Changing Database connection on webservice deployment

Hi All,
I am having a problem changing the Database connection when deploying a PL/SQL generated webservice.
What I have done is to use the WebService wizard to create a webservice based on a database Pl/SQL procedure. During this you have to specify the database connection (which initially is our dev server).
When I come to deploy the service to our production platform I want to change the database descriptor name to point to an existing App Server data source.
This is the problem - the Database Connection information is protected in the properties of the webservice - which means I cannot deploy to our production platform with the connection names I need.
I can change the names of the Connections defined in the Connections tab - but then I cannot access the webservice in JDev.
Everytime I deploy to our production platform I keep getting the development data sources created.
Basically I need to develop a PL/SQL webservice using a Development connection (with a unique connection name), and then deploy to a production application server (10g AS) with a different connection name that points at our production env.
I could create generic names, but that then would make my development system very confusing with the potential of messing up the production platform.
Anyone got any ideas????
Thanks and Regards
Neil

When you deploy the web service to the app server, if the connection to the other database is available from JDev at deployment time, the data sources xml file should be set up correctly with the db connection info. Otherwise this will have to be modified by hand on the app server to contain the connection details for the other DB.
There are 3 files that will also have to be hand modified to reflect the different db connection details. 2 deployment descriptors, web.xml and oracle-webservices.xml which have references to the connection's jndi name, and also one of the JPublisher generated classes (the one whose name ends in 'Base') also has references to the jndi name (to look up the connection from the data source file) which will have to be modified, recompiled and redeployed.
The simplest way to change the connection would actually be to leave everything alone and just modify the data sources xml file on the server such that the same jndi lookup points to a new connection, but it looks like the customer wants to change the name as well.
An alternative to all this hand editing is to regenerate the service against the producion DB connection, test & then deploy the service.
dai
JDev devt. team

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