache Axis 1.x WSDL2Java and binding types
- How to get host name and IP address via Java
Performance
Globus Toolkit
Tomcat
- How to change Tomcat port numbers
- How to password protect JSP pages in Tomcat
- How to specify a database connection in JNDI (not OGSA-DAI)
- How to set up a JNDI file in Tomcat
- Tomcat and java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeException
- Problems with Tomcat caching compiled JSP pages
- How to get Tomcat to reload a webapp when you add a JAR
Apache Axis
Databases
- How to expose Microsoft Access as an ODBC data source on a PC
- Useful MySQL commands
- Useful Microsoft SQL Server commands
- Useful IBM DB2 commands
- Useful PostgreSQL commands
- Useful HSQL commands
ANT
Third-party links
The project takes no responsibility for the content of these pages.
- How to run a Globus 4 Web Application in the OMII-UK Secure Web Services Container
- Globus error codes. Many of these also apply to OGSA-DAI GT.
- Deploying OGSA-DAI on Unix. A blog article.
