Sharing Common Connections Between JDeveloper Machines

Hi,

In order to work in a team environment JDeveloper offers many small nuggets that can make our life easier and implement development standards.

In this post we will take a look how to export and import application servers, database connections from one  Jdeveloper machine to another. You can even store these connections in your source control system to share.

Resource Palette:

You will find common place for all connections in JDeveloper under Resource Palette. Click View menu and select Resource Palette

Exporting Connection:

Right click on your desired connection and choose Export, select which connections you want to export and provide the destination, click OK the resulting window will give you the status

Save the destination file to source control or network drive (optional):


For better teamwork i would recommend to store these connections in source control system as shown in the slide i have a folder in Visual SVN repository called Connections and under that the exported file from JDeveloper.

Importing a Connection into JDeveloper


Now developers can export the connections from source control system to their file system and import connections into JDeveloper.

There you go hope you find the post useful feel free to comment. More gold nuggets to follow.

Happy JDeveloping,

Zeeshan Baig

Solution to fix Exception java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError While running weblogic commands from console

Hi,

A quick one here. Most of us might experienced this when try to run weblogic.Deployer or any weblogic related command from console or shell prompt you see something like this

C:\>java weblogic.Deployer
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: weblogic/Deployer
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: weblogic.Deployer
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
        at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
Could not find the main class: weblogic.Deployer.  Program will exit.

The problem is NOT with your installation or configuration but actually java is not able to find classes related to weblogic

Solution:

The solution is to add the JAR file into the CLASSPATH variable.

C:\> set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;D:\Oracle\Middleware1035\wlserver_10.3\server\lib\weblogic.jar

Note:  Change above command as per your environment Linux or Windows also i saw some people add the location of the folder to Classpath which will not fix the issue you should provide the name of the JAR file as mentioned above.

You can see in the slide how the error gone by adding CLASSPATH to the environment.

My Presentation from Kscope 2012 Conference

Hi,

Kscope 2012 conference was a great event for me i am thankful to ODTUG management by providing me this opportunity also OTN who gave me opportunity to be on Fusion middleware panel during Lunch n Learn session.

You can view my presentation from Kscope from my slideshare account. I will post separate blog on the demo details.

Setting Up Ideal Development Environment for JDeveloper

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Hope you like it,
Zeeshan Baig