THIS IS A TEST INSTANCE. ALL YOUR CHANGES WILL BE LOST!!!!
...
Anchor
...
This article is a copy of the version for SPECjAppServer2004 v1.05 and Geronimo v1.2. It's now being updated for SPECjAppServer2004 v1.08 and Geronimo v2.0.
...
2, but the updating process is not yet complete.
Running SPECjAppServer2004 benchmark on Geronimo
Still not a success, your help needed!
...
Issues still exist that prevent SPECjAppServer2004 from running on Geronimo.
This article is not a success story, but a collection of notes on the progress that has been made in this direction.
Current issue that requires your help is: #Running the benchmark
...
...
Disclaimer: This article is created to write down the existing experience and to make it reproducible. It is not targeted to be a comprehensive guide on either product or on merging them together. It's not also a replacement to the products' documentation, but just a step-by-step guide on how to make things work in a simple configuration, as it worked for me. Make sure you at least look through the documentation on both products before you proceed.
...
SPECjAppServer is a trademark of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. (SPEC). The official web site for SPECjAppServer2004 is located at http://www.spec.org/jAppServer2004/.
SPECjAppServer2004 version 1.08 introduces a reduced workload called EAStress2004 that relaxes run and reporting rules, enabling informal results to be shared more easily in open-source research and development projects.
The EAStress2004 workload in SPECjAppServer2004 v1.08 can be used as a tool to optimize performance of products under development and to share results in public forums. Unlike SPECjAppServer2004 results, testing results from the EAStress2004 workload do not need to be reviewed by SPEC prior to being made public.
Results from the EAStress2004 workload cannot be used for marketing purposes, and comparisons to other SPECjAppServer2004 results are not permitted.
See full press release on SPECjAppServer2004/EAStress2004 v1.08 here: http://www.spec.org/jAppServer2004/jAppServer2004v108.html.
All logs, stacks and result files in this article are extracted from EAStress2004 v1.08 runs.
...
This article is written for SPECjAppServer2004 v1.08 and Geronimo v2.0.12. For other versions some stages may be different. Older versions of this article for SPECjAppServer2004 v1.05 and older versions of Geronimo can be found here: v1.0, v1.1, v1.2.
...
- #General information
- #Obtaining products
- #Conventions and environment
- #Installing products
- #Configuring Geronimo
- #Configuring SPECjAppServer2004
- #Deploying components
- #Deploying the Supplier Emulator
- #Running the benchmark
- #Processing results
...
Product site: http://geronimo.apache.org
Latest version, 2.0.12: http://geronimo.apache.org/apache-geronimo-v201v202-release.html
Release notes: http://cwiki.apache.org/GMOxDOC20/release-notes-201txt202txt.html
Documentation page: http://geronimo.apache.org/documentation.html
...
The latest Geronimo version for now is 2.0.12.
General download page: http://geronimo.apache.org/downloads.html
...
Sharing geronimo.host with emulator.host or driver.host is contradicting with the SPECjAppServer2004 documentation and would impact the performance severely and invalidate the benchmark results. However technically this is possible.
...
<DUMP>– directory at thedriver.hostwhere the SPECjAppServer2004 Driver will store its temporal files.
...
On Windows some components may work incorrectly if working paths are too long or contain spaces. So it's recommended that you avoid long paths and spaces in them.
Installing products
...
Extract the downloaded archive to a local directory. The geronimo-jetty6-jee5-2.0.12 or geronimo-tomcat6-jee5-2.0.12 directory is created, that is your <GERONIMO> directory.
Installing SPECjAppServer2004
Run:
...
...
java -jar SPECjAppServer2004-Kit-v1.08.jar
...
Click Next, read and accept the license agreement, and type in the directory you want the SPECjAppServer2004 to be installed to. This directory will be your <SPEC> directory.
...
Go to your <GERONIMO> directory.
Start Geronimo by typing:
...
...
java -Djava.endorsed.dirs=lib/endorsed -javaagent:bin/jpa.jar -Dopenejb.jndiname.failoncollision=true -Dopenejb.jndiname.format={ejbName} -jar bin/server.jar
...
Please note the two OpenEJB settings, they're necessary to tune Geronimo to the simple format of EJB JNDI names SPECjAppServer2004 uses.
