CG_REF_CODES Fail to generate in Designer Generator

Question

When generating domains from designer, CG_REF_CODES is being used to store dynamic domains.
JHeadstart seems to have a problem with CG_REF_CODES. There isn't any component generated to use the CG_REF_CODES. We created the business component for the CG_REF_CODES manually. This results in a Business Component where a rowid as primary key is added to the fields. When we start to use the designer generator, everything works fine. After that, with the application generator the processing stops immediately. Even if we pull out all the references from the module to CG_REF_CODES, this fails when applying the application generator.
Some notes must be made:
1. The forms in Designer are Headstart Forms, which means the forms were originally generated by Headstart and afterwards they were modified by the developer. We know this is not very correct, but this is what we have at the moment.
2. The forms can be found as source file only.
3. Through reverse engineering a module is generated from the src form file.
We have some questions:
1. Does JHeadstart work with reverse engineered forms, which were originally created with Headstart ?
2. Does JHeadstart work with reverse engineered forms anyhow ?
3. What's the deal with CG_REF_CODES ?
We spoke to Ton van Kooten (Oracle Netherlands) and he asked us to post this message.
So we did.
Hope to hear from you soon

Answer 1

Rokesh,
The answer to questions 1 and 2 is yes. JHeadstart reads the designer metadata, it doesn't care how this metadata is created.
Dynamic domains in CG_REF_CODES are migrated by the JDG to a static domain defined in DomainDefinitions.xml.
You can change this after running the JDG as you suggested:
- create View Objects for each domain in CG_REF_CODES (with the where clause filtering on the domain name)
- In the Application Structure editor create a Lookup element on the attribute that should have the dynamic domain. In the Lookup element you can specify the appropriate domain ViewObject
- Remove the static domain reference created by the JDG: open the JHeadstart BC4J property editor on the ViewObject, select the attribute that should have the dynamic domain and clear the "Domain" property.
I am not sure the problem you have with runing the JAG is related to CG_REF_CODES. Can you try it with a fresh migration:
- create new project
- run the JDG
- run the JAG
- compile and run the application
Does that work?
Steven Davelaar.