Building ADF applications using Developer cloud service

In this post I will be demonstrating the steps required to build ADF applications using Oracle Developer Cloud Service. I will be using ant to do the build activity, the steps are more or less same even if you are planning to use maven.

• Create a project and repository in developer cloud service.
• Check-in all your project code to GIT repository of developer cloud service.
• Generate the build files (build.xml and build.properties) if not present in your project.
• Jdeveloper generated build files will work when build in your local environment, when you need to build it in developer cloud service, you need to tweak the files a bit. 

build.properties file

oracle.commons=../../../../oracle_common/
install.dir=../../../..
oracle.home=${env.ORACLE_HOME_12C3}
oracle.jdeveloper.workspace.path=${env.WORKSPACE}/SampleBuildApp.jws
middleware.home=${env.MIDDLEWARE_HOME_12C3}
workspace=${env.WORKSPACE}
oracle.jdeveloper.ant.library=${env.ORACLE_HOME_12C3}/jdev/lib/ant-jdeveloper.jar
oracle.jdeveloper.deploy.dir=${env.WORKSPACE}/ViewController/deploy
oracle.jdeveloper.ojdeploy.path=${oracle.home}/jdev/bin/ojdeploy
javac.nowarn=off
oracle.jdeveloper.project.name=ViewController
oracle.jdeveloper.deploy.outputfile=${env.WORKSPACE}/deploy/${profile.name}
output.dir=classes
javac.deprecation=off
oracle.jdeveloper.deploy.profile.name=*
javac.debug=on

• Change SampleBuildApp.jws to your application name.

build.xml file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252" ?>

<project xmlns="antlib:org.apache.tools.ant" name="SampleBuildApp" basedir=".">

  <property environment="env" />

  <property file="build.properties"/>

  <target name="deploy" description="Deploy JDeveloper profiles">

    <taskdef name="ojdeploy" classname="oracle.jdeveloper.deploy.ant.OJDeployAntTask" uri="oraclelib:OJDeployAntTask"

             classpath="${oracle.jdeveloper.ant.library}"/>

    <ora:ojdeploy xmlns:ora="oraclelib:OJDeployAntTask" executable="${oracle.jdeveloper.ojdeploy.path}"

                  ora:buildscript="${oracle.jdeveloper.deploy.dir}/ojdeploy-build.xml"

                  ora:statuslog="${oracle.jdeveloper.deploy.dir}/ojdeploy-statuslog.xml">

      <ora:deploy>

        <ora:parameter name="workspace" value="${oracle.jdeveloper.workspace.path}"/>

        <ora:parameter name="profile" value="${oracle.jdeveloper.deploy.profile.name}"/>

        <ora:parameter name="nocompile" value="false"/>

        <ora:parameter name="outputfile" value="${oracle.jdeveloper.deploy.outputfile}"/>

      </ora:deploy>

    </ora:ojdeploy>

  </target>

</project>

• Don't forget to add the property environment (highlighted in red).
• Check-in these files to developer cloud service.
• Create a new build job by selecting the application git repository as source and deploy as build task and in the post build steps select Archive the artifact option and enter deploy/*.ear in files to archive field.

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• Run the build operation by clicking build now button.
• Once the build is completed, you can find the .ear file under deploy folder of artifacts.

• You can take this file and deploy in you JCS or on-premises environment.