Use Java Bean or Java Importer

I have created my java class to validate a user against LDAP and now I would like to use that class in my own 9i login form. In order to pass the class variable values to the form is it better to create a java bean or use the Java Importer? Which is better for performance?

Mike,
Java Beans added to Forms are downloaded to teh client as part of the application startup. The jar files get permanently cached on teh client until they are renewed on the server. For your original request, the funtionality already exists in a Forms9i demo
http://otn.oracle.com/sample_code/products/forms/files/Forms9iOID_DEMO.zip
Viewlet:
http://otn.oracle.com/sample_code/products/forms/demo/9i/forms_services_demos/sso_oid_integration/viewlet/forms_integration_oid/OID90_viewlet.html
To authenticate
<Java Importer class package>.authenticateUser(<obj ORA_JAVA.JOBJECT>,user_dn VARCHAR2,password VARCHAR2) RETURN BOOLEAN;
Frank

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>
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Here 1 (from connect method above)
Below Select (from jsp)
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Correct the spelling of Values
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We are using 11gr2 Forms/Reports 64-bit on Windows Server 2008 64-bit.
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Thanks vth Regards.
Bhatt.

Advantage of java beans is you can enhance the behavior of forms. Forms is as you know applet based running on the client. (There is a different technology associated with inserting your own java code into the loop on the application server, should you want to do that.) So with beans in theory you can get more code to run on the client and do things like read and write files on the client, communicate with devices on the client, etc.
Regarding doing that I think the executive summary is mostly look up Fbean in forms builder help.
How I came to that tentative conclusion (I haven't gotten mybean to work yet! What do I know?) follows.
Home of much forms info:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/forms/overview/index.html
Java beans are java obviously one has to acquire a certain level of expertise in java to deal with them but more importantly how to understand how to communicate between forms and the bean? It's hard for formists, living their lives at the outside of forms, who come up with an idea of something exceptional they want to do in forms, to translate that into the bean world. Then you have to think like a form and that's unknown territory.
One problem is terminology: what is a PJC and what is a bean? Is a bean a PJC? I have yet to definitely figure that out. The paper below says: "A javabean is a pjc which is of an unspecialized type". However after that was written seems like in many cases when people are referring to "pjc"'s they are thinking the pjc is a specialized type.
"Oracle9i Forms provides two mechanisms for extending the client with Java. The
Pluggable Java Component (PJC) mechanism, which was introduced with Forms
6i, and the newer Oracle9i Forms specific, enhanced JavaBean support
mechanism." (paper 2 below).
I was reading this document from 2000 which is interesting:
Paper 1:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/forms/documentation/269054-130573.pdf
It's talking about handlers and views and it's quickly getting over my head as I don't know enough forms internals to make much of this. For example I would like to write a bean that can print a small form. I have a proof of concept in java (6) that can print text to the default printer. So next step, create a bean that can get the data out of the form. From my formist perspective here I am in a bean how do I access some fields in a record in a block in forms? It's tough going. What does that mean in this handler/view world? Or do I have to be in the form and think of sending data to the bean and telling it to print it?
Paper 2:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/forms/documentation/269054-130573.pdf
Starts out with more on the handler/view thing. Unfortunately I am totally mvc or handler-view impaired. It escapes me totally.
"The Handler class is responsible for both maintaining the current value of any data and controlling the visual representation of the data."....vs.... "The View class is singularly responsible for presenting the data to the user in some
manner and handling user input. The View class may allow the data to be changed
by the user.". What? I am lost I have no idea what the handler does and what the view does. How about a discussion that is strictly goal oriented? If you want to do this, you have to talk to the (Handler| View)? Don't leave it to me to understand the handler/view thing and then figure it out from that. (This mvc thing is precisely what repels me about jdeveloper. You can't embrace jdev if you haven't drunk the mvc koolaid.)
Further on in the paper they bring up fbean:
"So in Oracle9i Forms a new simpler mechanism was introduced to allow you to integrate JavaBeans and Java
Applets as custom components without writing any Java Code at all. This is all handled using a PL/SQL package in Forms called FBean.
"FBean provides a full PL/SQL API to allow interaction with any public methods,
properties and events that a JavaBean or Applet exposes."
Now you're talking! This is more like it!:
"Executing Methods
Methods on the JavaBean are executed using one of the variety of
FBean.Invoke methods. Like the property getters and setters there are various
versions of this method which handle calling methods on the JavaBean that return
different datatypes (or return void):
• FBean.Invoke_Char()
• FBean.Invoke_Bool()
• FBean.Invoke_Num()
• FBean.Invoke()
Ok now that we know about the fbean thing we can find fbean in the forms builder help system. Looking good. I am pretty sure that somewhere in there you have to get your bean in a jar file and sign it (not a trivial proposition) and
change the forms server configuration to include your jar file. I also think that the bean has to import frmall.jar and some of the packages regarding that view stuff. A tutorial about fbean and all these details from start to finish would be super!
So you can talk to another applet? Really? Can this still be done considering all the security concerns in current browsers?

