Livelink Webservice Authentication

[LivelinkHELP]

Hi am a newbie to Livelink,

Have just kmocked up a quick program to access Livelink via the dotnet webservice, using the Authentication.svc followed the clientguide in the docs folder for creating a token via the AuthenticateUser method i.e.

// create a service token
Authentication.AuthenticationClient auth = new Authentication.AuthenticationClient();

try
{
token = auth.AuthenticateUser( userName, password );
}
catch( FaultException ex )
{
Console.WriteLine( "Unable to authenticate: " + ex.Message );
}

exception occurs everytime for me with the following error: The type initializer for 'java.util.Locale' threw an exception.

The system uses SOS and the port is the standard 2099, any ideas from anybody would be most welcome as I don't see what I am doing wrong.


Thanks

 

[appnair]

unfortunately there is nothing that is ocurring form livelink server side and I think it could be a client dependency problems.Have you made sure that your refrences are correct. When you reference the WSDL do you get downloaded proxy info that says "created the client" that sort....
a snippet form my C# 2010 Express that works against a standrad livelink on 2099 only Directory Services and not OTDS
DocumentManagement.OTAuthentication dmOTAuth = new DocumentManagement.OTAuthentication();
ContentService.OTAuthentication csOTAuth = new ContentService.OTAuthentication();
try
{
string username = "Admin";
string password = "livelink";
string token = authclient.AuthenticateUser(username, password);
dmOTAuth.AuthenticationToken = token;
csOTAuth.AuthenticationToken = token;
}catch (Exception e)
{
Console.WriteLine("Error: " + e.Message);
Console.ReadLine();
return;
}

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[LivelinkHELP]

Yep generated the web references on the client fine no problem,

On the server have also installed the Visual J# 2.0 Redistributable packsge (64 bit) for the server.

Have followed the Documentation to the letter.

 

[LivelinkHELP]

Had a deeper look at the exception generated and it's falling over at java.util.Locale.ctor() because it's unable to refernece DLL 'vjsnativ', but have checked under c:\Windows\Microsoft.Net\Fraemwork and Framework64\v2.0.50727 and it's there 'vjsnativ.dll' on the server.

So a bit lost as to why it cannot reference said DLL am I missing something?

 

[LivelinkHELP]

Managed to get round the issue, copied the vjsnativ.dll to the V4 framework directory and it works fine. the Web server Application pool is using the v4.net framework, if I set it to use the .Net 2.0 framework I get a different error 405.

So it gets me a valid token now.

 

[appnair]

on my win7 64 bit I did not have to instll any VJ libraries....

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
James Thurber, New Yorker cartoon caption, June 5, 1937
Certified OT Developer,Livelink ECM Champion 2008,Livelink ECM Champion 2010

http://www.tek-tips.com/faqs.cfm?fid=2884

http://www.linkedin.com/in/appunair

 

[LivelinkHELP]

The Visual J# 2.0 Redistributable packsge has to be installed on the web server where the web services are referenced from according to the OpenText installation instructions under C:\OpenText\webservices\sdk\docs\install.html

I refer to -

Prerequisites
•.NET Web Services
◦IIS installed and configured
◦Microsoft .NET Framework Version 3.0 Redistributable Package
◦Microsoft Visual J# Version 2.0 Redistributable Package - Second Edition (x86)
•Java Web Services
◦Java 1.5
◦Tomcat 5.5.23
•.NET Clients
◦Visual Studio 2005 extensions for.NET Framework 3.0 (WCF & WPF), November 2006 CTP (if you want to create/update Service References to Web Services).
Note: this is not required for Visual Studio 2008
◦NUnit-Net-2.0 2.2.8 (if you want to execute the NUnit sample tests)
•Java Clients
◦JAX-WS (if you want to create a Java c

According to our provider (UK) Causeway this is correct,