This is not a post in which I’m able to dispense some knowledge I’ve gained, but, rather, one in which I share my befuddlement by some of the new things I’m dealing with in XPages.
We have a database suite originally designed for us by Scott Good, Henry Newberry and the good folks at Teamwork Solutions. It’s based off their brilliant Process It! workflow Notes solution. In the original design, they used version 1.3 of Mark Leusink’s Debug Toolbar. Since version 3.01 is now available on OpenNTF, I decided to upgrade. One of the advantages of the upgrade is that now the code resides in Code/Java, accessible more directly from the Designer client than it was when it had to be stored in WebContent/WEB-INF/src. For me, this is far more convenient, since I can see more properties directly (especially about prohibiting design refresh).
Nonetheless, I seem to be having troubles.
I updated the design, then did a clean and a build on my template. Then, I refreshed design on the server copy from the template. At first, it seemed like it wouldn’t bring the built .class files over to the server copy from my template. Now, when I do a design refresh, it “horks” the five files, reducing them all to -1 bytes. If I do a clean & build on the server copy, the files get their expected size.
I believe my classpath is correct, as it builds them properly when I tell it to build in either the template or on the server.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <classpath> <classpathentry kind="src" path="Local"/> <classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER"/> <classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.pde.core.requiredPlugins"/> <classpathentry kind="output" path="WebContent/WEB-INF/classes"/> <classpathentry kind="src" path="Code/Java"/> </classpath>
In the ACL, this ID has Manager rights, including for creating LotusScript and Java agents. I’ve signed all the files in Code/Java with this ID. I build it with this ID. I conduct the design refresh with the same ID and those same rights.
Does anyone have any ideas what I might be doing wrong that’s inhibiting the class files from refreshing with the rest of the design?
There are two Stack Overflow questions that deal with this directly:
Class files not being created after refresh from template?
One of my co-workers did open the design to check the binding for one field, which must have corrupted the files once. That doesn’t explain all the instances, but it helps. This straddles the line between a reason to use templates (so no one even glances at the design in production) and reason not to use templates (because it’s forced me to do builds on production since template changes only produce corrupt class files). Interestingly, it’s only the Debug Toolbar class files that have the problem – the Teamwork Solution ones haven’t corrupted.
Update: It gets worse. I tried building on the local replica so that I could do it quickly, then replicate the class files up to the server. No luck. It overwrites the local files with the corrupted ones from the server.
Lost in Code 