Scriptmaker Plugin with Web Publishing Engine

[alchemy]

I am trying to get the Scriptmaker Plugin to work with the Web Publishing Engine using Filemaker Server 9 Advanced running on Leopard Server as described in the documents I have created the following Plugins directory:

/Library/FileMaker Server/Web Publishin/publishing-engine/wpc/Plugins

Next I copied the Scriptmaker Plugin to the above directory and set permissions on the directory and the plugin to include group +rwx. I have also set the owner and group of the folder and plugin to be fmserver:fmsadmin

I set up a test Filemaker database that test whether the plugin is working via a calculation which calls the version function of the plugin, and display that on an IWP layout. This works great if using the database hosted on the server via a Filemaker Client indicating that the plugin that is installed in the FileMaker Server/Database Server/Extensions directory is working properly. However when use Instand Web Publishing to access the same database I get the "?" for the version indicating that the plugin associated with the Web Services Engine is not working. I also note that I do not see any logs associated with the Web Services Engine Plugin in the following directory:

/Library/FileMaker Server/Library/Logs/360Works FM WPE/360Plugin.log

I do see logs for the 360PluginBridge and Plugin associated with Non web clients. These do not indicate any errors.

Is this a licensing issue? Does the Scriptmaker Plugin really require registration to run under the Web Publishing Engine? If so It does not seem to have any functions for registration like other 360 Works plugins and there does not seem to be a method for purchasing such license on the website.

[Jesse Barnum]

Hi Alchemy - it sounds like you have done everything right so far. I'm not sure why it's not working, but the fact that you have a 360PluginBridge.log but the 360Plugin.log file makes me think that the JVM is not starting. Do you have Java installed on the server? If not, install that and try again. If so, post your 360PluginBridge.log file here - there might be a clue in there about what's not working.

[alchemy]

Jesse,

This is running on an Xserve running Leopard Server 10.5.2 with Java configured as is out of the box. All other Java applications run fine.

I have two logs related to the 360Works Scriptmaker Plugin

I do have a 360Plugin.log at

/Library/FileMaker Server/Library/Logs/360Works FM Server/360Plugin.log

This log seems to be associated with Filemaker Clients and not Web enabled clients.

I do not have a 360Plugin.log at

/Library/FileMaker Server/Library/Logs/360Works FM WPE/360Plugin.log

The 360Works FM WPE directory does not exist on my machine.

The 360PluginBridge.log is found at:

/Library/FileMaker Server/Library/Logs/360PluginBridge.log

The contents of the 360PluginBridge.log I do have is listed below. From the pluginBundlePath It looks like this is pointing to the Plugin that is installed in the Extensions directory to serve Filemaker Clients rather than the Plugin that is installed in the Web Processing Engine Directory to serve web enabled clients:

pluginBundlePath: /Library/FileMaker Server/Database Server/Extensions/360Works_ScriptMaster.fmplugin/Contents/Resources

Unrecognized manifest key: Manifest-Version

Unrecognized manifest key: Ant-Version

Unrecognized manifest key: Created-By

Unrecognized manifest key: pluginClassName

*** INIT for FileMaker Pro Server at Tue Apr 22 17:43:48 2008

GetCreatedJavaVMs returned 0

No existing JVM found; creating one.

Received command to start JVM in thread -1329934336

Started thread to launch JVM

Starting JVM in thread -1317277696, is main thread? 0

Enabling headless mode

Finished creating JVM, signaling thread

Thread was signalled

fmkitUrl: file:///Library/FileMaker Server/Database Server/Extensions/360Works_ScriptMaster.fmplugin/Contents/Resources/Java/plugin.jar

---- Finished init for process (result 51) and detaching JVM---

*** SHUTDOWN ***

Shutdown complete

pluginBundlePath: /Library/FileMaker Server/Database Server/Extensions/360Works_ScriptMaster.fmplugin/Contents/Resources

Unrecognized manifest key: Manifest-Version

Unrecognized manifest key: Ant-Version

Unrecognized manifest key: Created-By

Unrecognized manifest key: pluginClassName

*** INIT for FileMaker Pro Server at Tue Apr 22 17:51:24 2008

GetCreatedJavaVMs returned 0

No existing JVM found; creating one.