See details at http://cwiki.apache.org/GMOxDEV/client-jndi-names.html and http://cwiki.apache.org/OPENEJB/service-locator.html.
...
You may You may also use <GERONIMO>/bin/geronimo.sh or <GERONIMO>/bin/geronimo.bat scripts instead.
It will take some time to start. After that, you will see:
, after appropriate adjustments.
...
Geronimo v2.0.2 needs access to Internet for SPECjAppServer2004 application to be deployed – it tries to fetch XML schemas from http://java.sun.com site.
So if you're behind a firewall, add the appropriate -Dhttp.proxyHost= and -Dhttp.proxyPort= options to the Geronimo startup line.
This problem is caused by OPENEJB-700 bug which is already fixed and the fix should make it to the next version of Geronimo.
If your installation of Geronimo has no access to Internet at all, or your proxy requires authentication, you may use the following workarounds (thanks to Konstantin Malynkin for describing them). You may download the necessary DTDs to your local drive and specify the local path to them in your deployment descriptors (see <SPEC>/src/deploy/geronimo directory). For example, you could use <!DOCTYPE ejb-jar SYSTEM "C:/DTD/ejb-jar_2_0.dtd"> instead of <!DOCTYPE ejb-jar PUBLIC '-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Enterprise JavaBeans 2.0//EN' 'http://java.sun.com/dtd/ejb-jar_2_0.dtd'>. Another way is to omit verification at all by deleting or commenting out the references to DTDs in the deployment descriptors. Note that in both cases you would have to rebuild and redeploy the SPECjAppServer2004 application for the changes to take effect.
...
It will take some time to start. After that, you will see:
blacksolidNo Format bgColor black borderStyle solid
If you get another result, particularly, if network errors show up, then something has gone wrong.
| Info |
|---|
Sometimes, the startup fails because some local network addresses are inaccessible. This could happen, for example, if you have used a VPN interface that is disconnected now. By default, Geronimo uses the first local address it comes across to access its components, and may try to use a stale address, causing startup errors. You may try disabling and then re-enabling the unused network interfaces to resolve such issues. |
Accessing the console
Open your web browser and connect to the Geronimo Console at http://geronimo.host:8080/console/
Log in using the user name and password (system and manager by default).
Now you may investigate the console if you wish.
Creating the database
Go to the Embedded DB - DB Manager in the Console Navigation.
Create the benchmark database by typing its name (SPECDB) in the Create DB field and clicking Create.
Locating the SQL files
To create database tables, you can use the default SQL scripts provided in the <SPEC>/schema/sql directory. However, the directory includes five scripts, and they contain DROP TABLE commands that would fail if you try to execute them in the console when tables are not yet created.
Instead, it is recommended that you use the allTablesNoDrop.sql file, if you are creating the tables from scratch, or allTables.sql file if you want to drop and recreate the tables. Both files were created from the <SPEC>/schema/sql files by simple concatenation, allTablesNoDrop.sql also has DROP TABLE commands removed.
Creating the tables
Make sure SPECDB is selected in Use DB field and then copy-paste the SQL code to SQL Command/s frame. Click Run SQL button above it.
After a short delay, the frame will clear and the Result field below it will say SQL command/s successful. If not – check what you did wrong and try again.
If you use multiple SQL scripts, repeat the operations above for each of them.
Configuring SPECjAppServer2004
Basic configuration
deploy directory
...
If you get another result, particularly, if network errors show up, then something has gone wrong.
...
Sometimes, the startup fails because some local network addresses are inaccessible. This could happen, for example, if you have used a VPN interface that is disconnected now. By default, Geronimo uses the first local address it comes across to access its components, and may try to use a stale address, causing startup errors.
You may try disabling and then re-enabling the unused network interfaces to resolve such issues.
...
Accessing the console
Open your web browser and connect to the Geronimo Console at http://geronimo.host:8080/console/
Log in using the user name and password (system and manager by default).
Now you may investigate the console if you wish.
Creating the database
Go to the Embedded DB - DB Manager in the Console Navigation.
Create the benchmark database by typing its name (SPECDB) in the Create DB field and clicking Create.
Locating the SQL files
To create database tables, you can use the default SQL scripts provided in the <SPEC>/schema/sql directory. However, the directory includes five scripts, and they contain DROP TABLE commands that would fail if you try to execute them in the console when tables are not yet created.
