File Name Case Sensitivity in JDeveloper

A few months back I discovered that I could not create and compile an application on our common network drive because it forced all file names to uppercase. (Gotta love VMS). JDeveloper would get a compile error on the app_name-jazn-data.xml file. We put in a TAR on the issue, which Oracle was more than able to recreate. Solution was not to use a drive that forced everything to uppercase. Since JDeveloper creates the .xml file in question, I could not modify the name of it in any code. I was able to create and compile an application on our common web application network drive though without problems. This drive forces everything to lowercase. (Gotta love Unix)
In creating ADF Business Components and a JSF JSP, I found that JDeveloper creates the file names in both upper and lower case and it adheres to this in the application. Thus I am unable to compile my .java files on our common web application network drive. I recreated the application on my C: drive without problems.
Since I do not create these files or enter anything in to create them, I currently have no control over how JDeveloper creates them.
Is there something in JDeveloper that I can modify so that all file names will be in a particular case? Or, is there somewhere the file names are stored so that they can be changed?
We really want to use JDeveloper for our development, but have some major deployment problems because of this issue.
Thanx
Pam

I am probably missing a point here, but mixed case is not a feature or bug in JDeveloper. Any other Java IDE will do the same. If you want to use ADF BC, ADF Faces, etc. you must be able to create and save files with mixed case names. Many of those files are generated by JDeveloper, and sometimes you have no control over their names
There must be something wrong with your mapped drive on the unix machine... Why istalling and developing everything on your local drive is not an option?
Sorry, may be I just don't get it
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c001803
Ok, after reading this thread one more time, I probably understand the issue. You use the shared network drive for team development, right? and you want all the sources to be accessible by the team, right? If this is the case, then CVS is the answer to your problem , as mentioned in the previous post. You may want to google cvs, to learn more about team development environment, and its integration with Jdeveloper and other IDEs

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