Received command to start JVM in thread -1329934336

Started thread to launch JVM

Starting JVM in thread -1317277696, is main thread? 0

Enabling headless mode

Finished creating JVM, signaling thread

Thread was signalled

fmkitUrl: file:///Library/FileMaker Server/Database Server/Extensions/360Works_ScriptMaster.fmplugin/Contents/Resources/Java/plugin.jar

---- Finished init for process (result 51) and detaching JVM---

*** SHUTDOWN ***

Shutdown complete

pluginBundlePath: /Library/FileMaker Server/Database Server/Extensions/360Works_ScriptMaster.fmplugin/Contents/Resources

Unrecognized manifest key: Manifest-Version

Unrecognized manifest key: Ant-Version

Unrecognized manifest key: Created-By

Unrecognized manifest key: pluginClassName

*** INIT for FileMaker Pro Server at Tue Apr 22 18:32:37 2008

GetCreatedJavaVMs returned 0

No existing JVM found; creating one.

Received command to start JVM in thread -1329934336

Started thread to launch JVM

Starting JVM in thread -1317277696, is main thread? 0

Enabling headless mode

Finished creating JVM, signaling thread

Thread was signalled

fmkitUrl: file:///Library/FileMaker Server/Database Server/Extensions/360Works_ScriptMaster.fmplugin/Contents/Resources/Java/plugin.jar

---- Finished init for process (result 51) and detaching JVM---

*** SHUTDOWN ***

Shutdown complete

pluginBundlePath: /Library/FileMaker Server/Database Server/Extensions/360Works_ScriptMaster.fmplugin/Contents/Resources

Unrecognized manifest key: Manifest-Version

Unrecognized manifest key: Ant-Version

Unrecognized manifest key: Created-By

Unrecognized manifest key: pluginClassName

*** INIT for FileMaker Pro Server at Wed Apr 23 10:30:21 2008

GetCreatedJavaVMs returned 0

No existing JVM found; creating one.

Received command to start JVM in thread -1328869376

Started thread to launch JVM

Starting JVM in thread -1316745216, is main thread? 0

Enabling headless mode

Finished creating JVM, signaling thread

Thread was signalled

fmkitUrl: file:///Library/FileMaker Server/Database Server/Extensions/360Works_ScriptMaster.fmplugin/Contents/Resources/Java/plugin.jar

---- Finished init for process (result 51) and detaching JVM---

pluginBundlePath: /Library/FileMaker Server/Database Server/Extensions/360Works_ScriptMaster.fmplugin/Contents/Resources

Unrecognized manifest key: Manifest-Version

Unrecognized manifest key: Ant-Version

Unrecognized manifest key: Created-By

Unrecognized manifest key: pluginClassName

*** INIT for FileMaker Pro Server at Wed Apr 23 11:22:18 2008

GetCreatedJavaVMs returned 0

No existing JVM found; creating one.

Received command to start JVM in thread -1330999296

Started thread to launch JVM

Starting JVM in thread -1317277696, is main thread? 0

Enabling headless mode

Finished creating JVM, signaling thread

Thread was signalled

fmkitUrl: file:///Library/FileMaker Server/Database Server/Extensions/360Works_ScriptMaster.fmplugin/Contents/Resources/Java/plugin.jar

---- Finished init for process (result 51) and detaching JVM---

pluginBundlePath: /Library/FileMaker Server/Database Server/Extensions/360Works_ScriptMaster.fmplugin/Contents/Resources

Unrecognized manifest key: Manifest-Version

Unrecognized manifest key: Ant-Version

Unrecognized manifest key: Created-By

Unrecognized manifest key: pluginClassName

*** INIT for FileMaker Pro Server at Wed Apr 23 11:26:29 2008

GetCreatedJavaVMs returned 0

No existing JVM found; creating one.

