Importing bc4j from jar in project

Hi,
since we have a complex application, we want to group application modules logically into smaller modules (submodules), which must be combined to yield more complex modules. Every submodule lives in its own project, so reusing a submodule in a more complex project implies that that submodule must be imported into the project hosting the more complex appmodule.
Within a project, as soon as a BC4J module has been created (call it the "base module"), the "import business components" option becomes avaiable. With this, BC4J can be imported, e.g. from a jar file.
Everything works fine, as long as JDeveoper is not exited. The imported views, viewlinks, etc. can be used in the datamodel of the base module, and the tester runs neatly on the compex applicatoin module, as well for the native as for the imported views.
After the project has been rebuilt, everything has been saved, and JDev is exited, on restart, the imported BC package is still visible, but all views and links belonging to it are now gone, since an error occurs loading the BC4J xml file (strange since at first the xml file could obviously be parsed without problem). I include the error trace at the end of this message.
Even though an additional classpath to the imported jar file has been set, and a library containing the imported jar has been defined and added to the new project, the load error persists.
If the bc4j are not imported from jar, but directly, no such error occurs!
Is this a known problem (in Jdev 9.0.3.1035) and are there any workarounds?
Alex
Error trace:
oracle.jbo.dt.objects.JboException: XML load error. Line number: 1
Object: [name of imported bc4j xml file]
Project: [name of project files are imported to ]
Start of root element expected.
     void oracle.jbo.dt.objects.JboException.throwException(java.lang.String, oracle.jbo.dt.objects.JboNamedObject, java.lang.Throwable)
          JboException.java:81
     void oracle.jbo.dt.objects.JboPackage.loadFromXMLFile(java.net.URL, java.io.InputStream)
          JboPackage.java:727
     void oracle.jbo.dt.objects.JboBaseObject.loadFromXMLFile()
          JboBaseObject.java:1874
     void oracle.jbo.dt.objects.JboPackage.loadFromXMLFile()
          JboPackage.java:675
     void oracle.jbo.dt.objects.JboPackage.checkForLoad()
          JboPackage.java:363
     oracle.jbo.dt.objects.JboNamedObject oracle.jbo.dt.objects.JboPackage.findContainedObjectByName(java.lang.String)
          JboPackage.java:352
     oracle.jbo.dt.objects.JboNamedObject oracle.jbo.dt.objects.JboPackage.findObjectByName(java.lang.String)
          JboPackage.java:1480
     oracle.jbo.dt.objects.JboNamedObject oracle.jbo.dt.objects.JboApplication.findContainerChildObject(oracle.jbo.dt.objects.JboPackage, java.lang.String)
          JboApplication.java:733
     oracle.jbo.dt.objects.JboNamedObject oracle.jbo.dt.objects.JboApplication.findObjectByName(java.lang.String)
          JboApplication.java:642
     oracle.jbo.dt.objects.JboNamedObject oracle.jbo.dt.objects.JboApplication.findObjectByName(java.lang.String, oracle.jbo.dt.objects.JboPackage)
          JboApplication.java:614
     void oracle.jbo.dt.objects.JboObjectReference.loadResolveReferencesXML(oracle.jbo.dt.objects.JboBaseObject)
          JboObjectReference.java:179
     oracle.jbo.dt.objects.JboNamedObject oracle.jbo.dt.objects.JboObjectReference.getReferencedObjectInternal(oracle.jbo.dt.objects.JboBaseObject)
          JboObjectReference.java:89
     oracle.jbo.dt.objects.JboView oracle.jbo.dt.objects.JboViewReference.getView()
          JboViewReference.java:53
     java.lang.String oracle.jbo.dt.objects.JboViewReference.getImageLoc(boolean)
          JboViewReference.java:205
     void oracle.jbo.dt.objects.JboAppModule.addStructurePaneNodes(oracle.jbo.dt.system.SysStructureNode)
          JboAppModule.java:1372
     oracle.jbo.dt.system.SysStructureNode oracle.jbo.dt.objects.JboBaseObject.getStructurePaneNode()
          JboBaseObject.java:1627
     void oracle.jbo.dt.ui.main.bced.BceDefTree.addDefTreeObjectNodes(oracle.jbo.dt.objects.JboBaseObject, javax.swing.tree.MutableTreeNode)
          BceDefTree.java:80
     void oracle.jbo.dt.ui.main.bced.BceDefTree.setJboObject(oracle.jbo.dt.objects.JboBaseObject)
          BceDefTree.java:53
     void oracle.jbo.dt.jdevx.ui.JdxExplorer.setContext(oracle.ide.addin.Context)
          JdxExplorer.java:113
     oracle.ide.explorer.Explorer oracle.ideimpl.explorer.ExplorerManagerImpl.getExplorerForHost(oracle.ide.addin.View, oracle.ide.addin.Context)
          ExplorerManagerImpl.java:571
     void oracle.ideimpl.explorer.ExplorerWindowImpl.viewSelectionChanged(oracle.ide.addin.Context)
          ExplorerWindowImpl.java:222
     void oracle.ide.addin.AbstractPinnable.viewSelectionChanged(oracle.ide.addin.ViewSelectionEvent)
          AbstractPinnable.java:179
     void oracle.ideimpl.explorer.ExplorerWindowImpl.viewSelectionChanged(oracle.ide.addin.ViewSelectionEvent)
          ExplorerWindowImpl.java:207
     void oracle.ide.addin.AbstractView.fireViewSelectionChanged(oracle.ide.addin.ViewSelectionEvent)
          AbstractView.java:413
     void oracle.ideimpl.navigator.NavigatorWindowImpl.fireViewSelectionChanged(oracle.ide.addin.ViewSelectionEvent)
          NavigatorWindowImpl.java:717
     void oracle.ideimpl.navigator.NavigatorWindowImpl$3.viewSelectionChanged(oracle.ide.addin.ViewSelectionEvent)
          NavigatorWindowImpl.java:997
     void oracle.ide.addin.AbstractView.fireViewSelectionChanged(oracle.ide.addin.ViewSelectionEvent)
          AbstractView.java:413
     void oracle.ideimpl.explorer.BaseTreeExplorer.actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent)
          BaseTreeExplorer.java:1677
     void javax.swing.Timer.fireActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent)
          Timer.java:150
     void javax.swing.Timer$DoPostEvent.run()
          Timer.java:108
     void java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch()
          InvocationEvent.java:154
     void java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(java.awt.AWTEvent)
          EventQueue.java:337
     boolean java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(java.awt.Component)
          EventDispatchThread.java:131
     void java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(java.awt.Conditional, java.awt.Component)
          EventDispatchThread.java:98
     void java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(java.awt.Conditional)
          EventDispatchThread.java:93
     void java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run()
          EventDispatchThread.java:85