Diffrence b/w Deploy Time & Design time in Java bean model

Hi all,
I have craeted a model using java bean.
create model->import java bean model->Add JAR->browse the jar.
There i have got two Radio Buttons
Design Time
Deploy Time
I have worked with this two i have not observed any difference.
Can anyone give me some idea about this.If possible with an example to?
Thanks & Regards,
Lokesh.

HI Lokesh,
The basic difference between design time and deploy time is. design time jars are only used when building your aplication and considered to be present already on server. and at runtime application refer to it..
while if you keep deploy time, then the application itself keeps that jar file with him and at runtime it refers to it.
i.e. application deploy that jar file on server.
When you run an application, application need all its dependencied to be present in webdynpro container of server.
your javabean model needs those jar files at server. so when you chose deploy time. it personly deploy that file on server.
Iif you keep it as design time then. then you will be able to build it.
but if those jar files are not present at the server then your application will not get deployed.
e.g.
let A & B are your two applications and they need xx.jar file of a EJB which is created by you to create a javabean model.
now as this xx.jar file is not present at server.
1. when you create model for A. Keep it as deploy time.
as application A deploy that xx.jar file on server. B can refer it directly
2._when you create model for B keep it as design time._

Java Bean access in a JSP Tag handler class

Hello Everybody,
I am trying to access my java bean(ErrorBean.java) in th doEndTag() method of the tag handler class(MyTagHandler.java) and iam getting an "CLASSCAST EXCEPTION"
I am doing it like this in the tag handler class.
MyBeans.ErrorBean errorBean = (MyBeans.ErrorBean)pageContext.getSession().getAttribute("ErrorBean");
Where MyBeans is the package in which my Error Bean is and iam placing the ErrorBean object in the session object before it comes to the jsp page where i have the jsp Custom tag:
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/taglib.tld" prefix="errors" %>
<errors:message/>
<%@ include file="footer.jsp"%>
I was of the opinion that i was casting it right...can anyone help me to find ...where iam doing it wrong...its really URGENT ..PLEASE

Friend that did not work either ...
u know what...the ErrorTagHandler class is comiling fine with out errors but in the jsp page when the custom tag is hit..this error is showing up when i see the server log.
can you throw some light on this..
thanks..
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User parameter are not show in database using Servlet and java Bean