Received command to start JVM in thread -1327804416

Started thread to launch JVM

Starting JVM in thread -1316212736, is main thread? 0

Enabling headless mode

Finished creating JVM, signaling thread

Thread was signalled

fmkitUrl: file:///Library/FileMaker Server/Database Server/Extensions/360Works_ScriptMaster.fmplugin/Contents/Resources/Java/plugin.jar

---- Finished init for process (result 51) and detaching JVM---

*** SHUTDOWN ***

Shutdown complete

pluginBundlePath: /Library/FileMaker Server/Database Server/Extensions/360Works_ScriptMaster.fmplugin/Contents/Resources

Unrecognized manifest key: Manifest-Version

Unrecognized manifest key: Ant-Version

Unrecognized manifest key: Created-By

Unrecognized manifest key: pluginClassName

*** INIT for FileMaker Pro Server at Wed Apr 23 12:10:51 2008

GetCreatedJavaVMs returned 0

No existing JVM found; creating one.

Received command to start JVM in thread -1329934336

Started thread to launch JVM

Starting JVM in thread -1317277696, is main thread? 0

Enabling headless mode

Finished creating JVM, signaling thread

Thread was signalled

fmkitUrl: file:///Library/FileMaker Server/Database Server/Extensions/360Works_ScriptMaster.fmplugin/Contents/Resources/Java/plugin.jar

---- Finished init for process (result 51) and detaching JVM---

*** SHUTDOWN ***

Shutdown complete

pluginBundlePath: /Library/FileMaker Server/Database Server/Extensions/360Works_ScriptMaster.fmplugin/Contents/Resources

Unrecognized manifest key: Manifest-Version

Unrecognized manifest key: Ant-Version

Unrecognized manifest key: Created-By

Unrecognized manifest key: pluginClassName

*** INIT for FileMaker Pro Server at Wed Apr 23 12:15:13 2008

GetCreatedJavaVMs returned 0

No existing JVM found; creating one.

Received command to start JVM in thread -1329934336

Started thread to launch JVM

Starting JVM in thread -1317277696, is main thread? 0

Enabling headless mode

Finished creating JVM, signaling thread

Thread was signalled

fmkitUrl: file:///Library/FileMaker Server/Database Server/Extensions/360Works_ScriptMaster.fmplugin/Contents/Resources/Java/plugin.jar

---- Finished init for process (result 51) and detaching JVM---

*** SHUTDOWN ***

Shutdown complete

pluginBundlePath: /Library/FileMaker Server/Database Server/Extensions/360Works_ScriptMaster.fmplugin/Contents/Resources

Unrecognized manifest key: Manifest-Version

Unrecognized manifest key: Ant-Version

Unrecognized manifest key: Created-By

Unrecognized manifest key: pluginClassName

*** INIT for FileMaker Pro Server at Wed Apr 23 12:38:12 2008

GetCreatedJavaVMs returned 0

No existing JVM found; creating one.

Received command to start JVM in thread -1329401856

Started thread to launch JVM

Starting JVM in thread -1317277696, is main thread? 0

Enabling headless mode

Finished creating JVM, signaling thread

Thread was signalled

fmkitUrl: file:///Library/FileMaker Server/Database Server/Extensions/360Works_ScriptMaster.fmplugin/Contents/Resources/Java/plugin.jar

---- Finished init for process (result 51) and detaching JVM---

*** SHUTDOWN ***

Shutdown complete

pluginBundlePath: /Library/FileMaker Server/Database Server/Extensions/360Works_ScriptMaster.fmplugin/Contents/Resources

Unrecognized manifest key: Manifest-Version

Unrecognized manifest key: Ant-Version

Unrecognized manifest key: Created-By

Unrecognized manifest key: pluginClassName

*** INIT for FileMaker Pro Server at Wed Apr 23 16:27:53 2008

GetCreatedJavaVMs returned 0

No existing JVM found; creating one.

