To define an Oracle JDeveloper workspace, project, and BI Designer framework.
This exercise introduces you to the wizards that create the basic JDeveloper containers. These containers, are needed to build an Oracle Business Intelligence Beans application. Most important is the BI Designer object, which is the container for business intelligence objects. The BI Designer lets you construct, organize, and manage OLAP data connections and objects.
Workspaces keep track of the projects and environment settings that you use
while developing your application. Projects are containers for the source files
that are used to create applications and applets.
BIWorkspace.jws
for the workspace file name.
Ensure that the Add a New Empty Project box is
checked. Choose OK. Notice that the JDeveloper System-Navigator has been updated to display your new workspace and project. To view the default project settings, right-click the project label Project1.jpr and choose Project Settings. You will now create the framework for adding business intelligence objects.
The BI Designer is used to aid in the visual development of your business intelligence objects. It contains references to the information that is required for connecting to Oracle9i OLAP and to the BI Beans Catalog. To create a BI Designer, you use a wizard that prompts you for the following information:
OLAPConnection1
and enter Oracle
(JDBC)
for your connection. Choose Next.bibdemo
and password bibdemo
.
Leave Role blank and Deploy Password unchecked. Choose Next.Notice that the JDeveloper System-Navigator has been updated to display the
newly created BI Designer object, a BI Configuration file (Project1BIConfign.xml)
,
and other *.DAD files. The BI Designer object holds the settings for your design
environment; the BI Configuration file holds the settings for your runtime environment.
Initially, these settings are identical. The *.DAD files contain OLAP and Catalog
connection settings. DAD stands for Database Access Descriptor.
To change the settings for either the BI Designer or the BI Configuration file, right-click the BI Designer object or the BI Configuration file, and choose Settings. The resulting BI Beans Settings dialog box contains the following tabs:
This section looked at the basic steps that are required to create a workspace, project, and BI Designer. These objects act as containers for Java source files and for the BI components that are used in the development of your application. The next section shows you how to build business intelligence calculations (for example, variances, time series calculations, and so on) using the CalcBuilder wizard.