Automated Deployment of OAF

Question

Hi Gurus
We have an automated way of deploying pkgs into database which would pick up the code from a version control system and compile it in the target database.
But now, we are developing some OAF pages which require unzipping the files on the server (which is fine).... and also requires the pages to be imported into the metadata manually from a client pc....
Is there a way to avoid this step like just bouncing the web server would help the pages (from the unzipped file) to get loaded into the metadata or someother command which we can use on the server ?
sorry if this is a newbie question....
Appreciate any help on this
Karthik

Answer 1

I tend to write install scripts for everything, so it can all be automated during a bulk build.
So, for PG and RN uploads to the database, I wrote the following shell script:
#!/bin/ksh
HOST=`tnsping $TWO_TASK | cut -d")" -f2 | cut -d"=" -f2 | tail -2`
PORT=`tnsping $TWO_TASK | cut -d")" -f3 | cut -d"=" -f2 | tail -2`
CONN="(description=(address_list=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=$HOST)(PORT=$PORT)))(CONNECT_DATA=(SID=$TWO_TASK)))"
ROOTDIR="$XX_TOP/java/"
echo "Connection=$CONN"
java -cp $CLASSPATH oracle.jrad.tools.xml.importer.XMLImporter DBCONNECTION="$CONN" USERNAME="APPS" PASSWORD="$1" rootdir="$ROOTDIR" $ROOTDIR"$2"
which i called XMLImport.sh
I can then call this for all my files as follows:
XMLImport.sh $PW_APPS "xx/oracle/apps/icx/por/req/webui/XXCheckoutUpdateSinglePG.xml"
XMLImport.sh $PW_APPS "xx/oracle/apps/ap/holds/wf/webui/XXApInvHoldsRN.xml"
XMLImport.sh $PW_APPS "xx/oracle/apps/icx/por/req/webui/XXCheckoutDistsPG.xml"
where $PW_APPS is the "apps" password.
I also wrote one to upload the JPX substitutions:
#!/bin/ksh
HOST=`tnsping $TWO_TASK | cut -d")" -f2 | cut -d"=" -f2 | tail -2`
PORT=`tnsping $TWO_TASK | cut -d")" -f3 | cut -d"=" -f2 | tail -2`
CONN="(description=(address_list=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=$HOST)(PORT=$PORT)))(CONNECT_DATA=(SID=$TWO_TASK)))"
ROOTDIR="$XX_TOP/java/"
echo "Connection=$CONN"
java -cp $CLASSPATH oracle.jrad.tools.xml.importer.JPXImporter $ROOTDIR"$2" -dbconnection "$CONN" -username "APPS" -password "$1"
Which you then call with:
JPXImport.sh $PW_APPS custom.jpx
Hope this helps...
Chris