Received command to start JVM in thread -1329934336

Started thread to launch JVM

Starting JVM in thread -1317277696, is main thread? 0

Enabling headless mode

Finished creating JVM, signaling thread

Thread was signalled

fmkitUrl: file:///Library/FileMaker Server/Database Server/Extensions/360Works_ScriptMaster.fmplugin/Contents/Resources/Java/plugin.jar

---- Finished init for process (result 51) and detaching JVM---

*** SHUTDOWN ***

Shutdown complete

pluginBundlePath: /Library/FileMaker Server/Database Server/Extensions/360Works_ScriptMaster.fmplugin/Contents/Resources

Unrecognized manifest key: Manifest-Version

Unrecognized manifest key: Ant-Version

Unrecognized manifest key: Created-By

Unrecognized manifest key: pluginClassName

*** INIT for FileMaker Pro Server at Wed Apr 23 16:49:03 2008

GetCreatedJavaVMs returned 0

No existing JVM found; creating one.

Received command to start JVM in thread -1329934336

Started thread to launch JVM

Starting JVM in thread -1317277696, is main thread? 0

Enabling headless mode

Finished creating JVM, signaling thread

Thread was signalled

fmkitUrl: file:///Library/FileMaker Server/Database Server/Extensions/360Works_ScriptMaster.fmplugin/Contents/Resources/Java/plugin.jar

---- Finished init for process (result 51) and detaching JVM---

*** SHUTDOWN ***

Shutdown complete

pluginBundlePath: /Library/FileMaker Server/Database Server/Extensions/360Works_ScriptMaster.fmplugin/Contents/Resources

Unrecognized manifest key: Manifest-Version

Unrecognized manifest key: Ant-Version

Unrecognized manifest key: Created-By

Unrecognized manifest key: pluginClassName

*** INIT for FileMaker Pro Server at Wed Apr 23 17:21:52 2008

GetCreatedJavaVMs returned 0

No existing JVM found; creating one.

Received command to start JVM in thread -1333129216

Started thread to launch JVM

Starting JVM in thread -1309220864, is main thread? 0

Enabling headless mode

Finished creating JVM, signaling thread

Thread was signalled

fmkitUrl: file:///Library/FileMaker Server/Database Server/Extensions/360Works_ScriptMaster.fmplugin/Contents/Resources/Java/plugin.jar

---- Finished init for process (result 51) and detaching JVM---

*** SHUTDOWN ***

Shutdown complete

pluginBundlePath: /Library/FileMaker Server/Database Server/Extensions/360Works_ScriptMaster.fmplugin/Contents/Resources

Unrecognized manifest key: Manifest-Version

Unrecognized manifest key: Ant-Version

Unrecognized manifest key: Created-By

Unrecognized manifest key: pluginClassName

*** INIT for FileMaker Pro Server at Wed Apr 23 17:22:13 2008

GetCreatedJavaVMs returned 0

No existing JVM found; creating one.

Received command to start JVM in thread -1329934336

Started thread to launch JVM

Starting JVM in thread -1317277696, is main thread? 0

Enabling headless mode

Finished creating JVM, signaling thread

Thread was signalled

fmkitUrl: file:///Library/FileMaker Server/Database Server/Extensions/360Works_ScriptMaster.fmplugin/Contents/Resources/Java/plugin.jar

---- Finished init for process (result 51) and detaching JVM---

[Jesse Barnum]

I've tested to make sure that it works correctly in IWP on our FileMaker Server 9 Advanced config (it does). Have you stopped and started the Web Publishing Engine since you installed it? You'll need to do that in case you haven't already.

This seems like an unusual problem - is there any way to get remote access to the server to take a look? Please feel free to contact me by phone at 770-234-9293.

[alchemy]

Jesse,

Restarting the Web Server Engine explicitly solved the problem. I had been starting or stopping the FileMaker Database Server or rebooting the Xserve. Thanks so much for your prompt service.

--Michael

[email protected]

The Molecular Foundry

Biological Nanostructures Facility

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

[Jesse Barnum]

Rebooting the XServe should have had the same effect, but I'm glad it's working :-)