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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>We have converted most of our ejb's from 2.1 to 3.0.</p><p>In order to get the client security to work we had to use the following code to setup the client's context for the ejb3:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="padding-left: 30px;">SecurityClient client = SecurityClientFactory.getSecurityClient();<br/>                client.setSimple( username, password );<br/>                client.setVmwideAssociation( true );<br/>                client.login();</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Once that code has been executed and the ejb invoked we start seeing <span style="text-decoration: underline;">random</span> errors such as this:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;">15:01:01,035 ERROR [CoyoteAdapter] An exception or error occurred in the container during the request processing<br/>java.lang.IllegalStateException: Security Context is null<br/>        at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityAssociationActions$PopRunAsRoleAction.run(SecurityAssociationActions.java:156)<br/>        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)<br/>        at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityAssociationActions.popRunAsIdentity(SecurityAssociationActions.java:302)<br/>        at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityAssociationValve.invoke(SecurityAssociationValve.java:193)<br/>        at org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.session.ClusteredSessionValve.handleRequest(ClusteredSessionValve.java:135)<br/>        at org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.session.ClusteredSessionValve.invoke(ClusteredSessionValve.java:94)<br/>        at org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.session.LockingValve.invoke(LockingValve.java:62)<br/>        at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.JaccContextValve.invoke(JaccContextValve.java:92)<br/>        at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.process(SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.java:126)<br/>        at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.invoke(SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.java:70)<br/>        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)<br/>        at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)<br/>        at org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.jca.CachedConnectionValve.invoke(CachedConnectionValve.java:158)<br/>        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)<br/>        at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:330)<br/>        at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:829)<br/>        at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:598)<br/>        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:447)<br/>        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)</span></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>The error is "random"... and it occurs on any of the servlets that we have configured.</p><p><span>For example we've had 32,000 requests (according to </span><a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://myserver:8090/status?full" target="_blank">http://myserver:8090/status?full</a><span>) but only 99 of these errors.</span></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>It happens for the servlets/jsps whether they are called directly from the server or via apache by way of mod_jk (ajp3).</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Does anyone know why this would happen?</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Do we have to setup some "default" security for the servlets/jsps?</p></div>
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