There is a bug in 9.0.3 that occurs if the jar file you are importing is on a different drive letter than the one that your project is on. If the jar and your project are on the same drive then everything works ok. If they are not, the symptoms match the ones you are describing. The workaround is to relocate the jar file to the same drive. This has been fixed for future releases.
Hope this helps.
Ray

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    The problem I face though is after I save the project and exit, the next time I open the project, each of those clips are missing and have been placed in the trash
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    Thanks ahead of time for your help!

    It sounds like something may be preventing iMovie from properly saving the project on the external drive. The drive format may be wrong, or third-party software might be causing conflicts. More here:
    http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=1852869#1852869
    Another possibility is that you are opening the wrong project file saved inside the iMovie 5 project. If your project was originally an iMovie 4 project converted to iMovie 5 that's an easy mistake to make. More here:
    http://discussions.apple.com/click.jspa?searchID=-1&messageID=1971832
    Note that the copy/export/import routine you used can be simplified enormously. iMovie 5 lets us Copy and Paste clips much more simply. To copy clips from Project A to Project B, open Project A, select all the clips you want copied to Project B, choose Edit > Copy, open Project B, move the playhead where you want to place the clips, and Paste. iMovie will import all the files that support those clips from Project A to Project B. Note that it imports the entire file for the clip, not just the clip itself. That's so the clip inherits all the non-destructive editing features it had in Project A.
    To avoid Project B becoming unnecessarily large, it's important to Copy and Paste all the clips you want together. If you copy two clips at the same time that share the same file iMovie imports their source file just one time. But if you Copy and Paste two clips that share the same source file separately, iMovie imports the same file twice.
    Karl

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    Hi all, I take wildlife photos (mostly birds) as a hobby, and have become frustrated with the quality of my photos recently when shared online, particularly Facebook.
    I started blaming my camera ( a Canon 7D) as I changed it a few months ago from a Canon 550D, and I soon noticed that the images were not as good. Then I realised it was when I started using Aperture.
    I started by using the 'share' option within Aperture but I soon realised that then I have no control over the creation of an album, and the photos start appearing on facebook before I have finished uploading them and given them captions. Plus if I subsequently move them or export them to my back up drive then they disappear from Facebook!
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    I am a computer novice and don't know how to check what the quality settings are, or how to adjust anything to improve the way the photos go into facebook. I do have a manual but I just cant understand it :-(
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    Regards
    Susan 

    Generally I would not use Facebook for sharing any photos, it compresses the photos substantially, and when you have shadows and dark colours you get visible "bands" where there should be subtle gradients, ie at sunsets and sunrises.
    It sounds like you are using two methods to upload to Facebook:
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    2. Exporting pics and uploading to Facebook from the browser.
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    Your problem is not with Aperture, it is using Facebook for showing your work.
    If you export pics form Aperture at high res jpegs or TIFFs your images will be fine.
    If you insist to use Facebook as your way to share your work, then your workflow should be this:
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    2. Select Export version.
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    4. Upload this pic into Facebook.
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