JDeveloper & version control

Does Developer have a version control I can use for (database items, From, Reports, Menu's, Pll's, Documents ...)
If yes can you tell in general how to use it?

Samim,
You may want to try the Forms/Reports forums.The items you mentioned have nothing to do with JDev.
John

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Serena Dimensions Plugin in JDeveloper (Version Control)

Hi,
I have several questions regarding Dimensions plugin in JDeveloper and was wondering if someone could help us with. I had contacted Dimesions support and was told to contact Oracle as the Dimensions plugin was developed by Oracle. These questions are as follows.
1.     Disabling Auto Checkout
The issue is that when we download a project/workspace in JDeveloper using the Dimensions plugin and start modifying the file, the plugin automatically checks-out the file and puts a lock on the file in the repository. For project and workspace files (.jpr and .jws) it becomes an issue because no one else in the team can work on the project simultaneously.
a.     Is there a way to disable auto check out through the plugin gui? I could not find anything.
b.     I played around with preferences.xml file’s autoCheckouts property by manually setting it to false. Using this does indeed ask one to check out a file. Can you please confirm whether this is the flag we should be modifying manually?
C:\Users\myName\AppData\Roaming\JDeveloper\system11.1.1.1.33.54.07\o.jdeveloper.dimensions\preferences.xml
<Item>
<Key>autoCheckouts</Key>
<Value class="java.lang.Boolean">false</Value>
</Item>
c. Assuming this is the property we should be modifying, and we have set it to false, is there a way to not checkout a file and still work on it? I think making the file writable on the local disk should work. Can you confirm?
2.     Auto writable files: Is there any way to automatically make files writeable when downloading through the JDeveloper plugin?
3.     Documentation and Icons
a.     Is there any documentation/guide regarding JDev/Dimensions plugin? The only one we can get our hands on is “Help” that is included as part of JDeveloper and it is not very helpful.
b.     There are a couple of application navigator icon types that are not explained even in help. I cannot upload them here, but it looks like they mean something like the following
i.     icon that looks like a lock, or a person: Looks like it means that one is not connected or Logged in
ii.     icon with X and no background + {null}: Looks like it means that either the file is not in version control or has been deleted from version control which are two different things.
Further details:
We are using JDeveloper 11.1.1.1.0 (Build JDEVADF_11.1.1.1.0_GENERIC_090615.0017.5407) with Dimensions Versioning Plugin (11.1.1.1.33.54.07).

Hi,
1. Disabling auto checkout
go to menu Tools -> Preferences -> Versioning -> Dimensions -> General
this is the GUI approach to manipulating the preferences xml file that you have found. You should never need to amend this file manually
1.c/2 We have an ER to provide a way to work on a file locally/writeable. It is not possible in this version. You could use the file system to set the file to writeable, but it is not supported
3.a the Help files are the only documentation that we provide. It is not expected to be a full tutorial on Dimensions, but to support using the JDEV UI to interact with Diremnsions.
What do you feel is missing from help?
I have noticed that the Tools - Preferences for Dimensions are not documented in help and I will get a bug raised for that.
b. the lock icon does, indeed, mean logged out. If you hover the mouse over the file in question the tool tip gives the meaning of the icon.
ii. I don't recognise this second icon. Can you reproduce it and hover over the file - let me know what it is, I will get the icons updated in Help
rgds
Susan
susanduncan.blogspot.com

New to JDeveloper/ADF, need to create a UI Mockup for a Version Control app

Hi,
I have experience with Java/J2EE, however I'm new to both JDeveloper and ADF and was hoping someone could point me in the right direction with what I'm trying to accomplish/start. We are working on a new application for a client and to kick start things I need to come up with a User Interface Mockup of a Version Control system we're going to create. It should be nothing fancy, and not very functional (for the time being) but should use some dummy data (preferably from a text file - just for demo purposes), be a one-page layout, and use Oracle ADF components (folder tree, datagrid, data view, xml view to be specific). Of course, it is requested that this all be done using JDeveloper/Oracle ADF. I was able to install both of these (it seems ADF is bundled with JDev), however that's about as far as I got. What steps do I need to take in order to come up with something simple like this? When I loaded up JDeveloper there are alot of options when creating a new project and I'm not sure what to choose. ANY help would be appreciated.

