Creating a Connection to Oracle Application Server Via Local DCM

In addition to deploying J2EE applications to a standalone OC4J instance, JDeveloper lets you create a connection to deploy directly to Oracle Application Server via local Oracle Application Server Distributed Configuration Management (DCM) which is installed within Oracle Application Server.

Before deployment to local DCM, verify that either of these conditions exist:

The Oracle Application Server server is installed on the same physical machine as JDeveloper or
JDeveloper is installed on a machine that is one of the nodes in an Oracle Application Server cluster.

To create a connection to an Oracle Application Server instance via DCM:

In the Navigator, click + to expand the Connections node.
Right-click Application Servers.
Choose New Connections from the context menu.
The Connection Wizard - Welcome page is displayed.
Click Next.
Enter a Connection Name for this connection.
In the Connection Type list box, select Oracle9i Application Server - Local DCM.
Click Next.
In the Oracle Home Directory field, enter the Oracle Home location containing the DCM installation that you'd like to use for deploying to the Oracle Application Server instance. Click Help for more information.
Click Finish.
After running the Enterprise Manager OC4J instance, you must restart Enterprise Manager with these commands:
emctl stop
emctl start

Note: You are not required to provide authentication information to run dcmctl since you must log in to your operating system as the user that installed the Oracle Application Server.