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Manually Refactoring BC4J Components in JDev 9.0.3 and Before
In 9.0.4 there is a "Move package..." context menu on a BC4J component to move it to a new package (renamed for clarity in 9.0.5 to "Move to different package..."). However before 9.0.4 you need to manually rename the components to a new package.
I built an unsupported BC4JRenamePackage utility that myself and some customers have used to assist in manually renaming a package of BC4J components.
To use this utility, unzip the BC4JRenamePackage.jar file from within the zip, and then do:
$ java -jar BC4JRenamePackage.jar
to get a simple usage message.
This only handles modifying the XML metadata. You still have to move the *.java files and search/replace the old package name with the new package name in the following kinds of files (NOTE: might be an incomplete list for your project!):
*.java
*.xml
*.jpr
*.jpx
*.jsp
*.deploy
*.bcdeploy
*.properties
I found the Apache ANT build tool useful to further automate this string replace in various files. While building the BC4J Toy Store Demo, I used the following template refactor.xml ANT build script to assist in searching and replacing old package names with new package names in a whole tree of files. <!--
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| refactor.xml
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~
| Example ANT build script that does a search/replace of
| various old-string to new-strings in a number of different
| file types (by directory extension) in all subdirectories
| of the current directory where it is run. In this example,
| I was adding in an extra package level named "model"
| into my package hierarchy where it did not exist before.
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| Run (after backing up your files first!) by doing:
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| $ ant -buildfile refactor.xml
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+-->
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project name="refactor" default="refactor" basedir=".">
<target name="refactor">
<replace dir=".">
<include name="**/*.java"/>
<include name="**/*.xml"/>
<include name="**/*.jpr"/>
<include name="**/*.jpx"/>
<include name="**/*.jsp"/>
<include name="**/*.deploy"/>
<include name="**/*.bcdeploy"/>
<include name="**/*.properties"/>
<exclude name="refactor.xml"/>
<!--
| Sometimes packages are with dotted names
+-->
<replacefilter token="pet.businessobjects" value="pet.model.businessobjects"/>
<replacefilter token="pet.dataaccess" value="pet.model.dataaccess"/>
<replacefilter token="pet.datatypes" value="pet.model.datatypes"/>
<replacefilter token="pet.services" value="pet.model.services"/>
<!--
| Sometimes packages are referred by indirectly as directory names
+-->
<replacefilter token="pet/businessobjects" value="pet/model/businessobjects"/>
<replacefilter token="pet/dataaccess" value="pet/model/dataaccess"/>
<replacefilter token="pet/datatypes" value="pet/model/datatypes"/>
<replacefilter token="pet/services" value="pet/model/services"/>
</replace>
</target>
</project>
As mentioned above, in JDev 9.0.4 and beyond, this process becomes more automated.
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