Thanks! This is exactly what I was looking for.
However, I'm having some trouble figuring out how to set up my Data Controls for the dummy data. I'd basically like to set up the entire page as follows:
A column on the left that displays a tree as follows:
Folder 1
     ...File 1
     ...File 2
     ...File 3
Folder 2
     ...File 1
     ...File 2
Folder 3
     ...File 1
     ...File 3
     ...File 4
     ...File 5
..etc
The right side of the screen will have 3 "columns" or borders that will take up the entire screen, from top to bottom:
List of Versions (large column)
Version Data (smallest column)
Version Text (large column)
List of Versions:
When the user selects a "File" from the tree, a datagrid will appear that displays all versions of the selected file with columns like "File Name", "Version", "Date", and a checkbox to select a row.
Version Data:
When the user selects a row using the checkbox, some relevant version info will display here. This info will come from the database when the final version of the app is written using various fields from the "Files" tables
Version Text:
When the user selects a row using the checkbox, some relevant version CODE (possible to display code neatly?) will display here. This info will come from the database when the final version of the app is written using a field from the Files table that has not been seen yet
How would I go about setting something like this up? Using the sample you provided earlier, the example just has main categories on the left. I'm confused how to set up a fell fledged tree and then to incorporate the functionality I described above.
ANY help would be appreciated.

Issue using microsoft tfs as version control system with jdeveloper 11g

Hi ,
I am using TeamFoundationServer as source control system and trying to use Jdeveloper with TeamVCS Extension.
Software Details :
Jdeveloper Version : Studio Edition Version 11.1.1.6.0 Build JDEVADF_11.1.1.6.0CLOUD_GENERIC_121118.1600.6229
Versioning Support for Team System - oracle.jdeveloper.vsts 11.1.1.6.38.62.29
Steps followed :
1. Install the Microsoft Visual Studio Team Explorer 2010 ( http://www.microsoft.com/en-in/download/details.aspx?id=329 ).
2. Install upgrade for Version Support for Team System using CheckForUpdates in Jdeveloper Help Menu.
3. Now create a workspace in TeamExplorer and get the latest version of code.
4. Click connectToTeamSystem in Versioning->Team System.
5. Click Set workspace .
6. Now open the Application .
Issue : Checkin Checkout and other options are still grey out.
Error : No error message in log.
Additional Note : I tried doing the same steps on 11.1.1.7.0, and even there it doesn't work.
Please help !!!!
Thanks,
Rajdeep

JDev 11g support TFS 2008 - http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/jdev/index-091111.html#Source_Control_Systems

Right tool for Configuration Management (version control) for Jdeveloper

All
Please share your idea and exepeience about right tool for Configuration Management (version control) for Jdeveloper Development. I used CVS in the past. Now In new company we are planning to use Oracle SCM. Is anybody used it before for Jdev Developmet ( BC4J/ADF and Struts project). Is SCM also intergrated with Jdev just like CVS.??
Jdev Team please guide us.
Thanks

Before you go with SCM you should read these two papers:
http://otn.oracle.com/products/designer/Schedule_2004.htm
http://otn.oracle.com/products/designer/FAQ_Schedule_2004.htm

Version Control with JDeveloper

Does any one know what version control packages can be used with JDeveloper? If you do, would you please let me know where I can get info on them.
Thank you

Alex,
There are two parts to this answer.
You can hook up any version control system
to JDeveloper using various JDeveloper
extension mechanisms including adding items
to the tools menu or complete wizards.
On OTN, you can find an CustomAddins which provides a way to integrate to any version control system by editing some batch files to point to their "put" and "get" type tools. This is meant as a simple starting point.
Starting with JDeveloper 3.2, you will be able to take advantage of the intergrated source control feature that integrates Oracle Repository's source control features into JDeveloper.
I hope this helps,
-John

