Import metadata using owb java api

Question

Hi,
We are working on a tool to atomize some OWB projects and therefore we chosen to use the OWB java api. Now we wanted to import oracle tables metadata into our new created project,
the problem is that is not very clear how to do it. We tryed using classes like ActionPlanCmdExecuter or ImportActionPlanCmdExecuter but with no success.
Is there anybody who did this before and can point me in the right direction?
Regards and have a nice holiday,
Cipi

Answer 1

Hi
There are a couple of options;
1. You can just write the code as an OMB script, since the OMB runs in a JACL container you can intermix OMB and java.
See the java:: commands which you can use to invoke java from within tcl;
http://tcljava.sourceforge.net/docs/TclJava/contents.html
2. There is an OMBEngine class that lets you execute OMB commands from within java that works like the following;
import oracle.owb.scripting.OMBEngine;
import tcl.lang.TclObject;
import tcl.lang.TclList;
* This is an example showing some basic use of <code>OMBEngine</code> class.
* It executes several OMBPlus commands through <code>OMBEngine</code>. For
* most commands it just display the result. For one OMBLIST command, it also
* loops through the elements in the return list, and displays them one by one.
public class OMBEngineExample1
public static void main(String args[]) {
try {
OMBEngine engine = new OMBEngine();
String rslt = engine.executeStr("OMBCONNECT IM_DESIGNER/xxxx@localhost:1521:ora112");
System.out.println("OMBCONNECT result: " + rslt);
rslt = engine.executeStr("OMBLIST PROJECTS");
System.out.println("OMBLIST PROJECTS result: " + rslt);
rslt = engine.executeStr("OMBCC 'MY_PROJECT'");
System.out.println("OMBCC result: " + rslt);
TclObject objRslt = engine.execute("OMBLIST ORACLE_MODULES");
System.out.println("OMBLIST ORACLE_MODULES result as string: " + objRslt);
// now get each object from the list and print it individually...
System.out.println("OMBLIST ORACLE_MODULES result as list of TclObject:");
for (int i = 0; i < TclList.getLength(engine.getInterp(),objRslt); i++) {
TclObject to = TclList.index(engine.getInterp(), objRslt, i);
System.out.println(" Object " + i + ": " + to);
rslt = engine.executeStr("OMBDISCONNECT");
System.out.println("OMBDISCONNECT result: " + rslt);
System.exit(0);
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
System.exit(1);
Happy New Year to you too! Excuse my late reply!
Cheers
David