JDev 10.1.3 how to invoke oc4j_remote_deploy.jar from command line?

Question

Hi, does anyone know how to invoke the JDev 10.1.3 oc4j_remote_deploy.jar from the command line? We have it working for 10.1.2, for automated deployment scripts.
If I try the same thing for 10.1.3, I get an error.
See below my command line and the output.
I think the error is in the Oc4jDcmServlet URL, the format seems to have changed from 10.1.2 to 10.1.3.
I tried to reverse-engineer by using an HTTP tracer, but that did not help.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Regards, Maarten Brugman
======================== command line: ==================
"C:\j2sdk1.4.2_09\bin\java.exe" -Djava.protocol.handler.pkgs=HTTPClient -jar C:\jdev-work\ebrp-new\ear\target\installer\oc4j_remote_deploy.jar http://lnvx0027:29805/Oc4jDcmServletAPI/ oc4jadmin ***** listApplications /oracle/oaedv03/oracle/oas/10.1.3/ontwj2e1013 UNDEFINED UNDEFINED OC4J_OEBRP
============ output: ====================================
Initializing log
Servlet interface for OC4J DCM commands
Command timeout defined at 600 seconds
Executing DCM command...
Executing command listApplications /oracle/oaedv03/oracle/oas/10.1.3/ontwj2e1013
UNDEFINED UNDEFINED OC4J_OEBRP
Command = LISTAPPLICATIONS
Opening connection to Oc4jDcmServlet
Setting userName to oc4jadmin
Sending command to DCM servlet
**** Could not check HTTP response code
** Thread[main,5,main] ** Fri May 11 17:18:13 CEST 2007 ** ** EXCEPTION: java.
net.SocketException: Unexpected end of file from server
java.net.SocketException: Unexpected end of file from server
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.parseHTTPHeader(HttpClient.java:822)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.parseHTTP(HttpClient.java:711)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.parseHTTPHeader(HttpClient.java:820)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.parseHTTP(HttpClient.java:711)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLCon
nection.java:635)
at java.net.HttpURLConnection.getResponseCode(HttpURLConnection.java:272
at oracle.j2ee.tools.remote_deploy.Oc4jDcmClient.isHttpResponseOk(Unknow
n Source)
at oracle.j2ee.tools.remote_deploy.Oc4jDcmClient.sendCommand(Unknown Sou
rce)
at oracle.j2ee.tools.remote_deploy.Oc4jDcmCommand.execute(Unknown Source
at oracle.j2ee.tools.remote_deploy.Oc4jDcmCommand.listApplications(Unkno
wn Source)
at oracle.j2ee.tools.remote_deploy.Oc4jDcmMain.main(Oc4jDcmMain.java:71)
#### HTTP response is NOT ok
Closing connection to Oc4jDcmServlet
#### DCM command did not complete successfully (-1)
#### HTTP return code was -1
============ end output =================================

Answer 1

In my opinion, you will succeed in handling linefeeds in output texts by using an <tt><af:outputFormatted></tt> tag in conjuction with a JSF converter that replaces the linefeeds with a <tt>&lt;br></tt> tag in the text. You will have to implement a custom converter class (this is quite simple, see below) and to set it to the <tt>converter</tt> attribute of the <tt><af:outputFormatted></tt>. The converter class should look like:
public class MyLinefeedConverter implements javax.faces.convert.Converter
  public MyLinefeedConverter() {
  public Object getAsObject(FacesContext context, UIComponent component, String value) {
    return value;
  public String getAsString(FacesContext context, UIComponent component, Object value) {
    if (value==null) return "";
    if (value instanceof String) return ((String)value).replace("\n", "<br>");
    return value.toString();
}In this way the linefeeds in your text values will be replaced by <tt>&lt;br></tt>, which will be rendered by the corresponding <af:outputFormatted> tag as line breaks.