Version Control with JDeveloper application using ClearCase

My team is evaluating J Developer to see if
it matchs our requirement. We want
to know how we will be able to use Clearcase
as version control tool with our Java or JSP application developed using JDeveloper.
We understand that J Developer will help us
to create a zip file for deployment. Do we need to check in/out that zip file, zip/unzip the zip file, look for the file
that we want to change, and then make change to it?
If so how Clear Case knows which files in that zip file has been changed and what changes have been made?
Currently, we use Clearcase to check in/out
every single file, one at a time. We don't know how it will work with a zip file.
Sincerely,
Khanh

Alex,
There are two parts to this answer.
You can hook up any version control system
to JDeveloper using various JDeveloper
extension mechanisms including adding items
to the tools menu or complete wizards.
On OTN, you can find an CustomAddins which provides a way to integrate to any version control system by editing some batch files to point to their "put" and "get" type tools. This is meant as a simple starting point.
Starting with JDeveloper 3.2, you will be able to take advantage of the intergrated source control feature that integrates Oracle Repository's source control features into JDeveloper.
I hope this helps,
-John

Oracle Service Bus Configurations version control and deployment automation

Hi,
Currently we have OSB10gR3 installed and we use the web based sbconsole to create projects and proxy services. It's all working well and good!!
We are at the state where we need to think about source control, migration of artifacts from dev to test and to prod.
I'm looking for pointers to version control the artifacts of OSB projects, what could be version controlled (no binaries) and how do we extract those artifacts?
How do we customize those artifacts while migrating to different environments in an automated fashion?
Please point me to best practices and gotchas that we should be aware of while dealing with deploying OSB proejcts from test to Prod.
Thanks in Advance!!

After reading the threads mentioned by Deba, I'm able to get this all worked out with SBConsole itself. Experts, please review my approach below and let me know if I have overlooked anything.
Simple advantage I see in using sbconsole is that it requires less maintenance, i.e. avoids rolling out another IDE (Eclipse -Workshop plug-in) to IT developers and at the same time provides the functionality that we are looking for. Currently, JDeveloper is our primary IDE, so we thought it's best to wait till OSB development gets integrated into JDev.
This is the deployment workflow which worked for us,
Developer:
1)Develops Proxy services using SBconsole in Dev environment.
2)Creates sbconfig.jar by using the export functionality available in System Administration link in sbconsole
3)Checks-in ALL the files present in the above jar into version control under the proxy service project name
4) Creates customization file using the customization file link in System Administration and modifies the value for each environment i.e. creates two files test_customfille, prod_customfile
5)Checks-in the customization files into version control under the same proxy service project
Promotion to Test and Prod
1) From the source control, service proxy is built (actually the jar file of all files including the custom file is created)
2) SCP proxy_sbconfig.jar file to Test or Prod box
3) Follow the steps mentioned in Auto deploy of ALSB/OSB artifacts - Proxy, WSDL and webservices...
4) Depending on the server, test or prod, pick the right customization file and deploy using ANT.
Thanks!!

Best practice for version control B2B, ESB and BPEL

Hello,
we are setting up a new system using B2B, ESB and BPEL. The development team is more experienced working with PL/SQL, Oracle Workflow and we are worried that Jdeveloper generates changes to the source files during development and that we might have problems with the version control.
Is there any best practice for setting up version control for these systems? Do we need to take anything in particular into consideration when setting up the projects?
We are using Serena Dimensions 9.1 for version control with the add-on in Jdeveloper.
Thanks in advance!

I believe JDeveloper has a plugin for Dimensions.
I havent used it but to get it, go to tools (It may be help I don't have JDeveloper on this machine to confirm) check for updates.
If you select the thrid party check box - next, you will see an entry for dimentions.
Configure the connection and develop as you would any other project.
cheers
James

OWB Process Flow - How is the best version control tool ??

