Relocating xdo.cfg on a Siebel disconnected client?

Question

Hello all,
I have BIP 10.1.3.4 integrated with Siebel 8.1.1.4 and used to generate reports in remote client.
I have a question about relocating xdo.cfg to a folder other that JRE_HOME/lib. For a variety of reasons it is difficult to be able to keep and maintain the file in there. So I am investigating an alternative approach of relocating that file without letting BIP lose sight of it.
From a variety of Google searches on XDO, I've found out that the XDO subsystem (for the lack of a better word) could be potentially searching for xdo.cfg under
1. "xdo.ConfigFile" and "xdo.DeliveryConfigFile" system properties ( Absolute paths for the config files )
2. "XDO_TOP" system property ( XDO's top directory )
3. "java.home/lib"
([source 1|http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E15523_01/apirefs.1111/e12063/oracle/dss/util/xdo/common/config/ConfigLocation.html], [source 2|http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E10383_01/doc/bip.1013/e10462/oracle/apps/xdo/template/FOProcessor.html] ).
This is backed up by a few references ( [here's one|http://psofttechguy.blogspot.com/2008/05/xml-publisher-part-2.html] ) to non-Siebel documents that refer to applications setting the java property to the direct location of the file.
So that brings up the idea of using JVM switches to set that specific property. The idea was to use the final command line to look something like:
java -Dxdo.ConfigFile=C:\Siebel\8.1\Client_1\XMLP\xdo.cfg <etc etc>
So I went ahead and made the following change to
1.     Move xdo.cfg from JRE/lib to C:\Siebel\8.1\Client_1\XMLP\
2.     Modify the [XMLPJvmSubsys] section of the client CFG so it looks like the following:
[XMLPJvmSubsys]
CLASSPATH = <trimmed>
DLL = C:\Progra~1\Java\jre6\bin\client\jvm.dll
VMOPTIONS = -Dxdo.ConfigFile=C:\Siebel\8.1\Client_1\XMLP\xdo.cfg
3.     Retry generating the report to see if it works (I have a test case that would fail if BIP did not see xdo.cfg)
Unfortunately, it did fail meaning that BIP was unable reference. I can see that the options are being correctly picked up. Client log extract is below:
JVMInit JVMInitInfo 3 000000024e4b99ac:0 2011-08-17 09:05:55 Got following JVM parameters from 'XMLPJvmSubsys' jvm subsystem, JVM will be initialized based on these parameters.
JVMInit JVMInitInfo 3 000000024e4b99ac:0 2011-08-17 09:05:55 DLL = C:\Progra~1\Java\jre6\bin\client\jvm.dll
JVMInit JVMInitInfo 3 000000024e4b99ac:0 2011-08-17 09:05:55 CLASSPATH = {trimmed}
JVMInit JVMInitInfo 3 000000024e4b99ac:0 2011-08-17 09:05:55 VMOPTIONS = -Dxdo.ConfigFile=C:\Siebel\8_1\Client\XMLP\xdo.cfg
JVMInit JVMInitInfo 3 000000024e4b99ac:0 2011-08-17 09:05:55 JVM will be initialized with following parameters:
JVMInit JVMInitInfo 3 000000024e4b99ac:0 2011-08-17 09:05:55 JVM dll path = 'C:\Progra~1\Java\jre6\bin\client\jvm.dll'
JVMInit JVMInitInfo 3 000000024e4b99ac:0 2011-08-17 09:05:55 VM options:
JVMInit JVMInitInfo 3 000000024e4b99ac:0 2011-08-17 09:05:55 -Djava.class.path={trimmed}
JVMInit JVMInitInfo 3 000000024e4b99ac:0 2011-08-17 09:05:55 -Xmx100m
JVMInit JVMInitInfo 3 000000024e4b99ac:0 2011-08-17 09:05:55 -Dxdo.ConfigFile=C:\Siebel\8_1\Client\XMLP\xdo.cfg
GenericLog GenericInfo 3 000000024e4b99ac:0 2011-08-17 09:05:55 JVM total VMOptions are 4
GenericLog GenericInfo 3 000000024e4b99ac:0 2011-08-17 09:05:55 JVM VMOptions for index 0 are -Djava.class.path={trimmed}
GenericLog GenericInfo 3 000000024e4b99ac:0 2011-08-17 09:05:55 JVM VMOptions for index 1 are -Xmx100m
GenericLog GenericInfo 3 000000024e4b99ac:0 2011-08-17 09:05:55 JVM VMOptions for index 2 are -Dxdo.ConfigFile=C:\Siebel\8_1\Client\XMLP\xdo.cfg
GenericLog GenericInfo 3 000000024e4b99ac:0 2011-08-17 09:05:55 JVM VMOptions for index 3 are vfprintf
I was wondering if anyone has attempted anything similiar and if you could share the results? If not, you could try :-)
Any ideas what else I can do?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Hi,
Try to create ExecutionMode argument of QueryPage method and then set it to ExecutionMode = ForwardOnly prior to invoking the EAI Siebel Adapter.
The best is to copy EAI Siebel Adapter and then modify it and use within your process.
Best regards,
Alex.
Edited by: AlexM87 on Jun 2, 2010 3:16 PM