Deploy a custom taskflow to WebCenter Spaces

Question

Hi All,
Weblogic Server: 10.3.5
JDeveloper: 11.1.1.6
OS: Windows 7
I'm current trying to upload a custom ADF taskflow that i've created in JDeveloper to Oracle WebCenter Spaces. I have followed the Oracle Support Note Doc ID 1362187.1 (How to Create a Task Flow in JDeveloper and Deploy to WebCenter Spaces), it was extremley helpful but having issues extending Spaces, which includes my customer taskflow which is deployed as a library.
Oracle WebCenter Spaces is up and running
1) Initially that the Ant Scripts supplied does not complete successfully in particular the "Clean-Stage" and "Deployed-Shared-Library".
     Clean-Stage is now at a stage where it failed with the following error message:
BUILD FAILED*
C:\jdev\Sandpit11.1.1.6\mywork\DesignWebCenterSpaces\WebCenterSpacesExtensionLibrary\internal-targets.xml:77: if doesn't support the nested "isgreaterthan" element.*
I believe it has something to do with the version of ant-contrib but can't quite get it to work. Other various blogs and posts talk about AntContrib requires version 1.5 or above, I believe jdeveloper is using 1.7.1. I'm also currently using ant-contrib-1.0b3. I've also tried using ant-contrib-1.0b2 but that doesn't work either.. So how is this Ant Script meant to work if the error message is that the IF statement doesn't support nested "isgreaterthan"?
2) deploy-shared-lib Ant Script
This is was major headache and still doesn't work properly. I'm current at the error message below
No stack trace available.*
*+[exec] Current Status of your Deployment:+*
*+[exec] Deployment command type: deploy+*
*+[exec] Deployment State : failed+*
*+[exec] Deployment Message : weblogic.deploy.api.spi.exceptions.ServerConnectionException: [J2EE Deployment SPI:260041]Unable to upload 'C:\jdev\Sandpit11.1.1.6\mywork\DesignWebCenterSpaces\WebCenterSpacesExtensionLibrary\exploded\extend.spaces.webapp.war' to 't3://wcaptst01:7001'+*
3) I kinda gave up using the Ant Scripts cleaning deploying autmatically, so i decided to create a deployment profile and deploy it the usual way. I can deploy the new shared library to the Weblogic server ok and it can see it as per Oracle Support Note DOC ID 1362187.1 but the issue arises when i try to restart the Spaces Managed Server in the Enterprize Manager... the container starts up the Spaces application will not load causing an error:
+Caused By: weblogic.management.DeploymentException: Error: Unresolved Webapp Library references for "ServletContext@424697505[app:webcenter module:/wcsdocs path:/wcsdocs spec-version:2.5 version:11.1.1.4.0]", defined in weblogic.xml [Extension-Name: MotoringBookServiceTaskFlowLib, exact-match: false]+*
When i log into the Weblogic Server Console, i can see the *MotoringBookServiceTaskFlowLib* as a "Type" of Library..
Any assitance with any of the points above would be most appreciated!
Edited by: Eddie Phan on Jan 4, 2013 3:20 PM

Answer 1

Have you created the datasource on your weblogic server? The error means that you do not have created the datasource on your server.
based upon the name, it is the default JDev creates. Best what you can do is create a jndi name yourself and then edit the datacontrol so it will use the jndi name.
In order to create a jndi in weblogic, go to your console:
http://localhost:7001/console (this is for my local machine)
From the left menu you can find the data source in "Services" => JDBC => Data sources
Create a new one and give it a JNDI name for example "jdbc/TSTDS"
Make sure you also set the target of the data source. If you aren't using the latest version you have to edit your datasource after creation and select the target tab and select which server you want to use the datasource on. If you are using the latest version you will be asked to select the target.
You than have to edit the configuration of your datacontrols so they are using that source.
Make sure you select "JDBC DataSource" and not "JDBC URL". The datasource name must be the one you entered in the JNDI field. Exactly the same, it is case sensitive.
Hope this helps.