Calling bounded task flows imported as ADF libraries

Question

Hello,
I have a main application referencing many bounded task flows included in ADF libraries.
Is there a way to make the application not throwing exceptions if one of these libraries including the called task flow is not found?
The first question is how to catch the exception "Caused by: oracle.adf.controller.ControllerException: ADFC-02001"
The second problem is that once an exception is thrown , the only way to make the application work again with that task flow is to redeploy the whole application with the missing library in the proper place.
It seems it is not possible to just add the library at run-time.
Redoplying an application also seems to invalidate all the current open sessions.
Could you give me suggestions or best practice on making the main application more indipendent from the libraries?
Thanks.

Answer 1

Hello Frank,
It seems there's no way to catch the exception thrown when dinamically calling a bounded task flow in a (missing) library. In facts, I added the single page of the main application as default exception handler activity. I also tried to catch ALL exceptions in the Launcher class below, but I had no luck at all. Task flows are called dinamically from this common piece of code (appropriate for the UI Shell template):
try {
if (newTab) {
TabContext.getCurrentInstance().addTab(title, taskflowId);
} else {
TabContext.getCurrentInstance().addOrSelectTab(title,
taskflowId);
} catch (TabContext.TabOverflowException toe) {
toe.handleDefault();
} catch (ControllerException ce) {
System.out.println("The flow arrives here " + title + ": " + taskflowId);
} catch (RuntimeException re) {
System.out.println("The flow arrives here " + title + ": " + taskflowId);
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println("The flow arrives here " + title + ": " + taskflowId);
I also tried to call the task flow in a remote application, but TabContext.getCurrentInstance().addTab(title, taskflowId) expects the taskflowid to be part of the main application, not of the remote app, since addTab() always add a "/" before the taskflowid String passes as parameter.
So again my question: is there a way to profit by the dynamic features coming along with the UI Shell template, where task flows can be really referenced and called each time at run-time, no matter if libraries containing these task flows are present or not when deploying the caller application?
I also repeat that from the tests I have done it looks like I can deploy the caller application without the referenced ADF libraries in their place (containing taskflows that should be called at run-time on user actions), but the problem in this case is that after that moment there's no way to fix the problem by just adding the missing library, that is you cannot place the library where it is expected to be and expect the caller to work after next call; this will just not work until next deploy of the calling application when libraries are in place . We also don't want completely separate web applications. We need task flows integration with the chance to modify and deploy these taskflows as ADF libraries at run time, separately from the caller of the taskflow, without needing to restart/deploy the caller application everytime a libraries changes or a missing library is added.