BUILD FAILED - LIB version problem

Today, during a build and deploy of one of our SOA projects, we were facing the following problem:

Buildfile: C:\Oracle\Middleware\jdeveloper\bin\ant-sca-compile.xml

scac:
[scac] Validating composite "C:\JDeveloper\mywork\ApplicationTest\Hello\composite.xml"

BUILD FAILED
C:\Oracle\Middleware\jdeveloper\bin\ant-sca-compile.xml:236: Java returned: 1 Check log file : C:\JDeveloper\mywork\ApplicationTest\Hello\SCA-INF\classes\scac.log for errors

Total time: 4 seconds

And within the scac.log file the following message was shown:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: oracle.fabric.composite.model.CompositeModel.getFolder()Ljava/lang/String;
at oracle.soa.scac.ValidateComposite.loadComposite(ValidateComposite.java:881)
at oracle.soa.scac.ValidateComposite.doValidation(ValidateComposite.java:567)
at oracle.soa.scac.ValidateComposite.run(ValidateComposite.java:156)
at oracle.soa.scac.ValidateComposite.main(ValidateComposite.java:141)

After some evaluation, we identified that this error is caused by a version incompatibility of the lib C:\Oracle\Middleware\jdeveloper\soa\modules\oracle.soa.fabric_11.1.1\fabric-runtime.jar.

But what caused the error if I did a clean install of the jDeveloper?

The answer is: when I installed the jDeveloper, my machine permissions caused that some installation files stay locked (including fabric-runtime.jar). This way, when I installed the SOA Composer plugin, this file couldn't be updated to the new version, necessary to build and deploy SOA Composite applications.

SOLUTION: make sure you have the right permissions during installation. If you are facing this problem, check if the fabric-runtime.jar lib file is locked, change its access permission and try to reinstall the SOA Composer plugin .

Generating custom logs with Log4J within Java Embedding activity

To generate custom logs within a BPEL process using a Java Embedding activity and Log4J do the following steps:

• Copy log4j-1.2.15.jar to <oss_home>/soa/modules/oracle.soa.ext_11.1.1 and execute ANT script in this directory. This will recreate the oracle.soa.ext.jar file adding the log4j lib to the classpath.
• Create a new folder for Log4j configuration and log files: <middleware_home>/config, for example
• add to this folder the configuration files (log4j.debug.xml and log4j.dtd, for example)
• set the log file name and path (<middleware_home>/config/customErrorLog.log, for example) in the log4j.debug.xml
• Change the startManagedServer script to point to Log4j configuration file: JAVA_OPTIONS="-Dlog4j.configuration=file:<middleware_home>/config/log4j.debug.xml”
• Restart the SOA managed server.

From a BPEL development perspective, what is necessary to do is:

• Import the log4j-1.2.15.jar to the project libs (right click in the project name and select “Project Properties”, go to “Libraries and Classpath” and add the jar file)
• Insert a Java Embedding activity
• In the BPEL source code, import the Logger class adding the code below before the “bpelx:exec” created for the Java Embedding component

<bpelx:exec import="org.apache.log4j.Logger">

• Edit the Java Embedding activity and insert the necessary log instructions like:

Logger logger = Logger.getLogger("myCustomLog"); 
logger.info(">>>> Message log for instance: " + getTitle());

To download the Log4j configuration files together with a Composite with a sample use of the log, click here.