A problem and soultion to come with IBM JRE

[Ohad]

I gathered many of you experienced some communication/registration problems with IBM JRE's.
basicly - we use SUN's algorithms , so we must add a support to the JRE.

we found a solution. a patch will be ready soon.

look here:
http://www.netdimes.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=402#402

[vaughan]

Thanks for your efforts Ohad. Many of us like the IBM Java. It really flies in some DC projects (Ubero springs to mind :!: )

I have Dimes working on my xp3000+ using SUN JAVA VM J2RE 1.5.0_02-B09

[Empty_5oul]

i dont know what other sorts of java there are available but it may be worth checking this and adding any if they are not covered by the current DIMES project.

[Ohad]

I think sun and IBM are the main vendors. but i will check it out. maybe oracle or BEA have their own

[Ohad]

I have prepared a patch for you to examine. ii have checked it and now it seems to work. here is what i did :
1. i have installed a IBM 1.42 SDK for eclipse on my computer
2. i have installed DIMES 0-3-9-7 and tried it. it made communication problems.
3. i cativated the patch , and dimes worked.

here is basicly what the patch does :
a. it request the location of the IBM JRE ( in my computer it is C:\eclipse\IBMJDK142\jre) - note that it is important to give the patcher the correct location, where dimes agent is being started from.
b. it installs two jar files (jsse.jar and sunSecurity.jar) into the directory jre/lib/ext. those files contain the https algorithms and verification classes.
c. it adds one line to the file java.security , to indicate that sun is a security provider. typically this is the line :
security.provider.9=com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.P rovider
(doens't have to number 9)

so... please check this and notify me if there are any problems :

http://www.netdimes.org/Updates/Dime...EPatch-0-4.exe

[Empty_5oul]

mine stil times out but i get a new error:

Connect Error while connecting to server: Could not connect. underlying exception: Security error.java.lang.RuntimeException: Export restriction: this JSSE implemented is non-pluggable.

this is on 0.3.9.7 and i installed the patych and got a message saying installed ok to the IBM folder.

[vaughan]

Mine failed too, the communication error says:
Connect Error while connecting server: Could not connect. underlying exception: Security error.java.lang.RuntimeException: Export restriction: this ...

remainder of message is truncated even when I went full screen.
All of the error message is in red text.

[Ohad]

DAMN!

[Empty_5oul]

do you want someting emailed ?

i see you are getting closer to the solution.

[Ohad]

closer, but still.. this bug is making me VERY tired and nervous. i can't sleep at night thinking of all these IBM JRE's standing there... no agents to entertain them in the cold nights...

AS for this : i think the problem is that The JRE installation on your computers are 1.4 instead of 1.4.2 - i will have a very big NOTICE in the begining of the installation that will tell the user to cancel the installation.

say, do you have a 1.4 JRE ? how did you install it? coz in IBM they say they won't let me install unless i have an IBM Machine. the only thing i managed to download and install is the SDK.