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2.2.4. Creating Database Connection
Create a Database Connection to the schema that contains the database tables of your
application. Make sure that every developer uses the same name for the connection, and
that they all make the same setting for the “Deploy Password” checkbox.
2.2.5. Initializing Model Project for Business Components
Suggestion: JDeveloper allows you to make an export of one or more database
connections to an XML file. This XML file can then be used by other
developers to import database connections, ensuring that the connections will
be identical on all developer PC’s. To use this feature, go to the Connections
tab, right-mouse click on the Database node, and choose “Export
Connections…”
Go to the Project Properties of the Model project, to the Business Components panel. Tick
the checkbox ‘Initialize Project for Business Components’. Choose the Database
Connection you just created.
2.2.6. Optimizing ADF BC for Team Development
Go to the Model project, Project Properties. On the Business Components | General
panel, uncheck the property named ‘Copy Package XML Files to Class Path’.
This sets the default setting to be used for new ADF Business Components project. By
unchecking this, the ADF design time no longer uses package XML files to track what
components are in the package, so the package XML files will not be a point of merge
conflicts between team members.
Suggestion: For existing projects, you can also edit this property at any time
by unchecking it on the Business Components | Options panel of the project
properties.
2.2.7. Switching off Default Creation of ADF BC Java classes
When creating entity objects, view objects and application modules, JDeveloper
generates Java classes for all these components that you can use to add custom code.
However, in most cases you will not add custom code to those classes, so it is better to
turn off the creation of these classes since ADF Business Components does not require
these classes to run your application.
If later on you do need to add custom code, you can still generate the Java class by going
to the “Java” tab in the editor of the business component.
You can switch off the default creation of these classes by going to the Tools ->
Preferences menu, and choose Business Components.
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