Using JDAPI to reattach PLL Library/Libraries

Question

Hi
I am attempting to change the libraries attached to some forms, to convert the names to lowercase as part of a Unix deployment project.
I am using the standard code posted on Metalink. The Forms were Designer-generated as Forms 4.5 originally and have been upgraded to Forms 9.0.4.0.19. I am using the JDK in the Developer Suite Oracle Home. The Forms are in a different directory to the Libraries, but all the directories are in the FORMS90_PATH set both in the Registry and as a cmd.exe environment variable.
I have two problems:
1) If I attempt to just list the libraries attached to the Form, with something like:
     FormModule fmd;
     fmd=FormModule.open(args[0]);
     System.out.println("Processing module " + fmd.getName() + "...");
     JdapiIterator all_libs = fmd.getAttachedLibraries();
     while (all_libs.hasNext())
          AttachedLibrary lib = (AttachedLibrary)all_libs.next();
          System.out.println("Attached Library = " + lib.getName());
     fmd.destroy();
This returns:
     Processing module MODULE...
     Attached Library = OFG4TEL
     Attached Library = OFG4MES
     Attached Library = OFG4BSL
     Attached Library = OFGMES
Unfortunately, I know that there are more libraries than this. The Form is attached to a single module library (called MODULE.pll), which is attached to an application-level library, which is then attached to the Designer-libraries (OFG4*).
Does anyone know why this code lists the Designer libraries, but not the others?
If you convert the FMB to XML, it also has only the Designer-libraries, but opening the Form in Form Builder shows the full list.
2) I attempted to remove all the libraries from the Form by adding a lib.destroy(); into the loop above and a fmd.save(args[0]); after it. When I run this the loop terminates after the first iteration. It doesn't report any errors, but it doesn't actually remove the module library either. It is doing something though, because if you reopen the Form in Form Builder the module and application library attachments have been lost and just the Designer ones remain?
I don't really want to update all the modules by hand, and any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
FWIW I also tried converting the FMBs to XML using the IFF2XML90 batch file, and then doing a search & replace on the XML file before converting back into a Form using IFXML2F90.bat. This doesn't work either because it also loses the module and application library attachments as described above, possibly because these batch files are using JDAPI internally and JDAPI doesn't like my Forms!
Thanks
Roger

Answer 1

I sincerely hope that you have found a solution by now....
It is a strange situation that you describe.
I think you might have found that the OFG-libraries are actually in a different directory from where you expected them to be found by JDAPI. Have you used lib.getLibraryLocation()?
The next step would have entail trying to find out where this different path was set, and why JDAPI uses that setting, instead of the settings in registry and batchfile.
Just some thoughts.
Greetings!
Remco