CACHE INVALIDATION IN WEBLOGIC ??

[Vicky Mohan]

I am using weblogic 8.1 and developed entity beans. I cached them by adding properties in the deployment descriptor. I made them read-only and invalidated them whenever there are changes to the data. it did work fine.

I implemented invalidation of the home interface using the following logic

import javax.naming.InitialContext;
import weblogic.ejb.CachingHome;

Context initial = new InitialContext();
Object o = initial.lookup("CustomerEJB_CustomerHome");
CustomerHome customerHome = (CustomerHome)o;

CachingHome customerCaching = (CachingHome)customerHome;
customerCaching.invalidateAll();



Invalidation worked fine in weblogic 8.1

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I tried to migrate the same code to weblogic 6.1 ( currently our production runs in weblogic 6.1 SP1). I had to make changes to deployment descriptors for this version , but was able to EJB compile and deploy the application.

But whenever i do invalidate for changes, it seems to be invalidating, no errors. But it still fetches the old data. I dont get to see the new data, that i modified. The entity bean seems to be calling ejbStore() and ejbLoad(), but somehow does not get the modified data.

I think i am making some mistake, but everything looks good to me and i have no clue what changes i need to make to get this working.

Is this a feature not supported in weblogic 6.1 ?

Any help in this ???

[ January 18, 2005: Message edited by: Mohen Vijay ]
[ January 18, 2005: Message edited by: Mohen Vijay ]

[Vicky Mohan]

well, i found the solution.

weblogic 6.1 SP1 needs this element to be set as FALSE in weblogic-ejb-jar.xml

<finders-load-bean>false</finders-load-bean>

For weblogic 8.1, this is not mandatory to specify. Invalidating the home interface works fine even without providing this property .

[Ajith Kallambella]

Moving to BEA/Weblogic forum...

[Karthik Guru]

Originally posted by Mohen Vijay:
well, i found the solution.

weblogic 6.1 SP1 needs this element to be set as FALSE in weblogic-ejb-jar.xml

<finders-load-bean>false</finders-load-bean>

Hope you are aware that setting this to false means your finder performance is going to get worse since it will suffer from the (n+1) calls problem.
I dont know why setting this to false makes invalidation work.

And btw, if i remeber correctly, in WL 8.1, finder-load-bean is true by default so why would you want to set it to false in WL 6.1?

[Vicky Mohan]

Well, the only reason i am setting it to FALSE is , that is the only reason invalidation works.

I have no clue why this (finder-load-bean) parameter affects the invalidations stuff. But in Weblogic 6.1, if i do not add this one, invalidation does not work .

Yes, in weblogic 8.1, this is defaulted to TRUE.

I do not have the answer how is parameter affects the invalidation.

But its a read only bean that is cached and does not access database unless the data changes.
[ January 27, 2005: Message edited by: Mohen Vijay ]