Instead, it is recommended that you use the allTablesNoDrop.sql file, if you are creating the tables from scratch, or allTables.sql file if you want to drop and recreate the tables. Both files were created from the <SPEC>/schema/sql files by simple concatenation, allTablesNoDrop.sql also has DROP TABLE commands removed.
Creating the tables
Make sure SPECDB is selected in Use DB field and then copy-paste the SQL code to SQL Command/s frame. Click Run SQL button above it.
After a short delay, the frame will clear and the Result field below it will say SQL command/s successful. If not – check what you did wrong and try again.
If you use multiple SQL scripts, repeat the operations above for each of them.
Configuring SPECjAppServer2004
Basic configuration
deploy directory
Go to the <SPEC>/src/deploy directory and copy the reference subdirectory with its contents with the name geronimo.
...
Edit the deployment plans in <SPEC>/src/geronimo, remove all message-driven-destination tags from mfg.xml, orders.xml and supplier.xml – Geronimo v2.0.2 doesn't handle those tags correctly.
Instead of removing those tags, you also can replace them with <message-destination-type>javax.jms.Queue</message-destination-type>.
This problem is caused by OPENEJB-701 bug and should disappear after that bug is fixed.
...
geronimo.env file
Go to the <SPEC>/config directory.
...
Use forward slashes ( / ) as directory separators!
...
Clean-up your installation:
...
...
ant/bin/ant clean
...
Build the application and configure it for Geronimo:
...
...
ant/bin/ant -Dappserver=geronimo
...
You will get the BUILD SUCCESSFUL diagnostic.
Make sure the files SPECjAppServer.ear and Emulatoremulator.war are created in the <SPEC>/jars directory.
...
Go to the <SPEC>/config directory. Replace the content of each of the *db.properties files you find there with the contents of the attached db.properties template file. Make sure the pipeDir variable there points to a valid temporary directory, adjust if necessary.
Loading the tables
Run:
...
...
ant/bin/ant -Dappserver=geronimo loaddb
...
After some time, you will get the BUILD SUCCESSFUL diagnostic.
...
At this stage you need to deploy the configured components to Geronimo.
...
Note that if your geronimo.host and your driver.host are the same machine, and you changed the port number of the Geronimo RMI Registry, you should specify that port number in all deployer commands, like this:
...
...
java -jar bin/deployer.jar -
...
port 1199 ...
Logging in
To avoid specifying login credentials on any call to deployer, you can login first:
...
java -jar bin/deployer.jar -u system -p manager login
...
Deploying database connector
To deploy a connector to the Derby SPECDB database you created earlier, go to the <GERONIMO> directory and run:
...
java -jar bin/deployer
...
.jar deploy repository/org/tranql/tranql-connector-derby-embed-xa/1.
...
4/tranql-connector-derby-embed-xa-1.
...
4.rar <KIT>/sjas-db.xml
You will get the Deployed SPECSPECjAppServer2004/SPECjAppServerDBDB/1.08/carrar diagnostic.
Deploying JMS connector
To deploy an ActiveMQ JMS connector for SPECjAppServer2004, go to the <GERONIMO> directory and run:
...
...
java -jar bin/deployer.jar
...
deploy repository/org/apache/geronimo/modules/
...
geronimo-activemq-
...
ra/
...
2.0.
...
2/
...
geronimo-activemq-
...
ra-
...
2.0.
...
2.rar <KIT>/sjas-jms.xml
You will get the Deployed SPECSPECjAppServer2004/SPECjAppServerJMSJMS/1.08/carrar diagnostic.
Deploying the main application
To deploy SPECjAppServer2004 on Geronimo, this configuration uses the deployment plan that was originally found in Geronimo sources at http://svn.apache.org, modified and updated for Geronimo version 2.0.12.
Go to the <GERONIMO> directory and run:
...
...
java -jar bin/deployer.jar
...
deploy <SPEC>/jars/SPECjAppServer.ear <KIT>
...
/sjas-app.xml
You will get the Deployed SPECSPECjAppServer2004/SPECjAppServerApplication/1.08/ear diagnostic.
Verifying the deployment
At this stage you may check that the deployment has been done correctly and that SPECjAppServer2004 is operational.
