Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Database Connection in ADF BC 11g

My colleague was facing ADF BC development question and asked me to help. He sent me whole application, so I was able to open it directly with my local JDeveloper 11g. While investigating actual question, I noticed strange behavior in ADF BC. For example, attribute types were not recognized and I was getting log messages - oracle.jbo.domain.Number not found.

I started to dig more and I saw that Number type is displayed as oracle.jbo.domain.Number, usually it is shown just as Number:



I opened attribute editor, and I saw that type list gives only small set of types, Number type is not available:



Thats was strange and I was a bit frustrated. I realized that database connection is not defined and it might be a reason for this strange problem:



Database connection wasn't present because my colleague was using IDE level connection. I defined HrDS connection locally:



After IDE restart, it started to work properly - Number type was recognized again:



And types list was showing all available types:



This means, missing database connection definition was causing direct impact on ADF BC development.  If you will face same issue, make sure following files are present inside your application - .adf/META-INF/connections.xml, src/META-INF/cwallet.sso and src/META-INF/jps-config.xml.

Download sample application with database connection files in place - DatabaseConnectionADFBC.zip.

By the way, original question received from my colleague was solved as well ;-)
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5 comments:

  1. Steve MuenchDecember 23, 2009 at 3:42 PM

    Are you able to reproduce the problem again by deleting the database connection in an application that was previously working correctly at design time?

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  2. Andrej BaranovskijDecember 23, 2009 at 3:50 PM

    Hi Steve,

    Yes, if database connection is deleted, same problem is reproduced.

    Regards,
    Andrejus

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  3. Maniesh (Sid)March 3, 2010 at 4:29 PM

    I am facing the same problem though i have database connection in place. Infact this problem persists only on my instance of JDeveloper (11.1.1.2.0).
    When i create a new new Entity Objects the default datatypes are BigDecimal & java.sql.Date. Other people working on the same ADF application doesn't face this issue. I tried deleting system directory but that didn't help either.

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  4. Maniesh Sailoz (sid)March 3, 2010 at 11:53 PM

    The issue was solved.

    http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=4139808#4139808

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  5. Andrej BaranovskijMarch 4, 2010 at 8:12 AM

    Thanks for following up, it seems couple of issues are related to this problem.

    Regards,
    Andrejus

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