How can I get Novell's Java developer kit online?

Articles and Tips: qna

01 Jun 1998

Dear Ab-end: How can I get Novell's Java developer kit online?

—Percolating with Ideas

Dear Percolating: Go to www.developer.novell.com and select the Open Solutions Architecture SDK link. If you're not already a member of Novell's DeveloperNet program, you'll need to join (which you can do for free). After you log in with your Personal Identification Number (PIN), you will be taken directly to the Novell Open Solutions Architecture (OSA) SDK page, where you can select the Java libraries you need to download.

Dear Ab-end: We are deploying BorderManager because our preliminary tests have shown that BorderManager running on a Pentium II 233MHz computer with 256MB of RAM and an Ultrawide SCSI hard disk is about 3-4 times faster than a four-Processor Sun UltraSPARC system with 1GB RAM running Netscape Proxy Server, as perceived from the dial-up end.

Dial-up users running Netscape browsers currently access the proxy server using the "Automatic Proxy Configuration." However, this does not seem to work when the proxy server is BorderManager; the users have to change the proxy configuration to "Manual" for it to work. If possible, we'd like to avoid changing all the users' browser configuration. Any solution?

—Hopeful ISP

Dear Hopeful: Currently, dial-up users use the following setting in their browser's Automatic Poxy Config setting:

http://proxy.qatar.net.qa:8080

At the moment, this is for the Sun box running Netscape's Proxy Server. The objective is for the dial-in users to continue to use this as their Automatic Proxy setting and still access BorderManager proxy cache services. Unfortunately, this does not seem possible since we need a Web Server on that port to deliver the automatic proxy file, and BorderManager's MiniWeb server works on port 1959.

As a workaround, you can do the following:

Apply the IWSP5a, BMPSP2d, and BMP105 patches.
Configure the BorderManager MiniWeb Server to serve on port 8080 instead of 1959.
Configure BorderManager proxy services to serve on 8083.
Copy the following proxy.pac file to the MiniWeb server at SYS:ETC/PROXY/DATA:

function FindProxyForURL(url, host) { return "PROXY proxy.qatar.net.qa:8083; DIRECT"; }
Get the dial-up users to change their automatic proxy settings in their browsers to:

http://proxy.qatar.net.qa:8080/data/proxy.pac

This solution has been successfully tested by System Engineers at Novell. It should assist you in deploying BorderManager.

* Originally published in Novell AppNotes

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