Deploying a JClient Project and ADF Business Components as a Simple Archive

Deploying a JClient application and ADF Business Components as a simple archive is supported in Oracle JDeveloper. To do this, create a single JAR file containing both your Oracle ADF Business Component logic and the client application files.

To deploy JClient and Business Components as a simple archive:

Make sure that a database connection to the data source exists.
Note: In the Database Connection Wizard - Step 2 of 4: Authentication, the Deploy Password checkbox must be selected.
Create a Business Components project using the Business Components from Tables Wizard.
In a new project, create a JClient application.
In the JClient project, create a JAR File deployment profile.
In the JAR Deployment Profile Properties dialog, select File Groups and click New.
In the Create File Group dialog, select De pendency Analysis and enter the name of file group (for use in the dialog only).
In the dialog navigator list, select Contributors and select all of the libraries that appear in the list.

Note: When packaging a JClient application that will run against remote ADF Business Components, the servlet.jar must appear in the list of selected contributor libraries. See Packaging a JClient Application for Deployment Against Remote ADF Business Components for details.
To make an executable JAR file, select JAR Options in the dialog navigator and enter the fully qualified class name of the JClient form that contains the main() method.

Note that this step specifies the application's entry point. If you run the JClient appilcation and receive an exception similar to Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: mypackage1/Panel1 @ at mypackage1.TestClass.main(TestClass.java:13), you must manually add the entry point to the JAR file's manifest (for example, Main-Class: mypackage1.Panel1).
Click OK when you are done.
Right-click the profile and choose Deploy to JAR file.

The archive will be create and deployed to the location specified in the profile.
To test your client application, run the application from the JDeveloper's installation directory <jdev_install> /jdk/bin. To invoke the application, enter java -jar < name_of_application.jar>.