HI all,
I just start work with OWB and I have a question to know how is the best way to do something.
Imagine the scenario below:
If I have 2 or more requests for example:
Request 1: Create a Dimension City.
Request 2: Create a Dimension Products.
I Have ONE process flow and i need put my changes inside. This is my problem.
In my scenario I don't know what Request goes to Prod First.
If I put the Request 1 and Request 2 in my PROCESS FLOW, maybe I need change is someone decide change MY REQUEST PRIORITY.
There is something in OWB to "control the version or changes" ?? For a mapping I export the MDL and commit on SVN, but I dont know haw can i do with the process flow.
Something to agree multiples peoples work in different mappings and a SAME PROCESS FLOW ??
What is best way to work with process flow and version control.
What are the best practices when it comes to version control?
Thanks.

Amit,
Are you really doing this in 10.1.3.x and not 11g?
At any rate, I don't see how #2 and #3 relate whatsoever to your choice of a version control system. OK, maybe in #2 if there is some "maintenance" activity to be done against the version control server. Subversion is the open source alternative that you listed there and is pretty commonly used. If your company is already using one of the mentioned tools, why change? About the only thing I'd mention is to advise you NOT to use CVS for well documented reasons (JDev does support it) - if you would have picked CVS otherwise, choose Subversion. As far as question #1 - I've only used Subversion (well, I did use CVS for a while) with JDeveloper, so I can say it was "effective enough for me." In 10.1.3.x, I also used the external svn tools for doing lots of things like merging and so forth; in 11g, the support is much much better.
Best,
John

Version Control with Clearcase

Will anybody tell me how to use clearcase for version control with Jdeveloper? I use clearcase for version control and Jdeveloper as IDE. What are the configuration changes to be made to link jdeloper IDE to clearcase repository so that I can checkout files from clear case directly to Jdev IDE and check them in directly to clear case version control repository.

Hi Srinivas,
Integrated support for Clearcase is coming in a future version of JDeveloper.
In the meantime, you can use the checkin/checkout custom addin to drive clearcase.
Download the custom addins package from:
http://otn.oracle.com/products/jdev/info/CustomAddins.31/CustomAddinsJD31.zip
Then have a look at
http://otn.oracle.com/products/jdev/info/CustomAddins.31/CustomAddins.html#CheckOutIn.Java
for instructions. You will need to alter CheckIn.bat to change the following line:
put -S+_V -U %1
to
cleartool ci -nc -identical %1
And alter CheckOut.bat to change the following line:
get -l -Q -S+_V %1
to
cleartool co -nc -reserved %1
Brian

Version control bug

JDev Team,
a) The candidates tab of pending changes window lists the "JDeveloper project" files although I have "**/*.jpr" added to global ignore list.
b) Incoming tab of pending changes window does not bring in changes checked into version control repository. I checked in a file using the previous version of JDeveloper which is not recognized by the incoming tab.
I am using subversion for my version control.
Thanks
Message was edited by:
balar1

Hello
The global ignore list is used by many components within JDeveloper. The Navigator and Pending changes windows are included in that list. Any file pattern that is defined in the global ignore list will get applied to the navigator and pending changes window. The project (jpr) file is very important to the navigator so you should not define a pattern that would make the project file to be removed from the navigator. I believe that defining this pattern (**/*.jpr) will be excluded from the list. Oracle recommends that project files are version controlled. Is there a specific reason why you don't want to version control them?
The Incoming changes window lists files that have a later revision number in the subversion repository from the copy you have in your working copy (file on disk). If you checked in a file and the revision in the repository is the same as the revision in your working copy it will not be listed in the incoming changes window. If the revision in the repository is later then it may not be shown in the incoming changes window, because the window has not be refreshed. The window is automatically refreshed on a timer (15 min) or you can manually refresh it
Regards
Dave

