Can't save a connection on SQL Developer 1.5

Question

I just installed SQL Dev 1.5. The first time I run it all was fine. The second time it was giving me severe errors.
The first one was 'failed to create naming Context for db connections at url: file:/C:/Documents and Settings/thatzi/Application Data/SQL Developer/system1.5.0.53.38/o.jdeveloper.db.connection.11.1.1.0.22.49.35/connections.xml'.
The second one was 'DatabaseConnections has no JNDI context so cannot list connections.'
After I deleted the 'C:/Documents and Settings/thatzi/Application Data/SQL Developer' directory I was able to run the app one more time, but had the same problem next time I run the app.
There must be a way to fix this. Can anybody help?

Answer 1

I can save new connections to my existing connections.xml file, and I can save to a new connections file. I just can't save existing connections.
I looked at the xml for the old version, and compared to the new version, and they are quite different. I tried deleting the system1.5.1.54.40\o.jdeveloper.db.connection.11.1.1.0.22.49.35 directory, so it would ask me about migrating old settings again, and this time I selected the directory for the previous version, 1.5.0.53.38. The connections weren't migrated. Apparently I can't save the existing connections because the old connections.xml format is not valid. How can I migrate/convert my old connections file to work in the new version. For all I know, this could have been an existing problem from when I converted from 1.2. This is just the first time I've had an occasion to change connection info, so I might be using a connections.xml file from 1.2.
Here is one of my connection xml configs that I am unable to update:
<Reference className="oracle.jdeveloper.db.adapter.DatabaseProvider" name="DB1">
<Factory className="oracle.jdeveloper.db.adapter.DatabaseProviderFactory"/>
<RefAddresses>
<StringRefAddr addrType="subtype">
<Contents>oraJDBC</Contents>
</StringRefAddr>
<StringRefAddr addrType="user">
<Contents>myuser_id</Contents>
</StringRefAddr>
<StringRefAddr addrType="password">
<Contents>myPassword</Contents>
</StringRefAddr>
<StringRefAddr addrType="SavePassword">
<Contents>true</Contents>
</StringRefAddr>
<StringRefAddr addrType="DeployPassword">
<Contents>false</Contents>
</StringRefAddr>
<StringRefAddr addrType="driver">
<Contents>oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver</Contents>
</StringRefAddr>
<StringRefAddr addrType="customUrl">
<Contents>jdbc:oracle:thin:@ (DESCRIPTION= (ADDRESS_LIST= (ADDRESS= (PROTOCOL=TCP) (HOST=NNN.NNN.NNN.NNN) (PORT=NNNNN) ) ) (CONNECT_DATA= (SID=db1) ) )</Contents>
</StringRefAddr>
<StringRefAddr addrType="oraDriverType">
<Contents>thin</Contents>
</StringRefAddr>
</RefAddresses>
</Reference>