Integrating orion-application.xml deployment with JDeveloper?

Hi all,
I am trying to create JAAS secured web/ear application but haven't found the
way to integrate the orion-application.xml file in the JDeveloper
deployment process. An alternative would be to insert orion-application.xml tags
into orion-web.xml and copy this one to the usual WEB-INF along with web.xml
another possibility would be directly copying orion-application.xml to the
%J2EE_HOME%\application-deployments\MyApp\orion-application.xml after deployed
in the OC4J Server, but would be lot easier just having JDeveloper deploy it
automatically, what is the way to do it?
Regards,
Giovanni

See http://forums.oracle.com/forums/message.jsp?id=978411&gid=315684

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Did you check how the EAR was formed by your JDeveloper? There should be an orion-application.xml file with in META-INF dir starting from the root of your ear file check for this.
Any how when it you deploy to standalone oc4j, it modifies your packaged orion-application.xml file a little bit i.e it addes the items to it and then deployes.
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I am trying to deploy an ear in OC4J 10.1.3.3.0. The ear contains a META-INF folder with a application.xml and a orion-application.xml files.
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Greetings,
The file orion-application.xml is an oc4j-specific file. If you do not create this yourself it will be created during deployment of your application.
Reference for additional information:
"OCA Oracle Application Server 10g Administrator Exam Guide"
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Okay,
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I assume the one defined in the +/applications/webappname/META-INF+ is the proper one since it has all the detailed OID connection information. However, are both needed? If so, why? If not, which one is being used and why would there be two of them?
I've checked all the documentation and have found several references to it being installed in one or the other place but not both.
Any help you can provide would be much appreciated.

Hi,
The difference between these files is this:
The one in the applications/ tree is the one that comes packaged in your ear file. This is a way to package your deployment preferences. At deployment time, enterprise manager extracts this file to configure your deployment.
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LDAP connection from OC4J containers is specified on the container level, because this is container-level security. This means that using the enterprise manager, you configure your container to connect to the LDAP (enterprise manager, tab administration, item Identity Management). In the orion-application.xml, you no longer need the details because they are stored on container level. So these are removed when deploying your application, leaving only what you see.
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Another OTN thread on this topic:
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/message.jsp?id=988554
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------ begin quoted --------------------------------------------------------------------
Hello,
JDeveloper 9.0.2 is limited in this area unfortunately. For the use case you are describing, there are two work-arounds:
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2) Do your testing in the embedded OC4J server instead of an external OC4J server. You should then be able to make manual changes to the orion-application.xml file used by the embedded server -- it's in the Workspace directory and has a name like "Workspace1-oc4j-app.xml".
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------ end quoted -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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"Self I said..."
Got frostbite waiting for a reply. I tried deploying
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