Finding JDeveloper version:
- Login to Oracle Applications
- Enable FND: Diagnostics Profile Option to Yes at site level/User level to enable the ‘About This Page’ link at the left bottom of the page.
- Click on ‘About This Page’ link on the Oracle Applications Home Page. Navigate to Technology Components Tab, note down OA framework version
- Search in Oracle Metalink to find the exact version of Jdeveloper with OA Extensions for the framework version noted above.
Jdeveloper Installation:
JDeveloper comes as a zip file and does not require any installation. After extracting the ZIP file to any of the folder, it creates below 3 folders
- JDEVBIN: This is the JDeveloper software directory and contains the executables for the IDE.
- JDEVDOC: This contains all help documentation including the OAF Developer Guide which will become invaluable to you as an OAF developer
- JDEVHOME: This is where by default all of your project files and code will be created, sort of a my documents folder for JDeveloper.
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JDeveloper executable file will be available from below path
C:\<extracted directory>\jdevbin\jdev\bin\jdevW.exe
Configuring JDEV_USER_HOME environment variable:
Purpose :To set up the location where we can store our files, when JDeveloper is launched it will now automatically save your files
Right Click on the “My Computer” icon and select the “Properties” option. Click the “Advanced” tab and then “Environment Variables”. Create a new user variable by clicking on the “New” button and enter JDEV_USER_HOME as the environment variable name and the path to your central directory as the value i.e. C:\ <extracted directory>\jdevhome\Jdev.
Click on Environment Variable and then click on New button
Note: Variable value should be path of Parent Folder of myprojects which means C:\OAF\p9879989_R12_GENERIC\jdevhome\jdev as per my system setup
Click
on OK > OK > OK to close the properties window
DBC File
Place
the DBC File under $ jdevhome> jdev>dbc_files>secure