Deploying jdeveloper application to apps server fails

Question

I'm trying to deploy application from jdeveloper to apps server 10.1.2.02
connection to apps server is successful. but deployment fails with foll error
---- Deployment started. ---- Sep 10, 2007 4:51:49 PM
Target platform is Standard J2EE.
Wrote EJB JAR file to D:\Program\JDeveloper\jdev\mywork\HDFCCustWeb\website\deploy\ejb1.jar
Elapsed time for deployment: 1 second
---- Deployment finished. ---- Sep 10, 2007 4:51:50 PM
---- Deployment started. ---- Sep 10, 2007 4:54:37 PM
Target platform is Oracle Application Server 10g 10.1.2 (Windows) (howsora9).
Wrote EJB JAR file to D:\Program\JDeveloper\jdev\mywork\HDFCCustWeb\website\deploy\ejb1.jar
Wrote EAR file to D:\Program\JDeveloper\jdev\mywork\HDFCCustWeb\website\deploy\ejb1.ear
Invoking DCM servlet client...
D:\Program\JDeveloper\jdk\jre\bin\javaw.exe -Djava.protocol.handler.pkgs=HTTPClient -jar D:\Program\JDeveloper\jdev\lib\oc4j_remote_deploy.jar http://howsora9:18100/Oc4jDcmServletAPI/ ias_admin **** redeploy G:\Oraappsr2 D:\Program\JDeveloper\jdev\mywork\HDFCCustWeb\website\deploy\ejb1.ear hdfccustweb
Initializing log
Servlet interface for OC4J DCM commands
Command timeout defined at 600 seconds
Executing DCM command...
Executing command redeploy G:\Oraappsr2 D:\Program\JDeveloper\jdev\mywork\HDFCCustWeb\website\deploy\ejb1.ear hdfccustweb UNDEFINED
Command = REDEPLOY
Reading application's ear file
Ear file was successfully read
Opening connection to Oc4jDcmServlet
Setting userName to ias_admin
Sending command to DCM servlet
HTTP response code = 200, HTTP response msg = OK
Command was successfully sent to Oc4jDcmServlet
Receiving session id from servlet to check command status
Session id = 0a0000b746b40e54065c96c04298b795b7b5e8caef3b
Please, wait for command to finish...
Checking command status...
Setting userName to ias_admin
Setting Cookie to JSESSIONID=0a0000b746b40e54065c96c04298b795b7b5e8caef3b
Checking command status
HTTP response code = 200, HTTP response msg = OK
Command has finished
Receiving command exit value
Receiving command output
**** No output was received from command
Closing connection to Oc4jDcmServlet
#### DCM command did not complete successfully (-8)
#### HTTP return code was -8
Exit status of DCM servlet client: -8
Elapsed time for deployment: 13 seconds
#### Deployment incomplete. #### Sep 10, 2007 4:54:50 PM

Answer 1

Try deploying directly from the OAS EM Web interface - it might provide a more detailed error message.
If you are using JDev 10.1.3 my guess it might be that your deployment descriptor files are using J2EE 1.4 syntax instead of J2EE 1.3 syntax which is what OAS 10.1.2 expects.