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Richard_Bentley
Posted On:
Wednesday, April 18, 2001 05:30 AM
We are using JNDI 1.2 with the Java 1.3.0 JDK and Sun's LDAP service provider to access Netscape Directory Server 4.13. We are having problems with the connection from a DirContext to the server. The connection seems to be being closed under circumstances which are not clear; this sometimes happens after a period of inactivity, sometimes immediately. The result is that further calls to the context result in a "javax.naming.CommunicationException: Descriptor not a socket" Can anyone shed light on: a) under what circumstances the connection is being closed and what is closing it? (I'm assuming the service provider ...) b) elegant work-arounds (other than catching this specif
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We are using JNDI 1.2 with the Java 1.3.0 JDK and Sun's LDAP service provider to access Netscape Directory Server 4.13.
We are having problems with the connection from a DirContext to the server. The connection seems to be being closed under circumstances which are not clear; this sometimes happens after a period of inactivity, sometimes immediately. The result is that further calls to the context result in a "javax.naming.CommunicationException: Descriptor not a socket"
Can anyone shed light on:
a) under what circumstances the connection is being closed and what is closing it? (I'm assuming the service provider ...)
b) elegant work-arounds (other than catching this specific exception at all points we access the context and re-establishing the connection).
Thanks in advance,
Richard
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