Deployments of BC4J using Jdeveloper3.2 on Oracle9i AS

Question

I would like to know the deployment proceedures of deploying a BC4J to Oracle 9iAS. At present i am trying deploying BC4J from Jdeveloper directly to an oracle8i.
In future 8i is going to be used as a database with 9i as an application server.
Would appreciate the help put forth,
David.

Answer 1

David,
Here is a document that describes the steps in detail, following the online orders example in JDev 3.2.
Hope this helps,
Lynn
Java Tools Team
IAS 1.0.1 Installation On NT or 2000
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You do not have to do an enterprise installation of IAS to make a jsp
application works. IAS enterprise editions includes Forms, Reports, Discoverer,
Oracle HTtp Server.
For running a jsp application created by oracle Jdeveloper you can just install
Oracle Http Server which is going to take about 250 MB space in your hard drive.
This is the first option Of IAS installation.
Accept all default, when asked for creating Directory Service
(Oracle Internet Directory), ignore this step. You can however
create a local net8 service to test with sql plus. IAS comes in two cds,
you will have to restart your machine when the first cd finishes,
then you will be asked to insert the second cd. after successfully
finishing the installtion, Apache http server will start automatically.
to test it, type the ip address of your machine in any browser http://ipAddress
(no port is needed to be entered)
you should see ORACLE HTTP SERVER default page.
Note: You can install IAS to any directory you want . normally it will
be in Oracle\IAS.
Sample JSP Application
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For this demo, we will use Online Auction Sample.
This sample comes with jdeveloper 3.1 or 3.1.1.2 installation under
samples\bc4j directory.
Open jdeveloper and go to FILE\OPEN and navigate to the samples directory
of jdeveloper to select the bc4jauctions.jws
When you open this worspace, you will see 4 projects related to each other.
(businesslogic.jpr, hotbids.jpr, jsps.jpr,setup.jpr)
Before talking about IAS here, you need to open setup.jpr and go to
BC4JAuctions.html to learn about how to run this sample in jdeveloper.
Before compiling, you need to go to jsps.jpr and open the jsp source files
and remove this statement from the IMPORT section:
oracle.jbo.common.appmgr.*,
if you left it, it will work in jdeveloper, but when you run it in the web
server, it will generate some errors that it will not be able to resolve
the appmgr.* classes.
this import is not needed.
Deploying to Sample to IAS 1.0.1
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After compiling and running successfully the jsp application in jdeveloper
follow the following steps:
after IAS installation, your IAS_home might look like this:
C:\Oracle\iAS
1. go to C:\Oracle\iAS\Apache\Apache\htdocs and create a folder.
Name that folder auctionDemo.
2. in Jdeveloper, select jsps.jpr and go to Project menu \ Deploy \
new Deployment Profile.
in the deployment wizard, click next and select Web Application to Web server
from the drop down list.
in step 2 of 6, browse to C:\Oracle\iAS\Apache\Apache\htdocs\auctionDemo,
(still in step 2 of 6) From file to deploy, check buildjsps.
This will deploy all the jsp and html file plus the webbeans classes,
click next, accept the defaults.
in step 5 of 6 , click next without moving the files
(this is needed only for applets),
in step 6 of 6 move all project libraries to deployed libraries,
click next then FINISH.
click YES to deploy.
After this C:\Oracle\iAS\Apache\Apache\htdocs\auctionDemo directory
will have all the following files in it:
including a folder that will be generated by the wizard.
the name of the folder is bc4jauctions and this will contain
another folder called buildjsps in which all the jsp files will be included.
jsps.jar: this contains the jsp files and the webbeans class files
Jdeveloper libraries: use winzip utility to jar these files into one
jar file and call it jdevLib.jar.
the files that need to be jarred are :
aurora_client.jar
classes12.zip
connectionmanager.zip
javax_ejb.zip
jbohtml.zip
jbojdbcpatch.zip
jbomt.zip
jboo8i.zip
jbooorasql.zip
jboremote.zip
jboremoteejb.zip
jdev-rt.zip
jndi.jar
ojc.jar
ojsp.jar
runtime.zip
servlet.jar
vbjorb.jar
vbjapp.jar
xmlparser2.jar
3. copy connections.properties file to auctionDemo. make sure you open
this file in notepad and see if the auction connection is there.
4.copy package1_Package1Module.properties file from jdeveloper_home\samples
\bc4j\bc4jauctions to
C:\Oracle\iAS\Apache\Apache\htdocs\auctionDemo
5.in jdeveloper select businesslogic.jpr and go to project menu\deploy\
new deployment profile.
choose to deploy as a simple archive, click next. when asked about the archive
path , browse to C:\Oracle\iAS\Apache\Apache\htdocs\auctionDemo,
the name of the jar file will be businesslogic.jar
click next, finish then accept to deploy
6. For the images that the jsp application is using , you need to point
to webapp folder that contains them. therefore create a folder in
C:\Oracle\iAS\Apache\Apache\htdocs and call it bc4jauctions.
copy webapp folder from jdeveloper_home\samples\bc4j\bc4jauctions\webapp to
C:\Oracle\iAS\Apache\Apache\htdocs\bc4jauctions
Note: right now, your folder C:\Oracle\iAS\Apache\Apache\htdocs\auctionDemo
should contain the following files:
*)jsps.jar
*)jdevLib.jar
*)businesslogic.jar
*)connections.properties
*)package1_Package1Module.properties
*)and a folder named bc4jauctions (wich has another folder called buildjsps)
7. you need to set the classpath to point to the above jar files.
to do this you need to modify the jserv.properties file of the http server.
Note: you might find duplicate jser.properties file, make sure to go to
the properties of the file by right clicking on jserv file (located in
C:\Oracle\iAS\Apache\Jserv\Conf)
and make sure that it says in TYPE of FILE: Properies file. that is the one
you need to edit.
open jserv.properties file and add these lines in wrapper.classpath section
wrapper.classpath=C:\Oracle\iAS\Apache\Apache\htdocs\auctionDemo
wrapper.classpath=C:\Oracle\iAS\Apache\Apache\htdocs\auctionDemo\jdevLib.jar
wrapper.classpath=C:\Oracle\iAS\Apache\Apache\htdocs\auctionDemo\connections.properties
wrapper.classpath=C:\Oracle\iAS\Apache\Apache\htdocs\auctionDemo\package1_Package1Module.properties
wrapper.classpath=C:\Oracle\iAS\Apache\Apache\htdocs\auctionDemo\businesslogic.jar
wrapper.classpath=C:\Oracle\iAS\Apache\Apache\htdocs\auctionDemo\jsps.jar
remember that the main.jsp is inside C:\Oracle\iAS\Apache\Apache\htdocs\
auctionDemo\bc4jauctions\buildjsps
therefore to run this sample in IAS, make sure first that the Oracle Http
Server is running.If it is not running, go to the START menu
\PROGRAMS\Oracle-iAs Home\Oracle Http Server click on
start Http server powered by Apache
8. To run the auction sample in the browser, open netscape or Internet explorer
and type the following URL: http://yourIpAddress/auctionDemo/bc4jauctions/buildjsps/main.jsp
Now you can Play with it.
Cool, isn't it?
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