On May 12, 2006, at 3:58 AM, Zakharov, Vasily M wrote:

> David,
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> Do you mean that from now on the java.naming.security.principal is not
> mandatory and can be absent at all?

Right.  You won't be required to supply even an empty string ("") and  
we will be able to handle it when you do.  Previously we removed the  
requirement to have the security settings present, but obviously  
never tested it that way.  It was blowing up inside the server.

> And this change will make it to Geronimo 1.1?

Correct!

Thanks,
David


> Vasily
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Blevins [mailto:david.blevins@visi...]
> Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 6:07 AM
> To: dev@open...
> Subject: Re: [openejb-dev] EJB external lookup question
>
> On May 11, 2006, at 11:12 AM, Zakharov, Vasily M wrote:
>
>> David, Jacek,
>>
>> Thank you very much for this information, it was very helpful.
>>
>> I investigated this issue a bit, here're the results.
>>
>> In fact, the only property that must be specified is
>> java.naming.security.principal, and it can have arbitrary value, it
>> can
>> even be empty - it works anyway.
>>
>> If this property is absent, the following exception occurs:
>
> I've found it and fixed it.  It will be available in next week's
> unstable build:
> http://opensource.atlassian.com/confluence/oss/display/GERONIMO/Latest
> +Unstable
>
> Also, a new openejb-core jar should be available in a couple hours.
>
> Otherwise you can checkout from source and skip the wait.
>
> Let us know how it goes.
>
> -David
>