Create FMX at a custom path

Question

Hi!
We are migrating from forms 6i to forms 11g (wow, earlier adopters lol).
So we are setting up a new develpment environment.
Let me try to explain how we expect our environment to work.
We use subversion. Even with the FMB files. So, we do not share a network drive to store the FMB.
These files are stored locally and they are commited to a subversion repository.
Until now, we had no problem, cause we were still in forms 6i so we had no need for a weblogic server.
Now we are upgrading our forms.
We do not want that each developer´s computer to run it´s own instance of weblogic. Too heavy.
We want to share a weblogic server (We already have this server working fine).
We also do not want to abandon subversion.
So we need to have the FMB files on local computer and the FMX files at a network drive (mapped from the weblogic server).
And we do not want to manually copy the FMX files to the network drive every time we change something.
There is a way to configure forms so the FMX files are created in a different directory than the FMB files?
Thanks.

Answer 1

Christian Erlinger escreveu:
It would help if you could indicate the exact version you are planning to use. In the end you'll need to install weblogic on your development machines, as otherwise you wouldn't have forms builder available. And as far as the heavy is concerned: for Forms 11gR2 there is a development version available, which has a much smaller impact as the full blown deployment installation.
Forms [64 Bit] Version 11.1.2.2.0 (Production)
Weblogic: 10.3.6.0
I didn´t know about development version of weblogic. I will see if my version allow it.
We already have weblogic installed. But one thing is to have it installed as requirement. Another is to run it.
Having forms on a smb share is...somehow suboptimal, as you'd add another layer of complexity which is not needed or wanted. Why not have a job on your application server which checks out your working copy, and compiles all your forms sources directly on your application server? You'd need to have some build file somewhere in subversion to build your local working copy; you'd just need to call it in a cronjob directly on your server. At least this is what we do for some years now to automagically push changes on a certain set of test application servers to do continuous tests, and it works just fine.
Just to be clear: weblogic will not use a network share. It will provide it.
I do not want my FMB in a network share either. I want the FMX to be placed in the network share (that is a local directory for the weblogic).
So when I click at "Run Form" button, My form will open in my browser as it would if i was using a local weblogic with local directories.
The job is not a good idea for a development environment, For a test or even a production site, ok, but for a development it will slow down productivity.
I thought about. Just imagine: You make a change in forms builder. Compile it and create the FMX. than you have to wait for the job to copy the files to the server.
Just count: 1...2...3...4......60. No way! I´m trying to make this a "online" environment.
Even if i make a batch to copy the files, it will be a boring unnecessary, i hope avoidable, step.
I thought about looking for a "file change" monitor that would make it almost instant.
But if i could make the fmx to be created in a custom path, I won´t need it.
Using a local instance of weblogic, is very productive. I change the fmb, than i click at "Run Form" and, voilà, i see it in my firefox.
What I want is the same behavior, but using a remote weblogic with my FMBs in my local computer.