Hello Sir,
when I insert the parameter in run time, weblogic server and JSP show that parameter are saved.
Allthough row increment in database but they not show in database.
Here My Code:
login.html:
<html>
<head>
<title>A simple JSP application</title>
<head>
<body>
<form method="get" action="tmp" >
Name: <input type="text" name="user">
Password: <input type="password" name="pass">
<input type="Submit" value="Submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>LoginServlet.java:import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
public class LoginServlet extends HttpServlet{
public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException{
try
String user=request.getParameter("user");
String pass=request.getParameter("pass");
co.SimpleBean st = new co.SimpleBean();
st.setuserName(user);
st.setpassword(pass);
request.setAttribute("user",st);
request.setAttribute("pass",st);
RequestDispatcher dispatcher1 =request.getRequestDispatcher("submit.jsp");
dispatcher1.forward(request,response);
catch(Exception e)
e.printStackTrace();
}SimpleBean.java:
package co;
import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.sql.*;
import java.util.*;
public class SimpleBean {
private String user="";
private String pass="";
private String s="";
public String getuserName() {
return user;
public void setuserName(String user) {
this.user = user;
public String getpassword() {
return pass;
public void setpassword(String Pass) {
this.pass= pass ;
public String issueData()
try
System.out.println("Printed*************************************************************");
Class.forName("oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver");
System.out.println("Connection loaded");
Connection con=DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:oracle:thin:@VijayKumar-PC:1521:XE","SYSTEM","SYSTEM");
System.out.println("Connection created");
PreparedStatement st=con.prepareStatement("insert into vij2 values(?,?)");
System.out.println("~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~");
String NAME=getuserName();
st.setString(1,NAME);
String PASSWORD=getpassword();
st.setString(2,PASSWORD);
st.executeUpdate();
System.out.println("Query Executed");
con.close();
s= "Your logging is saved in DB ";
System.out.println("Your logging is saved in DB *****************");
return(s);
catch(Exception e)
e.printStackTrace();
return "failed";
}submit.jsp:This is Submit page
<jsp:useBean id="st" class="co.SimpleBean"/>
<jsp:setProperty name="st" property="*" />
<jsp:getProperty name="st" property="userName" /> <br>
<jsp:getProperty name="st" property="password" /> <br>
<% st.issueData();%>
<%
out.println("Ur data is saved in DB");
%>Please Help me.
Thanks.

Ok, this seems to be a long and convoluted path to do absolutely nothing.
You submit the form.
You run a servlet that gets the parameters correctly (good), creates a SimpleBean (good) and then sets this into request attribute space under the names "user" and "pass" - (why?)
You then forward to the jsp: submit.jsp.
Submit.jsp creates a new SimpleBean, and attempts to populate it with <jsp:setProperty>. You then call the issueData method on it.
Your complaint: Rows are being created in the database which have empty string values instead of the parameters you have passed.
So, why are the values blank? Where do you think these values should be coming from?
Looking at SimpleBean we find one mistake - you have mis-named your get/set methods.
To properly follow java beans standards, you should use camel-case for your methods.
Rather than getuserName() the method should be getUserName(). getpassword() should be getPassword() etc etc.
The method getUserName() defines a property "userName" for the bean.
Once that is fixed, lets go to submit.jsp. The <jsp:setProperty> statement will try and set all properties of the bean from the request parameters.
There are no request parameters "userName" or "password" so those values don't get set in the bean, therefore it uses their default value of empty string - "".
There ARE request parameters called "user" and "pass" but because they aren't properties of the bean, they get ignored.
As a result, the values are empty string, and that is exactly what gets inserted into the database.
Ways to fix this
1 - rename your parameters on your form to be "userName" and "password" to match the bean. That way the <jsp:setProperty> tag will populate them properly.
or
2 - Call issueData() method from your servlet after you have created the SimpleBean. Better in my opinion as you then don't have any scriptlet code on a JSP page.
Cheers,
evnafets

Using java beans in jsp using tomcat

hi i have made a form to enter user first name and last anme with html and then i have made a value javabean in which i want to store the information filled bu user. i want to display the information stored in java bean in jsp page i have made the full application and i have made class file of java bean as well as jsp file but when i try to run this web application in tomcat i am getting class not found exception.
could anybody tell me that where i should store the bean class in tomcat and do i need to make any package in which i have to place my java bean file plz tell me complete procedure along with code if possible

whew thats a lot of questions... All of this is pretty basic stuff. I would recommend you take a look at the web services tutorial: http://java.sun.com/j2ee/1.4/docs/tutorial/doc/
lets see.
Starting a package name with com is just a generic standard which is followed.
It is most correct when creating commercial packages to create packages like com.companyName.project
http://java.sun.com/docs/codeconv/html/CodeConventions.doc8.html
You should not need a page import directive unless you are using classes in scriptlets: ie <% %> tags in your JSP. Your jsp:useBean tag will automatically import necessary classes - you don't need to import classes for beans specifically
<jsp:useBean id="myClass" scope="session" class="com.myPackage" />
Your directory structure should be something like this
webApplicationRootDirectory
- page1.html
- page2.html
- page3.jsp
- page4.jsp
- WEB-INF
     - web.xml
     - classes
       - com
         - myPackage
           - myClass.classerrrm. Thats about it I think.

Use Java Bean or Java Importer

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