SQLDeveloper Version Control

I have seen some posts regarding version control in SQLDeveloper. Evidently, integration with PVCS is a feature to be added in some future version.
There might be an easier way to handle it. If SQLDeveloper would allow us to specify a "version logging" folder, and if it would then create a new version of any edited source file in that folder, each time you press the save button, then this would handle 80% of the need, with only 1% of the complexity.
For example, suppose the object was named "MyView", and then I edit it. Then, in the logging folder, we end up with file name "MyView.sql" in the logging folder. If I edit again, then the previous version is renamed as "MyView 09-20-06 10_44_22.sql" (append the time and date to the file name), and a new version MyView.sql is put into the logging folder.
You maintain the time-stamped file versions, forever. You might have like a two week or 500 version limit, or something like that, so the folder does not fill up infinitely.
That is about it. If you made a mistake, and needed to roll it back, you just grab a previous version. If you want to check it into PVCS, then you just take the file and copy it into your source folder and then check it in.
You are never going to be able to fully integrate SQLDeveloper with PVCS, because the target keeps moving. Instead, you should focus on simple compatibility between the two approaches.
The current method of edits directly in the database and no roll-back and no ability to check-in the code other than copy and paste, this does not work.

Umm.. The reason that people ask for version control integration is to save time. Switching to another application to check in/out files is a huge waste of time as well as being error prone.
Tools like JDeveloper and Eclipse have histories like what you are asking for. Histories such as that are a great help when debugging files, but cannot be substituted for good source control integration.
Oracle, can we get the 'history' tab enabled in the file editors like JDeveloper? That feature is great in JDeveloper and would be a great edition to SQL Developer.

Version controlling tool

Brian,
We are going to use Oracle 9i database & 9i AS & JDeveloper 10g as tool for our web development. We have been using SourceSafe as version controlling tool successfully, but could not decide what we should adopt for the integration.
I do know that Oracle is not planning further development for Oracle SCM and as such recommends all new development with JDeveloper makes use of open source tools such as CVS. JDeveloper offers different choices for your configuration and team development environment. You can continue to use Oracle SCM with the JDeveloper extension or you can use open source tools such as CVS.
My question is
You said that you can confirm that SourceSafe will definitely be supported in the next release. (Apr 19, 2004 9:31 AM Subversion Source Control). Has it been released?
If not, what is your advise on tool to use for our development team?
Thanks in advance,
YingShi

Hello Moshi,
Personally I never understood how the integrated version control system of
CVI works, but SVN (and TortoiseSVN) works fine with CVI projects.
UIR files are treated as binary, as they should be, and that's about all.
You could put the .tui file under version control instead, but I don't think
it's worth the bother.
Guillaume Dargaud
http://www.gdargaud.net/

Version Control Enhancement

This is something of an enhancement request for version control functionality. I'm using ClearCase, but I imagine that this applies to CVS and other source control tools too.
It is very nice the way that JDeveloper checks out associated files when you check out a file - for instance, if I check out a ADF BC View object, it will check out the XML file, and any Java code you may have created for customization. Sometimes you get a lot of files checked out, as when you check out an ADF BC Application Module.
Often, I only actually change one or two of the files that were checked out. So when I go to check in, I get an error from ClearCase saying that the file is identical to the previous version. Now I can force a check in, even if identical, which I don't like to do - wastes space in the version tree and gives a false picture of when the file was changed last. Or I can select files to check in and undo check out of the other files. It isn't always easy for me to tell which files were changed and which were not - I wind up comparing each to the prior version to find out.
What I want to happen is for JDeveloper to track which files were changed and only check those in; it does an "undo check out" of the rest. It could offer an option for this behavior or the force check in behavior.

And another request:
It seems that you can only hijack files when you are connected to the network.
Correct me if I am wrong but the whole hijack mechanism is intended to be used when working offline on a snapshot view.
I would expect JDeveloper to hijack files in a snapshot view (even when offline) automatically when the files are modified by editor or wizard (just like the automatic checkout in a dynamic view).
Sascha

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