Atomicity tests
Open the deployed SPECjAppServer2004 page: http://geronimo.host:8080/SPECjAppServer/
In the left-hand menu, click the Atomicity Tests link.
You will see the results of three atomicity tests' runs. If all three of them are marked as PASSED, your deployment is correctcheck that the deployment has been done correctly and that SPECjAppServer2004 is operational.
Manual transactions
Open the deployed SPECjAppServer2004 page: http://geronimo.host:8080/SPECjAppServer/
...
Log in with the default credentials (1) by clicking Log in.
You should see the program interface and be able to perform transactionsthe program interface and be able to perform transactions.
Atomicity tests
Open the deployed SPECjAppServer2004 page: http://geronimo.host:8080/SPECjAppServer/
In the left-hand menu, click the Atomicity Tests link.
You will see the results of three atomicity tests' runs. If all three of them are marked as PASSED, your deployment is correct.
Deploying the Supplier Emulator
...
Note that SPECjAppServer2004 documentation requires that the Supplier Emulator servlet container should have the keep-alive option turned off. You can ignore this requirement, but that would impact the performance severely.
...
Go to the <GERONIMO> directory and run:
...
...
java -jar bin/deployer.jar
...
deploy <SPEC>/jars/Emulator.war <KIT>/sjas-emulator.xml
You will get the Deployed SPECSPECjAppServer2004/Emulator/1.08/war @ http:/ /geronimo.host:8080/Emulator diagnostic.
Using a stand-alone servlet container
...
Do not bother editing <SPEC>/config/tomcat.env file or running ant/bin/ant -f tomcat.xml.
Both files are obsolete, they generate the Emulator.war file, which has already been created at #Building the application phase.
...
Go to the <TOMCAT> directory on the emulator.host and start Tomcat:
...
...
bin/catalina run
...
Veryfying the deployment
Go to the page http://emulator.host:8080/Emulator/. It should load normally and contain a single directory, dtd, with two files inside, delivery.dtd and po.dtd.
Go to the page http://emulator.host:8080/Emulator/EmulatorServlet. You should see a page with text like this:
...
...
Emulator Servlet seems to work OK
JAS_HOST : emulator.host
JAS_PORT : 8080
Servlet URL : Supplier/DeliveryServlet
Number of Transactions : 0
Servlet invoked without command specified
...
Running the benchmark
...
Go to the <DRIVER> directory on the driver.host and run:
...
...
bin/setenv.bat
...
This configures the environment to run the Driver.
...
bin/driver.bat
...
If you wish to run a distributed load with multiple Drivers, then after the Driver is started on the first host (the master.host), start the Driver on other driver hosts like this:
...
...
bin/driver.bat master.host
...
After starting the Driver, you should see the output like this:
No Format
This means the Driver started normally.
Note the times for Rampup, SteadyState, Rampdown and Finish to figure out the time needed for the benchmark to complete.
...
...
You can interrupt the run at any
...
time with Ctrl-C.
Sometimes binding exceptions or other problems may occur at the Driver startup. In such a case, interrupt the test run with Ctrl-C and rerun it again. Sometimes it helps.
...
...
It's recommended to reload the database tables before each run, particularly if previous run was not finished correctly. Otherwise, errors like this may occur:
...
...
black
...
solid
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
During the run, the following diagnostics may appear in the Driver window:noformat
and in the same time, various TransactionRolledback and other exceptions of the same kind are being printed in the Geronimo shell.
...
These diagnostics are probably caused by the fact that TranQL version 1.3 is used in Geronimo
...
...
2 does not provide the necessary transaction isolation level. Hopefully, this problem will be fixed in TranQL version 1.3.1.
After the run has completed successfuly, you will see the output like this:noformat
The number of JOPS is a final benchmark metric.
...
For now these values for Geronimo are terribly low, and don't depend on the hardware being used. Probably this is due to some configuration issues that still exist or due to the TranQL issue mentioned above.
...
java -cp reporter.jar reporter Your_Submission.txt
...
Run the following command to generate a text-only benchmark report, it would be named Your_Submission.report.txt:
...
...
java -cp reporter.jar reporter -a Your_Submission.txt
...
For the details on how yo submit your results, see SPECjAppServer2004 User's Guide :: Section 5.3 – Submitting the Results
...