Internal server error when publishing an application.

Question

Hi,
I am using the Java Consolidator API to create, drop, etc... my Publications, Items, Scripts,... I have created a Publication and a Publication Item in the repository following the Oracle documentation. So far everything went well. However, If I try to publish an application (using the Packaging-Assistent), which uses the created Publication, the Packaging Assistent fails with INTERNAL SERVER ERROR: 500.
I have also tried to create a JAR archive with the Packaging Assistent and publish the JAR Application directly in the WEBTOGO. This has, however, also failed, though with the following error:
oracle.lite.web.resource.ResourceException: ORA-01400: cannot insert NULL into ("MOBILEADMIN"."APPLICATIONS"."DSN")
Does anyone have a clue, what could be the problem?
Thank you in advance,
Filip
BTW: We are working with Oracle Lite 10.3.0.2. We have also tested it with the 10.3.0.3 with the same result.

Answer 1

An oracle lite 'application' has three levels in a hierarchy
Application - the 'header' and the thing you associate users and files to
Publication - the 'database header' contains all of the publication items
Publication items - individual replication objects
If you just use the APIs, it only creates the Publication and Publication items, NOT the application. Yoou can use APIs to associate users with the publication etc. but not via the mobile manager
Try the following in sequence (need to drop the publication you have created first)
1) create the application using the jar file from the packaging wizard. This should just define the application in terms of name, platform, files etc. can add in publication item definitions, but do NOT add the things in your API script
This will create the application and publication with a name you specify (eg: testapp)
2) in your API script, rather than create the publication, find it eg:
static String publicationId;
/* Work out the publication identifier */
Connection conn = cm.getConnection();
Statement st = conn.createStatement();
sql = "SELECT name "
+ "FROM C$ALL_TEMPLATES "
+ "WHERE name_template = 'testapp.%s' ";
rows = st.executeQuery(sql);
rows.next();
publicationId= rows.getString(1);
now use publicationId in your addPublicationItem calls to add the publication items to the publication
NOTE when using both the packaging wizard jar method and the APIs, you need to be very careful. If you re-run the jar file it will wipe out the publication items, so it should only be used for initial application create.
We use the jar file to create the application and publication, and this includes the creation of the complete refresh publication items and sequence definitions. We then run an API script to create all of the other publication items with thier indexes etc.
Once the application it published we then ONLY use the API scripts to make changes